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Moscow says four Russian regions attacked by Ukrainian drones

Russia said Ukrainian drones had attacked four separate regions in a flurry of attempted strikes on Sunday, injuring five people and forcing two of Moscow's airports to

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Anti-graft campaign sweeps across China's medical sector

An anti-graft campaign has swept across China's medical field over the past month, with multiple hospital heads and medical officials under investigation.Jointly initia

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UAE to set up anti-money laundering bodies

The UAE announced plans on Sunday to establish judicial bodies to prosecute money laundering and financial crime following increased monitoring by a global watchdog ded

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UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in South Korea amid protests

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Seoul on Friday after leaving Japan, South Korean media reported on Saturday.Gross

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China to launch new financial regulator in major supervisory overhaul

willTuesdaywill set up a national financial regulatory administration according to a plan submitted Tuesday to the national legislature for deliberation in the biggest

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China boosts equity financing to underpin housing market

China's securities watchdog rolled out new measures to facilitate equity financing for real estate firms on Monday, unleashing a "third arrow" to bolster the property m

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Iran says won't accept IAEA's 'excessive' demands - media

Iran will not accept the United Nations nuclear watchdog's "excessive" demands, the spokesperson of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) said on Tuesday.A re

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Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law to tackle climate change, hike corporate taxes

U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law on Tuesday, a bill touted by the White House as the biggest commitment to mitigating climat

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Iran says response to IAEA's resolution is 'firm and proportionate'

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a tweet on Wednesday his country's response to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) resolution i

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Russia, Ukraine 'ready to work' with UN nuclear watchdog

Moscow and Kyiv are "ready to work" with the United Nations (UN) atomic watchdog to ensure nuclear safety in Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said

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India's antitrust body probes into Apple over alleged market abuse

India's antitrust body orders probe into Apple over alleged abuse of app market. /CFP India's competition watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple's business practices in the cou

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Russian court slaps Google, Meta with massive fines

A Moscow court on Friday, slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook's parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content

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WHO urges 'rational' measures against Omicron variant

The World Health Organization called Tuesday for countries to keep calm and take "rational” measures in response to the new coronavirus strain Omicron."We call on all m

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WhatsApp hit with record fine for breaching privacy regulations over how it shares user data

Ireland's privacy watchdog found the company broke rules on transparency about sharing people's data with other Facebook companies. The fine is the biggest ever handed out by the Irish Data Protection Commission, and also the second-highest under EU GDPR rules.

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Government picks Facebook-critic lawyer to head privacy watchdog

John Edwards has been selected as the new information commissioner as the government aims to reform privacy laws to make them more business-friendly and help spur growth following the COVID-19 recession.

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E China provincial official Zhou Jiangyong investigated

Zhou Jiangyong, a member of Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the secretary of the CPC municipal committ

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Watchdog sues FEC for closing investigation into Rick Scott, allied super PAC

A watchdog group on Monday sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for dismissing a complaint alleging that Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) unlawfully used a super PAC to s