BEIJING: Beijing yesterday accused Washington of “paranoid delusion” after the US Senate passed a sweeping industrial policy bill aimed at countering the surging economic threat from China. 

BEIJING: China’s factory gate inflation rose at the highest rate in over a decade last month, official data showed yesterday, as the world’s second-largest economy worked to contain a surge in commodity prices. 

DRESDEN: Leading car parts supplier Bosch inaugurated a new semiconductor factory in Germany on Monday, hailed by Chancellor Angela Merkel as a boost to Europe’s efforts to reduce reliance on Asian chipmakers at a time of global shortages. 

KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa yesterday held an Extraordinary General Assembly that witnessed the required Assembly’s approval of the Board of Directors’ recommendation to distribute interim dividends quarterly or on a semi-annual basis. 

ARLINGTON: When his father lost his job last year, Togi, then 16, wasted little time before looking for work to support his family, even though he knew it could put him at risk of contracting COVID-19. 

WASHINGTON: The US commerce secretary appealed Sunday for vigilance from the private sector in the face of increasingly serious cyberattacks, saying the threat is “here to stay” and may even worsen. 

FRANKFURT: Surging inflation and an economic rebound as virus curbs ease will be in focus when European Central Bank policymakers meet Thursday, testing their commitment to keeping pandemic-era stimulus measures in place. 

PARIS: France’s competition regulator fined Google 220 million euros ($267 million) yesterday after finding it had favored its own services for placing online ads at the expense of rivals, as US tech giants face growing pressure in Europe. 

ZURICH: The idyllic image of peaceful Swiss Alpine pastures is being shattered by upcoming votes on pesticides which have sharply divided opinion in rural Switzerland.