
Home-made explosives found on the day the Tour de France was launched in Brussels belonged to an “unstable” former Russian soldier who died in 2011, prosecutors said Thursday. A worker found a stash of weapons Saturday in the step of a stairway of a building near where cyclists raced. “The ...

Insurance rates for tankers transiting through the world’s most important oil choke point have skyrocketed in recent weeks, CNBC quoted the CEO of a US-listed shipping company as saying. “As a shipping company and part of the global shipping industry, we are taking the threat to our crew and ships ...