Bloomberg Sydney Airport shareholders overwhelmingly approved a A$23.6 billion ($17 billion) deal to sell the company to a consortium of funds, transferring Australia’s main international gateway to private ownership after the pandemic hammered earnings. Some 96% of votes cast at a shareholder meeting on Thursday backed the sale to a group led by IFM Investors Pty for A$8.75 a ...

  Bloomberg Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping closed ranks against the US and its allies on key security issues as they declared that there’s no limit and “no forbidden zones” in the friendship between Russia and China. At their first in-person meeting in more than two years Friday, Putin and Xi said in a joint statement that China “treats with ...

  Bloomberg President Joe Biden said a “major terrorist threat” was eliminated during a US raid in northwest Syria in which IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed. “Thanks to the bravery of our troops this horrible terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said in remarks at the White House after announcing earlier that he had ordered the US ...