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Armenian prosecutors charged Robert Kocharyan with corruption-related offences.

Reconstruction spending after the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela and Colombia this year could provide a modest lift to both economies in 2027, according to ECLAC Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.

Iran will find ways to deal with new US measures targeting its economy and oil industry, National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) chief Hamid Bovard said, as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran in what US officials have called an “Economic D-Day”.

Poland began applying rules on August 23, allowing same-sex couples married abroad to enter their marriage certificates in Poland’s civil registry, extending official recognition beyond cases won through the courts.

China's Xi Jinping and Jordan's King Abdullah II have urged a return to normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and called for the Iran-US ceasefire to be preserved.

Tech

Four years after the exit of Hollywood majors following the invasion of Ukraine, Russians still want to watch the latest Hollywood blockbusters

Zain Bahrain announced that it signed a deal with service technology firm Text, integrating the company's platform into its OneCX system.

Dubai Chambers has signed an agreement with India's Nasscom to draw Indian agentic AI and deeptech firms to the emirate, opening a channel to an industry worth $315bn across 3,500 companies.

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.

Opinion

On the eve of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, I find myself wondering whether my country will still exist in another 35 years.

Failure to agree on a successor to Bosnia & Herzegovina's international high representative exposes differences over the future of the country's postwar political order, says Atlantic Council commentary.

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.

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The paper currently offers an 83% yield.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is poised to raise interest rates by a further 25 basis points (bps) to 5% to tame rampant consumer prices, Deutsche Bank warned ahead of the monetary board meeting on August 27.

Move has brought effective policy rate to 37% from 40% at overnight window.

The share of Russians who say the political situation in their country is tense or critical has climbed to 70%, the highest in a quarter of a century.

Russia has sold gold out of its reserves in every month of 2026, and the price it is getting has started to climb again.

Features

Armenia will formally apply for European Union membership before holding a referendum on whether to join the bloc, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told parliament.

China says it will keep cooperating with Iran despite Washington's "economic D-Day" sanctions campaign, undercutting a drive that depends on pressuring the buyer of 90% of Iran's oil.

The US ambassador to Turkey claimed that Israel’s strike on a Syrian airbase may have been an election ploy by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and with bitter rival Gadi Eisenkot rising in the polls, this is an accusation worth exploring.

South Korea is set to wave off a commercial container ship bound for Europe via the Arctic Ocean some time in late August, in the process testing the commercial viability of a northern sea corridor.

China's economic hold over Africa has stopped running through loans and started running through container ships.

Blogs

A fresh corruption scandal broke out in Ukraine – this time, it was racketeering by relative junior members of the Zelenskiy administration. Corruption is not a problem of the system in Ukraine; corruption is the system.

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.

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Southern Taiwan is preparing for further flooding and landslides as heavy rain persists, while a strengthening typhoon is forecast to enter the Philippines’ area of responsibility.

The Mediterranean has spent the summer soaking up heat. That heat comes back out as rain.

The climate models that were discarded for predicting too much warming were right, and the ones the world's climate projections rest on are running cold.

Moldova is carrying out one of the fastest energy market reforms in Europe, but concerns have been raised over both transparency and the grid's ability to absorb additional electricity.

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