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According to a spokesperson from the nation’s finance ministry, Malaysia has approached debt arrangers with a request for proposals, marking the first step toward a potential dollar bond issuance. The government said
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A United Nations rights official has raised the alarm over a sharp rise in executions worldwide in 2025, driven largely by a handful of countries that have intensified capital punishment despite global
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The world changed overnight on September 11, 2001. Loved ones died, souls suffered, and fear clouded the world. U.S. President George W. Bush initiated a global “War on Terror,” beginning an era in which counterterrorism became
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The reinforcement of global climate commitments and the expansion of carbon markets, an emerging pattern is traced, embedded in the mechanisms designed for the equitable distribution of climate finance; are replicating and
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In India, all said and done, despite steady growth in industrial and infrastructure projects and in the services sector, including the software industry in recent years, the Indian economy essentially remains agricultural-based,
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After 16 years of legal battles, witness intimidation, and broken promises, the disappearance of Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda remains unsolved. It is a sobering reminder of the impunity that still plagues
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Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that generations of
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Experts investigating Sunday’s catastrophic derailment of a high-speed train in southern Spain have identified a broken joint in the railway tracks as a critical factor in an accident that killed at least
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The software sector entered 2026 expecting a recovery after a bruising 2025, but a sudden burst of AI innovation has reignited investor fears that the industry’s old business model is under threat.
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The world’s billionaires amassed a record-breaking fortune in 2025, Oxfam reported Monday, just days before the World Economic Forum gathers in Davos. The charity’s annual wealth analysis paints a stark picture of
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached a major milestone, with new photos released Dec. 4 showing the observatory standing upright and fully assembled inside a clean room at the agency’s
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Long before stock markets and mutual funds, the wealthy of ancient Greece and Rome were already practicing sophisticated investment strategies that would look familiar to modern financiers. A new feature in Live
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