
G7 finance ministers meeting in France on Thursday agreed a plan for taxing digital companies such as Facebook and Google that will set a minimum level of taxation for them. Ministers “fully supported a two-pillar solution to be adopted by 2020”, said a statement from France which holds the rotating ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed Washington for its sanctions against Iran. He stated that the “economic war” against civilians “amounts to terrorism”. Zarif also commented on the US restrictions on Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York, calling them “basically inhuman”. “It is certainly not ...