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Big brother America jeopardising EU-US free trade zone talks, asserts France
5 May 2016 4:46 AM ISTNegotiations for a vast US-EU trade pact, which aims to create a free-trade zone covering 850 million people, are likely to grind to a halt because of...
GE’s European staff protest against US MNC’s job cut plot
11 April 2016 2:57 AM ISTAt least 2,500 European employees of General Electric (GE) have protested in Paris against the US industrial conglomerate’s restructuring plans, which...
Greece demands IMF explanation about Wikileaks revelations
4 April 2016 3:42 AM ISTGreece on Saturday demanded “explanations” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after Wikileaks said that the lender sought a crisis “event” to...
Brussels Airport reopens with three flights, tighter security
4 April 2016 1:12 AM ISTThe key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall on March 22 in coordinated blasts that also struck a metro...
Tata Steel may buy parts of German Thyssen
2 April 2016 6:23 AM ISTTata Steel, which has announced it is putting its troubled British business up for sale, is in talks over the possible purchase of parts or all of...
Monthly car sales slide in world’s top market China
12 March 2016 5:00 AM ISTAuto sales in China, the world's largest car market, decreased marginally in February from a year ago, data from an industry group showed Thursday, in...
Brazil caught in deep economic morass; GDP fell 3.8% in 2015
5 March 2016 4:57 AM ISTBrazilian GDP fell 3.8 per cent in 2015, the government said on Thursday, indicating the Latin American giant is headed for its worst recession in at...
Putin has ‘sealed agreement with Russian oil cos to freeze output’
4 March 2016 4:38 AM ISTRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he had sealed a pact with the country’s oil majors to freeze production as proposed last month...
Facebook may breach data protection rules, says German watchdog
4 March 2016 3:23 AM ISTThe Federal Cartel Office said it had "initiated a proceeding against Facebook Inc., USA, the Irish subsidiary of the company and Facebook Germany...
Alibaba may buy stake in respected China biz magazine Caixin
4 March 2016 3:20 AM ISTAlibaba founder Jack Ma is seeking to diversify beyond the core business of providing online retail platforms and in December bought Hong Kong’s...
Samsung wins patent case against Apple in US appeals court
29 Feb 2016 2:51 AM ISTA US appeals court has handed Samsung a win over Apple in a long-running patent fight, overriding a jury verdict ordering it to pay $119.6 million to...
No reason for yuan to fall further: China central bank Guv
16 Feb 2016 4:06 AM ISTChina’s central bank chief has blamed foreign speculators in part for yuan volatility and said there is no basis for further depreciation, according...