Russian metals tycoon Alisher Usmanov claims his fame and fortune rather than links to President Vladimir Putin made him a target for European Union sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in recent weeks has issued federal grand jury subpoenas out of southern Florida to multiple witnesses linked to the classified documents probe involving former President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigative steps.
Climate activists stormed the stage during remarks in Washington by Senator Joe Manchin, interrupting his comments about securing the contested Mountain Valley pipeline in the debt-ceiling deal.
Some Asian refiners are considering buying more crude from Russia and Africa after Saudi Arabia surprised the market by raising prices for its oil following an unexpected pledge to reduce output.
French unions saw turnout collapse to its lowest in protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform as the president seeks to get the country to move on from the politically damaging fight.
Merck & Co. is suing the US over a law that will allow the government to negotiate prescription-drug prices with pharmaceutical companies — a reform aimed at cutting costs for elderly and disabled Medicare patients that the health-care giant says is “tantamount to extortion.”
Malaysia won a legal battle in France that will likely cancel an award of about $15 billion over territorial claims related to the present day Borneo state of Sabah.
The identities of US Representative George Santos’s three bail guarantors were ordered unsealed by a judge in his criminal fraud case, though the release was put on hold to give the Republican congressman a chance to appeal.
Zimbabwe liberalized its foreign-exchange market and raised interest rates, among a new raft of measures aimed at stabilizing the nation’s currency and reining in resurgent inflation.
China’s capital reported its first mpox infections and local health authorities have started an investigation to trace its source.
