By Leika Kihara BANGKOK, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Finance leaders of the G7 grouping agreed to hold tabletop exercises to guard against AI cyber attacks, Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said, as policymakers increasingly seek to coordinate responses to growing cyber security risks. The agreement…
BANGKOK, Oct 16 (Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga on Friday said the development lender has set a goal of quintupling its critical minerals business in five years, and has identified 20 countries that it can partner with on critical minerals development projects. Banga…
TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Asian stocks rebounded on Friday following heavy selling in the previous session when investors dumped tech shares as questions about cloud company CoreWeave’s debt pile fuelled worries about the financing driving the AI boom. Bond markets stabilized after yields plunged…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court said on Thursday the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority in setting up a telecoms subsidy program in the late 1990s used to widen access to communications for millions of Americans. The…
By Summer Zhen and Anirban Sen TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Global hedge funds suffered steep losses this week, according to a Goldman Sachs prime brokerage note, battered by the violent unwind of a swathe of AI bets, with Asia-focused funds hit the hardest. Investors…
By Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said on Thursday she did not pass the bar exam after facing scrutiny about her legal career before becoming the top spokeswoman for US President Donald Trump.…
SAO PAULO, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he supports lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Brazil to 16 from 18 years for heinous crimes in an interview with TV Globo’s Jornal Nacional, the country’s…
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 – US President Donald Trump said on Thursday Washington is holding talks with Moscow and Beijing aimed at denuclearizing the countries with the biggest stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Russia has the most stored nuclear warheads followed by the United States and China,…
By Sam Li and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Oil prices edged down on Friday morning as investors weighed Middle East risks and possible US steps to ease restrictions on the world’s “shadow fleet” of tankers. Brent crude futures fell 41 cents, or…
BEIJING, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that his country should stop and reverse its “forced establishment” of West Bank settlements, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. China has consistently held that the Palestinian…
