- Monday, June 08, 2026
BusinessDay
India’s manufacturing growth in August fell to its lowest level in 15 months, signalling that the country’s alarming slowdown is continuing and raising pressure on re-elected prime minister Narendra Modi to expand economic stimulus....
As a fresh round of tariffs hit Chinese goods this week, the country’s economy is showing signs of resilience that could help counteract the effects of the US administration’s intensifying trade war against Beijing....
Anti-corruption efforts in Guatemala have been thrown into doubt as the curtain comes down on Tuesday on a groundbreaking UN Commission. Its investigations in the Central American country put two former presidents and scores of officials in jail, exposing “a state that has been completely captured” by criminal networks....
Self-driving start-up Pronto. AI has said it will deliver its flagship product to customers this year despite being thrown into crisis last Tuesday when Anthony Levandowski, its founder and chief executive, was charged on 33 counts of theft or attempted theft from Google....
Sweden’s foreign minister has lashed out at the US’S “sad and dangerous” approach to the Arctic, warning of a risk to decades of co-operation with the likes of Russia and China in the far north....
Avideo published on YouTube last week was a bleak reminder of Colombia’s violent past. It showed two dozen guerrillas in military fatigues in the jungle, guns slung over their shoulders, announcing that they were returning to war....
Swedish buyout group EQT announced its intention to seek a stock market listing in Stockholm in a rare recent move from a private equity company to float its shares....
Boris Johnson has ordered an emergency cabinet meeting for Monday afternoon, fuelling expectations that he could call a general election if his Brexit strategy is defeated in the House of Commons this week....
The expulsion of Bury FC from the English Football League is a bitter pill for the fans of a club...
More than $ 4bn has been pulled from UK equity funds since Theresa May announced her decision to step down as Britain’s prime minister as fears mount that the UK is heading for a no-deal Brexit under her successor, Boris Johnson....
France will start trials from mid-september in Calais of the electronic customs system that it will put in place for freight crossing the Channel if the UK leaves the EU without a deal....
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany has made strong gains in elections in two east German states but the mainstream parties of left and right also performed better than expected, bringing relief to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government in Berlin....
At the state-run fertilizer plant near the city of Homs, gun-toting Russian mercenaries are on patrol, protecting a key element of Syria’s important phosphates industry....
Hong Kong protesters blockaded the city’s international airport on Sunday, capping off a weekend of chaos that involved some of the most intense clashes yet seen in the city’s nearly three month-old political crisis....
With his everyman appeal and social media savvy, Matteo Salvini’s popularity has soared since he became a key figure in Italy’s unsteady coalition government 14 months ago. But the pugnacious leader of the rightwing League party now faces an array of critics who claim he has over-reached....
