Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the US wants a quicker timeline for a capital increase and new lending tools, to step up work on mobilizing the private sector

India becomes third region for Amazon Air, in a bid to ramp up its delivery service on the continent

Finance minister said Japan's finances had "increased in severity to an unprecedented degree as we have compiled supplementary budgets to respond to the coronavirus and similar issues"

The Modi government ordered YouTube and Twitter to remove links to a BBC documentary about the 2002 Gujarat communal violence, a rival MP has said

Chinese automobile group plans to ramp up production of London's iconic black taxis with an EV brand of commercial and passenger cars

Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Russia, Cuba and a range of other countries are all expected to see group tours from China, starting early next month

The toll update, from China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, comes amid doubts over Beijing's data transparency and is very low by global standards.

Indonesia lost more forest to mining over the past two decades than any other country in the tropics and coal mining in East Kalimantan (on Borneo Island) was the main problem, study finds

China's artificial intelligence programme has no legal constraints and could be used for many illegal purposes, FBI chief Christopher Wray said at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week

The sudden shift in Chinese policy has boosted many different asset classes, with billions pouring into emerging-market debt and equity funds in the week to Wednesday, BofA data showed

Biden says he will meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy to discuss an extension to the debt limit, which the US reached on Thursday. Failure to get a deal could spark a global crisis, Yellen says

A storm has erupted in Virginia after the governor suggested a $3.5bn battery factory for EVs proposed by Ford and China's CATL would be a front for the Chinese Communist Party