Sam Altman’s controversial digital identity startup “World,” formerly known as Worldcoin, has officially launched in the United States, bringing its iris-scanning orbs and associated cryptocurrency tokens to American users for the first
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India is facing mounting domestic and international scrutiny after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir last week left at least 26 people dead — most of them Indian tourists — in a
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Imagine you are a low-income country. You suffer from a heavy debt burden. You’ve been trying to catch up to the more affluent countries for decades, but you’ve been unsuccessful, mainly because
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On 22 April, the 155th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, 164 delegations from 91 countries gathered at Red Square, each with a red carnation in hand. One by one, the delegations, representing communist
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India has approved the inclusion of caste data in the upcoming national population census, a move that brings the long-delayed exercise closer to fruition. The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, led by
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President Donald Trump defended his economic policies Wednesday, claiming that weak economic data showing a contraction in the U.S. GDP was the result of President Joe Biden’s leadership, not his own actions.
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Two of Europe’s largest airline groups, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, have issued cautious warnings about softening demand for travel to the United States among European tourists, citing political uncertainty and concerns over
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Rogo, a rising AI start-up aiming to replace the grunt work of junior investment bankers with a chatbot, has secured $50 million in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, the venture
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Ukraine and the United States are on the verge of finalizing a landmark agreement granting Washington privileged access to Ukraine’s vast natural resource reserves, in a move expected to bolster economic ties
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In a timely reminder, even as Indians are demanding robust retaliation for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir, the US president Donald Trump pulled aside Prime Minister Narendra Modi to signal
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A group of United Nations human rights experts has called on Saudi Arabia to immediately release five individuals sentenced to death for alleged offenses committed when they were minors, warning that their
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The enduring relevance of Niccolò Machiavelli’s thought, particularly as encapsulated in The Prince, lies not in its supposed exaltation of cruelty or deception, but in its sobering recognition of the exigencies of
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Wars – which I will define broadly as matters of military conflict sustained partly by the nature of the soldiers fighting and partly by a participating nation’s ability to economically support the
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Yesterday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, so it’s worth recalling a fleeting moment in the fall of 1963 when a rapprochementseemed possible between North and South Vietnam. The
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