China is providing moorage for a U.S. sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite images obtained by Reuters, as U.S. concerns grow over Beijing’s support for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.Britain’s Royal United Services Institute RUSI think...

   When Antony Rudkovsky was about , he began to teach himself how to build virtual private networks VPNs to access Internet content unavailable in Russia.At first, the young programmer just wanted to listen to music on the Spotify streaming app in his bedroom in Nizhny Novgorod, a city roughly...

   Chinese EV maker BYD will showcase its premium brand’s first sedan at the Beijing auto show from Thursday, in a challenge to the likes of Germany’s Mercedes Benz which three years ago pulled out of the brand’s development citing slow sales.The Denza Z GT is the fruit of BYD .SZ , founder...

   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on China to provide a level playing field for American businesses as he began a visit aimed at resolving a raft of contentious issues that could jeopardise the newly repaired relationship.Blinken’s trip is the latest high level contact...

   Australian police said on Thursday they charged five teenagers with terrorism related offences in investigations following the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a livestreamed sermon earlier this month.The five boys, who were due in children’s court on Thursday, were...

   At least inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.Service agents were hunting the fugitives and had so far recaptured of them, spokesperson Adama Duza said in a statement on...

   BHP Group BHP.AX said on Thursday it had made a . billion bid for Anglo American AAL.L , proposing a deal that would create the world’s biggest copper miner and sending its smaller rival’s shares sharply higher.BHP said it will offer Anglo’s shareholders . pounds per share, a premium of...

   Indian forest service official Surya Sen usually manages a city zoo, but during the world’s largest general elections, he has a very different task rooting out online misinformation to prevent any disturbances.As nearly a billion voters head to the polls in a mammoth six week programme that began...

   From Nestle NESN.S to Danone DANO.PA , food companies are seeing shoppers that want either premium or cheaper products, with less interest in items in the middle, particularly in developed markets like North America.The packaged goods industry has for over two years hit shoppers with higher...

   Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state’s electoral votes for the then U.S. president, in an indictment that names Trump as an unindicted co conspirator.The indictment, reached on Tuesday and unsealed on...