Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate facing investigations over suspected corruption and money laundering, arrived in Miami on Wednesday after leaving Brazil despite an order by the country’s Supreme Court barring
A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday to wire fraud after prosecutors accused him of exploiting his government authority to acquire luxury property in Florida and hundreds of gold bars
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Samsung Electronics is expected to report a nearly nine-fold increase in third-quarter operating profit, as demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure continues to drive a prolonged shortage of memory chips. Analysts nevertheless have reduced
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The Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.5% on Wednesday, its first increase in nearly four years, as rising inflation and strong economic growth
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The global oil market has lost much of the storage buffer that has traditionally helped absorb supply disruptions, with industry executives warning that readily accessible inventories are now running dangerously low. More
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Paramount Skydance completed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, creating a major Hollywood conglomerate and giving chief executive David Ellison control of one of the world’s largest entertainment
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August Hanning, the former president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has been arrested as part of an investigation into suspected treasonous espionage, the disclosure of state secrets and attempted treason, placing
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The return of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera to prison has revived an old confrontation between religious influence and judicial authority. His contempt case, examined alongside landmark rulings from Sri Lanka, Britain, the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha has urged Sri Lanka’s Commissioner-General of Prisons not to remove the robe of Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Shiranthi Rajapaksa’s return to Sri Lanka brings renewed attention not only to the financial investigation surrounding the Siriliya Saviya Foundation, but also to the long political and
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, whose arrest and imprisonment followed the confirmation of his prison sentence by Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal on 5 October 2026, has spent
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Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jäger, has warned that Russia is waging a “shadow war” against Germany, describing a confrontation that he says has moved beyond conventional military and legal categories. His
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For centuries, silence has been treated as an absence: the absence of sound, speech or response. Lola Pons argues that it is far more consequential than that. In her new book, El
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At least 280,000 people are missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the list maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The figure includes both Ukrainians
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The Middle East is entering a period in which established assumptions about power and security may no longer hold, according to British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, whose new book, El hervidero. Historia
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Venezuela has never formally sought immunity in the United States for Nicolás Maduro or his wife, Cilia Flores, despite Caracas previously describing Maduro as the country’s president, according to a new filing
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