Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
Global oil markets surged more than 2% as escalating military confrontations between the United States, Iran, and Israel deepened fears of a wider Middle East conflict that could disrupt critical energy supply
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Indo-Pacific countries are rapidly expanding defence cooperation and military capabilities as they respond to China’s growing military power and shifting perceptions of long-term United States engagement in the region, signalling a gradual
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the widely used Claude chatbot, has reached a staggering valuation of approximately 965 billion dollars after closing a new funding round that raised 65 billion dollars.
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Chinese online retailer Temu has been fined €200 million ($232 million) by European Union regulators for failing to adequately prevent the sale of illegal products on its platform, marking one of the
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The Chinese military has reported that it forced a Dutch naval vessel out of waters near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, an area long marked by overlapping territorial claims
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Brazil is preparing to restart oil drilling in the Amazon Basin after a ten-year pause, marking a major shift in environmental and energy policy under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The
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The World Meteorological Organization has warned that the world is likely to experience new record-breaking global temperatures within the next five years, with a high probability that the current benchmark set in
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The geography of global wealth is undergoing a dramatic shift, as Gulf states and fast-growing Asian economies outpace many mature Western markets in billionaire growth rates, reshaping the balance of economic power.
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Lebanon is emerging as a central battleground in the wider Middle East conflict as escalating Israeli strikes and Hezbollah attacks deepen fears of a prolonged regional war ahead of high-stakes negotiations in
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Nasa has announced the start of a $20 billion programme to build a permanent base on the Moon, describing it as one of the most ambitious engineering efforts in human history and
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