LONDON — The World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments on Tuesday to increase taxes on alcoholic drinks and impose them on products that are currently exempt, such as wine in some European countries. Sugary beverages should also be taxed at ...

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is warning that more testing of African swine fever vaccines is needed, triggered by Vietnam’s plans to export doses in coming months to fight a disease that regularly ravages pig farms worldwide. In ...

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Job vacancies in the American economy fell to their lowest level in more than two years, helping cool the labour market and raising expectations of interest rate cuts in the world’s largest economy. Official figures from the Labour Department showed ...

The compelling power of storytelling fused with dynamic visual elements can create a lasting impact on the audience, fostering brand recognition and customer engagement. As businesses strive to build a robust digital footprint, understanding how to leverage video production is ...

British car manufacturers are to be given a three-year reprieve from Brexit tariffs on electric vehicle exports to the EU, hours after new figures showed sales of battery-powered vehicles fell by almost a fifth last month. The European Commission signalled ...

Amazon and Google have complained to the UK’s competition regulator that their rival, Microsoft, uses practices that restrict customer choice in the £7.5 billion cloud computing market. In their written submissions to the Competition and Markets Authority, which is investigating ...

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it will offer tax incentives for foreign companies that locate their regional headquarters in the kingdom, including a 30-year exemption for corporate income tax. The world’s top oil exporter announced in February 2021 ...

SYDNEY — New Zealand will trim government spending, provide income tax relief for families and amend the central bank’s monetary policy framework to focus only on price stability, the new right-of-centre coalition government said on Wednesday. The National-led government of Christopher Luxon, ...

BRUSSELS — Top EU officials will raise an array of concerns from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to trade irritants in a summit with Chinese leaders on Thursday that is expected to be long on firm words, but short on outcomes. ...