Month: October 2026

The Bosch affair: the deal Washington never forgot A confidential arrangement over American Bosch Corporation brought the Wallenberg family into ...

On 9 October 2004, Afghans went to the polls in their country’s first direct presidential election. The vote gave Hamid ...

A Nairobi start-up is showing how cleaner public transport can become a practical business proposition. By combining electric buses with ...

Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in ...

Before the Second World War, the Wallenbergs’ German connections ran through bank correspondence, industrial licences and shareholdings. Norsk Hydro, IG ...

Malaysian digital lender GXBank has partnered with the International Finance Corporation to support a small-business loan portfolio of up to ...

he Council of Europe and Microsoft have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at protecting human rights, democracy and the rule ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of marking Vladimir Putin’s birthday with a deadly attack on an apartment building ...

Brazil’s currency weakened on Wednesday, 7 October, as a stronger US dollar and rising international bond yields interrupted a sharp ...

President Donald Trump faced repeated interruptions from protesters on Wednesday, 7 October, as he campaigned in San Antonio for Republican ...