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­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg Ireland warned it won’t be used as a pawn in wider negotiations on the terms of the UK’s departure from the European Union, as it called Britain’s plans to avoid border checks after Brexit a “step forward.” Envoys need to show “flexibility and imagination” to devise post-Brexit arrangements on the island of Ireland that preserve free movement of people ...

Bloomberg Italy’s economic recovery extended for a tenth straight quarter, boosting optimism that growth can become sustainable this year amid a rise in industrial production. Gross domestic product expanded 0.4 percent in the three months through June, the same as in the first quarter, Rome-based statistics agency Istat said in a preliminary report on Wednesday. That matched the median of ...

Bloomberg Companies from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to China Life Insurance Co. will participate in a $11.7 billion share sale by China’s second-largest wireless carrier as part of a government push to draw private capital into its state-owned enterprises. According to the plan, investors including Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc. will purchase about 10.9 billion shares, or 35 percent, ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. is making it harder for touts to profit from buying iPhones in Hong Kong only to sell them on the black market in China. From mid-August, all products bought online from Apple in Hong Kong will be ineligible for return or exchange unless they are defective, the company said on its website. Apple’s previous policy allowed 14 ...

Bloomberg A day after belatedly faulting white supremacists for deadly clashes in Virginia, President Donald Trump returned to his controversial position that there was “blame on both sides” for the weekend violence — remarks that caught his own aides off-guard. “You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi has been named the safest city in the world by Numbeo, a website that curates and collates data to develop the world’s largest user-contributed database about cities and countries worldwide. With the lowest crime index of just 13.54 in the past six months, and the highest safety index of 86.46, Abu Dhabi was well ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM An online registration on tax purposes for businesses will be open effective mid-September 2017, according to the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) with an integrated system to be provided to serve the business sectors as per the highest international standards. This marks a major step underlining the UAE’s leading position in the application of a world-class tax ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, stated that sustainability is a lifestyle, work and investment, and she described it as everyone’s responsibility as individuals and families, as well as governments, quasi-governments and private organisations, ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Delegates at this year’s Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) will have more opportunities than ever to hear some of the oil and gas industry’s most powerful executives speak in open-invite conference sessions, after organisers confirmed they will increase the number of Global Business Leader panels for 2017. Held under the patronage of ...

Bloomberg The UK government said it wants to maintain tariff-free, bureaucracy-light trade with the European Union for a period of up to two years after Brexit, a proposal cheered by British businesses but which is likely to raise eyebrows on the continent. Ahead of the publication Tuesday of the first of a series of new papers aimed at fleshing out ...