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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
The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka, in partnership with the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB), has successfully concluded a two-week regional training initiative aimed at enhancing forensic drug detection capabilities across
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Chinese military researchers have announced a radical new rail gun design that could dramatically boost the destructive power of electromagnetic weapons, potentially redefining future warfare. Dubbed the “X-rail gun,” the experimental system
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal, and several executives and journalists, over a report linking him to
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In the rain-soaked hills of southern India, a Russian woman has been discovered living in a cave with her two young daughters, igniting a storm of debate around parental rights, immigration, and
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his capacity as Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, has granted a sweeping package of tax concessions to the Colombo Port City through a series of
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After more than four decades behind bars, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, one of Europe’s longest-held political prisoners, is set to be released from a French prison and deported to Lebanon on July 25,
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China’s carmakers are rapidly reshaping the global automotive landscape, and by 2030, they are on track to capture a third of the world’s car market — a leap from just over one-fifth
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Days after meeting with former U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang was greeted with applause on a stage in Beijing, marking his third trip to
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For over two decades, Jane Street Group maintained an aura of mystery — a trading juggernaut with no publicly named CEO, guarded communication policies, and an office famously adorned with the WWII
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China’s exports of rare-earth products surged by 80% in June, marking a sharp rebound from May’s five-year low and signaling a possible easing in the global shortage of high-tech magnets that has
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Apollo Global Management has secured a mandate to manage Singapore’s $1 billion Private Credit Growth Fund, aimed at supporting high-growth local enterprises with non-dilutive, tailored financing, according to a government procurement portal
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A pair of emerald earrings has become the unlikely centerpiece of a public drama in China’s ongoing war on corruption, after 17-year-old actress Huang Yang Tian Tian unwittingly drew the ire of
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Yulia Svyrydenko as the country’s new prime minister, replacing Denys Shmyhal in the most sweeping wartime cabinet reshuffle to date. The move, first reported by The
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Mark Zuckerberg and several former Facebook directors have reached a last-minute settlement in an $8 billion lawsuit related to user privacy violations stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement avoids a
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Ministers have confirmed that 16-year-olds will be able to vote in the upcoming UK general election, fulfilling a key commitment from Labour’s manifesto to lower the voting age for parliamentary elections. This
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