A manganese mining company to which sanctioned Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg is linked helped pay for the electoral conference held by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress in December.
EQT AB is reviving plans to take skincare business Galderma public, people with knowledge of the matter said, in what’s expected to be another key test for Europe’s market for initial public offerings.
Vladimir Putin called an attack in a village near the border with Ukraine “a terrorist act,” hours after scrapping plans to travel to southern Russia Thursday over the episode.
OPEC’s oil production increased last month as Nigeria extended its recovery ahead of presidential elections.
Three Russian tanks that were captured by Ukrainian forces and shipped to the Baltics last week for display are stoking tensions after supporters of Russian troops began laying flowers on the vehicles.
India’s Supreme Court ordered a change in the method of choosing election commissioners, giving the political opposition a say in the decision before the national vote next year.
China implied that the US is to blame for economic turmoil across developing countries, deepening a war of words over responsibility for debt pressures afflicting some of the world’s poorest nations.
Global CO2 emissions rose to a record last year as the combustion of fossil fuels continued to put the world on track for a dangerous level of global warming.
The Dutch salvage firm that helped prevent a global freight bottleneck when it dislodged a massive container ship stuck in the Suez Canal is fighting the vessel’s owners in a London court, claiming they were denied a proper payout.
There’s never a shortage of dealmaking gossip at Toronto’s annual mining show, though past gatherings have brought more speculation than actual transactions. This year feels different.
