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Daimler diesel claims mount as more investors seek damages: Report

Plaintiffs have demanded almost 250 million euros ($296 million) in damages in one case alone and claims in three other cases totaled an additional 100 million euros

Thailand protesters claim victory with a letter to king's council

Tens of thousands gather near Thammasat varsity campus for the biggest anti-govt protest since the 2014 military coup

Saudi firms start talks to form $11 billion chemicals maker; shares surge

The discussions are at an initial stage and no agreement has been reached, the companies said Sunday

US says UN sanctions on Iran back as allies, rivals object; rial falls

Rial fell to a record low against US dollar in the grey market on Sunday

TikTok owner ByteDance seeks $60 bn valuation in Oracle, Walmart deal

Oracle and Walmart have rights to buy 12.5% and 7.5% respectively of a newly established TikTok Global under an agreement that won the approval of President Donald Trump

Threat of lethal autumn in Europe as Covid-19 returns in older population

The virus has started spreading in older populations again, according to data from France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK

Oracle, Walmart target greater reach, social media toehold with Tiktok deal

Oracle and Walmart together could end up with as much as 20% of the entity, purchased in a round of financing that would precede an initial public offering

As Covid-19 hits family incomes, more girls leaving schools in rural Asia

To determine the impact of the virus outbreak on girls' education, Room to Read conducted a survey of 28,000 girls in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Vietnam

Covid-19: A town in New Zealand adjusts to life without foreign tourists

Across the country as a whole, foreign visitors spent NZ$17.2 billion ($11.5 billion) in the 12 months to March 2019, accounting for 20% of the country's total exports

The Modi govt must forget pakoras and let the likes of Toyota create jobs

When India should be presenting itself as an alternative to China by making it easy for enterprises, we find the old and discarded Soviet-style statism creeping back

TikTok drags US govt to court over President Trump's threat of ban

Trump exceeded his authority when he moved to ban the app, and did so for political reasons rather than to stop an "unusual and extraordinary threat", said the complaint

Ruth Ginsburg, women's rights champion of US Supreme Court, dies at 87

Liberal icon's death less than two months before election gives President Donald Trump a chance to try to shift the already conservative court further to the right

Indian among six indicted in $100,000 Amazon bribery case in US

Amazon said it has systems in place to detect suspicious activity by employees and sellers and teams that investigate prohibited activity

Citigroup to hire 6,000 youth in Asia as unemployment numbers rise

It's also offering 60,000 job training opportunities for youth below the age of 24 over the next three years across its retail and institutional businesses in the region

Facebook being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, again

This time through the unauthorised use of their mobile phone cameras

TikTok asks Facebook to support its challenge against Donald Trump's ban

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said recently that he felt a TikTok ban would set a "bad long-term precedent" for the tech industry

US imposes restrictions on transactions via WeChat, curbs on TikTok

The order doesn't apply to operations or cash transfers outside the US, which had been a concern of some US tech companies

Climate change in mind, Wall Street to start trading a new commodity: Water

Water supplies have been tight for years in California, and large parts of Asia and Africa also face the potential of scarcity as temperatures rise

RBI gets more elbow room for bond purchases as banks return borrowed money

The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said it would buy 100 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) of bonds from the secondary market on Sept. 24

Indian economy staring at double-digit decline as Covid-19 cases spike

The failure to get infections under control will set back business activity and consumption -- the bedrock of the economy -- which had been slowly picking up