Economy & Business
Critics slam UK post-Brexit immigration plans
Britain’s government on Wednesday faced a backlash over its new post-Brexit immigration plans, which are designed to cut “cheap labour from Europe” ...China’s virus-hit industrial cities start to ease transport curbs, restore production
Big manufacturing hubs on the Chinese coast are starting to loosen curbs on the movement of people and traffic while local governments ...Huge locust outbreak in East Africa reaches South Sudan
The worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly ...Brexit robs German village of Scottish mayor
The tiny village of Brunsmark, an hour outside Hamburg in the lush north German countryside, might seem an unlikely spot to suffer ...UK to ban new petrol car sales from 2035
Britain will bring forward a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles to 2035, including hybrids, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...Stocks retreat, oil slides as China steps up virus response
Investor nerves over the spread of a deadly new virus from China hammered equities and oil benchmarks on Thursday, as authorities moved ...Russia, China make UN proposal to ease N.Korea sanctions
– Russia and China on Monday proposed easing sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea, in response to steps the North takes towards denuclearization. ...Iran unveils budget of ‘resistance’ against US sanctions
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday presented to parliament what he called a “budget of resistance” against crippling sanctions imposed by arch-enemy ...Over half a million march as France paralysed by strike
The strike has revived memories of the three-week-long strikes over pension reforms that crippled France in 1995 (AFP Photo/CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU) A nationwide ...Iran leader backs petrol price hike that sparked deadly unrest
Iran\'s supreme leader threw his support behind a decision to hike petrol prices, a move that sparked nationwide unrest in which he ...













