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
China’s Alibaba said on Sunday it plans to raise HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) through a share placement to finance the development of artificial intelligence, in what would become the largest-ever primary follow-on
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Tesla and eight other automakers will recall about 4.3 million vehicles in China over concerns that emergency door-release mechanisms could be difficult to locate or operate, marking the country’s largest automotive recall
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The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating drivers’ accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, delivering the second-largest penalty yet imposed under Europe’s General
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The project is expected to have a capacity of 80 to 90 megawatts and will be developed at the Vatican-owned Santa Maria di Galeria estate on the north-western outskirts of Rome. Sources
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TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a dispute with the US Justice Department over the protection of children’s data, bringing a major legal confrontation over the short-video
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The Reserve Bank of India likely intervened in the foreign exchange market on Friday to support the rupee, according to three traders cited by Reuters, as elevated oil prices and sustained corporate
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Hyundai Motor’s South Korean union staged its first full strike in a decade on Friday after wage negotiations stalled, escalating a labour dispute centred not only on pay but also on retirement
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Countries have restored 124.3 million hectares of degraded land under United Nations-backed efforts, an area roughly twice the size of France, but the figure represents only 10.4% of their collective national restoration
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Singapore has launched its latest response to Hong Kong’s aggressive efforts to attract hedge fund managers and other financial professionals, proposing tax exemptions on certain investment profits as the two Asian financial
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Bangladesh’s worsening energy crisis has given India an unexpected opportunity to repair strained relations with its neighbour, after Dhaka requested additional diesel supplies as power shortages forced shops, malls and markets to
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