The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) sold a record 44 tonnes of gold in the first half of 2026 — the largest six-month drawdown ...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf told Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi that cooperation between the two ...

Croatian food and pharmaceutical group Podravka (PODR) reported normalised net profit of €41.1mn for the first half of 2026, ...

Romania's public debt (chart) under the EU's ESA methodology increased marginally in April by only RON1.7bn (€327mn, +0.1% ...

Bulgarian prices for fuels and lubricants for personal vehicles rose 26% year on year in June, the largest annual increase in ...

Albania registered 11,567 new business entities in the first half of 2026, up 7.5% year on year, the National Business Center ...

Ukraine recorded 73,292 births against 259,853 deaths in the first half of 2026, pushing the death-to-birth ratio to 3.55, up ...

Moldova's industrial production (chart) increased by 7.3% y/y in January-May, driven by a 6.2% expansion in the core ...

Uzbekistan's digital ecosystem operator Uzum has been named among the World's Top Fintech Companies by CNBC and global market research firm Statista ...

Ecuador has emerged as one of the world's most important logistics hubs for cocaine trafficking, according to the United ...

A group of regional mediators, including Qatar, Egypt and Pakistan, has proposed a ten-day halt to hostilities between Iran ...

Unlicensed rooftop and self-consumption solar capacity in Turkey reached 24.2 GW by May 2026, taking total installed solar ...