SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) – China is set to resume October refined fuel exports after a brief halt during its Golden Week holiday, a move that will help ease tight global fuel markets, four traders familiar with the matter said on Friday. China has approved…
MEXICO CITY, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Simon is forecast to rapidly strengthen into a major hurricane before striking Mexico’s Pacific coast this weekend, threatening destructive winds, life-threatening flooding and dangerous storm surge, the US National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. Simon was about…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Award-winning Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh was released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on bond on Thursday after being detained on September 24, according to a statement by a campaign of his friends and relatives to free…
Oct 9 (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Friday as Middle East supply concerns eased somewhat after US President Donald Trump said the country will not attack Iran before US elections next month amid productive talks to end their war that has disrupted the market. …
By Alistair Smout LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Andy Burnham’s Labour Party won an election for the parliamentary seat vacated by former leader Keir Starmer on Friday, fending off a strong challenge from the left-wing Green Party in a boost for the British prime minister.…
By Vibhuti Sharma, Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) – The view from Indian engineer Tushar Shetty’s Mumbai apartment captures a tension playing out around the world as the artificial intelligence boom fuels an unprecedented data-centre building spree. What was once a…
By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Asian stocks slipped on Friday and were poised for a second straight weekly drop as investors fretted about elevated energy prices, bond market ructions and the huge sums needed to fund AI investment. Brent crude futures were…
By Brenda Goh SEOUL, Oct 9 (Reuters) – The Chinese developer of ARTEX said they have converted the AI agent to a closed-source project after cybersecurity firms identified it as a tool used in a recent cyberattack campaign against South Korean banks. “Given the misuse…
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) – The euro was headed for a fifth straight weekly drop on Friday, though there were signs the selling streak was losing momentum as France’s tumbling debt market stabilised and a decline in US yields took some steam…
By Ann Wang, Yi-Chin Lee and Fabian Hamacher TAIPEI, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Largely banned from display internationally due to Beijing’s objections, a giant Taiwan flag suspended under a US-made Chinook helicopter and flown over Taipei is one of the most eye-catching moments of its…