Economy & Business
Senegal leader says Putin showed readiness to free up Ukrainian grain exports
Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Russia’s Vladimir Putin had told him on Friday he was ready to enable the export ...Britain’s electric car charge faces battery challenge
Britain risks falling behind in the race to establish an electric car industry if it can’t build more battery factories ...Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales, ban look-alike toys
– Canada’s government introduced legislation Monday to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part ...G7 scrambles to keep climate agenda on track as Ukraine war roils energy supplies
Ministers from the world’s wealthiest democracies will wrangle over how to keep climate change goals on track as they meet ...Egypt expects Suez Canal revenues to hit $7 billion by end of fiscal year
Egypt expects the Suez Canal’s revenues to reach about $7 billion by the end of the current fiscal year, finance ...U.N. cutting refugee rations in Africa’s Sahel amid ‘alarming’ food insecurity
Food rations for refugees and displaced people are being cut by up to half in parts of the Sahel due ...Money for Ukraine tops G7 agenda; inflation, food a concern
Group of Seven financial leaders are likely to agree on Thursday and Friday to help Ukraine pay its bills in ...Indonesia seizes cooking oil shipment bound for East Timor
Indonesia has impounded at least 81,000 litres of cooking oil bound for East Timor, the trade ministry said, as the ...Dubai airport posts busiest quarter in two years
Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s leading air hubs, reported on Thursday its busiest quarter in two years, with ...Many Sri Lankans flee capital as political leaders meet to seek solution to crisis
Many Sri Lankans thronged buses in the main city Colombo on Thursday to return to their hometowns with leaders of ...