With many industries facing staff shortages, just over half of small business owners surveyed want more migrant workers to come to the UK. New data from iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, reveals that 52% of SMEs are ...

KABUL — The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered beauty salons to close within a month, the morality ministry said, in the latest shrinking of access to public places for Afghan women. “The deadline for the closing of beauty parlours ...

THREE civil rights groups filed a complaint against Harvard on Monday, claiming its preferential policy for undergraduate applicants with family ties to the elite school overwhelmingly benefits white students, days after the US Supreme Court struck down its race-conscious admissions ...

SEOUL — A senior South Korean official said on Tuesday the short-term impact of China’s export controls targeting gallium and germanium used in the semiconductor industry would be limited, offset by a government stockpile and alternative supplies. South Korea is ...

MOSCOW — Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked Moscow with at least five drones that were all either shot down or jammed, though one of the capital’s main airports had to reroute flights for several hours. Four Ukrainian ...

LONDON — British banks faced fresh criticism on Monday for the savings rates they offer to cash-strapped customers, in the latest intervention by parliament’s influential Treasury Select Committee. The committee said it had written to the country’s “Big Four” banks ...

BRUSSELS – Microsoft is likely to face a European Union antitrust investigation in the coming months after remedy discussions with the EU watchdog to avert such a move appear to have hit a roadblock, people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft, ...

Twitter users will soon need to be verified in order to use TweetDeck, the social media company said in a tweet on Monday. The change will take effect in 30 days, the company said. Twitter made the announcement in a tweet detailing ...

NEW DELHI – Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Tuesday will hold an online summit hosted by India seeking to expand the influence of the Eurasian group by including Iran and opening a path to membership for Belarus. China’s President ...

BEIJING – China will control exports of some metals widely used in the semiconductor industry, its commerce ministry announced on Monday, the latest salvo in an escalating war over access to high-tech microchips between Beijing and the United States. The controls, which China said were aimed at protecting ...