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Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is visiting the White House for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Reuters reports, aiming to deepen decades-long cooperation on oil and
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Global supplies of yttrium, a rare earth element critical to aerospace, energy, and semiconductor production, are running dangerously low due to Chinese export restrictions, Reuters reports. China, the dominant supplier of yttrium,
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Japan is seeking to ease rising tensions with China by sending a senior official to the country for talks, Reuters reports. Masaaki Kanai, director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs
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Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant empire is navigating turbulent times, yet the Ironman chef shows no sign of slowing down, The Times UK reports. The 59-year-old celebrated his latest milestone with a high-profile dinner
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For two centuries, Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon, has been remembered as a formidable matriarch—stern, frugal, and often irascible. But according to historian and descendant Laetitia de Witt, Letizia, titled Madame Mère
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OpenAI has developed an experimental large language model designed to be far easier to understand than conventional AI systems, MIT Technology Review reports. Unlike today’s powerful but opaque models, which operate as
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India retained its position as the second-largest buyer of Russian crude oil in October, trailing only China, according to data from the European think tank, the Center for Research on Energy and
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Ecuadorians have decisively rejected a proposal to allow U.S. military bases back in the country, according to preliminary results from a national referendum held on Sunday. With approximately 95% of ballots counted,
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Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, was greeted like a celebrity during his recent visit to India—an extraordinary turn described in The New York Times as a striking departure from decades of
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As cryptocurrency becomes increasingly mainstream, at least $28 billion linked to illicit activity has flowed into global crypto exchanges over the past two years, according to a joint investigation by The New
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Editor’s Note: Following article based on excerpts from an interview with Dr. Fei-Fei Li at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for
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Elizabeth A. Quillen’s Medieval Nuns at War distinguishes itself through a deliberate attempt to redress what the author calls the “frequent erasure” of women whose lives surface only in “a singular mention,
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Google has unveiled Dhivaru, a major new Trans-Indian Ocean subsea cable system designed to connect the Maldives, Christmas Island, and Oman—marking one of the company’s most consequential
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