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Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron has taken up a part-time, paid advisory role at Finback Investment Partners, a private equity firm founded and chaired by Jeb Bush, the ex-governor of Florida
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Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s foreign minister and former intelligence chief, is emerging as a key architect of Ankara’s evolving global strategy. In a rare interview, Fidan revealed Turkey’s willingness to participate in a
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HSBC has scrapped the controversial “eastern markets” and “western markets” labels for its newly reorganized business divisions, just months after introducing them. The rebranding follows internal concerns and renewed speculation that the
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The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to slash federal spending on consulting services, with major firms like Deloitte and Accenture now required to justify billions of dollars’ worth of government contracts.
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Japan’s 10-year government bond yields climbed to their highest level since 2009 on Thursday, driven by a global bond sell-off triggered by Germany’s decision to ramp up defense spending. The yield on
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Air France-KLM is banking on high-spending American tourists to fuel its recovery after a difficult year, according to CEO Ben Smith. The airline has seen “amazing” demand for premium travel, particularly from
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I’ve watched Mehdi Hasan before—he is always aggressive and combative. But even by his usual standards, his interview with Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) was deeply premeditated. This wasn’t about getting answers. It wasn’t
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by Our Correspondent in London Al Jazeera’s Head to Head is marketed as a show where tough questions are asked, and the powerful are held accountable. But in the case of Mehdi
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Holy incompetence, Batman! In a plot twist that would make the Joker chuckle, Sri Lanka’s brave men in khaki are now requesting the public’s help to locate their very own boss—former Inspector
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The whole thing is a fiasco. The theatrical drama in the White House’s Oval Office triggered a series of predictable responses around the world. Outrage at US President Donald Trump for his
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Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission has proposed that Europe increase its defense spending by 1.5% GDP over the average 2.0% GDP European countries are currently spending on
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Editorial Note: We have received a statement from Dr. Syed Hur Hussain Hamdani, who clarifies that he is currently working at Kalsoom International Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Hamdani states that he
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Prior to the 2024 election, there was a debate about whether Donald Trump was a fascist. I thought that was the wrong moniker because fascism has specific associations with genocide and totalitarian
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Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation and specialization of industrial production required written recordkeeping,
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