Bernadette Baum

A Pakistani-born Canadian businessman accused of helping to orchestrate the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, one of India's deadliest, arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after the U.S. extradited him in the first such transfer in a terrorism case.

Blackstone has said it has closed a 9.8 billion euro ($10.8 billion) European property fund, as it bets on signs of recovery for the sector despite deepening market turmoil.

European Union finance ministers will discuss on Friday how to tackle the expected blow to Europe's economic growth from tariffs imposed by the United States on EU goods, the chairman of the meeting Andrzej Domanski wrote in an invitation letter.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday that he would run for reelection as an independent, not as a Democrat as he did in his first, successful mayoral bid.

Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc and executives from companies including Vietnam Airlines JSC and Vietjet Aviation JSC will visit the United States this weekend as U.S. tariffs loom, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

The South African unit of MTN Group and American low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite provider Lynk Global said on Thursday they had made Africa's first phone call via satellite, a potential solution to providing coverage in underserviced and rural areas.

Brazilian airline Gol said on Monday it had struck a deal with investors in which they would purchase up to $1.25 billion in debt instruments, a key step toward the carrier's exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S.

China and the United States need to cooperate in artificial intelligence, and duplication of efforts in the area could be avoided, the president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) said.

Iraq's oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani has said Iranian oil tankers seized by U.S. forces in the Gulf were using forged Iraqi documents.

China's central bank said it will change the way it sells its medium-term loans, a move that market participants say may further erode the significance of role of such a bond instrument in guiding monetary policy.