Ukrainian forces struck three bridges in Russia’s Kursk region in recent days, delivering a blow to Russian efforts to retake the area and suggesting that Kyiv plans to hold the territory for the long term.
The disclosures that Ukrainians blew up the Nord Stream natural-gas pipelines using Poland as a base sparked a dispute between U.S. allies Berlin and Warsaw.
Antofagasta reported a pretax profit decline in line with market expectations in the first six months of the year, when strong commodity prices offset lower sales volumes.
GM is cutting more than a thousand employees in its software and services division, a person familiar with the matter said, a partial reversal of a hiring binge in recent years.
