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The News OPay, the Lagos-based fintech firm controlled by Chinese billionaire Zhou Yahui, more than doubled its revenue in the first half of 2026 as lending overtook payments as its top source of income, according to a filing ahead of a planned New York listing likely set for next month. ...

Deadly weekend Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s airport underscored the risk of war enveloping still more of the Middle East. Several major energy CEOs cancelled travel to Saudi Arabia, which had been preparing several major conferences courting foreign investment. The missile strikes from Yemen have killed more than a dozen people; ...

Borrowing costs are likely to remain elevated across the US and Europe for the foreseeable future, economists said. Experts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal projected that US 10-year Treasury yields would decline only slightly from current levels to end the year at 5.1%, and would dip to around 4.8% ...

The News When ABC News removed a story about Donald Trump’s sons from its website without explanation on Thursday, an unnamed company source told media reporters the article had been published “prematurely.” Nathan Lee, the investigative reporter who wrote the original piece, used the same language in emails to Powerus ...

The News Hacked messages from an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are providing a glimpse of his aides’ close ties to the media. The incumbent prime minister’s reelection campaign has been repeatedly rocked by hacked and leaked documents, part of broad attempts to destabilize a wildly divisive leader ...

The News Despite increasingly critical media coverage of AI and the spread of data centers across the US, one news network has been painting a more positive picture. More than half of the references to data centers on Fox News over the last two years would have left viewers with ...

A Ukrainian drone attack knocked a Russian data center offline Sunday, as data centers emerge as increasingly attractive targets in war. Russia and Ukraine have traded strikes on digital infrastructure in recent weeks, triggering major outages on both sides; Ukrainian strikes also prompted Russian bot traffic to plummet. While such ...

European leaders rushed to back Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend amid a widening rift with the US, though the continent’s support for Kyiv may have an expiration date. Berlin, Brussels, and London pledged further support to Kyiv, even as the push to rearm is imperiled by the rise ...

The EU and China reached a deal Friday to reduce China’s shipments of hybrid vehicles to Europe by half, forestalling a damaging trade war but doing little to address Brussels’ broader complaints. The agreement slashes Chinese imports by millions of cars over four years, the EU’s trade commissioner said, calling ...

Indian authorities released the leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party on Sunday, after security forces detained thousands of protesters during massive anti-government demonstrations. The satirical party — which in July forced the resignation of India’s education minister — is at the center of youth-led protests that roiled the Indian capital ...