Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
More than 19,000 robots and related products were sold during the recent E-Town Robot Consumption Festival in Beijing, generating sales of over 330 million yuan ($46 million), event organizers announced on Saturday.
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A joint military band of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is set to perform at the upcoming V-Day military parade on September 3 in
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The US government has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Intel, marking the latest high-profile intervention by President Donald Trump in corporate America. Trump confirmed the deal on Friday afternoon, ahead
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One of India’s biggest recent trading mishaps unfolded in Mumbai on Thursday when Spark Institutional Equities Pvt., a unit of Avendus Capital Pvt., mistakenly executed duplicate block orders to sell shares of
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Apple Inc. is in early talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Google about using its Gemini artificial intelligence models to power a new version of Siri, a move that could mark a major shift
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On the shores of Geoje, South Korea, Hanwha Ocean Co.’s vast shipyard is bustling with activity as sparks fly from welding torches and giant steel blocks await assembly into tankers, LNG carriers,
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China has rejected a UK request to provide unredacted blueprints of its planned “mega” embassy in London, insisting that the level of detail already supplied is sufficient under planning rules, the Financial
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Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff measures are set to reduce US budget deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade, according to new projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Financial Times
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TikTok is preparing to lay off hundreds of staff in London responsible for content moderation and security, just as the UK’s new Online Safety Act comes into force, the Financial Times reported.
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President Donald Trump compared efforts to broker a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “mixing oil and vinegar,” admitting that progress toward direct peace talks remains
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The FBI has raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, the former US national security adviser under Donald Trump who has since become one of the president’s sharpest critics. Federal agents executed
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Canada announced on Friday that it will remove billions of dollars’ worth of retaliatory tariffs on US goods, marking a significant step to ease months of economic tensions with Washington. Prime Minister
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Italian media have published fresh claims about the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline bombing, reporting that German investigators believe a former Ukrainian security officer masterminded the attack with six accomplices. The Nord Stream
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by Luxman Aravind If the law is applied equally, without deferential quiescence, can the Secretary to the Ministry of Law and Order continue to function even after being apprehended for drunk driving
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United Nations human rights experts have renewed their call for Indonesia to stop forced evictions linked to the Mandalika tourism megaproject, citing militarisation in the area and serious harm to the Indigenous
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