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Japan's economy grew 0.4% in the April-June quarter from the previous three months, faster than first estimated.

Finance firms are expected to fall short of their loan growth ambitions this year as they adopt more cautious lending strategies.

Companies listed on Colombia, Chile and Peru's integrated stock exchange reached $539bn in combined value in June, up 38% year on year, as Nuam's first-half profit rose 53% to $24.8mn ahead of the group's third anniversary.

Azerbaijan and Qatar also among emerging, unacknowledged alignment designed to squeeze Iranian economy, adds vice president.

Russia ended its three-day strike pause hours after US peace envoys left Kyiv, hitting the capital with ballistic missiles, burning warehouses in four districts and killing two people.

Tech

Around 30 humanoid and quadruped robots marched outside Poland's digital affairs ministry calling for greater scrutiny of artificial intelligence.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, TWSE: 2330) is expanding production capacity five times faster than usual this year and still cannot meet demand driven by artificial intelligence.

Private equity investor says Central Europe is a rapidly growing private equity market with fast growth and a wide range of investment exit opportunities.

Lithuania aims to grow its life sciences sector to 5% of GDP by 2030.

Most central banks studying digital money have spent five years trying to work out what a retail central bank digital currency would be for. The Central Bank of Uzbekistan has decided it would be for nothing.

Opinion

Showcasing of drone maker run by Erdogan son-in-law says a lot about today’s ‘Turkey Inc’ and the role of ‘Family Inc’.

North Korea exploited Russia's isolation to improve its own economic and military position while giving away little, Riddle Russia argued in a note published on August 25.

Ukraine's anti-corruption investigations are becoming instruments of political competition as they approach the presidential administration, Carnegie Politika argued in a commentary published on August 31.

Election result in Saxony-Anhalt has triggered a strong response across Central Europe.

Entitled to rule until he’s 80 if polls fall his way, country’s leader shows no sign of delivering generous rights.

Data

The trend was evident in the first half of 2026, when private credit transactions tracked by EY reached $3.5bn, up slightly from $3.4bn in H2 2025. Domestic private credit funds accounted for 74% of deal value and about 79% of transaction volume.

Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average closed 2.12% higher at 66,399.84 on September 7, up 1,378.90 points from the previous week's close.

Construction was the only major sector to make a substantial positive contribution to Q2 and H1 economic activity.

Thailand received 20,935,135 foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2026, down 3.08% year on year.

New numbers are released – but the reliability and seriousness of the data presented, as well as the government's seriousness in the presentation, are questionable.

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Russia rejected a proposed truce in the air and repeated its demand that Ukraine leave Donbas when US envoys visited Moscow and Kyiv on September 5 and 6.

The United Kingdom’s government is coming under heavy fire from Israel and the United States as it prepares to implement restrictions on goods produced in West Bank settlements.

Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2,702 TWh of electricity in 2025, up 35 TWh from 2,667 TWh in 2024.

Philippine poverty fell to its lowest level on record last year, with the national poverty rate dropping to 9.7% in 2025 from 15.5% in 2023, the Philippine Statistics Authority reports.

Uzbekistan's hard currency comes from four places. Two of them are cyclical. The Central Bank of Uzbekistan buys around nine tenths of the gold mined in the country, sells it abroad and uses the foreign currency it earns to mop up printed soum.

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Will the Gospic toxic waste dump trigger a 'Flamingo Revolution' in Croatia?

“We expect the war will continue,” Zelenskiy said in Kyiv on September 6, after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left without a deal.

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.

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A woman in her 60s died after her car became submerged at an underpass in Iwaki, northeastern Japan, as torrential rain swept the country.

The eruptions span multiple island chains across the Pacific Ring of Fire, from the Sunda Strait and East Java to East Nusa Tenggara and North Maluku.

Hungary is establishing a powerful new environmental authority from January 1, 2027, tasked with tighter oversight of the country’s expanding electric vehicle battery industry.

The slow-moving system is set to combine with an autumn rain front stalled along the southern coast of Honshu, drawing warm, humid air northwards and raising the risk of sustained downpours across Japan through about September 7.

Fires swept across Serbia in August, burning land including more than 3,500 hectares of the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve.

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