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Romania stopped operations at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant due to low Danube water levels.

The central bank's decision to hold key borrowing costs reflects a deliberate pivot towards fiscal deployment rather than monetary easing.

Bangladesh’s central bank granted formal approval for National Credit and Commerce Bank to convert 20 conventional branches into fully Shariah compliant outlets.

South Korea’s Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will officially launch its wholly foreign-owned bank in Vietnam on September 25, expanding competition in the country’s banking sector.

Cambodia's lenders are nursing their worst loan books in a decade, as a stalled property market squeezes a heavily dollarised banking sector already under US sanctions scrutiny.

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The Qazaq AI Research University in Astana aims to train engineers capable of developing AI systems.

Ukrainians trade more cryptocurrency per head than anyone else on earth. What they mostly do not do is trade it under Ukrainian law.

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”.

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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Acting Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare says crossing the 60% debt threshold means Bucharest has a "very clear limit" on new budget commitments.

Bulgaria, which adopted the euro on January 1, remained among the eurozone countries with the fastest price growth in July.

Six years after its first barrel, Guyana has the fastest-growing income per head in the world - and has overtaken the United States on the measure.

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.

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Croatia's banks, almost all owned from Milan, Vienna or Budapest, are among the most profitable in Europe, and a new 50% tax on excess profit is aimed squarely at them.

The scenario that keeps Western planners awake is easy to describe and, it turns out, almost entirely unstudied: Russia moves on a Nato member while China moves on Taiwan.

Tucked away in an appendix alongside severe global and domestic hazards such as international terrorism, illicit trafficking, environmental plunder, and radicalism, the provision went largely unnoticed for over eight months.

Dangerous cargo will bypass the capital once $0.3bn project is operational.

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

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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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The company has already commenced construction of the 6-MW project, which will cover approximately 38,800 square metres, equivalent to around 5.5 football pitches, and will comprise approximately 10,000 solar panels.

Solar panels generated more electricity in the European Union than dams did in 2025, the first time that has happened.

Renewable sources accounted for 105.2% of Albania's gross electricity consumption in 2025, Eurostat data shows, with only Norway and Iceland performing better across Europe.

The Pacific is warming faster than at any point in the modern record, and central bankers have started writing it into their forecasts.

Mounting pollution on northern Cypriot beaches show spillover costs of Ankara’s ambition to dominate Europe’s waste-processing trade.

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