Venezuela accused of blocking aid, rescuers after quakes kill over 1,700

Five days after twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela's Caribbean coast, growing anger over what critics call a slow and…

Paraguay upsets Germany on penalties at World Cup

Paraguay pulled off one of the tournament's most dramatic upsets on Monday, eliminating four-time champion Germany on penalty…

Abu Dhabi breaks ground on Frank Gehry-designed arts complex

Abu Dhabi has begun construction on Dar al Funoon Abu Dhabi, a sprawling performing arts complex on Saadiyat…

Meta contractors posed as teens to test rival chatbots, Wired reports

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as children and probe competitor…

PBOC launches overnight reverse repos at below-expected rate

China's central bank on Monday launched its first-ever overnight reverse repo operation, injecting 300 billion yuan ($44.1 billion)…

Nvidia’s China AI chip share nears zero as Huawei takes the lead

Nvidia has effectively lost its dominance in China's artificial intelligence chip market to Huawei, as U.S. export controls…

Strategy files plan to sell Bitcoin amid market rout

Bitcoin enters the final days of June trading near $60,000, down more than 50% from its all-time high…

CRISPR therapy shows promise in children as young as 5 with sickle cell disease

HCA Healthcare announced on Monday that research published in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates promising results…

Goldman Sachs says commodity cycle is shifting from oil to metals

Goldman Sachs's The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. commodities team published a note on Sunday evening arguing that the…

Dollar strength squeezes currencies from Asia to Europe

Asian and Central and Eastern European currencies started the week under pressure on Monday as a hawkish Federal…

Anthropic deploys Claude on Nvidia GPUs in Azure for first time

Anthropic announced on Monday that its Claude family of AI models is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry…

Lagarde says ECB’s June rate hike was data-driven, not precautionary

ECB President Christine Lagarde on Monday pushed back against characterizations of the bank's June rate increase as a…

CMA CGM, Asyad sign $400M Sohar port terminal deal

French shipping giant CMA CGM and Oman's Asyad Group signed a $400 million framework agreement to develop, manage,…

Lagarde says eurozone resilience gives ECB room on rates

ECB President Christine Lagarde used the opening of the central bank's annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, on Monday…

BIS warns retail investor surge could amplify recession

The Bank for International Settlements has warned that surging retail investor participation in equity markets, combined with highly…

ING warns eurozone heatwaves now pose structural economic threat

As Europe endures another punishing summer — with more than 1,300 excess deaths reported since June 21 and…

Martinelli’s stoppage-time goal lifts Brazil past Japan at World Cup

Brazil advanced to the Round of 16 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Monday after Gabriel Martinelli…

Musk, Cook warn memory chip shortage is ‘unprecedented’ as AI demand soars

Apple CEO Tim Cook has called the global memory chip shortage "a hundred-year flood," while Elon Musk declared…

China fast-tracks sulphur futures as prices surge over 210%

China is pushing to launch its first sulphur futures contracts in the fourth quarter of 2026, as the…

Europe’s deadly heatwave exposes AI data center climate risks

A record-breaking heatwave that has swept across Europe over the past week, killing more than 1,300 people and…

Europe set to enter winter with gas stocks at 15-year low

Europe is on track to enter the upcoming heating season with its lowest gas storage levels in at…

WhatsApp opens username reservations for 3B users

WhatsApp announced on Monday that its more than 3 billion users can begin reserving unique usernames, a long-awaited…

Maersk nearly doubles 2026 profit forecast on surging container demand

A.P. Moller-Maersk A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S upgraded its full-year 2026 financial guidance on Monday, citing strong container…

France passes anti-fast-fashion law targeting Shein, Temu

The French Parliament on Monday definitively adopted a bill targeting ultra-fast fashion, making France the first country to…

Apple accuses CCI of ‘copy-pasting’ rivals’ claims in antitrust probe

Apple has accused Indian antitrust investigators of "copy-pasting" allegations made by its rivals and failing to conduct an…

Google security chiefs warn EU data rules risk exposing users to hackers

Google's Alphabet Inc. top security and privacy executives have warned that proposed European Union measures requiring the company…

Meta unveils brain-to-text AI that decodes thoughts without surgery

Meta on Sunday unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-computer interface that decodes typed sentences from raw neural signals…

China’s economy picks up in June on rebounding exports

China's economy showed signs of recovery in June after two months of weakness, with factory activity accelerating and…

UNDP: Mideast conflict pushing fossil fuel subsidies toward $1 trillion

The United Nations Development Programme warned on Sunday that the economic fallout from military escalation in the Middle…

Volkswagen stock nears 15-year low on reports of 100,000 job cuts

Shares in Volkswagen AG fell nearly 2% on Monday to approach their lowest level since October 2010, after…