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The final Game of Thrones episode premiering on May 19 is likely to cause major workplace conflicts, a new survey from the Workforce Institute at Kronos, conducted by the Harris...

Caracas is in talks with Moscow over the possibility of using the Russian ruble in mutual trade settlements and abandoning dollar transactions, according to Venezuela's representative to the UN office...

German pharmaceutical firm Bayer plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of US lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be dropped. Read...

Italy has joined a growing list of nations to challenge US tech giant Google in connection with alleged abuse of the corporation's market power in the smart device sector. Read...

Donald Trump has terminated the preferential trade agreement which provided Turkey with partial tax-free access to US markets, in a move some see as Washington's retaliation for the NATO ally's...

As the US and China continue to exchange blows in an ongoing trade battle, Professor Richard Wolff talks to RT's Boom Bust about the possible outcomes of the skirmish. Read...

The European Commission is considering aviation fuel tax that is supposed to reduce carbon emissions by 11 percent and have a “negligible” impact on jobs and the economy. But experts...

Budapest will resume massive purchases of Russian natural gas if US oil giant Exxon Mobil doesn't invest in a vast Black Sea offshore project, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter...

Africa's economic potential is enormous: the continent contains significant mineral and energy deposits, a young and growing population, and an underdeveloped energy sector desperately in need of investment. Read Full...

Foreign investors have accelerated the reduction of US debt securities, selling $21.7 billion of their holdings in March, according to data released on Wednesday by the US Treasury Department. Read...

Huawei Technologies and 70 of its affiliates have been placed on a trade blacklist, the US Department of Commerce has confirmed, after President Donald Trump declared an emergency targeting telecoms...

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen says Vienna has no plans to withdraw from the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project as the country's energy giant, OMV, has made...

Premium units of US ride-hailing company Uber are now offering a new service that allows their high-end clientele to ask for minimal conversation during the journey. Read Full Article at...

The ongoing tit-for-tat tariff exchange between China and the US could push Beijing to strike back with the so-called ‘nuclear option' – dumping its vast holdings of US Treasury bonds....

As the trade war between Washington and Beijing intensifies, the United States is poised to lose out on a major gas market, and Russia could pick up the slack. Read...

The Central Bank of Russia reports that foreign exchange reserves saw a significant boost of nearly $3.3 billion in April as the country pursues a policy of increasing its forex...

A contract for the development of two new units at China's Xudabao nuclear power plant will soon be signed by Moscow and Beijing. It is part of the biggest nuclear...

India has once again extended the deadline to impose counter-tariffs on US products by a month, hoping to resolve the trade dispute with Washington once general elections conclude and a...

Sanctioning European investors that have already provided most of the agreed funds aimed at building the Russian-led gas pipeline to Europe is totally useless, according to the operator of the...

Nearly every state in the US is part of a lawsuit against leading pharmaceutical companies which colluded to raise prices on generic medications by as much as 1,000 percent. Read...

German pharmaceutical firm Bayer lost 6.8 percent on share value in trading Tuesday after a US jury awarded a couple from California $2.055 billion in punitive damages for failure to...

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Consumer electronics are among nearly 4,000 categories of Chinese imports that may be subject to new tariffs after US President Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping failed to reach...

Renewed trade war fears are breathing life into the gold market, according to Phil Streible, senior market analyst at RJO Futures, who also pointed to growing investor fears over the...

Just one Indian refiner has agreed to buy additional crude oil supply from Saudi Arabia to compensate for the loss of Iranian barrels, as India's firms have been looking for...

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from Russia increased to 11.7 billion cubic meters in the first three months of this year – a 19.7 percent growth compared to the same...

A US jury has awarded $2 billion in punitive damages to a California couple after concluding that Roundup weed killer caused their cancer and that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer,...

After an extensive slump since the end of last year, Bitcoin prices have now spiked to a nine-month high of almost $8,000, leaving analysts and enthusiasts questioning what might have...

The volume of trade between Russia and the United States totaled six billion dollars in the first quarter of the current year, having soared by nearly 25 percent year-on-year, according...

Global equities fell on Monday after Beijing said it would impose new levies on goods from the US in response to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese imports...

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Beijing has various means to strike back at Washington's tariffs on Chinese goods amid mounting trade tensions and is ready to fight a “prolonged war,” China's former vice minister of...

India's proposal to safeguard the right of special provisions for emerging economies that have been challenged by Washington will be supported by Chinese and South African authorities, according to the...

Global grain production is set for a sharp increase in the next 12 months with Russia remaining the top exporter, according to a report from the United States Department of...

As the US ramps up pressure on China to end the trade war, crude oil might actually end up being the common ground the two countries need to find a...

In a remarkable break from his boss' rhetoric, President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow conceded that US businesses and consumers are the ones who have to pay up...

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer is hiring an outside law firm to review claims circulating in the French media that its seed firm, Monsanto, compiled illegal lists of influential journalists and...

Asian countries are expected to be the main drivers of global growth through the next decade, with growth rates at around 7 percent. China, however, will be absent from the...

Pakistan has notified Iran that mounting US economic pressure makes it “impossible” to proceed with the massive Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline (IP) project, also known as the ‘Peace pipeline'. Read Full...

Billionaires and multimillionaires are preparing to leave the UK, taking their assets with them, should Jeremy Corbyn enter Downing Street. Read Full Article at RT.com