‘Fatigue, frustration and confusion’: Belfast’s Brexit hangoverOf all the roadblocks on the way to a Brexit deal Northern Ireland is the biggest, and nobody feels more unease about the deadlock than the people who actually live in this British province with its t...
Saudi to host ‘Davos in desert’ despite outcry over slain journalistSaudi Arabia will host a key investment summit on Tuesday, overshadowed by the killing of critic Jamal Khashoggi that has prompted a wave of policymakers and corporate giants to withdraw. Just ahead o...
Delhi holds breath as burning farms herald pollution seasonHarpal Singh struck a match and watched his fields burn, the acrid smoke drifting toward New Delhi where a lethal smog cocktail is once again intensifying over the world’s most polluted megacity. Ever...
UK firms near point of no return for Brexit contingency plans, CBI warnsMost British companies will implement their plans for coping with a disruptive Brexit by December if there is no clarity by then on how Britain will leave the European Union, a survey by a major emplo...
Germany’s Scholz wants global tax floor to stop evasionGermany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has proposed a global minimum rate of corporation tax coupled with tougher measures to prevent tax evaders from stashing their profits in tax havens, newspaper W...
US Treasury’s Mnuchin hails Israel investment opportunities, eyes infrastructureUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin praised investment opportunities in Israel on Sunday and said Washington would increase its participation in infrastructure projects there. "We have a very importa...
New Zealand will not attend Saudi investment summit over Khashoggi deathNew Zealand condemns the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi operatives and will not be attending an investment summit in Saudi Arabia, the government said in a statement on Sunday. Khashog...