Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a new 20-year high as investors rally behind founder Masayoshi Son‘s more cautious strategy of selling assets, paring debt and buying back shares. The Tokyo-based company’s stock gained more than 3% to 7,244 yen, the highest level since March of 2000 in the midst of the dot-com boom. The stock had already hit …

Bloomberg Nearly 200 countries are nearing a legally-binding agreement to reduce pollution from the world’s cargo ships, a step forward after two years of talks on how the industry should clean up its emissions. A series of virtual meetings will start on Monday hosted by the United Nations shipping agency over a new rating system that will measure the carbon …

KHARTOUM / WAM Dr Khalid Abdel Wahhab Al Khajah, Executive Manager of the International and Humanitarian Charity Organisation (IHCO) in Ajman, laid the foundation stone for the building of a new community, named “Al Salam Village”, in Sudan’s River Nile State. The village will see the construction of 200 houses for local people affected by floods that recently swept through …