Economy News

January 21, 2019

France holds trial over horse meat found in frozen lasagna

Six years after the "Horsegate" scandal broke, four people went on trial in Paris on Monday over an elaborate alleged scheme ...

January 21, 2019

Few signs of breakthrough as May set to unveil Brexit Plan B

Prime Minister Theresa May was set to unveil her new plan to break Britain's Brexit deadlock on Monday — one expected to look ...

January 21, 2019

Chinese accuse McDonald's of supporting Taiwan independence

Chinese nationalists are accusing a McDonald's advertisement in Taiwan of supporting independence for the self-ruled island.

January 21, 2019

Death toll reaches 85 in Mexico fuel pipeline fire horror

People in the town where a gasoline explosion killed at least 85 people say the section of pipeline that gushed fuel has been ...

January 20, 2019

Kenyan police say attack on Chinese facilities is repelled

Kenyan police say gunmen opened fire on Chinese construction facilities in an eastern area, days after Islamic extremists ...

January 20, 2019

Plane makes emergency landing in Black Sea port in Romania

Romanian authorities say an airplane flying from Cyprus to the Romanian capital has made an emergency landing in the Black ...

January 20, 2019

Zimbabwe president to return home after deadly turmoil

Zimbabwe's president announced on Sunday that he will return home and skip the World Economic Forum after a week of turmoil ...

January 20, 2019

Tshisekedi declared Congo's president, but runner-up revolts

Congo's election crisis deepened early Sunday when the Constitutional Court confirmed the win of Felix Tshisekedi, rejecting ...

January 19, 2019

The Latest: Labour deputy says party must join Brexit talks

The Latest on Britain's exit from the European Union (all times local): 8 p.m. The deputy leader of Britain's opposition ...

January 19, 2019

Uber, Cabify cars are attacked in Spain; police arrest 7

Police in Barcelona have arrested seven people on suspicion of attacking cars that work with ride-hailing apps like Uber and ...

January 19, 2019

Private guards in Kenya to carry guns after extremist attack

Kenya plans to allow many more private security guards around the country to carry firearms following a deadly attack by ...

January 18, 2019

Tiffany holiday sales slip as Chinese tourists spend less

Tiffany & Co. says holiday shoppers and Chinese tourists spent less on its bling. The luxury jeweler, famous for its little ...

January 18, 2019

Tens of thousands honor stabbed Polish mayor on burial eve

Church bells tolled as tens of thousands in Poland's northern city of Gdansk walked in a procession Friday bringing the ...

January 18, 2019

Germany's Mercedes-Benz plans assembly plant in Egypt

German automaker Daimler's Mercedes-Benz Cars unit says it is developing plans to open an assembly plant in Egypt.

January 18, 2019

Bulgaria makes terror financing arrests across the country

Police in Bulgaria says they have busted a suspected terrorism financing ring and detained 43 people in raids across the ...

January 18, 2019

May's foes gather as Britain's Brexit stalemate drags on

Prime Minister Theresa May held talks Friday with European leaders and British Cabinet colleagues, but efforts to end ...

January 18, 2019

Macedonia seeks help in catching safe deposit box thefts

Macedonian authorities are seeking cross-border help to gather evidence on a 1.7-million euro ($1.9 million) theft from bank ...

January 18, 2019

Operation begins to lift sunken containers off Dutch coast

A salvage operation to lift scores of shipping containers from the seabed off the northwestern coast of the Netherlands has ...

January 18, 2019

The Latest: Johnson urges May to use Brexit loss as leverage

The Latest on Brexit (all times local): 11:45 a.m. Former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson has urged Prime Minister ...