Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
Three years after OpenAI released ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has become the dominant driver of U.S. stock market gains, according to Bloomberg. The technology has fueled a surge in Big Tech shares, created
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The Chinese government has instructed the country’s airlines to reduce the number of flights to Japan through March 2026, Bloomberg reported, signaling Beijing is preparing for a prolonged diplomatic dispute with Tokyo.
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India’s imports of Russian crude oil are expected to fall to their lowest level in at least three years in December, trade and refining sources told Reuters, as refiners shift to alternatives
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Countries must take urgent action to prevent slowing population growth from undermining their long-term economic prospects, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in its annual report on Tuesday. The
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Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, announced plans to resume navigation through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal as soon as conditions permit, CEO Vincent Clerc said on Tuesday. The
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The Chinese yuan has shrugged off slow economic growth, rock-bottom interest rates, and a slump in foreign investment to post its sharpest annual gain since 2020, sparking speculation that Beijing is pursuing
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Russia is exploring multiple options to prop up Russian Railways, the country’s largest commercial employer, which has accumulated a staggering 4 trillion rouble ($50.8 billion) debt, sources told Reuters. The state-owned company,
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Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who created the World Wide Web, argues that the internet has strayed far from its original principles and needs urgent reform. In his book This Is for
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Artificial intelligence research is entering a bold new era as scientists push to combine neural networks with symbolic reasoning, the so-called “good old-fashioned AI” that relies on formal rules and logical relationships.
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Prime Minister and Minister of Education Harini Amarasuriya triggered intense political shockwaves today after declaring in Parliament that there “was never a demand” to allocate 6% of
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Shares of the Google parent jumped more than 5 percent on Monday to $315.9, pushing its market capitalization to $3.82 trillion. The stock has surged nearly 70 percent this year, far outpacing
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In a complaint filed Monday in US federal court, American families of those murdered, maimed or taken hostage accuse Zhao and Binance of knowingly enabling millions of dollars in payments to Hamas,
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by Eric Fifty years ago, the United States confronted one of the darkest chapters in its postwar foreign policy when the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
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Pakistan and Azerbaijan have moved decisively to deepen their collaboration in the rapidly evolving digital economy. The two nations, recognizing the transformative potential of digital technology, have advanced their cooperation across key
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by Durga Velayudham Recently, the Financial Times has exposed a second clandestine visit by Iranian nuclear scientists to Russia in November 2024, a trip that appears far more sinister than a benign
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