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
Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a US Department of Justice probe into its diversity, equity and inclusion practices, resolving an investigation conducted under a federal initiative established during
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U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, U.S. media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources. If confirmed, the trip would mark the first known visit
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Japan’s Finance Ministry will seek a record ¥36.6 trillion ($230 billion) for debt-servicing costs in its initial budget request for the next fiscal year, according to documents, highlighting the growing financial burden
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For more than two decades, Heilongjiang Agriculture never reported a first-half loss as a public company. That record is ending this year after Chinese tax authorities demanded back payments linked to tax
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For President Vladimir Putin, the war in Ukraine has reached a difficult juncture. Russia continues to present itself as prepared to confront the West, while its military campaign faces a more immediate
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat to unleash an “economic D-Day” against Iran risks placing the United States on a collision course with China, Tehran’s main trading partner and the buyer of
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China is expanding a global network of gold vaults and accelerating central bank gold purchases as Beijing seeks to strengthen the yuan’s role in international trade, according to an S&P Global Ratings
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Singapore is offering families more than €47,000 for each child under the age of 18 as part of a new package announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, in one of the city-state’s
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The MV Ocean Winner was carrying iron ore from Odisha to Singapore when it disappeared from tracking systems nearly two days after leaving Paradip Port. Twenty of its crew members are Chinese,
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He does not wear a white coat and he is not a doctor. Yet for the past twenty years, Marcos has been a familiar presence at Madrid’s Fundación Jiménez Díaz, attending an
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