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Georgina Rannard,Climate reporter, Belém, Brazil and Tabby WilsonWatch: Protesters clash with security at COP30 venue in BrazilProtesters carrying signs reading “our forests are not for sale” broke through security lines of the COP30 climate talks on Tuesday night in Belém, Brazil.BBC journalists saw United Nations security staff running behind a line of Brazilian soldiers shouting at delegates to immediately leave the venue.The UN told BBC News that the incident caused minor injuries to two security staff, in addition to limited damage to the venue.Social media videos showed protesters that appeared to be from indigenous groups and others waving flags with…

The rare explosions in the country’s capitals have not been directly linked, but there are fears the governments will blame each other after their previous military conflict alarmed the world. Source link

Government employees distributed Bibles and prepared materials “commonly used in Hinduism, Sikhism and Rastafarianism,” according to emails. Source link

Many business leaders are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, or are attending events in other cities. Source link

Sanae Takaichi drew criticism for requiring staff to work in the wee hours in a country scarred by “death from overwork.” Source link

Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed to a global effort to fight the group. Source link

US President Donald Trump (L), backdropped by Turbines at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, also known as the Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm, walks on the first fairway after playing off the first tee to officially open the Trump International Golf Links course in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, north east Scotland on July 29, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesTwo European pioneers of the modern wind power industry are sounding the alarm on the Trump administration’s clean energy cutbacks, warning Washington’s anti-climate agenda is part of a broader energy transition challenge.Denmark’s Henrik Stiesdal and Britain’s Andrew Garrad, often referred to…

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what’s driving the world’s second-largest economy. You can subscribe here.The big storyCultural shifts are subtle yet fundamental for any company aiming to succeed beyond its home market.When I visited Chinese electric car company Xpeng’s new headquarters in Guangzhou last week, what stood out wasn’t just how shiny it was compared to the building I’d visited last year, but the fluency of its global mindset, down to the small details like accurate English translations in signs and presentations. It went beyond the cursory “innovation”…

Scuffles between protesters and UN security staff broke out at the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil on Tuesday night.Some demonstrators appeared to be wearing traditional Brazilian indigenous dress and others waved flags reading “our land is not for sale”.Security forces tried to stop the demonstrators entering the compound, creating a bottleneck at the entrance.Delegates from nearly 200 countries are attending the UN climate talks this week in Belém, which is on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Source link

Private equity firms are facing a new reality: a growing crop of companies that can neither thrive nor die, lingering in portfolios like the undead. These so-called “zombie companies” refer to businesses that aren’t growing, barely generate enough cash to service debt and are unable to attract buyers even at a discount. They are usually trapped on a fund’s balance sheet beyond its expected holding period. “Now, as interest rates were rising, people felt they were stuck with businesses that were slightly worthless, but they couldn’t really sell them … So you are in this awful situation where people throw around…

Mahjooba NowrouziBBC News AfghanBBCRoya Karimi (centre) was once a child bride – now she is a top bodybuilderThe woman standing on stage glistens in a crystal-studded bikini.Her glowing, tanned skin shows off each of her well-defined muscle lines, the result of hours of weight training in the gym.Roya Karimi’s perfectly-applied make-up and hair highlighted blonde wouldn’t look out of place in the finals of Miss Universe.It is hard to imagine that just 15 years ago, she was a teenage mother in Afghanistan, married off as a child bride, before she escaped to her new life.Now aged 30, she is one…

Guy DelauneyBalkans correspondentGuy Delauney/BBCRussian state-owned energy companies own more than half of Serbia’s national oil firm NISAn impasse over Russian oil and imminent US sanctions has put Serbia at loggerheads with its traditional ally in Moscow.Added differences over Russian gas supplies and Serbia’s arms trade have ramped up the tensions, with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic trading barbs with the Kremlin.The root of the problem, and the most pressing issue, is the fate of Serbia’s national oil company.Russia’s Gazprom and Gazprom Neft own more than half the shares of Petroleum Industry of Serbia (NIS). That has put the company in a…

The Turkish defense minister said that 20 Air Force servicemen died when their military cargo plane crashed after taking off from Azerbaijan on Tuesday. Source link

