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China is pushing to position itself as a custodian of foreign sovereign gold reserves, a move aimed at strengthening its role in the global bullion market and reducing reliance on Western financial
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor The annual Container Port Performance Index issued by the World Bank yesterday offers a blunt reminder of how fragile, yet indispensable, the global maritime system has become.
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Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef and once Israel’s most valuable intelligence asset, has declared that a Palestinian state “will never exist,” dismissing it as an “artificial construct.”
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Super Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful storm of 2025, is churning through the South China Sea after battering the northern Philippines, where it left at least two people dead and several
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by Nil Yossi Cohen’s The Sword of Freedom is far more than an intelligence memoir; it is an erudite dissection of geopolitics, a meditation on destiny, and a confessional reflection on the
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As reported on September 17, 2025, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), Levies Force, Frontier Corps Balochistan, and Police destroyed poppy cultivation in 33,000 acres of land in the Killa Abdullah, Chaman, Pishin, Duki,
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The Gaza Sumud Flotilla sails from Tunis toward the waters around Palestine. The word Sumud in Arabic means Resilience. It is the feeling at the heart of the hundreds of people from forty-four countries on the
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