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Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia on Monday announced it has partnered with Microsoft, Amazon web services and Google to develop new cloud-based 5G radio solutions with its radio access network (...

Britain on Monday announced sanctions, freezing the assets of six allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including his foreign minister and close advisers. Those sanctioned include Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad, ...

Volkswagen plans to build half a dozen battery cell plants in Europe and expand infrastructure for charging electric vehicles globally, accelerating efforts to overtake Tesla and speed up mass adoption ...

Publicly, the European Union has dismissed Russia’s global coronavirus vaccine supply campaign as a propaganda stunt by an undesirable regime. Behind the scenes, the bloc is turning to Moscow’...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law aimed at protecting U.S. communications networks. The FCC ...

Lufthansa sees the demand for tickets in and around the Easter weekend increasing to such an extent that the German airline has almost doubled the number of scheduled flights during ...

But market participants say it illustrates a confidence among investors that the top end of office real estate will withstand the coronavirus shock – even as questions hang over the viability ...

Carnival Corp Chief Executive Arnold Donald anticipates at least two more tough years for the cruise industry, which is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023, the Financial ...

The search for yield is turning many unlikely collectibles into gold. The latest of these is sneakers. The trick is to buy really cool sneakers at the retail price, hold ...

“In Cyprus, there has been a lot of interest and progress in digital marketing in recent years, particularly during the last 12 months of the pandemic,” comments Julia Papageorgiou, managing director ...

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has been sued by a shareholder who accused him of violating his 2018 settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over his Twitter use. ...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdrogan on Friday announced a series of ‘economic reforms,’ but these do little to address the issues needed to restore growth and curtail inflation. Erdogan’...

A Japanese-Australian venture has begun producing hydrogen from brown coal in a A$500 million ($390 million) pilot project that aims to show liquefied hydrogen can be produced commercially and exported safely ...

In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up in 1921 to mass-produce vaccines that later helped strengthen the German ...

ECB President Christine Lagarde has forecast a strong recovery in 2021. Speaking at the press conference following the ECB policy meeting on Thursday, Lagarde said: “The ongoing vaccination campaigns, together with ...

Britain’s Marks & Spencer said on Thursday it would launch a wave of guest clothing brands on its website this spring, including Hobbs, White Stuff, Joules and Sloggi, in ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan again on Wednesday defended former finance minister Berat Albayrak’s policies, despite the fact that Albayrak’s policies brought the country perilously near to a currency ...

Cyprus property sales fell sharply last year according to the Deloitte Cyprus Real Estate Market Report released on Tuesday. The total contracts of sales for Cypriot properties dropped 23 per cent ...

A push to increase production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations hung in the balance at the World Trade Organization on Wednesday amid disagreement between richer and developing countries over ...

Germany hopes that improved relations with the United States under US President Joe Biden will open the door for possible joint sanctions against China and Russia over human rights and ...

On Tuesday, EU Brexit chief Maros Sefcovic announced plans to take legal action against the UK over Northern Ireland measures, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The action is expected ...

“I just can’t wait to be back on the beach!” The words of Jo Pink, 48, who has already received both doses of her Covid-19 vaccination. Hopeful that the UK ...

Russia accused Facebook on Monday of violating citizens’ rights by blocking some media outlets’ content in the latest standoff between a government and Big Tech. Communications watchdog Roskomnadzor at the ...

Tesla Inc’s stock extended losses on Monday and is now down by a third from its January record high, making it the third time in about a year that ...