China dramatically expanded spending under its Belt and Road Initiative in 2025, committing a record $213.5 billion to overseas infrastructure, energy and resource projects as it moved to strengthen its global economic
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is escalating his long-running anti-corruption campaign, pressing the Communist Party’s discipline apparatus to act with greater intensity as Beijing prepares to roll out its next five-year economic plan.
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Pakistan has positioned its mineral economy for global capital by immediately launching an international outreach campaign aimed at making a major impact in the global investment arena through its mineral and gemstone
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Mohsen Sazegara misses the scent of jasmine, the mountains and valleys of his homeland. He fled Iran for the United States two decades ago and has never stopped longing to return. But
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Silicon Valley has always excelled at selling a future that feels just around the corner, but the current AI boom has intensified that talent into a near-religious belief in a coming “digital
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A leaked charter for President Donald Trump’s proposed international peace body suggests the United States would effectively hand him sweeping authority over membership, finances, and decision-making, a move critics say could undermine
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Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro expressed cautious optimism that long-stalled negotiations between China and Southeast Asian nations on a code of conduct (COC) for the South China Sea could finally be concluded
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The European Union is preparing a major shift in its security and technology policy, with Brussels set to propose phasing out Chinese-made equipment from critical infrastructure across the bloc. The move would
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Private credit, one of the fastest-growing corners of global finance, is facing its sharpest test in years as investors pulled more than $7bn from some of Wall Street’s largest funds in the
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European Union leaders have issued a stark warning after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose escalating tariffs on European allies unless Washington is allowed to buy Greenland, describing the threat as
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India’s aviation regulator has imposed a record fine of $2.45 million on IndiGo, issued warnings to top executives and ordered the removal of a senior operations official after widespread flight cancellations last
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Newly uncovered documents released by the National Security Archive expose how a little-known set of secret legal opinions authored in 1989 quietly rewrote the limits of U.S. presidential power. At the center
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A Catalyst for Regional Transformation and Healing Introducing a school leadership program in Sri Lanka is a timely and transformative step toward empowering young learners in a region still recovering from the
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China’s rapid construction of a port network across Africa is emerging as a major geopolitical pivot, reshaping global trade and shifting the balance of power along the world’s most critical maritime arteries.
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