Financial influence has become a significant tool of global geopolitics, with states using money to interfere in democratic processes, fund propaganda and influence networks, and conduct transnational repression. Often covert and in
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed senior security official Yevhenii Khmara as acting defence minister in an effort to contain a political crisis triggered by the dismissal of reformist defence minister Mykhailo
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India is intensifying its efforts to secure uranium and critical mineral supplies through a series of international agreements as the government seeks to strengthen energy security, expand nuclear power generation and support
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Russia has offered India a proposal to jointly produce the T-90MS main battle tank, seeking to expand long-standing defence cooperation as New Delhi moves ahead with a major programme to modernise its
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China’s population will continue to age rapidly before 2050 even if birth rates recover significantly, according to a new report that describes the country’s demographic shift as unavoidable in the coming decades
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed allegations that China interfered in American elections have opened a new point of contention in U.S.-China relations, with analysts saying the claims elevate election security into a
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that the company says is the world’s largest of its kind, intensifying competition between Chinese and U.S.
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China’s largest airlines are entering the peak summer travel period under growing financial pressure after warning of significant first-half losses, raising concerns over whether carriers can manage rising fuel expenses while passenger
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India’s state-run banks expect to raise nearly $30 billion through a special foreign currency deposit programme introduced by the Reserve Bank of India, according to five bankers familiar with discussions between lenders
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Canada will not share toll revenues from the newly completed Gordie Howe International Bridge with the United States until it has recovered its initial investment in the $4.7 billion project, Prime Minister
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Nearly eight decades after the end of the Second World War, millions of pages of surviving personnel records from Nazi Germany’s SA and SS have entered a new phase of public accessibility
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A rusted shipping container in the Johannesburg township of Katlehong has become an unlikely symbol of a growing crisis in South Africa. As sparks fly from a welding machine sealing its heavy
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Keep your eyes on the Bab el-Mandeb, or Strait of Tears, the narrow strait at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Twenty-five percent of the world’s container shipping passes through this vital
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U.S. President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address on Thursday evening to revive his longstanding claims that the 2020 presidential election was compromised, announcing the declassification of intelligence documents that he
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In the shadow of Raqqa’s former municipal stadium, once transformed by the Islamic State into a detention, torture and execution center, children from communities divided by nearly 14 years of war now
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After Miami-based firm Affinity Partners secured their first building permit for major developments on Albania’s coast on April 29, outrage in the small Balkan country has steadily grown. Within weeks, a video of a
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