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European Equities Snapshot: 30 Gainers Against 20 Decliners as Large Caps Edge Higher
A 50-line European price feed shows more advancers than decliners but a broadly flat average move, with the largest quot...
Israel's 50-Year Innovation Push: How a Small Nation Became a Global Tech Hub
Israel built one of the world's densest innovation ecosystems in five decades — but its scale-up story runs on foreign c...
MOEX Index Dips 0.5% as Russian Shares Fail to Extend Rally
Russia's MOEX index slipped 0.53% to 2,250.75 points in early trading, as analysts flagged a volume-unconfirmed breakout...
How Russia's Cross-Border Money Transfers Work After the EU's 21st Sanctions Package
The EU's 21st sanctions package has disrupted familiar money-transfer routes between Russia and abroad. Alternatives rem...
Wimbledon Sets Attendance Record Despite Clashing with the 2026 World Cup
Wimbledon drew a record 550,151 spectators and lifted digital audiences 8% despite a full overlap with the 2026 World Cu...
Elisa Bonaparte: Napoleon's Sister Who Ruled, and the Historians Reassessing Her
Historians are reassessing Elisa Bonaparte, Napoleon's eldest sister and the only one of his siblings to rule in her own...
Solana's Pitch: An Ethereum Rival Built to Handle 50,000 Transactions a Second
A profile of Solana, the Ethereum rival launched in 2020 on a speed-first design — and why its 50,000 TPS claim still le...
BCC Invest: Kazakh Bond Market Is Becoming a Real Alternative to Bank Loans
Kazakhstan's mid-sized companies are turning to bond issues as bank credit gets costlier; BCC Invest says it arranged 30...
Kyrgyz Sellers Pivot to Kazakhstan Marketplaces After Wildberries Attacks
Kyrgyz clothing producers disrupted by warehouse attacks on Russia's Wildberries are weighing entry into Kazakhstan's Ka...
Solana's Pitch: A High-Speed Ethereum Rival and What Its Technology Actually Promises
A look at Solana, the fast-blockchain challenger to Ethereum, its proof-of-history design, and why its biggest claims re...
Cardano Explained: The 'Ethereum Killer' That Still Has to Prove Itself
A plain-English look at Cardano, the proof-of-stake blockchain founded by ex-Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson — and...
Six Days After Kumamoto Quake, Japan PM Visits Evacuation Centres and Readies ¥200bn in Reserves
Six days after the July 28 earthquake, Japan's prime minister toured evacuation centres in Hikawa and said Tokyo will un...
Japan Releases ¥24.2bn in Reserves as Kumamoto Quake Response Continues
Prime Minister Takaichi announced ¥24.2 billion in reserve spending, an expected 'extremely severe disaster' designation...
Kazakhstan's Halyk Bank Now Competes With Tech Giants for Digital Talent
Halyk Bank's executives explain why the lender's digital push put it in the same talent pool as fintechs and big tech — ...
SCAT's 80-Fold Profit Rise Lifts Two Founders Onto Forbes Rich List
SCAT's net profit jumped almost 80-fold between 2016 and 2024, lifting Vladimir Denisov and Vladimir Sytnik onto the For...
Lufthansa's Q2 Operating Profit Slumps 56% on Jet Fuel Surge and Strikes
Lufthansa's adjusted operating profit fell 56% to €383m in Q2 as Middle East-driven fuel costs added €750m and strikes w...
Cardano's 'Third-Generation' Pitch: A Science-First Blockchain Still Out to Prove Itself
A profile of Cardano, the proof-of-stake blockchain founded by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, and what its scala...
Gertrude Bell: The Forgotten Diplomat Who Shaped Iraq's Borders at the 1921 Cairo Conference
A century ago, Gertrude Bell was the only woman at the Cairo conference that created Iraq. Her role in shaping the moder...
How Hellfest Turned Clisson, a French Heritage Town, Into the Extreme-Music Capital
A 7,500-resident Loire-Atlantique town draws 240,000 metal fans each June, turning a reputational quirk into an unexpect...
Sołowow Pushes Private SMR Fleet as Poland's Answer to Looming Power Gap
Polish billionaire Michał Sołowow makes a direct appeal in a Forbes Poland interview: approve his GE Vernova-based SMR p...
Protein-Heavy Diets May Speed Aging in Sedentary Adults, 350-Study Review Finds
A review of more than 350 studies suggests cutting protein, not adding it, may slow aging — and questions new US guideli...
Oil Slides More Than 5% As Trump Calls Off Iran Strike
Crude futures tumbled after President Trump said he canceled a planned strike on Iran, as investors unwound geopolitical...
Trump Calls on Oil Companies to Cut Gasoline Prices, Calls Out Chevron CEO
President Trump again pressed U.S. oil companies to cut fuel prices immediately, faulting Chevron CEO Mike Wirth for not...
Biologists Identify Fourth Known Transmissible Cancer — First Found in Fish
A brown bullhead catfish from a Vermont-Quebec border lake carried an infectious melanoma, expanding the rare known rost...
Slovenia's Krško Nuclear Plant Faces Possible Shutdown as Sava River Heats Up
Rising Sava River temperatures and low flows could force Slovenia's only nuclear plant to cut output or shut down, threa...
Diesel Prices Keep Climbing: Refining Margins, Not Just Crude, Are to Blame
Slovenian diesel rose for a fifth straight week to €1.882 a litre even as gasoline fell — as ECB data shows refining mar...
Angola's Digital Hub Ambitions Hinge on Institutions, Not Just Infrastructure
Angola wants to be a regional digital hub built on the Lobito Corridor and AI ambitions — but analysts argue strong inst...
Vietnamese Company Pitches Transport and Agribusiness Projects to Equatorial Guinea
Vietnam's New Atlantic International Trading Company has proposed shipping, trucking and cassava projects it says could ...
Big Tech's Q2 Ad Dominance and the Private Equity Push Into Ad Tech
Meta and Amazon outgrew Google in Q2 advertising; Wall Street frowned on AI capex, and private equity is circling under-...
Agency Holding Companies Are Dangling AI Sweeteners to Grow Principal Media
Holding companies are bundling free AI tokens and data services into principal-media deals to feed high-margin growth, w...