An email exchange from 2014 between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has resurfaced, drawing attention for its blunt discussion of global instability as a potentially deliberate outcome
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by Eric Tobias Straumann’s Out of Hitler’s Shadow is a book that sets out, with cool archival confidence and quiet provocation, to dismantle one of the most comfortable moral myths of postwar
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An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates quietly acquired nearly half of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company last year, binding the business interests of President Donald Trump’s family to a
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It has rarely been this hectic at the start of a year for Hong Kong’s equity markets. In January alone, companies raised about $5 billion through initial public offerings, the highest total
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Japan has retrieved sediment containing rare earth elements from a depth of 6,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean, the government said Monday, in what it described as a world-first attempt to tap
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Government sources said yesterday that the long-running controversy surrounding the appointment of a new Auditor General, which has triggered a serious administrative crisis, is expected to be resolved tomorrow (03). The assurance
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The Government Medical Officers Association has intensified its ongoing trade union action from 8.00 am today (02), citing the government’s failure to provide a positive response to a series of long-standing demands
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The Colombo High Court has sentenced a former police constable to death after finding him guilty of the brutal and premeditated murder of his young girlfriend, also a police constable, in a
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A packed global election calendar in 2026 is emerging as a fresh source of volatility for financial markets already unsettled by abrupt shifts in US policy and rising geopolitical tension. From Japan
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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte was hit with a new round of impeachment complaints on Monday, reviving allegations of corruption, abuse of public funds and betrayal of public trust less than a
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In 1935, in the midst of an era giving birth to the mass reproducibility of art, the German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin writes that what “withers in the age of mechanical reproduction
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by Durga Chris Moore’s The Power of Guilt opens with a confession so extreme that it dares the reader to refuse him moral authority. “We had hit a group of fellow students
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Simandou, Africa’s largest mining and related infrastructure project, has reached a critical stage as construction and commissioning accelerate across its mines, railway, and port systems in Guinea. The vast development, which integrates
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The Indian rupee strengthened sharply against the US dollar on Monday, February 2, gaining more than 40 paise after a likely intervention by the Reserve Bank of India helped arrest a slide
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Indian government bond yields surged sharply on Monday, February 2, after the Union Budget revealed a significantly higher gross borrowing programme than markets had anticipated. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government
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