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Top US Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world. The […]

Nine months of Russian occupation left more than half of Inna Boiko’s 50,000-hectare farm in southern Ukraine littered with shell craters, burnt-out equipment, and dangerous landmines. When she and hundreds of other farmers returned to their villages in the Mykolayiv

Bitcoin rallied past US$81,000 for the first time, boosted by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of digital assets and the prospect of a Congress featuring pro-crypto lawmakers. Trump’s decisive victory in the presidential election has prompted celebratory chest-thumping from the digital-asset

With Vice-President Kamala Harris’s defeat in the US elections, Indian media are turning their attention to another woman of South Asian descent who’s gaining prominence in American politics. Usha Chilukuri Vance is the wife of J.D. Vance, running mate of

Canada’s deputy prime minister highlighted her country’s tougher approach to Chinese exports, seeking to gain favour with Donald Trump and his key advisers ahead of his return to power in Washington. Chrystia Freeland said the Canadian government shares the same

The Philippines has approved the purchase of 40 fast patrol craft worth 25.8 billion pesos (US$450 million), seeking to bolster maritime security as tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea linger. The National Economic and Development Authority Board, chaired

Apple is set to face the first-ever fine under the European Union’s new digital antitrust rules for Big Tech, representing an escalation of a clash with regulators over the dominance of its hugely profitable App Store. Watchdogs are readying the

The tax hikes on UK businesses in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget will lead to the “death of entrepreneurship” and could “kill off” growth, according to James Dyson, the billionaire founder of vacuum cleaner maker Dyson Ltd. In an opinion

Republicans seek to “streamline” a law subsidising American chip manufacturing, US House Speaker Mike Johnson said, as he backtracked from saying they “probably will” try to repeal the programme that has generated US$400 billion in promised company investments. Johnson was

The US is sanctioning almost 400 individuals and companies in India, China and Turkey as part of a bid to crack down on a sprawling network that has helped keep Russia’s war machine running nearly three years into the full-scale