Economy & Business
US visitors from developing nations to pay thousands in visa bonds
The United States will temporarily require visitors from Iran, Myanmar and a number of African nations to pay up to $15,000 in ...UK extends 80% wage subsidies as England goes back into lockdown
Britain’s government will extend by a month its costly coronavirus wage subsidies to ensure workers who are temporarily laid off receive 80% ...Poland fines Russia’s Gazprom $7.6 billion over pipeline
Polish antitrust authorities have fined Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom $7.6 billion (6.5 billion euros) for building the Nord Stream 2 gas ...Restaurants to stay open, but Paris goes on maximum virus alert
Paris restaurants will be allowed to stay open — but under tightened restrictions — when the city is placed on maximum coronavirus ...UK, EU leaders agree to keep talking in bid for Brexit deal
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday asked their negotiators to “work intensively” to overcome ...Johnson ‘optimistic’ over Brexit deal ahead of talks with EU chief
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “pretty optimistic” a Brexit deal could be reached as he prepared for talks on ...Donald Trump ‘paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017’
Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in ...EU-UK trade talks resume under Brexit bill cloud
Negotiators for the EU and Britain are hoping for a breakthrough in trade talks this week, despite feuding over a controversial UK ...Rich nations snap up vaccine stocks in global race for jab
Rich nations representing a fraction of the global population have already bought up over half the promised Covid-19 vaccine stocks, a study ...Russia to sell 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to India
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday it will supply India’s Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories with 100 million doses of the Sputnik-V vaccine ...














