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by Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados. The authors unpack the mystery surrounding the “sonic attacks” at the US Embassy in Cuba and other American posts around the world, in which diplomats reported suffering brain damage and other severe ailments. The CIA and FBI called it “a case of ...

Apollo Global Management is taking a stake in Mubadala Capital, the alternative-asset management arm of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, and will put additional capital into its investment strategies, deepening the US firm’s ties with one of the Middle East’s most prolific investors. Apollo, alongside others, will take ...

Israel’s parliamentary polls looked neck-and-neck ahead of voting on Tuesday, with opposing camps painting apocalyptic images of what the future holds if they lost. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who won a renewed endorsement from US President Donald Trump over the weekend, on Sunday posted an AI-generated image of a ...

China’s Communist Party began a secretive four-day meeting that will likely pave the way for Xi Jinping to secure a new term as the country’s leader, further a long-running anti-corruption drive, and intensify his transformation of the world’s second-largest economy. The Fifth Plenum of the party’s Central Committee — gatherings ...

China’s Communist Party began a secretive four-day meeting that will likely pave the way for Xi Jinping to secure a new term as the country’s leader, further a long-running anti-corruption drive, and intensify his transformation of the world’s second-largest economy. The Fifth Plenum of the party’s Central Committee — gatherings ...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection could reshape geopolitics for years to come. Challenger Flávio Bolsonaro vowed to pursue closer ties with the Trump administration if elected and had looked set to confirm a regional conservative tilt. Instead, Lula’s victory means already tense relations with neighbors, including Argentina, are likely ...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection could reshape geopolitics for years to come. Challenger Flávio Bolsonaro vowed to pursue closer ties with the Trump administration if elected and had looked set to confirm a regional conservative tilt. Instead, Lula’s victory means already tense relations with neighbors, including Argentina, are likely ...

Investors are readying for a big week ahead, with an array of Big Tech and central bank announcements likely to shape long-term expectations for global growth. Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are all set to report earnings this week — analysts are particularly focused on their capex plans — and Anthropic ...

Investors are readying for a big week ahead, with an array of Big Tech and central bank announcements likely to shape long-term expectations for global growth. Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are all set to report earnings this week — analysts are particularly focused on their capex plans — and Anthropic ...

The Scene China is key to global manufacturing across a range of sectors, but foreign capitals — increasingly worried about domestic industry being hollowed out in the face of cheap, high-quality goods from the country — are cracking down. Few are doing so more aggressively than India, which has set ...