South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of violating a confidential agreement by publicly disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea,
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has issued urgent new guidance, emphasizing that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are already undermining fundamental human rights and threatening
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Global trading of the Chinese yuan has surged to $817 billion a day, continuing a decade-long trend and bringing volumes closer to those of the British pound, according to the Bank for
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CoreWeave Inc., an emerging “neocloud” provider of AI computing power, has signed a deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with up to $14.2 billion in computing resources, highlighting the escalating costs of
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Artificial intelligence and cloud startup Vercel has raised $300 million in a new funding round led by Accel and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte, boosting its valuation to $9.3 billion, the
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Scientists have taken a major step toward a fertility breakthrough that could one day allow infertile women and gay men to have genetically related children. In a study reported by The Times
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Across the globe, adults-only spaces are on the rise. In South Korea, hundreds of cafés have declared themselves “no-kids zones.” In Japan, websites map districts where noisy children are unwelcome. Spain’s adults-only
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A Chinese court has sentenced 11 members of one of the region’s most notorious crime families to death for running large-scale scam operations across Myanmar, according to The Times UK. The Ming
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By mid-2025, U.S. homicide rates were lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. It is a welcome sign, though the decline has been uneven across the country, and wider trends
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China’s state-run iron ore buyer, China Mineral Resources Group Co. (CMRG), has instructed domestic steelmakers and traders to temporarily halt purchases of all new BHP Group cargoes, escalating a pricing dispute that
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An auction of nearly one million carats of diamonds in Botswana has collapsed, the latest sign of turmoil in the global precious stones trade. The failed sale underscores the growing challenges faced
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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have expanded their libel case against American conservative commentator Candace Owens, accusing her of intensifying false claims about the first lady’s gender in order
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Chinese military cargo planes delivered rockets, artillery shells, and mortars to Cambodia weeks before a simmering border dispute with Thailand erupted into a brief but deadly war in July, according to Thai
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North Korea has reaffirmed it will never abandon its nuclear arsenal, with a senior official declaring the weapons essential to the country’s survival during a rare speech before the United Nations General
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HSBC faces a period of uncertainty as Mark Tucker prepares to step down as chair on Tuesday, ending an eight-year tenure at Europe’s largest lender. The departure leaves the bank without a
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Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, is emerging as a global ambassador for artificial intelligence, combining corporate strategy with high-profile diplomacy to expand the chipmaker’s influence across governments and industries. After attending
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