Will Japan’s vice minister of justice’s visit to Lebanon this weekend bring back Ghosn for facing trial over financial crimes? In a statement, Japan’s justice ministry stated, vice minister of justice Hiroyuki Yoshiie will be travelling to Lebanon this weekend so as to try and make a case against...

While Brazil reported a confirmed case of the virus infection – the first for the country and Latin America, multiple cases were reported from the Middle East and Europe.   At the same time, emergency response levels have been reduced in some parts of China with the slowing of reporting of...

Britain gears up to open its own carbon market, while the EU seems considerate yet clear that the standards set by the bloc should not be slackened if any future ties persists between both the parties. Britain needs to maintain environment standards and climate targets set by EU even if it has...

The French energy corporation EDF shut down reactor No. 1 of the oldest French nuclear power plant Fessenheim, the company’s website reports. Fessenheim NPP is located in the eponymous commune in the north-east of France near the German border and consists of two power units of 900 MW each....

Billions of dollars are at stake due to postponed events and meeting across the globe. The coronavirus outbreak in China has curbed travel to some extent amid concerns of its spread, whereby postponing several “trade fairs and industry conferences in China and overseas” potentially affecting...

Germany intends to fight against radical right-wing terrorism and extremism. This was announced on Thursday by leading politicians and officials of Germany. Thus, the German authorities reacted to the largest extremist terrorist attack in the country in two decades. In the city of Hanau,...

Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Pemex (Mexican oil and gas corporation), will be transferred from a prison in Malaga to Madrid, Europa Press agency reports citing unnamed sources. It was previously reported that Emilio Lozoya, who was detained in Spain on the basis of an international arrest...

The first detailed report about more than 70,000 cases of people infected by the coronavirus outbreak in China – now officially named Covid-19, was published by health officials in China – the first such comprehensive and detailed reports since the outbreak of the virus.   The new report...

Having women executive increases the chances of “a return on equity at or above the average of 6.42%”. According to the EU banking watchdogs, lenders with women and men both in their top executive positions had better chances of being a profitable while two thirds of smaller banks had only men in...