Africa’s contagious coups
The continent’s democrats must be a bulwark against spreading military rule Another…
Albemarle/Liontown: US lithium producer willing to pay up down under
If the chemical group’s bid for the Australian company goes ahead, it…
Ergomed/Permira: buyout group sees drug trial group as contract thriller
Private equity group’s bid for researcher comes as the biomedical market is…
Software LBOs: recurring revenue loans will be a recurrent problem
Revenue should never be the basis for borrowing heavily In the bygone…
Isabel Crook, anthropologist and chronicler of China’s communist revolution, 1915-2023
A sympathetic westerner who became a participant-observer as the country transformed “Over…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner warlord, 1961 — 2023
The shadowy head of the Russian mercenary group belonged to a new…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to visit Putin to discuss arms sales, US says
Moscow is seeking more weapons supplies from Pyongyang to use in Ukraine…
Economists downgrade global prospects for 2024
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