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BERLIN: Nokia Oyj agreed to buy Alcatel-Lucent SA in an all-stock deal valued at 15.6 billion euros ($16.6 billion) to...

HELSINKI: The value of Nokia shares declined by 7% on the Helsinki Stock Exchange recent week following the announcement of talks...

TOKYO: The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) has announced that EDA industry revenue increased 11.9% for Q4 2014...

TRIPOLI: World oil markets may take longer to tighten than expected due to a surge in Opec supply and a...

OSLO: Norway's sovereign-wealth fund, the world's biggest, said it would vote in favor of a proposal to require oil companies...

OSLO: Russia, Norway and Egypt have been admitted as founder members to the Chinese-initiated Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank, the...

ROME: Italy will not raise taxes during the next three years, Italy's Premier, Matteo Renzi, has said, setting out the...

ROME: Italian business confidence rose more-than-expected last month, official data showed on. In a report, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...

ROME: Non-performing loans at Italian banks totalled 187.3 billion euros ($201 billion) in February, up 15.3 percent from a year...

TRIPLOI: Libya’s official government, holed up in the east after being forced to flee the capital, is struggling to sell...

AMSTERDAM: The Dutch central bank warned that Europe's long period of low interest rates is threatening the solvency of insurers,...

BRUSSELS: Troubled publishing group PaperlinX has appointed administrators to its operations in the Netherlands and Belgium. Another European arm of...

WELLINGTON: A sharp decline in China’s growth is expected to hit exporting countries like New Zealand and Australia and the...

BERLIN: Foreign companies see a “lot of turnaround” in India and a “lot of positive attitude” is building towards it,...

BERLIN: German automaker BMW says it had its best March sales ever. The Munich-based maker of the 3-Series sedan and...

WELLINGTON: nib, New Zealands second largest health insurance provider, has launched its first travel insurance product for Kiwis with a...

WELLINGTON:  Property investors in New Zealand could soon face a capital gains tax, as the currently overheated housing market poses...

BERLIN: India and Germany have agreed to encourage the teaching of each other's languages within the framework of their national...

BERLIN: In both France and Germany, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to address problems in areas where investors found it...

HANOI: Orlando Hernandez, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, presented the portfolio of business opportunities in Cuba, during...