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China's Belt and Road initiative to enter Afghanistan in Taliban victory

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met in Islamabad on Saturday and pledged to work together on Afghanistan's reconstruction process

Arab League to readmit Syria after more than a decade of isolation

The decision was unanimous, Hossam Zaki, the Arab League's assistant secretary-general, told Bloomberg. The move, taken at an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo

Grounded Go Air can fly in a week if planes not seized: CEO Kaushik Khona

Go Air - now re-branded as Go First - filed for insolvency protection on Tuesday after half of its Airbus SE A320neo fleet were grounded with engine snags

UK employers offers IVF, menopause benefits to tempt women to work

Jobs advertising time off for a lost pregnancy rocketed almost 3,000% from a year ago in March, while posts citing fertility benefits such as egg freezing and IVF treatment soared over 700%

Australia Treasurer Chalmers warns China boom can't stop global headwinds

Chalmers is expected to announce Australia's economy has returned to surplus for the first time in 15 years on Tuesday night, benefiting from surging revenues

Burning oil tanker Pablo in the South China Sea is a global problem

The Gabon-registered ship, capable of carrying some 700,000 barrels of crude oil, was coming through the South China Sea after offloading a cargo in China

Chinese users of Binance, FTX show holes in Beijing's cryptocurrency ban

These glimpses of their trading activity support suspicions that some of China's 1.4 billion people flout the prohibition Beijing imposed in September 2021

World trade data shows early signs of 'reglobalisation' across countries

The transformation that some are calling "reglobalization" will take years, and trade data is only beginning to offer clues about the scope of the changes, and who's winning and losing

King Charles III crowned in spectacle marking a turning point for UK

After the service, the king took the Gold State Coach, the iconic carriage built in 1762 that has been used at every coronation since 1831, on a walking-pace procession back to Buckingham Palace

Vedanta resources repays $800 million loans to Standard Chartered

The company had paid all loans and bonds due last month, cutting its gross debt to $6.8 billion, it said in a statement in April

King Charles' coronation: Will the tradition benefit or burden UK economy?

That day off will help drive a 0.7% fall in GDP in May, according to Bloomberg Economics

Charles III to finally get his crown as world tunes in to coronation

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the coronation a "moment of extraordinary national pride" that will be celebrated across the Commonwealth and beyond

Here's why airlines keep folding in India's booming aviation market

The lure of aviation has proven particularly attractive - and brutal - for wealthy entrepreneurs, eager to enter a burgeoning sector and wooed by the status of owning an airline

Here's how AI is once again putting tech companies in the hiring mood

After a year of layoffs, the past month has given us evidence that tech employment is stabilizing, even perhaps turning up a bit

Top Vodafone backer to increase stake to upto 25% to ensure influence

Emirates Telecommunications Group Co PJSC, also known as e&, told investors on its first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that it might raise its stake in Vodafone to 20% or 25%

Thales faces French corruption probe over its India mirage contract

A preliminary investigation has been opened into allegations by Sanjay Bhandari, who said in a court case that he served as a middleman to help Thales win the contract,

Bitcoin perpetuals becoming an even bigger driver of digital token's price

The perpetual contract was first introduced by crypto exchange BitMEX in 2016. Exchanges use the so-called funding rate - or the cost to trade

HSBC Holdings' shareholders dismiss call for strategy, dividend switch

About a fifth of voting investors backed the call for HSBC to report regularly on the possibility of carving out its Asian unit, while 19.2% supported lifting its dividend to its pre-pandemic level

Defence firm Thales faces French bribery probe over India Mirage deal

A preliminary investigation has been opened into allegations by Sanjay Bhandari, who said in a court case that he served as a middleman to help Thales win the contract

DBS Group Holdings hit by more capital minimums after unacceptable outage

A disruption in DBS' digital systems Friday saw retail customers face difficulties performing banking and payment services through its apps and websites