On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch As Russia continues to bombard Ukraine with drone attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky has made repeated and increasingly urgent calls for Kyiv to have access to more powerful and expansive…
The Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, travelled to Moscow on Wednesday for talks with Vladimir Putin, marking their first meeting since the fall of the Kremlin ally Bashar al-Assad and his subsequent exile in Russia. The talks underscored Moscow’s efforts to safeguard its military foothold in Syria and forge relations with the new rulers in Damascus,…
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc) getty A famous Warren Buffett quote is having a resurgence as investors debate whether the stock market is overvalued and approaching a ‘bubble’ phase. It’s been 40 years since Buffett wrote the now famous line in this letter to…
Welcome back! Good afternoon and happy Celebrity Traitors day to one and all. Katie Rosseinsky reporting for duty to accompany you through all the twists and turns of episode three. We’ve got a few hours left before the next instalment kicks off at 9pm on BBC One, so we have plenty of time to recap…
China and the US have started charging additional port fees on shipping vessels as trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies soared back, following China’s rare earth export controls in response to new trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration. The port fees from both sides went into force on Tuesday and have caused…
Billionaires and tech CEOs have shared two distinct views on humanity’s future when it comes to AI: Some think it’ll wipe out all jobs and spell the end of civilization as we know it, while others hope it could lead to a utopian world—and Jeff Bezos is firmly in the latter category “I don’t see…
President Donald Trump has made it clear that favorable treatment from his administration is readily available — for a price. This pay-to-play relationship is a defining feature of how Trump’s second administration is operating, by embracing unprecedented levels of unabashed political corruption. Multimillion dollar checks get political donors appointed to the presidential Cabinet; seven-figure…
The Liberal Democrats have called for national security services to “assess the threat” that Elon Musk poses to British democracy, after Tommy Robinson claimed that the billionaire was paying his legal costs. Addressing Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (15 October), Daisy Cooper said it is “outrageous” that Mr Musk, a man…
The investor is trimming his stock portfolio during this bull market. Warren Buffett may be retiring at the end of 2025, but he is still fully in charge of the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.73%) (BRK.B 0.87%) stock portfolio today. The 95-year-old investor runs Berkshire Hathaway, with its trillion-dollar market capitalization, building the insurance- and stock-focused…
MacKenzie Scott has sold nearly half her Amazon stake, according to a filing disclosed this week. A regulatory filing with the SEC, filed Tuesday and dated September 30, shows that Scott’s ex-husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reported holding 81.1 million shares on Scott’s behalf. That’s down from about 139 million shares a year earlier and…