There are many disconnects in financial markets. One of them is Japan’s benchmark 10-year bond yield, which currently stands at just 2.7 per cent despite the country’s large public debt burden – more than 240 per cent of economic output. Although Japanese bond yields have risen sharply in the past three years, the 10-year yield…
July 3 (Reuters) – Four people were killed and another 10 injured in Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine, officials said on Telegram in the early hours of Friday. In the bordering Sumy region, two women, an elderly man and a girl younger than two years old were killed and three others injured after a Russian…
July 2 (Reuters) – In Russia’s grain belt, farmers fret they will not be able to harvest their crops as a fuel crisis sparked by Ukraine’s drone attacks on oil refineries and depots disrupts daily life. As Kyiv tries to pressure Moscow into making peace with strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure, the resulting damage…
China requested WTO consultations with India over measures it alleges discriminated against Chinese imports. (Reuters pic) GENEVA: The World Trade Organization said Tuesday it would examine a Chinese complaint over Indian measures that China claims impede its export of solar and information technology goods. The WTO said that its Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) had agreed…
GENEVA, June 8 (Reuters) – Spending on nuclear weapons by the world’s nine nuclear-armed states rose by almost a fifth in 2025 to $119 billion, a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Tuesday. The 19% increase from 2024 produced the highest expenditure on nuclear weapons since the campaign group began…
A new UN study has named Hong Kong’s data centres as some of the most carbon-intensive in the world, blaming the city’s heavy dependence on a fossil-fuel-powered energy grid. A government data centre in Cheung Sha Wan. Photo: Googlemaps. The report, titled “Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use,” examined the global carbon, land and water…
Washington: Pakistan has given lobby firm Erwin Graves Strategies a two-year contract worth $50,000 per month after previously scaling down a lobbying blitz it had initiated last year. This handout photograph released by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Office on September 26, 2025, shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (left), Army Chief and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir…
India categorically rejected unwarranted references to the UT of Jammu & Kashmir in a joint statement between China and Pakistan that was issued after Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to China, saying the UTs of J&K and Ladakh will always remain integral parts of India. “No other country has the locus standi to comment on…
NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs on Tuesday categorically rejected the “unwarranted references” to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint statement between China and Pakistan.In a response to media queries, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been, are and will always remain integral and inalienable parts of India and…
China and India are increasingly turning to Brazil to make up for lost oil supplies as the fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran continues to disrupt energy trade through the Strait of Hormuz. With oil harder to access and Russian supply largely constrained by sanctions, Asian buyers are scrambling for crude from suppliers seen as safer…