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The European Union has removed prominent Russian businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from its sanctions list. Personal sanctions against both men were imposed in 2022. They included asset freezes and a ban on entering the European Union. France traded Usmanov...

Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be more repressive than the one it forcibly replaced. The Supreme Court of Nepal has...

In 2021, Sungmin Cho wrote, “South Korea’s Taiwan Conundrum,” where he argued Seoul’s complex strategic position makes engagement on questions of involvement over a Taiwan contingency complicated. Five years later, we asked him to revisit his arguments.Image: U.S. Navy (Photo...

Imperial Oil chief executive John Whelan has stated his opposition to Alberta separatism, making this the first major energy company in the province to take a public position on the movement, Financial Post reported, citing Bloomberg. "As a national company,...

Convening energy ministers, investors, financiers, and experts for the next African Energy Week (AEW), on October 12–16, in Cape Town, South Africa, aims at taking one more step with Africa’s energy ambitions that could translate into investment, production, infrastructure, and...

Glencore committed $500 million to VaultCo, the Export-Import Bank public-private partnership sourcing critical minerals for a US government stockpile, Reuters reported Wednesday. The commitment makes Glencore the fourth supplier named to Project Vault, joining Hartree Partners, Mercuria Americas and Traxys...

One Year Later — September 2026 When this piece first ran a year ago, VSORA was the quiet outsider, a company with a bold architecture and no Silicon Valley address. One year on, the thesis has held up better than even...

Copper closed Tuesday a hair below its all-time high, extending its winning streak to six sessions as Chinese buyers restocked ahead of back-to-back holidays and warehouse inventories in Shanghai and London kept draining. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange...

Crude oil inventories in the United States saw an increase of 3 million barrels during the week ending September 18, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The increase brings commercial stockpiles to...

TODAY’S NUMBERS 5.06% (US 10-year Treasury yield, highest since 2007) · 100.9 (Dollar index, seven-week high) · 1,000+ tonnes (China’s gold imports, January–August) The world is paying up for dollars and stockpiling gold at the same time. Markets are buying...

Cuts to U.S. federal incentives for carbon capture projects and an uncertain regulatory environment going forward have prompted some start-ups to move from solely capturing and storing carbon dioxide to selling it to oil companies to help them boost oil...

St John's Anglican Church near London's Hyde Park was transformed into a fashion runway for several hours. Models in hijabs and niqabs walked through the church. In modern Britain, this proved to be an entirely acceptable use of church space....

Ahead of a high-stakes US-China summit planned for September 24 at the White House, Beijing appears to be spotlighting its influence over Iran to gain leverage during negotiations with its chief geopolitical rival. Expectations for a US-China breakthrough on Iran...

ASML is exploring how to produce more than 110 extreme ultraviolet lithography machines in 2028, reflecting the extraordinary investment flowing into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Dutch semiconductor-equipment company expects to manufacture at least 80 EUV systems in 2027 and is...

TotalEnergies has decided to invest in the development of the Ima gas field offshore Nigeria to increase supply for the expanding Nigeria LNG export plant, the French supermajor said on Wednesday. As operator and holder of a 40% interest in...

Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel Money targets $9bn IPO in boost for ailing UK stock market Nils Pratley: Does this mark the end of London’s listing drought? Not yet A payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...