China and the EU have joined a group of countries asking the World Trade Organization to investigate the Trump administration’s decision to impose metals tariffs on national security grounds. In a separate filing, the U.S. asked the WTO to review those nations that retaliated against its duties.
Investor excitement over the much-anticipated plan to connect London and Shanghai´s stock markets gathered pace again on Thursday as HSBC grabbed headlines for potentially becoming the new scheme´s first offering.
A French member of parliament has proposed that mockery of accents be outlawed, after an irate politician derided a journalist’s southwestern pronunciation before asking if anyone had a question in “understandable French”.
About 300 staff of National Australia Bank have been fired or left the company as a result of internal investigations into wrongdoing, Chief Executive Andrew Thorburn said on Friday (Oct 19), following public revelations of misconduct across the sector.
Facebook knew that its video metrics were inflated for more than a year before it acknowledged the issue, with records showing that its average-viewership estimates were overstated by as much as 900 per cent, a new legal filing claims.
Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was slapped with 45 charges in court on Friday (Oct 19) in a RM114 million (US$27.4 million) case, a new blow to his beleaguered party which lost power in landmark elections this year.
A High Court on Friday (Oct 19) ruled that the Equanimity superyacht belongs to two subsidiaries of state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) - and indirectly the Malaysian government - after its registered owner failed to show up in court to claim the vessel.
Online retailer eBay filed a lawsuit Wednesday in California’s Santa Clara County Superior Court alleging that fellow online vendor Amazon has, over the past several years, “perpetrated a scheme to infiltrate and exploit eBay’s internal member email system.”
A federal judge ordered the U.S. government on Thursday to begin processing asylum claims for dozens of migrant parents and children that had been separated at the southern border under the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy.
The World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and UN Women issued a joint statement Wednesday calling on governments, health professionals and communities to take steps to end the practice of “virginity testing.”
In Facebook´s "War Room," a nondescript space adorned with American and Brazilian flags, a team of 20 people monitors computer screens for signs of suspicious activity.
The US has announced plans to withdraw from a 144-year-old postal treaty, which the White House says lets China ship goods at unfairly low prices.
Search engines would be forced to remove or demote results for piracy websites under new laws
India is considering tightening sexual harassment laws, government officials said on Thursday, after an avalanche of complaints of abuse lodged by women in recent weeks thrust the issue to the forefront of politics.
Trump also threatened to deploy the military to stop caravan which plans to head through Mexico toward the US border
PEN America filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging several violations of the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of the press.
Banco Santander S.A. (SAN.MC) is "fully cooperating with German authorities," the Spanish bank said Thursday after media reports that German prosecutors are looking at the bank´s role in an alleged tax-evasion scheme.
The Philippines´ competition watchdog fined ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber Technologies on Wednesday (Oct 17), saying they consummated their merger too soon and that the quality of service dipped, becoming the second regulator in the region to penalise them.
The US has said it intends to negotiate three separate trade agreements with Japan, the UK and the EU.
Tens of thousands of people on sickness benefits will receive backdated payments averaging £5,000 following government errors.
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