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China's trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald ...
Crypto majors are mostly flat headed into Monday open; btc even at $90,600; eth +1% at $3,110, sol +2% at $140; xrp -2% to $2.04. Ip (+20%) and xmr (+15%) led top movers; xmr hit a new ath at $590. Fe...
Thailandâs election season has triggered a dizzying array of cash giveaway offers from parties vying for votes, from a US$2,000 payment for newborns to debt write-offs and US$100 monthly top-ups for t...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
A Paris appeal court will decide whether the far-right figurehead can run for president in 2027, as attention increasingly turns to her 30-year-old protégé and MEP Jordan Bardella....
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to return to court on Tuesday to appeal a graft conviction, with her 2027 presidential ambitions hanging in the balance. Le Pen was banned from standing fo...
Letter seen by FT appears to undermine claims that chair of US central bank misled Congress over renovation...
âWe have never seen financial conflicts or corruption of this magnitude,â said Senator Elizabeth Warren on US President Donald Trump's links to World Liberty Financial....
The next phase of the US-sponsored Gaza peace plan involves setting up a "Board of Peace." Trump wants to chair it and, even though it's been heavily criticized, Europeans also want a seat....
Marine Le Pen's presidential ambitions hang in the balance as the French far-right leader goes to court to appeal against an embezzlement conviction, which barred her from running for office for five ...
Alain Orsoni, who led the separatist Corsican Movement for Self-Determination before becoming the president of Corsican football club âAC Ajaccio, was killed by a long-range shot at his mother's funer...
Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his motherâs funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...
Verizon can keep phones locked to its network for longer after the Federal Communications Commission agreed to waive the carrier's 60-day unlocking requirement, as reported by Ars Technica . Following...
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who needs to have a graft conviction overturned to seize her best chance at the French presidency, risks seeing her life's work upended if she loses her appeal. It come...
Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...
Powell typically abstains from directly engaging with Trump's personal attacks. Al Drago/Getty Images The world's most senior bankers have rallied around embattled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....
Indonesiaâs ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett (left) and former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh are leading prediction market odds for the likehood of becoming President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Rese...
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Trump seeks to shut it down. (Image credit: Steve Helber...