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European governments ramp up defense spending and book orders with the region's companies.

China will provide developing countries with 5,000 opportunities in AI training and seminar programs, as well as develop AI cooperation with various blocs.

Oil prices rose Friday as investors weighed escalating threats between the U.S. and Iran.

Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year

Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing

Also in this newsletter: Brussels seeks bigger, simpler banks in competitiveness overhaul

Also in today’s newsletter: BoE bond sales and Accor’s chief executive

There’s no end in sight for foreign takeovers of UK companies

Wopke Hoekstra confirms planned reduction in carbon permits will be softened

Project ‘ABC’, Andy by conference, succeeds with two months to spare

Several big lenders raised their fixed rates by as much as 0.35 percentage points

South Korean regulators fear single-stock leveraged ETFs are fuelling volatility

Its rulers believe that further escalation will force the US to offer the security and economic relief it craves

After years of stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear programme, the waterway is now at the heart of the regime’s confrontation with the US

Reports of a Russo-Chinese plan to disable satellites underline how markets are ignoring geopolitical threats to the tech boom

Founder of VC firm Lakestar has raised a $300mn ‘resilience’ fund to back European dual-use and defence tech start-ups

Policy must go beyond mere announcements and budget arithmetic

Prime minister has been on a diplomatic tour to shore up supplies exposed by Iran war and strengthen nuclear power sector

Government locked into row about humanitarian dispersal of Russian billionaire’s £2.5bn frozen assets

Drought-resistant, naturalistic planting makes this site unlike any other Royal Park — and all the better for it