- London, United Kingdom -- Britain's South Western Railways on Sunday becomes the first private train operator to be returned to...
Renationalizing all of the UK's rail operators is among the key policies launched by Prime Minister Keir Starmer since his party's return to government last July.
Train passengers in Britain suffer from frequent cancellations, in addition to high ticket prices and regular confusion over which services they can be used on.
- Washington, United States - President Donald Trump rekindled the US trade war on Friday, threatening to impose a 50 percent...
If they come into effect, the new duties on Brussels would dramatically raise Washington's current baseline levy of 10 percent
The US president has also introduced sector-specific measures on automobiles, steel and aluminum not produced in the United States
- Washington, United States -- US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened Apple with a 25 percent tariff if the iPhones...
Trump's sweeping tariffs on major US trading partners have roiled global markets and upended international commerce.
Trump's comments Friday echo statements he made last week while on a trip to Qatar, urging Apple to bring iPhone production to US shores.
- Morocco on Monday signed deals with an Emirati-Moroccan consortium for energy and water infrastructure projects, which according to one of...
The projects aim to "strengthen both water security and energy independence" in Morocco, the signatories said in a joint statement
The total investment amounts to nearly 130 billion dirhams by 2030, Taqa Morocco said in a separate statement
- Chinese tech giant Xiaomi will invest 50 billion yuan ($6.9 billion) in developing high-end smartphone chips, the firm's founder said...
Xiaomi, which sells goods from smartphones to vacuum cleaners and EVs, is one of China's most prominent consumer electronics firms.
Xiaomi took initial steps into semiconductors for smartphones with the launch of the firm's first in-house chip - the Surge S1 - in 2017.
- Beijing, China - Factory output in China grew at a faster rate than expected last month, official data showed Monday,...
Industrial production in the export powerhouse grew 6.1 percent on-year in April, according to figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
The reading was higher than the 5.7 percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey, but still lower than the 7.7 percent jump recorded for March
- Muscat, Oman -- The general inflation rate in the GCC countries rose by 1.7 percent at the end of December...
The increase is primarily driven by a 5.9 percent increase in housing prices and a 2.8 percent rise in the prices of goods and services.
The culture and entertainment group recorded a 1.8 percent increase, while both the food and beverages group and the education group rose by 1.2 percent each.
- The S&P 500 has risen the last four sessions, extending the positive momentum after last weekend's trade talks resulted in...
The broad-based S&P 500 added 0.1 percent at 5,923.30, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.2 percent to 19,146.48.
Broadband and cable company Charter Communications gained 2.5 percent after announcing a deal to acquire Cox Communications for $34.5 billion.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that Tehran has no objection to US companies operating in the country, including...
"We have no ban on the economic presence of American companies in Iran," Araghchi said, attributing the lack of US business activity to primary sanctions imposed by Washington
His remarks come after President Donald Trump said Washington was "getting close" to a new nuclear deal with Tehran to replace the one he abandoned during his first term in 2018
- After the first meetings between Washington and Beijing since Trump ratcheted up his trade war, the world's two biggest economies...
The world's two biggest economies agreed in a joint statement to bring their triple-digit tariffs down to two figures and continue negotiations
China hailed the "substantial progress" made at the talks, held at the discreet villa residence of Switzerland's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva





















