Aug 17 (Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors looking into billionaire Mark Walter’s empire are focused on four businesses that served as intermediaries between insurance companies he controlled, the Wall Street Journal reported…

By Divya Rajagopal and Melanie Burton ATHABASCA BASIN, Saskatchewan/MELBOURNE, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Canadian uranium miner NexGen Energy is sharing information and “talking regularly” with mining giant BHP, about its…

Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking…

KAMPONG PRAHOK, Cambodia (AP) — On Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, getting anywhere has always meant navigating the water. It isn’t any different for schoolchildren.…

KAMPONG PRAHOK, Cambodia (AP) — Sou Sreynich dreams of becoming a teacher. But she knows she’s far behind. The 13-year-old first entered a classroom at 10, an age when most…

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Alphabet has mandated investment banks to work on its inaugural Australian dollar bond issue, according to a message sent by one of…

By Libby George and Karin Strohecker LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – War, tariffs and AI gyrations have done little to dent the flow of cash into emerging markets, as reforms,…

NEW DELHI, Aug 16 (Reuters) – India’s tax amnesty scheme for small taxpayers to declare certain undeclared foreign assets of up to 50 million rupees ($523,889) opens on Sunday and…

By Simon Jessop, Rebecca Delaney and Valentina Za LONDON/MILAN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an…

Iran said Qatar was holding three of its pilots who had been missing since March, which Qatar denied. The United Arab Emirates accused Iran of again attacking one of its…