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Sir Keir Starmer was given a personalised revolver with live ammunition as a gift by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the Nato summit.The firearm, engraved with the prime minister’s name, was one of a series of similar gifts presented to the leader of each country who attended the event in Ankara.Sir Keir’s revolver has not been brought back to the UK and remains with British officials in Turkey.It is expected to be decommissioned before it is returned, meaning it will no longer be capable of firing live ammunition.Erdogan waived export controls on the gift but it was left in…
Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd. signage during the Singapore FinTech Festival in Singapore, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The festival runs through Nov. 17. Lionel Ng | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNagi Hamiyeh, president of Temasek Global Investments, said crypto investment is “still off the table” for the company as it strives to move past a substantial loss in crypto exchange FTX. “We don’t have directly any, any investment in crypto,” Hamiyeh told CNBC’s Sri Jegarajah on Wednesday, citing regulatory uncertainty in the sector. “I can’t forecast what happens in the future, and the role that crypto is going to play in…
Indonesia’s Pertamina, Boeing sign MoU on sustainable aviation fuel development Source link
Rebellions is targeting an initial public offering in South Korea in the first or second quarter of next year, the CEO told CNBC exclusively, as it looks to capitalize on massive investor interest in AI chips. Sunghyun Park, CEO of Rebellions, told CNBC that the company is leaning toward a listing on the KOSPI over the KOSDAQ.”Real revenue is now being generated. That’s why we are preparing the IPO with underwriter at J.P. Morgan and [Samsung Securities],” Park told CNBC on Wednesday.”Basically, our investors prefer the Korea market, KOSPI actually, because we are well aligned with the Korean government megaproject,…
A review of a disability benefit is not expected to make “crude proposals” on changes to claimants’ payments, the minister leading the report has said.Sir Stephen Timms told the BBC his interim review of personal independence payments (Pip) found the benefit was not “fit for purpose” and promised “fundamental change” in recommendations due in the autumn.The disability minister said the “sustainability” of spending on the benefit, which is forecast to rise to more than £41bn by 2030, was “going to be a concern as we reach these decisions”.Last year, the UK government asked Sir Stephen to review whether Pip was…
Fire at Omsk oil refinery as the region’s governor says the province came under attack from Ukrainian drones, in Omsk, Russia July 6, 2026, in this picture obtained from a social media video.ReutersUkraine’s drone attacks have been dominating headlines about its war with Russia — and upended NATO’s investment thesis.Having boosted drone production and capabilities in four years of war, Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure and military assets, targeting high-profile oil refineries in major cities as part of a sustained push to cut off Russia’s energy revenues.Defense experts and strategists have described its drone campaign…
Paramount will not close its Warner Bros deal before July 22 amid Oregon probe Source link
A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity flaws to surface this week in the open source operating system. The vulnerability resides in KVM, which is, in essence, a virtual machine app included in the kernel of many Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53359, allows guest virtual machines—such as those used in cloud platforms to isolate one user’s instance from the host OS and other user instances—to break out of that container. Januscape: A threat to cloud platforms The vulnerability affects KVM running on both AMD and…
If he becomes PM, Burnham has already ruled out an early election, telling an online forum last week: “I’m going to work to the 2024 manifesto.”By September at the latest, the UK will have had seven prime ministers in the past decade.Four prime ministers took over mid-term without having fought and won a general election: Theresa May in 2016, Boris Johnson in 2016, and Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, both in 2022. In each of these cases, there have been questions from opposition parties about their legitimacy in office. But the next prime minister, like their predecessors, is under no…
Income investors will continue to enjoy high yields in the second half of 2026 amid the uncertainty around potential Federal Reserve monetary policy, according to Sonal Desai, chief investment officer at Franklin Templeton Fixed Income. On Wednesday, the central bank released the minutes of its June meeting , where it held rates steady and indicated possible hikes ahead due to above target inflation . Meanwhile, Treasury yields remain high , with rising oil prices pushing the benchmark 10-year to 4.59% on Wednesday. “For an income-focused investor, all-in yields are actually quite attractive, whether we’re looking at high yield or we…