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ISTANBUL Ski resorts in provinces across Turkey have been attracting domestic and foreign visitors during winter as the country bids to diversify its struggling tourism industry. The Palandöken Ski Center in the eastern province of Erzurum continues to be a hot spot for skiing fans following heavy snowfall in the area. The...
Turkey’s logistics sector has attracted $1.9 billion in foreign investments as its cargo capacity quadrupled in the last 10 years, the head of a business association said on Jan. 9. “Logistics, which provides an investment environment to 400,000 people, is a significant employment sector of Turkey,” Emre Eldener, chairman of...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he and his wife MacKenzie are donating $33 million to fund college scholarships for undocumented immigrants. Bezos said the grant will allow some 1,000 undocumented high school students to attend college. The students will all be Dreamers, meaning they have Deferred Action for Childhood...
Iraq has approved the sale by Royal Dutch Shell of the company’s 20 percent stake in Iraq’s West Qurna 1 oilfield to Japan’s Itochu Corp, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Jan. 10. The deal comes as the Anglo-Dutch company agreed to exit the Majnoon oil venture, one of...
TOKYO - Reuters Former Toyota Motor Corp President Tatsuro Toyoda, who helped the Japanese automaker become a global industrial power in the early 1990s, has died at the age of 88, the company said  on Jan. 6. The son of the company’s founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, he took a major role in...
Britain’s trade deficit has risen to a five-month high, official data showed on Jan. 10, sparking concern over looming Brexit talks. The deficit in goods and services, the gap between exports and imports, widened in November by 0.5 billion to a five-month high of 2.8 billion, the Office for National...