Bloomberg Burberry Group Plc will stop destroying unsold products and using animal fur as it works to placate investors and compete with leading luxury brands that are racing to clean up their images with new commitments on sustainability and ethics. Top-end fashion brands have long preferred to burn some unsold items or bury them in landfill rather than risk their …

ABU DHABI / WAM The trade exchange between the UAE and Ghana amounted to over $1.2 billion by the end of 2017,a according to a senior Ministry of Economy official. “Afro-UAE relations are significantly evolving and we are attaching growing importance to strengthening business ties with the Republic of Ghana,” said Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Saleh, Under-Secretary of the Ministry …

ST. PETERBURG / WAM Gazprom Neft, Mubadala Petroleum and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the sovereign wealth fund of the Russian Federation have announced the completion of a transaction establishing a joint venture to develop oil fields in the Tomsk and Omsk regions of Western Siberia. Further to an agreement announced on May 24 this year, Gazprom Neft has …