In Russia’s grain belt, farmers fret they will not be able to harvest their crops as a fuel crisis sparked by Ukraine’s drone attacks on oil refineries and depots disrupts daily life.
Asian shares extended declines on Thursday as investors rotated out of chipmakers after a stellar quarter, while currency and bond markets braced for U.S. jobs data that could give pointers to the risk of interest rate hikes.
TPS holders have spent years building lives on an uncertain legal foundation — raising families, sustaining churches, opening businesses and filling critical jobs. “Many Haitians voted for this Republican administration,” said Reverend Daniel Ulysse, Haitian American Republican Caucus chair.
Japanese officials are abandoning their habit of telegraphing intervention risks, instead signalling a more targeted campaign to squeeze speculators and raise the cost of betting against the battered yen, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight killing at least eight people and injuring over three dozen, as drones and missiles struck residential buildings and started a fire in a hotel on a central boulevard.
As the strait stays open and crude oil flows out, there are growing expectations of oversupply.
Oil prices fell more than 1% on Wednesday to their lowest levels since March as optimism over U.S.-Iran talks allayed supply concerns after U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Qatar had gone well.
South African police arrested more than 900 people during nationwide anti-migrant protests on Tuesday that were mostly peaceful but at times turned violent, with shops looted, police said on Wednesday.
SoftBank Group has reopened talks with a consortium of lenders for a $10 billion loan backed by its stake in OpenAI, after earlier attempts to secure a loan stalled over concerns about the difficulty of valuing private companies, two people familiar with the matter said.
Iran will deliver an immediate and powerful response to any threat against its people or leadership, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in an X post on Wednesday.