Iran’s leadership has retreated into the shadows, with its newly installed supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, reportedly governing through a clandestine web of couriers while recovering from devastating injuries. As the war
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Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has launched preview versions of its latest flagship models, intensifying global competition in the rapidly evolving AI sector. The announcement, reported by Bloomberg, comes just a year
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Chinese state-linked hackers are increasingly weaponizing everyday consumer devices such as home internet routers and even smart refrigerators to conduct sophisticated cyber attacks against Western nations, according to a joint warning from
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The White House has accused China of orchestrating a sweeping campaign to steal advanced artificial intelligence technology from American companies, describing the effort as “industrial-scale” and vowing stronger countermeasures. In a memo,
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The head of luxury conglomerate LVMH has issued a stark warning that the escalating conflict in the Middle East could spiral into a “global catastrophe,” threatening both economic stability and the recovery
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KPMG is cutting roughly 10 percent of its US audit partners in a significant restructuring aimed at improving productivity and aligning leadership with business demand. The decision, revealed during an internal meeting,
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PwC has been fined a combined HK$1.3bn ($166mn) and banned from taking on new clients in Hong Kong for six months after regulators found serious failures in its audits of Evergrande. The
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With the United States and Iran escalating confrontations along the Strait of Hormuz—including seizure of ships—the waterway has become “pivotal to negotiations” between the two countries. Washington escalated to direct interdiction of Iranian-linked shipping
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On April 22, 2026, Nepal’s Home Minister Sudhan Gurung resigned amid mounting criticism over alleged financial links and share transactions with controversial intermediaries. At the centre of the controversy is Dipak Bhatta,
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During some of the worst days of the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, I was talking to friends who were in the civilian areas being bombed. Some of them are scholars, others
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On March 8 a single high altitude drone crossed the perimeter of Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana late at night, then disappeared. Some thought it was just another civilian operating a
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“What we are seeing is the redistribution of the ways that they funnel money,” Ella Rosenberg says, describing a shift that reflects not only tactical adaptation but a structural evolution in how
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A major cybersecurity breach involving the UK Biobank has triggered widespread concern after confidential medical data belonging to thousands of British citizens was stolen and allegedly put up for sale online. The
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