The chairman of UBS Group AG, Colm Kelleher, has voiced serious concerns over growing vulnerabilities in the United States insurance industry, pointing to weak and overly complex regulatory frameworks amid a sharp rise in private debt investments. Speaking at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit on Tuesday, Kelleher cautioned that the […]

North Korea launched multiple artillery rockets just an hour before United States Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at the inter-Korean border, South Korea’s military confirmed to AFP on Tuesday. According to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Pyongyang had also fired similar projectiles only minutes before South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met with Chinese […]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will unveil its first budget on Tuesday—a spending plan he insists will provide “the answer” for an economy buckling under the strain of new United States tariffs. Carney, who previously served as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England before entering politics earlier this […]

The long-running legal saga of Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, which is set to resume on Tuesday, appears to be heading toward an almost inevitable conviction after Kanu dismissed his defence lawyers, much to the frustration of the presiding judge. Kanu, who leads the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, has for years campaigned […]

A powerful earthquake has claimed the lives of at least nine people in northern Afghanistan, authorities confirmed on Monday, only months after another devastating tremor left the nation struggling to recover. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck overnight at a depth of 28 kilometres (17 miles), with its epicentre […]

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck northern Afghanistan early on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The tremor comes only months after another deadly quake left the country struggling amid ongoing humanitarian crises. The USGS reported that the quake struck in the early hours at a depth of […]

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth made a rare visit to the border between North and South Korea on Monday, marking the first time in eight years that an American defence chief has travelled to the tense Demilitarised Zone (DMZ). Hegseth was accompanied by South Korean Defence Minister Ahn Gyu-back during the visit to Panmunjom—the only […]