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Oil prices rose for a fifth consecutive session on Monday, extending gains from the previous week’s more than 3 per cent rise, as US recession fears eased while geopolitical tensions ...

Around $2.3 billion in dollar and euro bills have been shipped to Russia since the United States and EU banned the export of their banknotes there in March 2022 following the invasion ...

Turkey is fully committed to its responsibilities to NATO, its defence minister told Reuters, amid concern amongst some Western allies that Ankara may be tilting away from the West. Last ...

Movie star Tom Cruise rappelled from the roof of France’s national stadium and received the Olympic flag, bringing a heavy dose of Hollywood to the closing ceremony of the ...

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday that Iran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack on Israel, Axios reporter Barak Ravid ...

Russia on Monday evacuated parts of another region next to Ukraine after Kyiv sharply increased military activity near the border just days after its biggest incursion into sovereign Russian territory ...

For US chip giant Intel, the darling of the computer age before it fell on harder times in the AI era, things might have been quite different. About seven years ...

When Mike Hopkins was approached about leading Amazon Prime Video, his view of the streaming service matched one held widely in Hollywood — it was nothing more than a perk for ...

South Korean auto maker Hyundai Motor Company will invest 1 billion baht ($28 million) to set up a facility to assemble electric vehicles and batteries in Thailand, the country’s Board of ...

Residents in two areas near Athens were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as dozens of firefighters battled to contain blazes fuelled by strong winds and hot temperatures. Near the village ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to “restore justice” and pressure Moscow’s forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv’s surprise offensive into ...

A climber scaled the north face of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday, the last day of the Olympics, before he was met by police mid-way up, French media ...

There was no ‘Miracle on the Seine’ at the Paris Olympics on Saturday night as the United States men’s basketball team did as expected by grinding out a 98-87 ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were fighting in the surprise offensive in Russia’s Kursk, as the border region’s authorities rushed ...

Shares of Airbnb (ABNB.O) slumped nearly 14 per cent on Wednesday after the online travel company forecast third-quarter revenue below estimates, citing slowing demand in the United States and shorter ...

Japan’s Honda Motor (7267.T) reported a 23 per cent increase in first-quarter profit this week as the automaker benefited from a weaker yen, higher pricing and growing hybrid vehicle sales ...

Shares of Germany’s Commerzbank (CBKG.DE) fell as much as 6 per cent earlier this week after it reported larger than expected loan loss provisions in the second quarter. The ...

WK Kellogg (KLG.N) plans to completely shut down its Omaha, Nebraska, plant by the end of 2026 under a reorganization that will also reduce the cereal maker’s headcount by ...

Winning athletes in Paris have received their medals on Louis Vuitton trays before being handed a Samsung flip phone to take a “victory selfie”, heralding a new era of product ...

Los Angeles, a city famous for its passionate car culture and notorious for its traffic, will strongly emphasise the use of public transportation when it hosts the Olympic Games in 2028, ...

Greek police have arrested on an international warrant a 36-year-old fugitive convicted of robbery in Israel and under investigation over a bomb attack there after a tip-off by Israeli authorities, ...

Serbia cruised to men’s basketball bronze by defeating Germany 93-83 at the Paris Olympics on Saturday after they missed out on a chance for gold by losing by four ...

Much has been made of equality of sexes at the Paris Olympics, the first Games with a 50-50 male-female split among athletes, but there is a gender gap in official ...

Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 20 km (12 miles) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine’s biggest attack on Russian sovereign territory ...