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Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel Money targets $9bn IPO in boost for ailing UK stock market A payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian billionaire has announced its intention to float on the struggling London Stock...

Asia is set to import the highest volumes of crude oil in September since February this year, when the Iran war started, crippled supply from the Middle East, and forced buyers in Asia to slash purchases. Asia is expected to...

Oil prices fell in Asian trading on Wednesday and were on course for a sixth consecutive day of declines as the first U.S.-Iran talks in months revived hopes of a deal and eased concerns about oil supply from the Middle...

Europe’s economy is showing greater resilience than expected despite rising energy costs and disruptions linked to conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, with business activity across the euro zone accelerating sharply in September. The euro zone’s private sector expanded...

The Kremlin has signalled that Russia’s position on potential peace talks with Ukraine remains unchanged, despite a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said...

Arrest of Shadrack Sibiya comes as country reels from cases of femicide and alleged police corruption and criminality One of South Africa’s most senior police officers has been charged with raping an 18-year-old woman and grooming a 16-year-old girl, as the...

A new military agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland has eased some of the anxiety surrounding Washington’s ambitions in the Arctic, but it has not erased concerns among Greenlanders about an expanded American military presence. Greenlandic officials and...

China's crude oil exports will rise only slightly in the fourth quarter from the third quarter if oil prices remain high, potentially easing the upward pressure on benchmark crude prices, Goldman Sachs says. China's crude oil imports rose for the...

The global economy is showing more resilience than expected in 2026, helped by a surge in investment linked to artificial intelligence, but the impact of the Middle East conflict on energy markets is becoming a growing threat to global growth....

We spare the reader another detailed story from Ukraine to establish the now-familiar point that battlefield technology changes faster than militaries can acquire, review, and field it. The villain in this story is easy to identify: bureaucracy. The fashionable remedies...

A district judge in Grand Rapids has dismissed a lawsuit brought against several oil supermajors that accused the companies of conspiring to interfere with competition in alternative energy and electric cars. The lawsuit was filed by Michigan Attorney General Dan...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump shared a Washington Post opinion piece on his social media, arguing that South Korea should send its Cheongung-II air-defense system to Ukraine. Additionally, the Trump administration continues to pressure Seoul to send troops to...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and US President Donald Trump welcomed what Seoul described as significant progress on a $350 billion strategic investment package during a 30 minute meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on...

For nearly a century, American global power has rested on a three-legged tripod: unmatched military firepower, the ubiquitous sovereignty of the US dollar and the intellectual dominance of its higher-education system. While aircraft carriers project hard power and Wall Street...

New Zealand is heading toward its November 7 election with polls suggesting a closely contested race between the country’s major political blocs. But under New Zealand’s electoral system, winning the largest number of votes does not necessarily mean winning the...

Kazakhstan has very recently completed a major constitutional reform. On 23 August 2026, the Central Asian state held the first election of deputies to the Kurultai, the country’s new unicameral Parliament, replacing the bicameral structure of the Senate and Mazhilis...

South Korea will try to cut its reliance on Middle East crude imports to 50% by 2035, Reuters has reported, citing the country’s industry ministry. The ministry has drafted a 10-year natural resource security plan, which envisages a “fundamental shift”...

Earlier this month, more than 80 metric tons of dried chilies from Pakistan arrived at the Chengdu International Railway Port. Packed into eight containers, the cargo entered China through Qinzhou Port in Guangxi, then moved inland to Chengdu via a...

China has drawn a firm line around Taiwan, human rights and several other issues ahead of President Xi Jinping’s meeting with US President Donald Trump, signalling that Beijing intends to protect what it considers core interests while seeking greater stability...

The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah forces was...

President Trump has declared his support for a potential ban on diesel fuel exports amid record-breaking prices at the pump. “I've said let's not send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel ... I've called for it. I've...

At a space-security summit in Paris this month, Novaspace chief executive Pacôme Révillon put a number on something most of the room already suspected: defence-owned reconnaissance satellites launched worldwide between 2026 and 2035 will reach 2,306, against just 485 in...

As human beings we have always been sitting ducks to extinction’s cosmic whims. We are a few astronomical units away from a life-ending meteor or comet strike, the kind that wiped out the dinosaurs after they were their own animal...

Relations between Turkey and Russia have always been one of the most intriguing scenarios in the Great Game. The leaders of the two countries maintain frequent contacts and “hotlines,” foreign ministries regularly consult on the situation in the Caucasus and...

Rising bond yields have put the time value of money back on the table. Investors are right to watch borrowing costs, distant cash flows and businesses that swallow capital by the billion. Across much of innovation, however, the price of...

NATO, EU and E3 leaders are taking Europe down a path to be ready for war by 2030. In the light of European bellicosity, Russia could decide to start this sooner. If so, the US would be unwilling to fight...

On February 27, 2022, three days into a war nobody in Berlin had planned for, Olaf Scholz walked into an emergency session of the Bundestag and used a word that would end up defining his chancellorship more than anything else...

Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill discuss Xi Jinping's visit to the United States and what to expect in Washington D.C. this week. First: Reactions to the meeting between Scott Bessent and He Lifeng in New York City Sunday,...

Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Instead of six more weeks of winter, we will have at least six more weeks of war, brought to us by Secretary Hegseth and his boss, President Trump, with the help of Speaker Johnson...

Reprinted from Gary Taphorn’s Substack: As we approach the three-year mark of the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel has signaled that it has every intention of continuing its massive bombing campaigns against Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and possibly other...

Xi Jinping arrives in Washington September 24, prepared to discuss reviving a $6 billion-a-year trade in US liquefied natural gas, contingent on lifting a 15% Chinese tariff that has blocked American gas since Q1 2025. Iranian missiles destroyed 17% of...

U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a fund to finance infrastructure rebuilding damaged in the war with Iran, offering $5 billion in U.S. money for starters. The information comes from the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources from Washington...

As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to meet next week, artificial intelligence governance will stand as one of the most urgent yet fraught items on their agenda. The rapid evolution of AI models and autonomous...

The current focus of the world’s governments, business and media when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) is on the dangers it poses to jobs, democracy and even the future of humanity itself. For many of a certain generation, these...

The recent AI Infra Summit was exceptionally jam-packed, filled to the brim with compelling talks, overlapping tracks, and emerging technologies. Amid the noise of the event, there were many excellent presentations detailing the physical realities of scaling hardware. But one...

Emerging economies are going to see an explosion of energy demand over the coming decades. Countries like Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Indonesia are racing to expand their energy production and imports in order to keep up with rapid economic development....

With diesel prices hitting all-time highs above $6.50 a gallon, there is a growing demand from farm states that the White House ban diesel exports from the United States.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the administration is considering whether...

Norway’s crude oil production rose to 1.882 million barrels per day in August, exceeding the Norwegian Offshore Directorate’s forecast but remaining below the level recorded during the same month last year, preliminary figures released on Tuesday showed. Total liquids production,...