Blackstone plans to double its investments in India to $100 billion within five years, with chief operating officer Jonathan Gray describing the country as the firm’s best-performing market and expressing confidence in
A US judge has authorised investment fund Titan Consortium to begin proceedings seeking the seizure of Argentine state assets abroad over a compensation dispute arising from Argentina’s 2008 expropriation of its national
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The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will increase the number of vessels permitted to transit the waterway each day from 32 to 33 starting October 15, 2026, following improved rainfall in the canal
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SpaceX is preparing to launch its giant Starship rocket early Monday in an attempt to send the spacecraft into orbit for the first time, marking a major test of a system central
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Australia’s largest gold producer, Northern Star Resources, has rejected a A$39bn ($27bn) takeover offer from South Africa’s Gold Fields, blocking a proposed combination that would have created the world’s second-largest gold miner.
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Southeast Asian businesses are looking to China’s newly opened Pinglu Canal to reduce transport bottlenecks and provide direct access to markets deep inside the country, but officials and analysts warn that the
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Vietnam is attracting a growing pipeline of data-centre investment as global operators seek alternatives to more constrained markets such as Singapore and Malaysia, but disputes over electricity tariffs, grid capacity and land
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The United States and Russia worked to weaken proposed international safeguards for lethal autonomous weapons during United Nations negotiations in Geneva this month, removing provisions that would have required greater reliability, ethical
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For travellers making connecting flights, an airport’s size and number of destinations can matter less than how quickly passengers can move between gates. A data study of the 50 largest US airports
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Millions of people across Britain are struggling to afford food as the cost of essentials continues to rise, with a new poll finding that three-quarters of people have worried about food prices
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Apple has been ordered by a US federal jury to pay more than $5.7 billion to San Diego-based Taction Technology for infringing patents covering technology used to produce haptic feedback in electronic
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India has ordered 112 captive coal-fired power plants to operate at maximum capacity from October 1 through the end of December, citing an expected increase in electricity demand in the coming months.
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Volkswagen chief executive Oliver Blume has secured stakeholder backing for his turnaround plan, but the German carmaker now faces difficult negotiations over job cuts and plant closures, alongside unresolved questions about its
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Brussels has told British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that Britain should raise tariffs on Chinese cars and align more closely with European Union trade policy to avoid barriers to key British exports,
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Cambodia is gathering evidence against suspected masterminds behind large-scale cyber fraud operations, the country’s anti-scam minister said, as critics question whether the government’s crackdown has reached the senior figures and networks responsible
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Russia’s fleet of ships sailing under its national flag has grown by more than a third since January 2025, as Moscow seeks to keep oil and gas exports moving despite growing Western
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