Category: 1. Iran

LONDON :Trafigura lawyers said Prateek Gupta’s allegations that the group concocted a secret scheme to swap expensive nickel for low-value metals were full of inconsistencies, as the Indian businessman gave evidence in a long-running fraud case…

Grindr’s two largest shareholders said on Wednesday that they had withdrawn their proposed $3.46 billion offer to take the dating app private, shortly after the company ended talks over financing concerns.

Ray Zage and James Lu, who together own…

SUPPORT FOR RETRENCHED WORKERS

In regard to retrenchment, the authorities have trodden carefully. Companies in Singapore have always had the right to release workers on grounds of reorganisation or redundancy. 

However, providing timely job…

TelevisaUnivision said on Wednesday it signed a multi-year distribution deal with YouTube TV, restoring the Spanish-language media company’s networks on the pay-TV service after a nearly two-month blackout.

The channels went dark on one of the…

NEW YORK :The yen weakened against the dollar on Wednesday, after an initial boost from speculation about a possible Bank of Japan rate hike next month faded, while sterling advanced on a UK budget that offered a larger-than-expected fiscal…

Its latest role? Secretly transporting drugs into an Ohio prison.

The book was one of three items whose pages 30-year-old Austin Siebert, of Maumee southwest of Toledo, has been convicted of spraying with narcotics and then shipping to Grafton…

DAKAR/LONDON :A U.S.-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker’s…

WASHINGTON :NASA’s Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges – what one scientist called “mini-lightning” – often associated with whirlwinds called dust devils…

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran remains open to serious negotiations with the United States, but only if Washington shifts from imposing demands to engaging in equitable and mutually beneficial…