Lebanon's SGBL bank has announced the completion of the acquisition of Banque Richelieu France (formerly KBL Richelieu Banque Privée), Banque Richelieu Monaco (formerly KBL Monaco Private Bankers) and Richelieu Gestion (formerly KBL Richelieu Gestion), after obtaining the green light of the relevant regulatory authorities, notably the Central Bank of Lebanon (CBL), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR - France).

This group of companies, with an aggregate amount of assets under management of US$ 3.6 billion, will be steered by Compagnie Financière Richelieu, which is chaired by SGBL Chairman and CEO Antoun Sehnaoui and fully owned by SGBL.

Churning out everything from cars and computer chips to nuts and wine, California's mighty economy will suffer big time if the U.S.-China trade war worsens.

Uganda will review a tax on the use of social media, the prime minister said Wednesday after a protest against the controversial measure was broken up by police firing live rounds and teargas into the air.

Libya is resuming oil exports from its eastern production heartland, its National Oil Corporation said Wednesday after a showdown between the war-torn country's rival authorities.

The internationally recognised NOC was handed back control of four terminals in the oil crescent on Wednesday morning, it said in a statement, adding that "production and export operations will return to normal levels within the next few hours".

The United States and China have fired the next shots in their escalating trade war, with Washington threatening to impose fresh tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese goods and Beijing vowing to retaliate.

Tesla on Tuesday revealed plans to build a factory in Shanghai that would dramatically increase its notoriously constrained production capacity, with boss Elon Musk making his electric-car company's biggest overseas move yet just as a U.S.-China trade battle heats up.

India has become the world's sixth-biggest economy, pushing France into seventh place, according to updated World Bank figures for 2017.

Cuba on Tuesday reauthorized private businesses after a year-long freeze, but with tighter controls than before on a segment of the economy that now makes up 13 percent of the island's workforce.

Asian markets mostly rose on Tuesday following another strong lead from New York, as optimism about the US economy and the beginning of the earnings season provide a distraction from trade tensions.

Summer is the ideal time for cracking open a bottle of rose, but fans of French wine might be thinking twice after millions of bottles were found to contain less costly Spanish versions instead.