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About a third of Russia's biggest online marketplace was bought with money from one of Vladimir Putin's oldest business allies, the Anti-Corruption Foundation says.

Tashkent and Beijing are expanding political dialogue across key institutional areas As part of her visit to Beijing, Saida Mirziyoyeva, Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, met senior Chinese officials.

Six of the countries that pay for the EU budget want the next one cut by hundreds of billions of euros.

Shares in Russia's VTB rose 1.62% after the state bank delayed its Wildberries deal to September, recovering from a record low as first deputy CEO Dmitry Pyanov said the terms were unchanged and a RUB300-400bn share issue would go ahead.

King Harald V of Norway, Europe's oldest reigning monarch, has died at 89 after a 35-year reign, the palace says. He is succeeded by his son, King Haakon VIII, with Princess Ingrid Alexandra now heir to the throne.

Tech

India is witnessing a foundational Artificial Intelligence gap when compared to markets like the US and China. This is a topic of intense debate among market experts, policy wonks and the government.

Saudi Arabia has launched a Riyadh "Digital District" to attract global tech firms and talent across AI, cybersecurity and cloud, aiming to place the capital among the world's top 10 tech hubs.

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan pushing back.

A team of AI researchers led by two Slovenians has launched Veeda AI, a Toronto-based startup developing virtual environments where robots can learn and practise tasks before operating in the real world.

Four years after the exit of Hollywood majors following the invasion of Ukraine, Russians still want to watch the latest Hollywood blockbusters

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Leaked recordings reveal a senior official asserting that Ukraine doesn’t have to fight corruption. Instead, it should “systematise, control” and “lead” it.

On the eve of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, I find myself wondering whether my country will still exist in another 35 years.

Failure to agree on a successor to Bosnia & Herzegovina's international high representative exposes differences over the future of the country's postwar political order, says Atlantic Council commentary.

The PR surge which heralded that the “tide is turning” in the Ukrainian conflict is ending up in a debacle. Ukraine can inflict tangible damage on the Russian economy but Russia can take it and give it back in spades.

Attempt to steer economy toward sustainable growth running into increasingly difficult terrain with economic policy facing sharp trade-off between fighting stubborn inflation and fixing external imbalances.

Data

UAE property market recorded broad-based expansion across all major emirates during H1 2026, with Abu Dhabi transaction values more than doubling y/y.

Azerbaijani banks' securities investments fell 13.5% year on year to AZN7.95bn by the end of July, with income from the segment down 16.8%, as the finance ministry scaled back government bond auctions.

The State Bank of Vietnam said on August 26 that 12 commercial banks had registered or announced their participation in the credit programme.

Despite disruption caused by drone-hit oil exports, the currency has shown continued strength.

Foreign trade turnover hits $49.5bn, higher by 8% year on year.

Features

Czech anti-drug policies have earned international respect in the last two decades, but recent changes raise fears country could be heading towards a similar emergency to the opioid crisis in the US.

Sloviansk, the anchor of Ukraine's Donbas fortress belt, has been designated an active combat zone by its own regional authorities.

Two target sets now define this war, and neither of them is military. Ukraine hits Russian oil refineries and online retail warehouses; Russia hits Ukraine's power system and its shops.

The most senior Democrat on the US House Judiciary Committee has widened his investigation into Jared Kushner's business interests to include the disputed Albanian land where his investment firm plans to build a luxury resort.

Slovak police foiled an arson attack on a Ukrainian-owned drone factory near Presov this week, the first documented attempt of its kind in the country.

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A fresh corruption scandal broke out in Ukraine – this time, it was racketeering by relative junior members of the Zelenskiy administration. Corruption is not a problem of the system in Ukraine; corruption is the system.

At the ancient Egyptian obelisk outside the Blue Mosque, looking along what was once the Hippodrome of Constantinople, I found myself thinking about a tent.

Ukraine's power generation capacity has fallen from 60GW before the war to 12GW today, and a renewed Russian bombing campaign this winter could push the shortfall toward 10GW, even as European gas storage sits near a 15-year low.

Dubious rise to the top is questioned. Watchdog says remarks “incompatible with foreign policy vision”.

Tourist visas denied based on highly subjective assessments of financial means and intentions to use “return” section of plane ticket.

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Frozen ground is thawing deeper each summer almost everywhere it has been measured, according to the first global assessment of long-term monitoring data.

Western Europe faces two days of severe thunderstorms, with supercells, very large hail and even tornadoes possible.

4iG is moving into energy, targeting a diversified portfolio of wind, storage and small modular nuclear reactor investments across Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans.

Increase in area burned by wildfires to depend heavily on how much governments invest in preventing and fighting fires, a new study has found.

Iran has connected a 72-megawatt solar farm to its national grid in the northeastern city of Esfarayen, the country's largest solar facility in North Khorasan province.

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