Category: Global

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring

Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

OpenClaw and the privacy problem of agentic AI

How can you be sure that personal digital agents will always be working in your best interests  

Investors pour record sums into European stocks

Inflows on track for all-time high in February as global fund managers seek alternatives to expensive US tech shares

Trump’s AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands

Republicans fear backlash against White House agenda could undermine support in this year’s midterm elections

JPMorgan plans branch opening spree as peers bet on in-...

Push by US lenders to open new physical locations reflects competition for customers’ deposits

Brain drain is undermining America’s scientific edge

Policy decisions grounded in Maga talking points are helping to fuel a PhD exodus from government

The truth about population decline

Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

Blackstone, EQT and CVC make offers for Volkswagen unit

Shipping engines and heat pumps business is being valued at between €5bn and €6bn

European airlines call for scrapping of Qatar deal afte...

Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and SAS raise concerns after EU civil servant sacked over corruption allegations

Lagarde to leave ECB before end of 8-year term

Central banker wants to give Macron and Merz chance to pick successor before French presidential election

US and Japan unveil first mega-projects under $550bn de...

Oil, natural gas and synthetic diamond facilities worth a combined $36bn mark crucial progress on pledged financing

Poland extends war reparations campaign to Russia

Warsaw has already sought to claim €1.3tn from Germany for second world war losses and damages