Jeremy Hunt has come under pressure from the CBI to announce tax breaks for businesses at the budget as a “last chance” to help the economy avoid a recession this year. The employers’ group has called on the government to ...
HONG KONG — The world should “calm down” about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said. A paper by Mr. Gao and colleagues published in the Lancet medical journal on Wednesday showed ...
WASHINGTON — President Joseph R. Biden said on Wednesday he did not believe the US economy will fall into recession either this year or next year, his most confident prediction on the fate of an economy that is still rattled ...
SINGAPORE — Singapore will drop a requirement for travelers who are not fully vaccinated to show COVID test results or purchase coronavirus travel insurance from Feb. 13, the government’s virus taskforce said on Thursday. Masks will also not be required ...
AHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey — The death toll from earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria this week passed 15,000 on Thursday amid anger from those left destitute and frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who contests ...
Rishi Sunak should funnel billions of pounds into free childcare to help get more parents into work to tackle acute workforce shortages, according to Britain’s leading business group. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the government urgently needed to ...
British consumers sharply cut their spending in January as the cost of living crisis damaged household finances, retailers have warned, amid growing concern over the impact of high inflation on the economy. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said sales growth ...
SEOUL — South Korea’s anti-trust regulator said on Thursday it would impose a combined fine of 42.3 billion won ($33.48 million) on three German automakers for colluding to rig emissions of its diesel cars using software. Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and ...
SHANGHAI — Chinese state media on Thursday cautioned against risks in chasing local ChatGPT-concept stocks, while domestic artificial intelligence (AI) companies urged investors to be rational after their soaring share prices caught regulators’ attention. ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by US ...
SYDNEY — The Australian government will examine surveillance technology used in offices of the defense department, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Thursday, amid reports that Chinese-made cameras installed there posed a security risk. The checks come after Britain in ...