Port of Rotterdam and Koninklijke Vopak NV have been asked to submit construction and funding plans for a 50 billion rand ($2.8 billion) port and associated rail links to ship commodities including hydrogen and its derivatives from northwest South Africa, people familiar with the talks said.
Italy’s lower house of parliament has approved a divisive bill that could impose prison terms on parents that use surrogates to have children — if even the process was legally carried out overseas. The vote represents a step forward in the implementation of a socially conservative agenda backed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The world’s largest music company Universal Music Group NV’s second-quarter revenue beat estimates, lifted by growth in recorded music and merchandising.
THG Plc, the online health, beauty and wellness retailer, has agreed to buy UK business newspaper City AM.
Mastercard Inc. has told payment processors and banks to stop allowing marijuana transactions on debit cards, in a blow to the struggling cannabis industry and a boon to transparency in the banking system.
The Pentagon plans to issue a first-time contract to US or Canadian companies by year-end to recover gallium, a mineral used in semiconductors and military radar systems, after China curbed exports this month.
Wall Street’s main regulator is unveiling proposed restrictions for brokerages and money managers that use artificial intelligence to interact with clients.
Three former military officers described to Congress disturbing encounters with high-tech, unexplained flying objects and one of them claimed the US government is secretly holding on to extraterrestrial wreckage.
Amazon Web Services is unveiling AI services for doctors, business analysis and chatbots as it aims for Microsoft and Google
Britain’s budget watchdog warned then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng that the country was already facing a black hole in the public finances and was on the verge of recession, weeks before his disastrous economic program last year.