Foxconn Chairman Young Liu delivers a speech during the Hon Hai Tech Day in Taipei on Oct. 18, 2023.I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty ImagesFoxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, reported Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 17% from a year earlier.Here’s how Foxconn did in the September quarter compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate:Revenue: $2.06 trillion New Taiwan dollars ($66.29 billion) vs. NT$2.06 trillion expectedNet profit: NT$57.67 billion vs. NT$50.41 billionFoxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, is best known as the world’s largest manufacturer of Apple’s…

Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister, during a panel session, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.  Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDespite rising trade tensions, Singapore still wants to push ahead with a “multilateral, rules-based trading system,” and sees further cooperation between ASEAN and the European Union.This was according to Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, who spoke at the Singapore Fintech Festival on Wednesday.Gan, who is also Singapore’s minister for trade and industry, said in a fireside chat with DBS CEO Tan Su Shan that “if we are able to…

new video loaded: What It Takes to Move a Factory From China to VietnamTariffs have forced Chinese companies to move their operations to Vietnam. Alexandra Stevenson, our Shanghai bureau chief, visits a factory in Ho Chi Minh City to see how one of the biggest challenges isn’t relocating machinery and tools, but overcoming language barriers.By Alexandra Stevenson, Tung Ngo, Nailah Morgan, Linh Pham, Jon Miller and June KimNovember 12, 2025 Source link

Blue Whale Capital’s Stephen Yiu is positioning for further upside in gold despite the recent price pullback, and has named the world’s largest gold miner Newmont as a key portfolio pick. Yiu, chief investment officer of the Blue Whale Growth Fund, on Tuesday acknowledged that the firm could be “a bit late to the party” on gold. But he added that lingering macroeconomic concerns — namely around the U.S. fiscal deficit , as well as the dollar potentially losing its global reserve currency status — could further fuel the precious metal’s momentum into next year. “We do think that, as…

A trade truce between the United States and China has calmed nerves, but it won’t stop the broader movement of companies to countries like Vietnam. Source link

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchLast Friday brought investors in Rightmove a new and unwelcome experience — a violent stock price correction.Shares of the U.K.’s biggest property portal, which hit a record in late July, fell by 28% at one point before finishing 12.5% lower, clipping nearly £634 million ($833.4 million) from Rightmove’s stock market valuation.The sell-off followed a trading update in which the former stock market darling, which accounts for more than 70% of all consumer time spent on U.K. property portals, pledged to hike spending on…

A section of the tall bridge in mountainous Sichuan Province fell, apparently after a landslide. No casualties were reported. Source link

The shake-up in China’s armed forces comes as both Beijing and Washington are pushing through major changes in their country’s militaries, in different ways. Source link

Key PointsLuckin Coffee CEO Jinyi Guo said the company is preparing to relist in the U.S.The Xiamen-headquartered coffee chain was booted from the Nasdaq in 2020 after admitting to fabricating $310 million in 2019 revenue.Backed by top investor Centurium Capital, Luckin has rebounded to become China’s biggest coffee retailer, overtaking Starbucks, and is now expanding in the U.S.Luckin Coffee is preparing to relist its shares in the U.S., its co-founder and CEO, Jinyi Guo, said at an entrepreneurs’ gathering earlier this month, five years after a $300 million accounting scandal derailed the coffee chain’s business. Speaking at a government-hosted event…

Groups tackling AI-generated child sexual abuse material could be given more powers to protect children online under a proposed new law.Organisations like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), as well as AI developers themselves, will be able to test the ability of AI models to create such content without breaking the law. That would mean they could tackle the problem at the source, rather than having to wait for illegal content to appear before they deal with it, according to Kerry Smith, chief executive of the IWF.The IWF deals with child abuse images online, removing hundreds of thousands every year.Ms Smith…

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (Photo by Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via Getty Images)Huang Jingwen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Even as a U.S.–China trade truce appears to be holding, analysts caution that the détente remains fragile in a rivalry increasingly defined by strategic competition.A flurry of decisions, outlined in the sweeping trade deal struck by U.S. President Donald Trump with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last month, took effect on Monday, with rollbacks of steep tariffs and export controls.The U.S. halved fentanyl-linked tariffs on imports from China to…