Russia plans to keep its diesel export ban in place through year-end while quadrupling exemption quotas to 2 million tons in November, part of a new supply deal with Washington following a Putin-Trump call.
The former IDF chief of staff is demanding a state investigation. What would a comprehensive inquiry need to examine?
Brazilians vote Sunday in a presidential runoff between Lula and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, with polls showing a near-tied race that will decide Brazil's foreign policy direction as much as its domestic one.
The former Israeli commander has never treated his religious beliefs as separate from his public identity. His career illustrates the complicated relationship between faith, military leadership and Israel's secular institutions.
Nine days before Israel's October 27 election, Trump broke with decades of precedent to endorse Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection bid — but early polling suggests it hasn't given him the boost he needed.
UK inflation rose to 3.5% in September as motor fuel prices surged 30% amid Iran war disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, putting the Bank of England on track to raise rates to 4% in November.
At Workday Rising, CFO Zane Rowe unveiled new autopilot AI agents and an Anthropic partnership, arguing finance chiefs should judge AI by decision quality and employee engagement, not raw output.
In Nashville lectures framing AI regulation as a path to centralized control, Peter Thiel accused Barack Obama and Pope Leo XIV of using public anxiety about artificial intelligence to boost their own influence.
A deadly run of Houthi missile strikes on Saudi airports and Aramco's headquarters is reviving investor security fears just weeks before Riyadh's flagship Future Investment Initiative summit.
The Treasury Department has finished auto-enrolling nearly 70 million children in tax-advantaged "Trump Accounts," but parents still have to actively claim each account before the money can be invested or used.
A bipartisan Senate bill would fast-track permits for solar farms, power lines, and pipelines alike as data center power demand strains the grid, but environmental groups warn it guts bedrock protections.
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René Barbera, Florian Sempey and Alisa Medvedeva appear with the Filharmonie Brno under Maestro Arkady Beryn at the Philharmonie Berlin on 2 November 2026. On 2 November 2026, three distinctive opera…
Only about 3 in 10 Americans approve of Trump's trade negotiations and 28% approve of his handling of the Iran war, according to a new AP-NORC poll that links both to his sliding economic approval ahead of the midterms.
Surging 10- and 30-year Treasury yields have already outpaced the Congressional Budget Office's long-term forecasts, prompting new projections showing just how much worse America's debt trajectory could become.
Animoca Brands president Evan Auyang says his years running a Hong Kong bus operator shape how he sees stablecoins — as regulated public infrastructure, not the next speculative crypto boom.
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The Australian mining billionaire is racing to strip fossil fuels from Fortescue's iron ore operations by 2030 while funding a parallel effort to build a harder-to-target power grid for Ukraine.
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John Ternus is now Apple's CEO, but Cook is staying on as executive chairman specifically to keep handling policymakers and regulators, a split that reflects how much Apple's trade, tariff, and antitrust exposure still needs a government-facing executive at the top.
The Court didn't rule on whether Trump's order restricting mail-in voting is legal, only that the states suing over it moved too soon. Justice Jackson's dissent warns the same logic could let a final rule take effect too late for states to stop it before November.
A new joint venture built on 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves gives Washington a 55% stake and makes the company the world's second-largest corporate oil holder after Saudi Aramco, but Venezuela's production has collapsed to a third of its peak.
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UAE retail investors are reacting to Trump's statements within moments, part of a broader boom that saw Dubai's exchange jump 40% and the Middle East account for more than half of Capital.com's global trading volume in the second quarter.
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Facing possible defeat, and a return to his corruption trial without power to shield him, Netanyahu wants Trump's public backing ahead of Israel's election. Trump, frustrated over Gaza and Iran, is in no hurry to give it.
A bomb-carrying drone near a Ukraine supply hub, foreign agents tailing a drone-parts CEO, and a disinformation blitz on state elections: Elisabeth Braw traces a pattern of likely Russian gray-zone attacks that shows vulnerability, not hostility, is what makes a target.
A new State Department initiative recruits defense and surveillance tech firms to advise on digital freedom of expression, a pairing experts call baffling given the companies' own track records on data collection and border surveillance.
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Bolivia holds a fifth of the world's lithium but mines almost none of it. President Rodrigo Paz needs a constitutional change and Indigenous buy-in to fix that, while residents around the Salar de Uyuni say opaque contracts with China and Russia have already cost the government their trust.
The White House's national security science and technology strategy leans on deep coordination with allies and even 'cooperative restraint' with rivals like China, a more measured posture that sits awkwardly next to the administration's tariffs and troop drawdowns.
Elbridge Colby spent a week telling the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia that the US is 'digging in,' even as Washington redirected a carrier to the Middle East and gutted drills with South Korea the same week.
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