Japan’s SoftBank has agreed to invest $2bn in Intel, supporting the troubled US chipmaker as the Trump administration ...

Thanks to Steve Witkoff, Trump’s gullible envoy, Russia has already gone a long way to establishing its land claims as a sine ...

BHP has reported its lowest full-year profit in five years due to lower iron ore and copper prices and pointed to a “mixed” ...

Senator Josh Hawley, chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wrote to Meta chief executive Mark ...

Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe as part of a deal to obtain US guarantees for its ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Qantas hit with record fine over Covid job cuts, and Citi’s raid on JPMorgan investment bankers ...

In the icy blast of the cold war, I took up Russian for O-level or what now is called GCSE, and pursued the language all the way to a degree, with a side order of French (“The case for learning ...

Self-described ‘Spac King’ Chamath Palihapitiya is launching a new special purpose acquisition vehicle, marking his return to blank-cheque companies after playing a leading role in the pandemic-era ...

There has been much commentary on the recent summit in Alaska. But one detail appears to have been missed: one of the key justifications for the EU to accept an unbalanced trade deal with the US was ...

Hamas has told Egyptian and Qatari mediators it is willing to accept a ceasefire proposal to end the war in Gaza and secure ...

Soho House, the once-edgy London members’ club that turned exclusivity into a global business, has agreed a $2.7bn deal to be ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be joined in Washington by key European allies, in a push to find common ground with the US. Seven senior European leaders have said they will attend the ...