Ronnie Stark

PM Narendra Modi was one of the first world leaders to call out the October 7 assault by Hamas on Israel as a terror attack. He has condemned Tuesday's strike on a hospital in Gaza, which killed 500 people. In a social media post on Wednesday, the PM said he was "deeply shocked" by the deaths in the attack and extended his condolences to...

There's been a slowdown in this month's bond burn, and China continues to fall short of what markets think is needed to stabilize its economy - making for another nervy start to the financial week. Although prompted by a deepening property sector bust and worrying economic activity undershoot, China's latest widely expected interest rate cut on Monday was surprisingly small - underscoring concerns that...

China on Wednesday dispatched thousands of rescue workers to Zhuozhou, a flooded city of over 600,000 residents southwest of Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri continued to wreak havoc on swathes of a region twice the size of Paris. Hebei province, which borders Beijing, has borne the brunt of the worst storms to hit northern China in over a decade. According to official...

Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as crews fought several wildfires in heat-battered Greece. Tens of thousands have fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home in one of the country's worst fire outbreaks.The raging fires are hazardous for residents of remote villages and towns where roads have been destroyed...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin will not attend a BRICS nations summit in South Africa next month "by mutual agreement," the country's presidency said on Wednesday, ending months of speculation he could be detained. South Africa is a signatory to the International Criminal Court and, as such, would be expected to implement an arrest warrant issued by the court against the Russian leader in March...