MTN Group will book a material impairment against its 49% stake in Irancell in its results for the six months to June, the company said in a trading statement ahead of interim numbers due on 24 August. The writedown pushes statutory earnings sharply lower even as the group’s underlying operating performance improved. Impairment losses of…
Espionage, sabotage, cyberattacks, and covert operations are a ‘constant reality’, says Germany’s interior minister. Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026 Germany is facing daily “hybrid warfare” attacks from abroad, an official has said, days after an explosive-laden drone was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the local newspaper Bild am Sonntag…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of harming global food security amid a spate of attacks on Odesa’s port. Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026 An overnight Russian attack on an apartment building has killed two people in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv as Moscow also keeps up its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Russian…
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Masrour Barzani denies any ‘pressure’ to enter the Iran war despite over 1,000 attacks. Published On 8 Aug 20268 Aug 2026 Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, says the semi-autonomous Kurdish region does not want to become involved in the ongoing…
Ukraine continues to strike warehouses and logistics hubs run by Wildberries, which it says aids Moscow’s war efforts. Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine have killed at least six people, local authorities say, as Moscow and Kyiv trade intensifying strikes targeting each other’s economic and energy infrastructure. A wave of Russian attacks killed two people and…
Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view. They are a curious distraction from the summer heat crisis. The…
U.S. Army paratroopers prepare an M119 howitzer for a fire mission during a field artillery live-fire exercise in the Middle East. Courtesy: U.S. Army Hello, this is Anniek Bao writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. President Trump’s decision to call off a planned strike on Iran sent oil…
President Trump said Saturday that the United States has agreed to “cancel the attack” on Iran after signaling a peace deal to end the war could be imminent. “We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters [sic] of a deal has been…
OpenAI’s latest announcement introduces “fast mode” for GPT-5.6 Sol. ChatGPT developer OpenAI has cut the cost of its GPT-5.6 artificial intelligence (AI) models by as much as 80% and introduced faster processing for its premium model. This, as competition intensifies among AI providers to make enterprise AI more affordable and scalable. The company announced yesterday…
High Commissioner Turk discusses displacement and trauma in Lebanon, asserting Israel is violating international law. Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has accused Israel of committing large-scale violations of human rights in Lebanon that might be classed as war crimes. Turk said on Monday during…
