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Meta Platforms Inc. is preparing to significantly scale back its once-flagship metaverse ambitions, with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg weighing budget cuts as steep as 30 percent for the division responsible for virtual
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A human rights lawyer in Pakistan received an unexpected WhatsApp message last summer from someone posing as a journalist, complete with a realistic profile picture and a seemingly credible link to a
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Thailand has approved a major air-defense acquisition, signing a $107 million deal to purchase Israel’s Barak MX system to protect Royal Thai Air Force bases, according to reporting originally highlighted by Haaretz.
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Cambricon Technologies Corp. is preparing an aggressive production surge that would more than triple its output of artificial intelligence chips in 2026, positioning the company to seize market share from Huawei and
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French President Emmanuel Macron used a high-profile meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to push for increased Chinese investment in France, seeking to narrow a persistent and politically sensitive trade gap that
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Saudi Arabia has slashed the price of its flagship Arab Light crude for Asian buyers to the lowest level since early 2021, signaling intensifying pressure from a persistent global oil surplus, according
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Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, is raising $30 million in new funding for her artificial intelligence shopping startup, Phia, according to a pitch deck viewed
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India’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), on Thursday proposed a shift in how position limits for equity index options are set, moving from total contract value to
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European Union leaders are exploring ways to lend tens of billions of euros to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets, as support from Washington diminishes and Kyiv faces potential funding shortages early next
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China has deployed an unusually large concentration of naval and coast guard vessels across East Asian waters, at one point surpassing 100 ships in what sources described to Reuters as the country’s
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China Eastern Airlines has inaugurated what it says is the world’s longest one-way commercial flight, a roughly 20,000-kilometer journey connecting Shanghai with Buenos Aires through a stopover in Auckland, according to information
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The Assam government has announced a comprehensive ban on the publication, circulation, possession, and distribution of radical or jihadi material associated with terror groups such as Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Ansarullah Bangla Team
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The United States has decided to halt plans to impose sanctions on China’s Ministry of State Security over a large-scale cyber spying campaign, aiming to preserve a trade truce reached earlier this
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The government of the Maldives has confirmed that the planned visit of its President to Sri Lanka — originally slated for November 7–9 — has been postponed, in light of the ongoing
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that Roman Gupman will become the next director of the Mossad has sent ripples across Israel’s political and security establishment. Gupman, who
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