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
Tata Group is facing its most serious internal conflict in years as a feud intensifies between the founding Tata family and key shareholders over whether to list Tata Sons, the conglomerate’s unlisted
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by Durga Andrea Iorio’s Between You and AI reads like a manifesto for a new kind of leadership—one that refuses to cling to the comforting illusion that technological transformation is something external,
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by Eric To read How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude is to encounter gratitude not as a soft moral sentiment but as a cultural force powerful
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Tunisian journalists rallied near government offices on Thursday to protest mounting restrictions on the media, calling for the release of detained colleagues and vowing that increasing repression will not silence the press.
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Chinese and Indian banks and refineries—long key buyers of Russian crude—are beginning to adjust their operations in response to U.S. sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, a U.S.
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A new report from the Center for Global Development (CGD) warns that many of the world’s wealthiest nations—including the United States and Japan—are pulling back from their roles as global development leaders.
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China’s sweeping summer exercises along its southern coast have revealed a dramatic shift in the country’s war-preparation playbook: the large-scale use of civilian ferries and cargo ships to simulate a mass amphibious
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South Africa’s central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, warned on Thursday that the recent surge in artificial intelligence stocks could be inflating a bubble, with potential spillover effects for emerging markets. The comments
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India is targeting a dramatic leap in its semiconductor capabilities, with plans to reach parity with major chipmaking nations by 2032, Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum in Singapore
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A Chinese investment firm has purchased a block of ByteDance Ltd. shares at a valuation of $480 billion, far above recent market levels, highlighting robust investor interest in the Beijing-based tech giant.
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HSBC Holdings Plc is overhauling its trading division as part of Chief Executive Officer Georges Elhedery’s drive to transform the bank into a debt financing powerhouse. According to a memo seen by
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by Satchi When she was arrested by the Dutch, betrayed by some of her own people, Maria Sembatta, the Vanni chieftainess, reportedly looked at her captors with unbroken defiance and said, “I am
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The Miss Universe competition has been thrown into turmoil just days before the final in Bangkok, as a number of judges withdrew amid allegations of secret committees, rigged voting, and personal conflicts
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The head of the French armed forces has stirred controversy with remarks urging the nation to be ready to “lose its children” on the battlefield if it hopes to stand up to
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Paradromics, a Texas-based neurotechnology developer, has received FDA approval to begin the first long-term clinical trial of its brain–computer interface (BCI), targeting individuals who have lost the ability to speak due to
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