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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has placed artificial intelligence at the center of his administration’s economic vision, pledging to transform industries, public services, and national defense through aggressive AI investment and
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President Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of Binance Holdings Ltd., marking one of the most controversial acts of clemency in his second term. As Bloomberg reports, Zhao, one
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Egyptian heritage campaigners have declared a turning point in their long-running effort to bring home ancient treasures held in Western museums, including the Rosetta Stone in London, following the official opening of
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Nearly one-third of solicitors’ firms in England and Wales have breached anti-money laundering (AML) rules in the past year, according to new figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). As reported by
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Water, the lifeblood of civilizations, is growing rapidly as the new instrument of power in South Asia. Afghanistan’s recent pronouncements about building dams on the Kunar and Kabul rivers are more than
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Summary: In this essay, Martina Moneke explores what America can learn from the decline of the Roman Republic. She examines how inequality, political factionalism, and unchecked ambition eroded civic trust and institutional stability
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Starbucks has agreed to sell a majority stake in its China operations to Boyu Capital, a Chinese private equity firm, ending months of speculation about its search for a domestic partner in
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The Trump-Xi meeting in Busan, South Korea today —30 October 2025— may have brought about a temporary relief in the US-China trade war. But unless we see the fine print of the agreement,
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On 29 October 2025, the carefully scripted pageantry of the US-ROK alliance in Gyeongju and Seoul met an unwelcome counter-narrative from the streets. While US President Donald Trump was being feted with a Silla-era
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