Olive Group ministers meet in Cyprus

Cyprus will host the 5th Informal Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Mediterranean EU member states on Thursday and Friday at the Aphrodite Hills Resort in Paphos. This informal meeting is convened

Asian stocks gain, but China declines

Asian stocks rose led by technology companies and Japanese property developers, after Merrill Lynch & Co. raised its rating on Samsung Electronics Co. and UBS AG said a drop in real-estate companies

World Bank anti-corruption chief resigns

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the World Bank’s anti-corruption unit, Suzanne Rich Folsom, resigned on Wednesday to rejoin the private sector, a Bank spokesman said. Folsom, a U.S. ethics lawyer, had