Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, told the Financial Times the UK had “agreed to drop” its demand that Apple enable access to “the protected encrypted data of American ...

China is India’s largest trading partner in goods, with the south Asian country exporting more than $14bn in the 2024-25 financial year and importing a record $113bn of goods.

BHP has reported its lowest full-year profit in five years due to lower iron ore and copper prices and pointed to a “mixed” ...

Putin ‘wins’ Alaska summit on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

Donald Trump said the US would help arrange European security guarantees for Ukraine if peace could be agreed with Russia, as he pledged to set up a meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir ...

Thanks to Steve Witkoff, Trump’s gullible envoy, Russia has already gone a long way to establishing its land claims as a sine ...

Japan’s SoftBank has agreed to invest $2bn in Intel, supporting the troubled US chipmaker as the Trump administration ...

There has been much commentary on the recent summit in Alaska. But one detail appears to have been missed: one of the key justifications for the EU to accept an unbalanced trade deal with the US was ...

Senator Josh Hawley, chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wrote to Meta chief executive Mark ...

In the icy blast of the cold war, I took up Russian for O-level or what now is called GCSE, and pursued the language all the way to a degree, with a side order of French (“The case for learning ...

Self-described ‘Spac King’ Chamath Palihapitiya is launching a new special purpose acquisition vehicle, marking his return to blank-cheque companies after playing a leading role in the pandemic-era ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Qantas hit with record fine over Covid job cuts, and Citi’s raid on JPMorgan investment bankers ...