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China’s growing industrial strength is forcing Washington to confront realities that tariffs and political rhetoric cannot erase. Its dominance in shipbuilding, batteries, electric vehicles, solar manufacturing and critical minerals gives Beijing substantial
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has become one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in promoting rapid artificial-intelligence development, placing the head of the world’s most valuable company at the centre of a growing dispute over how the technology
Italy’s Senate has approved legislation paving the way for the country to return to nuclear power, nearly four decades after it abandoned the energy
Australia is investigating an incident in which an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained access to a government-owned database and retrieved both
Google has turned more than two billion Android smartphones into a crowd-sourced global earthquake detection system — a bold initiative that is already alerting millions of people across 98 countries, according to
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A team of astronomers led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered an unexpectedly intricate web of gas filaments within a massive, fast-moving hydrogen cloud
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A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has revealed a surprising double-edged role of human-specific genes. These genes,
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by Durga Jay Heinrichs’ Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion (2025) is an audacious amalgam of classical rhetoric, pop culture exegesis, and self-help exhortation, positing that Aristotelian persuasive techniques can catalyse personal transformation. With
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by Nil Shunryu Suzuki’s Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life, curated by Jiryu Rutschman-Byler and Sojun Mel Weitsman, constitutes a limpid yet provocative compendium of Soto Zen teachings, distilled
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J. Randy Taraborrelli’s JFK: The Kennedy Years constitutes an ambitious, if occasionally florid, exegesis of John F. Kennedy’s life, with a particular emphasis on his personal entanglements and political ascendancy. This voluminous
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Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist offers a perspicuous and disquieting exploration of the psychological interplay between Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a US Army psychiatrist, and Hermann Göring, a preeminent Nazi
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released a trove of declassified documents alleging that senior Obama-era officials deliberately manipulated intelligence to portray Russia as interfering in the 2016 presidential
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A groundbreaking discovery by Chinese scientists has sent ripples through the global rare earth market, highlighting China’s continued supremacy in this critical sector. The mineral, officially named Huanghoite-(Nd) and colloquially dubbed the
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In the wake of a high-profile military strike on Pakistan earlier this year, India is aggressively advancing its ambitions to become a global defence exporter. According to a detailed report by the
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Juliana Lumumba, daughter of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, has underscored her father’s enduring impact on the global anti-colonial movement in a recent interview with Russia Today. She emphasized that his legacy
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expanding its research coverage to include private companies — starting with one of the sector’s most watched names, OpenAI. The Wall Street giant launched its first-ever research
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David Sharpe, the former CEO of defunct private lender Bridging Finance Inc., is appealing a ruling by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) that found he committed fraud and permanently banned him from
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After a decade of soaring property prices and rapid redevelopment, Milan’s real estate renaissance is now under a cloud of suspicion. A sweeping corruption investigation into the city’s property industry has implicated
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HSBC has relaunched its search for a new chair after failing to finalize a shortlist from an initial pool of over 100 candidates, according to a report by the Financial Times. The
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