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Muscat: Ooredoo has added 500 new 4G locations to its network in different governorates of the Sultanate, allowing even more customers to enjoy the...

London: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) raised income and cut costs in the third quarter to deliver a forecast-beating operating profit which lifted shares in...

Brussels: The European Commission warned Italy, France, Portugal and Belgium on Friday that their 2018 draft budget plans posed risks to meeting EU debt and...

Moscow: Russia's improving economy has removed the main impetus for privatisations planned for this year, allowing policymakers who always doubted the...

Athens: Greece expects to beat creditors' projections and achieve a higher primary surplus this year and buoyant growth in 2018, authorities said, as...

Washington: The US economy unexpectedly maintained a brisk pace of growth in the third quarter as an increase in inventory investment and a smaller trade...

Rome: Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) unexpectedly raised its sovereign rating for Italy to BBB on Friday, the first such increase by S&P...

Caracas: Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA began making a major bond payment due on Friday, easing short-term worries about default but leaving the...

San Francisco: Apple quashed concerns of muted demand for its iPhone X on Friday, saying pre-orders for the 10th anniversary phone were "off the...

San Francisco: Elon Musk was fed up. The seats on Tesla Inc's new Model X SUV were a mess. An outside contractor was having trouble executing the...