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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Cold War satirical novel The Mouse That Roared imagined a tiny European statelet declaring war on the US in the hope of being lavished with American aid after its inevitable defeat. It’s a title that came to mind when European nations sent three dozen soldiers to Greenland in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats to wrest the island from Danish control.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Precious metals climbed Monday after President Trump threatened 10% tariffs on imports from eight European countries starting February. “Trump’s latest tariff announcement has escalated trade tensions into an entirely new dimension—one driven less by economic logic and more by political motive," two members of ING’s economic and financial analysis division said in a research note.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IT WAS hardly the first time since Donald Trump’s inauguration last year that Europeans have been outraged by America. But the anger at the weekend, after America’s president threatened to impose a 10% tariff rate on eight European countries that had dared to send a few troops to Greenland, felt more determined than before.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Neiox Eco Cycle isn’t the sort of startup you read about every day. It isn’t solving for fashion, food or grocery delivery.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THE IDEA that central banks should enjoy some independence is as old as central banking. “I want [it] to be sufficiently in the hands of the government, but not too much," mused Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806 of the recently created Bank of France.

₹70 to a dollar. Today, it’s significantly higher.

Stock market recap: Indian equities ended lower on Monday, 5 January, despite positive global cues as investors booked profits in select heavyweights amid increased geopolitical tensions after the US military action in Venezuela, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.However, the US attacks on Venezuela did not deal any significant blow to global markets. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei and Korea's Kospi jumped over 3% each, while China's Shanghai Composite rose by over 1%.

nuclear arsenals are growing, and the weapons themselves are becoming more lethal, more diverse, and more vulnerable. Arms-control talks have stalled, and most agreements have expired or been so hollowed out as to have lost all credibility.

Delhi-based Deepika Khosla, 38, a French teacher, and her husband, Mohit Khosla,40, a working professional in the telecom sector, are parents to twins Avighna and Itika, both eight years old and currently in grade 3. Education forms a central part of the family’s monthly budgeting.

₹10,300 crore ($1.15 billion) for supplying subsidized chips to startups or research centres for developing AI platforms that exclude the Western biases of existing models.This puny outlay, compared with other sovereign budgets (such as France’s $117 billion), is predicated on the hope of private capital pitching in.That might be slightly problematic, given India Inc’s reluctance to invest; a survey by EY India and Confederation of Indian Industry shows that over 95% of enterprises have earmarked less than 20% of their infotech budgets for AI.But the government’s year-end guidelines reveal an indulgent attitude towards the private sector in the name of innovation that may tempt many Indian companies to use artificial intelligence for shirking their after-sales service responsibilities. Many banks and consumer-facing companies have already replaced a human voice with under-developed, inefficient and untrained AI bots.

US-India trade deal have emerged as a key disappointment for investors, he added.Sectoral trends were mixed, with selective profit-taking visible across most segments. Metals emerged as the week’s standout performer, gaining 2.3%, aided by recent gains in copper and zinc, Vijayakumar said.

China’s new economic model is putting the future of Asia’s Gen-Z at risk. The continent is home to some of the world’s most trade-oriented economies that rode globalization to lift the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions. But it’s now being hit by a double whammy: an export base that has come under pressure from a flood of cheap goods from China, unquestionably the region’s dominant power, and US President Donald Trump’s trade war.It is frustrating a generation already struggling with stagnant wages and soaring living costs.

It has been 10 years since the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (CoP-21), where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the rise to no more than 1.5° Celsius. France played its part in making this great moment of universal solidarity a success. A decade later, we can be proud of how far we have come.In France, we have reduced our greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% compared with 1990, including 20% between 2017 and 2024.

The year that’s drawing to a close will be remembered as the point at which US President Donald Trump overturned the global trading system that had been in place since World War II. India has been a major target of Trumpian whimsy. It is now hard to believe that the world will go back to the old multilateral trading system even after Trump exits office.

The new National Security Strategy of the US seeks “strategic stability” with Russia. It declares that China is merely a competitor, that the Middle East is not central to American security, that Latin America is “our hemisphere” and that Europe faces “civilizational erasure.” India barely rates a mention; one might say, as Neville Chamberlain did of Czechoslovakia in 1938, that it’s “a faraway country... of which we know nothing.” Well, so much the better for India, which can take care of itself.The realpolitik of this document is breathtaking, yet the underlying logic is not stated.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One of the highlights of 2025 has been the entry of more niche fashion and luxury brands into India. Whether it’s crystal maker Baccarat or elevated ready-to-wear COS, shopping options for the Indian consumer have grown widely this year.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. French pharmaceutical group Servier is sharpening its India strategy with a string of new oncology launches focused on rare cancers, plans for local manufacturing of active ingredients, and a move to bring global clinical trials to the country for the first time. The shift marks a significant elevation of India in Servier’s global priorities, aligning it almost in step with launches in the western markets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When global rating agencies revised their sovereign debt ratings for France and Portugal earlier this year, aligning them with those of Care Ratings, they “vindicated" the stance of the Indian rating agency that launched its fledgling sovereign rating business just over a year ago, a top official at Care Ratings said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ford is turning to French peer Renault to help reboot its European business, in a fresh sign of the upheaval being caused by Chinese automakers outside the U.S. “We know we’re in a fight for our lives in our industry, and no better example than here in Europe," Ford Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley told journalists in Paris.

China’s role as the world’s big factory isn’t weakening in the face of the US’s tariff-policy pushback. Its trade surplus is set for a record high in 2025, with exports exceeding imports by nearly $1.1 trillion in the first 11 months of the year, according to official data released on Monday, topping the trillion-dollar mark for the first time. Sure, its exports to the US slumped about 29% from a year earlier in November, but this was more than offset by export expansion to other markets.

A mobility agreement allowing Indian blue-collar workers, such as those in construction, to seek employment in Russia.A naval training pact under which Russia will train Indian sailors for operations along the Arctic route. This is particularly significant, as the melting of Arctic ice opens up new shipping lanes.