BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia paid a former soldier working for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) at least 450,000 euros in return for information about weaponry with which the West was arming Ukraine, a court was told on Wednesday. Prosecutors have charged Carsten Linke and his accomplice, a Russian-born German diamond …

LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs expects a “significant uptick” in trading volumes of blockchain-based assets within the next one or two years, the bank’s global head of digital assets told Reuters. The Wall Street heavyweight has also seen increasing client interest in crypto derivatives trading, Mathew McDermott said, as markets …

IPOH: Nearly RM1mil worth of contraband cigarettes and alcohol were seized during three raids in Perak and Johor by the Perak Customs Department. Perak Customs Department director Datuk Abdul Ghafar Mohamad said the three raids also saw three men detained. “The first raid was conducted at an empty house in …

US STOCKS were poised for a higher open on Wednesday as fresh data signaled signs of cooling inflation ahead of the Federal Reserve’s final policy decision of the year, where it is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged. The Labor Department’s report showed the Producer Price Index (PPI) for …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global news publisher Axel Springer is partnering with OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, in a first-of-its-kind deal that will deliver summaries of Axel Springer content in response to ChatGPT queries, the companies announced on Wednesday. As part of the deal, when users ask ChatGPT …

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might have emerged victorious from a bruising vote on his flagship Rwanda migration policy, but the bitter divisions that risk turning his party into a “circus” mean any respite is likely to be short lived. A day of high drama at Westminster …

(Reuters) – Venture capital firm GV, backed by Google parent Alphabet Inc, has hired Michael McBride from software firm GitLab as its latest investment partner to focus on open-source and AI startups, the firm told Reuters. McBride served as the chief revenue officer for five years at GitLab, an open-source …

IPOH: People cannot simply extract non-radioactive rare earth elements (NR-REE) on a whim, says Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad. The Perak Mentri Besar said he understood that some people have gotten excited over the NR-REE but it is illegal to extract these without a licence. “Whether it is (extracted) at forest …

KUALA LUMPUR: Announcing its results for the third quarter of its 2024 financial year (FY24), Sapura Energy Bhd said the operating conditions for the engineering and construction (E&C) and operations and maintenance (O&M) segments have been challenging, and will remain so for the remainder of the year. Financial constraints clipped …

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator Kyivstar aims to restore some of its services later on Wednesday after an “unprecedented” cyber attack, the company’s CEO Oleksandr Komarov said. Tuesday’s attack on Kyivstar, which has 24.3 million mobile subscribers and more than 1.1 million home internet subscribers, knocked out services, …