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Major South Korean financial groups expanded total assets across their main Southeast Asian banking subsidiaries by 7.1% to KRW52.26 trillion in the first half of the year.

Ghana produced a record 5.94mn ounces of gold in 2025. Small-scale mining accounted for 52.38% of total production, overtaking large-scale operations for the first time.

Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's Office placed three Russian citizens on an international wanted list for inciting terrorism, deepening strains between the two countries.

The Bank of Thailand revealed that bank lending increased 2.0% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, accelerating from a 0.2% rise recorded in the previous quarter.

India’s banking sector has emerged from a prolonged asset-quality clean-up in a much stronger position, with non-performing assets at their lowest level on record, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman says.

Tech

Iranian mobile operators' roaming has reportedly been cut in the UAE, leaving Iranian residents and travellers unable to receive calls.

Albania's e-commerce sector has expanded significantly in recent years, prompting the tax administration to introduce a dedicated framework for identifying and addressing tax risks.

Asked about leaked draft letter, Trump official says partners “can’t have it both ways”.

Deal to accelerate T-Mobile Polska's growth by adding Inea's 300,000 customers and Fiberhost's fibre network passing over 1.4mn homes.

A ruble-backed stablecoin built by a sanctioned Russian defence bank has handled nearly $140bn of turnover since it was created 18 months ago.

Opinion

The PR surge which heralded that the “tide is turning” in the Ukrainian conflict is ending up in a debacle. Ukraine can inflict tangible damage on the Russian economy but Russia can take it and give it back in spades.

Attempt to steer economy toward sustainable growth running into increasingly difficult terrain with economic policy facing sharp trade-off between fighting stubborn inflation and fixing external imbalances.

America's retreat from research funding and openness to skilled immigration has handed Europe an unexpected strategic advantage. If Brussels can remove visa barriers and back scientists, it has a rare chance to narrow the innovation gap.

Capital Economics says Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul government is squandering a rare post-election reform mandate, leaning instead on a poorly targeted 175bn baht subsidy scheme, centralised power and rising industrial protectionism.

West knows of these concerns, says Hakan Fidan.

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Finance ministry cut its 2026 forecast for non-oil, non-gas GDP growth to 3.1% from 3.7%, while leaving the overall economic growth forecast unchanged at 1.7%.

Increase in debt reflected both new borrowing and the impact of the Romanian leu's depreciation against the euro.

Anxiety in Russia has climbed back to the level it reached when Vladimir Putin ordered mobilisation four years ago.

Iran's Saman Bank has been authorised to provide gold and silver treasury services to online precious-metals trading platforms, channelling their transactions through a police-approved vault.

Cash-strapped depositors, a collapsing currency and lenders shut out of the global financial system: Myanmar's banks are being ground down by more than five years of military rule.

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Prosecutors can breathe more easily as pressure on them to make their case is eased.

Russia has begun its campaign against Ukraine's energy system weeks earlier than in either of the past two winters, and this time the aim is to stop the repairs before they finish.

Russia's main state development bank has sacked its chief economist over a speech he gave three months ago, in which he said the Russian economy would survive.

Serbia's banks booked record profit of €1.4bn in 2025 and their fastest credit growth in a decade, even as home-grown AIK Banka buys up rivals across the Balkans.

Any attempt to reject the 97.7% vote risks dismantling twenty-five years of delicate peacebuilding, making the August 27 session one of the most consequential moments in modern Pacific history.

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At the ancient Egyptian obelisk outside the Blue Mosque, looking along what was once the Hippodrome of Constantinople, I found myself thinking about a tent.

Ukraine's power generation capacity has fallen from 60GW before the war to 12GW today, and a renewed Russian bombing campaign this winter could push the shortfall toward 10GW, even as European gas storage sits near a 15-year low.

Dubious rise to the top is questioned. Watchdog says remarks “incompatible with foreign policy vision”.

Tourist visas denied based on highly subjective assessments of financial means and intentions to use “return” section of plane ticket.

The stochastic war continues to escalate into a brutal tit-for-tat missile war with both sides continuously rolling out new and improved weapons that could eventually lead to a direct clash between Nato and Russia.

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Heavy smoke from a large forest fire in Serbia blanketed parts of Sofia and western Bulgaria, with strong winds carrying the plume across the border.

The Indian renewable energy sector offers significant opportunities for Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) to deepen capital mobilisation in the space despite the limited existence of InvITs at present, according to a recent report.

With up to 40% of world’s land degraded, delegates from around world gather in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to advance solutions.

A widely shared analysis says the planet is now warming at 0.48C a decade - almost three times the rate measured from 1970 to 2010.

The war in the Gulf was supposed to give the West leverage over China. It has mostly accelerated China's escape from the oil market altogether.

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