Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party on Friday formally elected To Lam as its general secretary, cementing his position as the country’s most powerful leader and setting the stage for a major leadership transition
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Thousands of supporters gathered outside the East London Magistrate’s Court on Friday as Julius Malema, South Africa’s most polarizing opposition figure, awaited sentencing for firing a rifle into the air at a
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British finance minister Rachel Reeves will accompany Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a high-profile visit to China next week, highlighting the UK government’s determination to deepen economic engagement with the world’s second-largest
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Shares of India’s Adani Group suffered a sharp sell-off on Friday, wiping out approximately $12.5 billion in market capitalization, after fresh developments in a U.S. fraud case rattled investor confidence. The decline
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As Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni begins a seventh term in office at the age of 81, attention is rapidly shifting to his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has consolidated power as head of
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A new academic study has found that artificial intelligence systems can reproduce subjective and biased views about places, after ChatGPT judged Cambridge to be harder-working and happier than its historic rival Oxford.
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Western Europe’s complete and voluntary dependence on the US was never really discussed because it was simply assumed. It was called strategic autonomy, but meant close transatlantic relations within an alliance in
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Pakistan made a major diplomatic step early in 2026 when it officially accepted an invitation to become a member of the Board of Peace (BoP), a new international framework as part of
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The January 19, 2026 suicide attack on a Chinese restaurant in Kabul, which killed one Chinese national and six Afghans, and injured at least another five Chinese nationals, was strongly condemned by
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The killing of 15 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including ‘Central Committee Member (CCM)’ Patiram Manjhi aka Anal Da, carrying a bounty of INR 10 million, in an intelligence-led operation by
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OpenAI has reorganized its leadership and appointed a familiar executive to lead its push into the enterprise market, signaling a renewed urgency to regain ground against rivals that are steadily eating into
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Elon Musk is one of the most polarising and influential figures of our time, a man whose name has become synonymous with audacious ambition, relentless engineering, and a vision of humanity that
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George Friedman is widely recognised as one of the most influential geopolitical analysts of the modern era. As the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a forecasting organisation devoted to anticipating major
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The Academy Awards nominations announced Thursday delivered a blend of record-setting dominance, surprise contenders, and a fresh wave of recognition for non-English performances and women directors, while introducing a new category that
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