SYDNEY (Reuters) - Several major Australian businesses urged a swift reopening of state borders on Thursday, even as authorities warned against complacency as new cases of the virus appear to be trending lower.

Many Australian internal borders have been closed to contain the spread of the virus, with Victoria and New South Wales accounting for almost all new cases, and most states and territories have vowed to keep them shut for months to come.

Qantas Airways Ltd said on Thursday the closures were severely hampering a recovery in the domestic aviation market,

(Reuters) - General Electric Co ( GE.N ) said it had signed two new agreements valued at over $1.2 billion with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, to undertake maintenance programs across key power plants in the country and bolster its

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Russia and China not to disregard the reimposition of all United Nations sanctions on Iran, which President Donald Trump has directed him to trigger at the U.N. Security Council in New York on Thursday.

Pompeo will meet

Offshore oil driller Valaris PLC on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy in Houston with Kirkland & Ellis as legal counsel, to tackle its $7.9 billion debt load.

The London-based company had been a candidate for bankruptcy for the past several months amid low oil prices and a rig accident, as first reported by Reuters in April.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s trade minister has reclassified recent meetings with a pro-hard Brexit think tank as personal discussions, removing them from the public record and sparking opposition allegations that she wants to conceal their

(Reuters) - Short-term home rental company Airbnb Inc said on Wednesday it filed confidentially for an initial public offering with U.S. regulators, setting the stage for one of 2020’s marquee U.S. stock market debuts.

The move underscores a rebound in parts of the travel industry, which was battered this year by restrictions

(Reuters) - Short-term home rental company Airbnb Inc said on Wednesday it filed confidentially for an initial public offering with U.S. regulators, setting the stage for one of 2020’s marquee U.S. stock market debuts.

The move underscores a rebound in parts of the travel industry, which was battered this year by restrictions

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is in talks with Russia, Germany and China about conducting Phase 3 trials for coronavirus vaccines developed in those countries, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday.

Germany and China have applied to conduct the Phase 3 trials in Turkey and have presented pre-clinical trial results, while Ankara wants

(Reuters) - Just two years after Apple became the first publicly listed U.S. company with a $1 trillion stock market value, the iPhone maker has now topped $2 trillion.

The Cupertino, California-based company’s shares briefly rose to as high as $468.65 on Wednesday, equivalent to a market capitalization of $2.004 trillion. The stock was last up 1.2% at $467.62, giving Apple a market