There have been three incidents involving damage caused to underwater power lines, data cables and a gas pipeline over the past 15 months in the Baltic Sea.

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For a start, the yen perked up after the Bank of Japan finally delivered a quarter-point hike in its main policy interest rate to 0.5%, its highest since the 2008 global financial crisis. The reaction was calm, as the hike was considered neither a 'dovish hike' nor 'hawkish hike', in market parlance.

In this article the author focuses on Ukraine’s debt since the 1990s and more particularly in the years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022.

While the presidential transition commanded headlines this week, equally significant shifts were occurring in AI technology. Just hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration, DeepSeek released its latest model,

It’s been a long time coming, with a couple of big giant companies standing in the way. But Epic Games announced it will finally be able to release third-party mobile games on the Epic Games Store. It’s been an epic ordeal to get this far,

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Editor’s note: This story was updated on January 24th.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday accused the CEOs of Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase of not providing banking services to conservatives, echoing Republican complaints about the industry.

A number of leaders are skipping this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.