JAKARTA — Indonesia’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in more than a year in the third quarter (Q3), as improved investment and government spending underpinned growth in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 5.72% year on ...

MPs have called for a total ban on the export of plastic waste by 2027, arguing that the present system merely outsources the problem and causes significant environmental harm elsewhere. Almost two thirds of the country’s plastic waste is sent ...

SYDNEY/CHICAGO — Airlines around the world are ripping up schedules and bringing in new flights to cope with a COVID-triggered trend in corporate travel for executives like Jerome Harris — the scrapping of one-day business trips in favor of longer ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Warned that mounting economic crises should not delay action on increasingly obvious global warming threats, climate negotiators agreed at United Nations (UN) talks on Sunday to start discussions on a funding plan to help climate-hit countries ...

SAO PAULO — In South America, home to some of the world’s starriest soccer players from Argentina’s Lionel Messi to Brazil’s Neymar, avid fans are starting to get jitters about their countries’ World Cup chances — and the rising cost ...

There are mixed signals developing in this market. On the one hand, there is the daily and highly chaotic price action, while, on the other hand, the market’s breadth and liquidity may be improving. If you’re thinking that sometimes you just ...

In a week that remained pretty much buoyant, the equity markets continued with their up move as they added to their gains; in the process, they also confirmed the breakout above the all-important falling trend line pattern resistance on the ...

DUBAI — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards tested a new satellite-carrying rocket on Saturday, state media reported, a move the United States called “unhelpful and destabilizing”. Washington fears the same long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be ...

MADRID — Climate activists glued their hands to the frames of two world-famous paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya in Madrid’s Prado museum on Saturday, the latest in a string of protests targeting artworks across Europe. A man and ...

LONDON — Nurses in Britain will go on strike, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said on Saturday, an action that will add to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s challenges during an economic crisis. The prospect of up to 300,000 nurses ...