BERLIN: Germany has confirmed it will relax some environmental conservation rules to help farmers overcome a sharp rise in animal...

This week sees the end of a minor inconvenience suffered by every shopper: the extra charge levied by some shopkeepers...

Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that ‘big fishes’ of the gold smuggling racket have become restless as the...

Kuwait has said that reports it injected KD 500 million ($1.6 billion) to back the floundering Turkish lira are “unfounded”,...

DOHA: Doha Bank recognised its staff’s contributions and achievements for the month of June 2018, at the ‘Monthly Recognition Award’...

Petrofac has been awarded a contract worth around US$370 million by Basra Oil Company (BOC) for expansion of the Central...

Jordan and the US on Wednesday signed two grant agreements worth $166 million to rehabilitate Amman’s second main water resource...

Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has pleaded the US to exempt Kabul-Tehran trade deals from sanctions on Iran as...

TAIPEI: A Taiwanese coffee chain has become the latest business to bow to pressure from Beijing after Chinese web users...

A court in Greece has sentenced Serhiy Shvayuk, a musician of the Ivano-Frankivsk band Perkalaba, and his friend Petro Lytvynchuk...

A gang of Greek and Albanian drug smugglers were arrested in Athens and Thessaloniki the Greek Police announced on Monday....

A court in eastern Finland has jailed a Russian family for up to five years for trafficking people through the...

Polish police arrested five alleged members of an international organized crime group involved in illegal trade of tobacco and seized...

Spanish and Portuguese authorities announced Friday that they have taken down a criminal network that has been making large profits...

When police intercepted a ship off the Azores carrying a shipment of 2.4 tonnes of cocaine bound for Galicia in...

Hungary is due for another upgrade of its sovereign rating, which could take place as soon as next week, when...

At least four seafarers jumped at sea to escape a raging fire Tuesday on a very large crude carrier off...

Economists agree the risk of a New Zealand rate cut is real but most don’t actually expect it to happen....

BRASILIA: Chinese and Brazilian companies could form soy-processing joint ventures as a way for Latin America’s largest economy to export...

Over 80 percent of major companies expect the economy to grow toward the end of this year, but most do...