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Gold hits over 3-month high ahead of US inflation data, Fed chair speech

Spot ‌gold was up 0.9 per cent at $4,643.63 per ounce, as of 0644 GMT, the highest level since mid May. Prices gained more than 5 per cent last week

Asian shares flat ahead of expected US sanctions on Iran, Nvidia results

The ​entire tech sector is holding its breath for Nvidia's results on Wednesday; investors are aware how hard ​it will be for the chip maker to meet stratospheric expectations

Oil prices fall ahead of expected US announcement on new Iran sanctions

Brent crude futures fell $1.22, or 1.29%, ‌to $93.17 by 0035 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $85.86 a barrel, down $1.20, or 1.38%

Defiant Iran says new sanctions threatened by 'desperate' US will fail

Tehran remains defiant ahead of expected US sanctions announcement on Monday as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains virtually at a standstill

Putin says Ukraine opened 'Pandora's box' with strikes on economic targets

Russian president warns Moscow will target Ukraine's sensitive economic sectors in response to drone strikes on Russian infrastructure, including oil refineries

China's robots show they can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable?

Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games move beyond record-breaking sprints to test whether machines can autonomously handle cables, warehouses and other real-world tasks

Syria foreign minister sees Israel security talks resuming despite no trust

Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says talks frozen since the Iran war could restart soon, with a proposed deal covering security zones and an Israeli withdrawal

Putin wants to draft 300,000 new troops, said Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

Moscow's forces are pressing ahead with an effort to capture the rest of eastern Ukraine's industrialised Donbas region, where its troops have ground forward at what Kyiv says is a great cost

Iran says Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir to visit Tehran on Monday

Pakistan has taken on a mediator role in negotiations between Iran ‌and the US aimed at ​ending the war which ​began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February

Australia confirms first H5N1 bird flu case in mammal as outbreak spreads

Australia has been grappling with rising cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza after it landed in the country in June

Search continues for 22 after Panama-flagged vessel sinks in Bay of Bengal

Search continues for 22 after Panama-flagged vessel sinks in Bay of Bengal

Paramount and California to hold preliminary talks on Warner Bros deal

The talks are preliminary, ​and there is no assurance that they will lead to meaningful negotiations toward a settlement

Iran grants permission for some Iraqi oil tankers to pass through Hormuz

Iraq has been among the ‌countries most affected ​by Iran's effective closure of ‌the Strait of Hormuz

US, Iran keep up hostile rhetoric ahead of new economic sanctions

s the war neared six months old, the two sides were not exchanging fire but also not pursuing peace talks

South Korea ship to test Arctic commercial route amid Western concerns

President Lee Jae Myung has made Arctic shipping a priority for South Korea, a shipping powerhouse

US set to impose 50% tariffs on Canadian goods as trade negotiations fail

Canada's ​Prime Minister Mark Carney said he had suspended trade negotiations and Canada would retaliate dollar for dollar on the new tariffs

OpenAI cuts developer pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%

The price ​cuts are effective on OpenAI's application programming interface, or ​API, and are rolling out across eligible plans for credits on its agentic AI product ChatGPT Work and Codex

South Korea plans chip windfall fund to back youth, AI investment

The proposed "Future Response Fund" would finance programmes aimed at helping young people find jobs, buy homes and start families, while also ‌supporting investments in AI, more

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir takes oath as Bangladesh's President

Alamgir, 78, a longtime secretary general of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was administered the oath of office by Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) Acting Speaker Kayser Kamal

Samsung Electronics expects shareholder returns up to $80 billion this year

Samsung Electronics also said on Friday it has bought back shares worth 15 trillion won for employee stock bonuses.