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China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence app Manus, as Washington and Beijing vie for dominance over the emerging technology.

Luxury marketing collective The Independents has conducted discussions with its investors about selling a business stake worth over $1 billion, despite the downturn in the luxury market.

The UK’s National Crime Agency reviewed new allegations about Lord Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein in spring 2024.

Apple announced on Monday that it had named a replacement for Tim Cook as CEO, with head of hardware engineering John Ternus succeeding him on 1 September.

The difficulties of conducting open-source research in China are widely recognized.

Investors have fled from leading luxury stocks like Hermès and Gucci this week after they revealed tumbling sales as a result of the Iran war.

Authorities in Guangdong, China, have launched an investigation after a woman allegedly threw around $162,000 in cash from the balcony of a high-rise apartment, triggering chaos on the streets below.

Iran secretly obtained a Chinese spy satellite, significantly boosting its ability to track and target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent conflict.

Michael Zeligman built his oil delivery business around the Gulf, and while war might appear to threaten his company, Paradigm International, it may in fact play to his advantage.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Liberec (Czechia), multiple searches and investigative measures were conducted today in Czechia and Slovakia, in a probe into suspected large-scale customs fraud and VAT evasion involving the imports of textiles, shoes and e-commerce goods from China into the EU.

Chilean authorities have announced the dismantling of a major criminal network accused of stealing and illegally exporting around $917 million worth of copper to Asia over a five-year period.

To counter toughened Western sanctions imposed in 2022 on Russian oil exports in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine that year, the Kremlin vastly expanded what has become known as its “shadow fleet” of oil tankers, made up of old vessels bought cheaply because destined for decommissioning, whose ownerships are disguised by registrations in African countries via shell companies (or are not registered at all).

An unlicensed operation in California redirected money to China and Nigeria, serving as a covert financial channel for funds stolen from cybercrime victims.

Oil tankers once sailed straight through the center of the Strait of Hormuz. But since February 28, vessels crossing the 21-mile-wide waterway have been forced onto an alternate route.

Iran has launched a series of cyber attacks against the US hours after Donald Trump threatened to wipe out the country’s civilization.

Iranian military units are using artificial intelligence-enhanced satellite imagery to improve targeting of U.S. bases across the Middle East.

The private companies — some with ties to the military — are marketing detailed intelligence on movements of U.S. forces, even as Beijing seeks to keep its distance.

When three villagers from China’s Sichuan province wrote to local officials in 2022 asking why the government was confiscating their land and evicting them from their homes, they received a terse reply: It was a "state secret."

Between late April and July 2025, a type of drone not previously seen in Libya was spotted parked outside a hangar on the northern apron at Al Khadim airbase, according to satellite imagery.

Cambodia has extradited another suspected associate of the Prince Group to China. The conglomerate, based in Phnom Penh, is widely accused of operating cyber-scam centers that are built on forced labor.

A video created with artificial intelligence and circulated in China depicts a futuristic scenario in which robotic forces carry out a large-scale assault on Taiwan, highlighting emerging trends in modern warfare.

A Royal Navy captain in charge of one of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines stepped back from his duties over his relationship with the MP Joani Reid, whose husband faces allegations of spying for China.

For half a century, the Middle East’s petro-monarchies have portrayed themselves as reliable providers of low-cost oil, but the third Gulf war, now in its fifth week, has shattered that image.

US drugmaker Eli Lilly is set to sign a $2bn deal with a Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company, underscoring the pharmaceutical sector’s growing reliance on China-developed medicines.