Month: October 2026

Celine Dion has revisited one of her most memorable red-carpet looks, wearing a custom Chanel gown inspired by the dress she wore to the 1997 Academy Awards during her Paris residency. The singer debuted the shimmering silver-and-blue creation on Wednesday, October 14, at her third-to-last show of the five-week concert run at La Défense Arena. Designed by Chanel creative director Matthieu Blazy, the gown features a corseted bodice, sculpted hips and a thigh-high slit. The fashion house said its ateliers in Paris handcrafted the dress, with specialised embroidery by Atelier…

Indonesia’s stock market is no longer worthy of “emerging market” status, according to MSCI, and the index provider said it intends to ‌cut it from a suite of products tracked by global investors. This major setback sent money fleeing. In a surprise move, MSCI said on Friday it would put Indonesia on a path to “standalone” status, which was worse than previously flagged, and extended its review of the market by seven months to June 2027. Jakarta stocks, already the world’s worst performers this year, plunged 10% to a six-year…

Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a ‘disgrace’ that keeps global energy prices elevated, US President Donald Trump told the Newsmax ​news outlet in an interview aired on Thursday. Ukraine struck a Russian oil ‌refinery after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and criticised his willingness to strike deals with Moscow. “All he’s doing ​is making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that’s a ​disgrace,” Trump said in the interview, after Ukraine hit a Rosneft…

Despite tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them, youth protesters in India scaled barricades last week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away. “Long live the revolution,” shouted one young man before police bundled him ​into a bus. Street protests in India this year are likely to be higher than at any time in the past decade, the independent Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) Project has said, as dissent mounts against ‌Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and Gen Z…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog ​that Israel should stop and reverse its “forced ‌establishment” of West Bank settlements, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. China has consistently held that ​the Palestinian question is the greatest historical ​injustice of this century, Wang told Herzog ⁠during a meeting in Azerbaijan, the ministry ​added. Wang said that promoting peace and reconciliation in ​the region is the “cornerstone” of China’s Middle East policy China believes that the “two-state solution” is the right path to a ​resolution,…

Oil prices edged down on Friday morning as investors weighed Middle East risks and possible US steps to ease restrictions ​on the world’s “shadow fleet” of tankers. Brent crude futures fell 41 cents, or ‌0.39%, to $105.51 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1 were down 54 cents, or 0.55%, to $97.43. WTI settled up more than 3% on Thursday after a ​large US crude stock draw helped support prices, while Brent crude was little ​changed. The International Energy Agency agreed on Thursday to release over 20…

The US-Israeli war on Iran has altered bunker buying patterns for shippers globally as they turned to more spot and shorter-term ​purchases to cope with volatile prices while exploring more alternative locations for supply security, industry executives said. More than ‌seven months since the start of the conflict with Iran, prices of marine fuels remained well over 70% versus pre-war levels, according to data from bunker traders. Rerouting and diversions of vessels due to blockades at key waterways in the Middle East have also driven shippers to diversify refuelling locations,…