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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 former Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has denounced the country’s key institutions as fundamentally broken, warning that deep-rooted dysfunction in governance and justice systems is perpetuating a
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The UK government blocked The Times from revealing the full extent of General Sir Gwyn Jenkins’s role in a major data leak involving Afghan personnel—just days before announcing his promotion to one
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Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing is facing mounting scrutiny after being drawn into a €152 million civil lawsuit that alleges his involvement in a flawed internal audit linked to a high-profile financial
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The European Commission has prepared a series of political “safeguards” to appease France’s powerful farming lobby in a bid to secure final approval for its long-delayed trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc,
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An unprecedented international study of human proteins is offering new insights into how neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s develop — and how they might one day be detected and treated earlier.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy has delivered a staggering $50 billion boost to U.S. customs revenue — and, so far, triggered only limited retaliation from global trading partners. According
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London is celebrating a rare boost to its capital markets following confirmation that €19 bn software powerhouse Visma plans to hold its IPO in the City. The decision not only breathes life into
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At least 43 Israeli soldiers have died by suicide since the onset of the Gaza war in October 2023, according to reports by i24NEWS and other local outlets — a staggering increase
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The University of Michigan is facing a federal investigation after two Chinese scientists with ties to the university were separately charged with attempting to smuggle biological materials into the United States. The
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The escalating geopolitical and technological rivalry between the United States and China has entered a new, more public phase of spycraft, with both nations aggressively stepping up espionage and counter-espionage efforts, according
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that the United States is suffering a “great loss” as growing numbers of Chinese researchers and academics, educated at top U.S. institutions, are returning to China
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China has officially lifted sanctions on former European Parliament member Reinhard Buetikofer, a move that could help restore long-frozen relations between the European Parliament and China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), according to
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The UK government established a covert, multibillion-pound programme to relocate tens of thousands of Afghans following a devastating data breach — and enforced an unprecedented media blackout through a “super-injunction” to prevent
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In 2022, BYD executive Lian Yubo publicly praised Elon Musk, calling Tesla a model for all Chinese carmakers. At the time, Tesla was widely considered the technological leader in electric vehicles (EVs),
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When Catherine Loveday, a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Westminster, began to notice subtle changes in her mother’s behavior, she was uniquely placed to act. Loveday, an expert in memory
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