Oil prices soar, stocks slide after Israel strikes Iran
Oil prices soared and stocks sank Friday after Israel launched strikes on Iran, prompting retaliation from Tehran and stoking fears of a full-blown war...
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Vietnam approves 90pc tax rate on beer, alcohol by 2031
Vietnam鈥檚 lawmakers approved raising the tax on beer and strong alcoholic beverages on Saturday to 90 percent by 2031 from the current 65 percent, state media said...
AI鈥檚 arrival at work reshaping employers鈥� hunt for talent
Predictions of imminent AI-driven mass unemployment are likely overblown, but employers will seek workers with different skills as the technology matures, a top executive at global recruiter ManpowerGroup told AFP at Paris鈥檚 Vivatech trade fair...
Russia to build Kazakhstan鈥檚 first nuclear power plant
Russian nuclear energy giant Rosatom will lead the construction of the first atomic power plant in Kazakhstan, the world鈥檚 top uranium producer, the Central Asian country鈥檚 authorities said on Saturday...
Trump approves US Steel, Nippon Steel partnership
US president Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday approving a partnership between US Steel and Nippon Steel after the companies reached agreement on US national security guarantees...
Google turns queries into conversations
Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results...
Google rejects app store age verification for online content
American tech heavyweight Google on Friday reiterated its opposition to verifying the age of a device鈥檚 user through the app stores built into operating systems, calling a proposal from Facebook and Instagram parent Meta 鈥榠neffective鈥�.
Swedish pension fund blacklists Tesla, divests $1.4b stake
Swedish pension fund AP7 said Friday it had blacklisted Tesla over the US company鈥檚 lack of respect for labour rights in the US, and had sold off its $1.4 billion stake in the US carmaker.
Meta makes major investment in Scale AI, takes in CEO
Scale AI announced a major new investment by Meta late Thursday that values the startup at more than $29 billion and puts its founder to work for the tech titan.
Farmed production of seafood soaring
The amount of farmed seafood we consume 鈥� as opposed to that taken wild from our waters 鈥� is soaring every year, making aquaculture an ever-more important source for many diets, and a response to overfishing.
Air India crash latest test for new Boeing leadership
The devastating Air India crash seems certain to embroil Boeing in further rounds of negative headlines at a time when it has shown progress under new leadership.
China carefully assembling deep-sea mining strategy
In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy.
India, China to 鈥榚xpedite鈥� restarting direct flights
India said Friday it had agreed with neighbouring China to 鈥榚xpedite鈥� the process to resume direct flights between them in a sign of further improvement in ties, although no timeline was given.
Govt to set up employment dept, says Shakhawat
The interim government of Bangladesh has taken an initiative to establish an employment department to expand job opportunities on the labour market, said labour and employment adviser M Shakhawat Hossain.
Kitchen markets see low customer turnout after Eid
A laid-back atmosphere continued to prevail in the capital鈥檚 kitchen markets on Friday, after six days of Eid al-Azha.