Melania Trump and China’s first lady Peng Liyuan spent 45 minutes touring the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington on Thursday, visiting Chinese artworks and the museum’s celebrated Peacock Room
U.S. President Donald Trump has advised Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to consider using military force to stop illegal migration into Britain, warning that unchecked crossings could destroy the country “from within,”
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is reportedly moving forward with a plan to establish an international authority to govern Gaza after the end of Israeli military occupation, with backing from former
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Neurons have long dominated the spotlight in neuroscience, celebrated as the drivers of thought, movement, and memory. Yet, behind the scenes, a quieter, star-shaped group of cells—astrocytes—has been orchestrating much of the
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High-frequency trading firms in India are offering unprecedented salaries for entry-level roles, even as regulators increase scrutiny over the country’s equity derivatives market, Bloomberg reports. Amsterdam-based IMC Trading BV has offered interns
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Zijin Gold International Co., a unit of China’s top mining company, is seeking to raise HK$25 billion ($3.2 billion) through an initial public offering in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reports. The IPO is
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Indian refiners have no immediate plans to reduce imports of Russian crude, even as New Delhi resumes trade negotiations with Washington and both sides push for a deal, Bloomberg reports. Purchases are
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China’s push into brain-computer interface technology is gaining momentum, challenging the long-standing leadership of US companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp., Bloomberg reports. While Neuralink has pioneered implanting chips into patients’ brains
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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Thursday to protest planned austerity measures, sending a clear message to President Emmanuel Macron and his newly appointed Prime Minister
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One mass shooting after another, one accidental child death after another tears through this country on an almost daily basis. Once again, lawmakers hide behind “thoughts and prayers,” while clinging to an
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just drawing cats or writing emails—it’s now writing genomes. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, say they have
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Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers have discovered that bonobos (Pan paniscus) may have far more sophisticated communication abilities than previously believed. A study led by
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A peer-reviewed paper published in Nature has shed new light on how Chinese start-up DeepSeek built its headline-grabbing artificial intelligence model R1 for a fraction of the cost of its rivals. R1,
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A groundbreaking artificial intelligence model, Delphi-2M, can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than 1,000 diseases — in some cases providing predictions up to 20 years ahead. The study, published today
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CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls on the government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to halt the continued harassment of activists and journalists and crackdown on protests. One year since he
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor Recently, I had the privilege of visiting his residence in Greater Noida, India to deliberate on some of the most pressing strategic and geopolitical challenges confronting South
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