Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group recorded a surprise $3.5bn profit in its latest quarter, driven by gains in its telecommunications holdings and improved valuations for other key investments.

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A man has been arrested in connection with a fire at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s family home in north London. The ...

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Militant group PKK’s plan to disband could stop bloodshed that killed more than 40,000 — and strengthen Erdoğan ...

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Companies have abandoned almost half the projects in a $5bn Texas programme to fund gas power plant construction and prevent ...

Daniel McClory, head of equity capital markets and China at US underwriter Boustead Securities, said he had “30 IPOs in ...

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President Donald Trump lands on Tuesday in a region that speaks his language: the Gulf. There will be talk of trillions of ...