Right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro led President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of Brazil's presidential election on October 4, partial results showed, setting up a widely expected runoff between the two on October 25.

Five Russian air attack vehicles, including three missiles and two drones, violated Moldova’s airspace and exploded on its territory.

The Romanian parliament’s failure to form a government puts Romania’s fiscal consolidation at risk, and the political impasse makes early elections a significant possibility.

Russia will intensify strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to hit Russian refineries harder, the defence ministry said.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the largest energy supply disruption in modern history, but the world has coped better than feared thanks to shock absorbers built after the 1970s, the McKinsey Global Institute says in a report published on...

Hasina has remained in India since leaving Bangladesh in August 2024 after a mass uprising ended her government.

Perim sits inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping chokepoint. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland raised the prospect of a foothold at Berbera to help counter Yemen’s Houthis. What went wrong?

The Philippines must deploy PHP1.07 trillion ($17bn) in fresh capital expenditures through 2030 to upgrade its water and sanitation network or face acute supply deficits within fifteen years.

Pakistan's benchmark KSE-100 index fell 2,610 points, or 1.5%, over the last week to close at 168,155, as geopolitical uncertainty, high oil prices and stalled US-Iran negotiations kept investors cautious.

Construction began in Vietnam's Can Tho City on October 3 on a rice processing complex with annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes and an attached biomass fuel supply centre.

Pakistan has told the International Monetary Fund it will sell nine state-owned electricity distribution companies by December 2027.

The ready-made garment industry continued to account for the bulk of export earnings, generating $10.578bn during July-September, up 6.10% from $9.970bn in the corresponding period of FY26.

Vietnam's economy grew 9.95% year on year in the third quarter of 2026, its fastest pace of the year so far.

Russia's consumer watchdog says an Irkutsk anti-plague institute employee has an illness of undetermined cause, that plague is not officially confirmed and that the regional situation is stable.

Bosnia's main ethnic parties appeared to be strengthening their grip on power in the October 4 elections, preliminary results showed, potentially complicating the country's bid to join the European Union.

Yemen's internationally recognised government says it has begun military operations to retake Houthi-held territory, weeks after Saudi strikes on Sanaa and Saada and the collapse of the 2022 truce.

Turkey’s state pipeline operator BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Co. has launched an open tender for the time charter of a single LNG carrier

Hamid Bovard, who runs the National Iranian Oil Company, is acting oil minister after Mohsen Paknejad resigned, leaving Iran's oil ministry in the hands of a veteran oilfield manager during the war with the US.

Hamid Bovard, who runs the National Iranian Oil Company, is acting oil minister after Mohsen Paknejad resigned, leaving Iran's oil ministry in the hands of a veteran oilfield manager during the war with the US.

The European Union's push to bring in new members is entering a critical phase this autumn.

Russian bailiffs have frozen RUB115,500 in the accounts of Say Agency, the organiser of Kanye West's cancelled St Petersburg concerts, after a Samara court ruling.

China accounts for 23% of import-export turnover, Russia 16%.

China accounts for 23% of import-export turnover, Russia 16%.

Russia's consumer watchdog says an Irkutsk anti-plague institute employee died of pneumonia of undetermined origin, not plague, as a local aluminium plant orders masks and nearly 200 contacts are observed.

Denis Romanovskiy has a number he is not satisfied with. Artificial intelligence has made individual employees at SOFTSWISS between 20 and 50% more productive, the chief AI officer of the gambling platform supplier says, and everyone in the...

Four frontline states are now spending at or near the level Nato set as its 2035 goal, a decade ahead of schedule.

Croatia has signed up to an initiative for an Adriatic-Ionian railway corridor linking its ports with Italy, Slovenia, the Western Balkans and Greece.

The perpetrator and those who ordered the attack on Kiro Gligorov, the first president of independent Macedonia, have never been identified, and the investigation remains open.

Brussels has backed Podgorica’s ambition to complete accession negotiations by the end of 2026 and become the bloc’s 28th member in 2028.

Result puts Andris Kulbergs in a strong position to retain power.

US pushing ahead with expansion of investment in essential fields including critical minerals in Central Asia.

EU enlargement would add about 65mn people to a bloc running out of workers, and much of the migration voters fear has already happened, a CEPS report argues.

Taiwan's manufacturing sector dropped to a green light in August, indicating stable growth, after flashing a yellow-red light for fast growth in July, the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research said.

Case of horrific sexual abuse of kindergarten child in Uzbekistan sparks calls from outraged president’s daughter for execution of perpetrator.

The US is sending about 9,000 troops to the Middle East as Trump threatens fresh Iran strikes, days after its last forces left Iraq.

Tajikistan has begun receiving Iranian oil and fuel as Russian supplies falter, putting Dushanbe in the path of US sanctions on Iran's petroleum trade.

Yemen's Houthis say Saudi warplanes carried out six rounds of air strikes on Sanaa and Saudi artillery and missiles hit Saada province, the latest escalation since a 2022 truce broke down in July.

Nearly 200 people are under medical observation after a worker at Irkutsk's anti-plague institute reportedly died of plague.

Ursula von der Leyen encourages neighbouring countries to start a new phase of dialogue during Skopje visit.

Russia's drone campaign against Kyiv's Dnipro crossings reached the North Bridge on October 3, while Ukraine's General Staff said its forces hit the Lukoil refinery in Volgograd.

Between the years 2020 and 2025, the Indian equity markets saw what can be best described as a retail investor boom.

The renewed programme continues a buyback effort the company has run since 2010. Over that period it has repurchased 185mn shares, equal to 31% of its outstanding shares before the buybacks began, and paid PHP13.1bn.

Japanese power generator Jera and two partners will spend $15bn to build a large artificial intelligence data centre at a thermal power station in Chiba, near Tokyo.

South Korean shares closed slightly higher as bargain hunters returned to major technology stocks, lifting the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) back above 7,000 points.

South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.9% year on year in September, down from 3.1% in August, as cheaper farm produce partly offset high energy costs.

Chisinau's international airport was evacuated on October 2 after a bomb alert that was later declared a hoax, just days after the country hosted a major investment conference.

Fourteen consecutive quarters of ROE above 23% posted. Lender’s digital banking on rise both at home and in Uzbekistan.

Chisinau's international airport was evacuated on October 2 after a bomb alert that was later declared a hoax, just days after the country hosted a major investment conference.

Kenya's consumer federation wants a review of the state's planned 10% stake in Aliko Dangote's $16bn Lamu refinery, the project's second legal challenge.

Diversification is working, but Russia hasn’t been replaced.