China’s Premier Li Qiang warned on Tuesday that the “mutually destructive consequences of tariffs have become increasingly evident” over 2025, during a “1+10 Dialogue” attended by heads of the IMF, World Trade
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Two Chinese men were taken into custody for allegedly smuggling Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday, Reuters reported. The arrests come as President Donald
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Kyiv – Ukraine will share a revised peace plan with the United States on Tuesday aimed at ending Russia’s war, following high-level talks in London between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders
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Japan is rapidly transforming its southernmost islands into a fortified “missile archipelago” as relations with China reach their highest tension in more than a decade, Bloomberg reported. At the forefront of this
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a stark warning today, stating that a new bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago threatens
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Australia’s imposition of autonomous sanctions on senior Taliban leaders marks a decisive moment in the global response to Afghanistan’s ongoing human rights crisis. Announced on 5 December 2025, these measures go beyond
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The Parable of the Broken Window In 1850, the French economist Frederic Bastiat penned “The Parable of the Broken Window.” A boy breaks a shop window, and a glazier is paid six
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the latest issue of Finance & Development (F&D) magazine, published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ninth-century Baghdad, the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was
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Paramount Skydance detonated Hollywood’s biggest plot twist of the year on Monday, unleashing a hostile $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery that instantly upended Netflix’s hard-won lead in the weeks-long bidding
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Scientists have detected the largest-known spinning structure ever observed in the universe — a colossal filament of galaxies, gas and dark matter twisting through space like a cosmic carousel. The team, using
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When Owen Willis left school at 18 and landed his first marketing job at a construction firm, he thought he was getting a foothold in adult life. Instead, his £14,400 apprenticeship salary
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Japan’s SoftBank Group and U.S. chip giant Nvidia are in advanced talks to pour more than $1 billion into Skild AI, a fast-rising developer of foundation models for robots, according to sources
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My acquaintance with Chula goes back to 1976–77, when Ananda Under-15 soccer practices were held at Campbell Place. Chula was a brilliant midfielder who could kick the ball with both feet—an advantage
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An extraordinary catalog of US interference – amounting to an electoral coup – may have destroyed what was already a struggling democracy in Honduras. Trump has succeeded in closing the door to
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