Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
Apple’s next flagship smartphone, the iPhone 18 Pro, could become the company’s most expensive standard flagship yet, with its base configuration projected to cost as much as US$1,319 as soaring memory costs
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has pitched Indonesia as Russia’s “natural entry point” to Asean, calling for deeper trade, investment and transport links as Moscow increasingly turns towards Asia. Speaking at the Eastern
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The Indian rupee climbed to a two-month high on Thursday after a massive wave of overseas fundraising through special measures exceeded market expectations, strengthening the currency’s outlook as renewed U.S.-Iran conflict pushes
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Nearly 800 Indonesians have fallen ill in a series of separate food-poisoning incidents linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme, raising fresh questions over the safety and management of a
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JPMorgan Chase has sharply reduced the financing it provides to Jane Street, according to reporting by the Financial Times, as the secretive trading firm’s rapid expansion into the bond market brings it
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The Dutch central bank has moved more than 78 tonnes of gold from New York to London, in a politically sensitive decision that reflects growing concern among European institutions about the security
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For more than four decades, Jebel Ali has been at the heart of Dubai’s transformation from a regional trading centre into one of the world’s major commercial hubs. Now, the war between
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China is preparing to open the Pinglu Canal, a 72.7 billion yuan (US$10.8 billion) waterway designed to accelerate trade between the country’s inland manufacturing regions and Southeast Asia, with its first command
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Sanae Takaichi’s rise to power was greeted by many in her home region of Nara as the arrival of a politician capable of breaking Japan’s long-running cycle of ageing demographics, weak growth
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The European Commission is drawing up plans to break up parts of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and transfer its functions to existing Commission departments, responding to pressure from France and
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