US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reduce certain mortgage costs, including through the automatic cancellation of mortgage insurance for eligible future borrowers and a permanent
The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka proudly celebrated the 250th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps at the annual Marine Corps Ball on November 15, honoring a quarter-millennium of the Corps’
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“Syrians are nasty people.” This ancient Roman graffiti was found during World War II etched on a rock in Syria by a friend’s father who was soldiering in the British Army. Not much has
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China’s exports of rare-earth products declined in October, marking the lowest monthly level since June, as Beijing and Washington work to finalize supply arrangements under their ongoing trade truce. Outbound shipments fell
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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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A small group of investment consultants has played an outsized role in steering US public pension funds toward private markets over the past two decades, according to a new study by researchers
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The Trump Organization and its London-listed partner Dar Global have unveiled plans for a high-end 80-villa resort in the Maldives, a project they say will use blockchain-based tokenisation to open the door
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The National Security Archive (NSA) has released a new tranche of declassified material that it says restores key historical records the U.S. State Department quietly deleted from an official history of the
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Chinese technology giant Alibaba on Saturday forcefully denied allegations that it supports Chinese military operations against U.S. targets, calling a recent report “completely false” as geopolitical frictions between the two powers intensify.
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by Durga Velayudham When Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, it was not simply as Roosevelt’s successor: it was as the man left in the wake of FDR’s
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The Saudis have been watching Israel’s use of F-35s, in Syria, Yemen and Iran. The fact that Iran paid a huge price when it lost virtually all its air defenses, certainly encouraged
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China, which dominates global yttrium production, imposed controls in April that require exporters to obtain government licenses for overseas shipments. The measures, enacted in response to U.S. tariffs, also covered six other
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Donald Trump is not, by instinct, a president who seeks war. But he is a president who believes deeply in projecting strength. And in the US, strength is almost always performed on
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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to arrive in Washington next week for a high-profile visit with President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports, marking his first trip to the US
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law is for losers. A newly minted War Department, deploying the most lethal killing machine in world history, need not hide behind the sham of promoting democracy. Recall that in 2023 Trump boasted: “When
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Around 1.4 million barrels per day of Russian oil — nearly a third of the country’s seaborne export capacity — are currently being held in tankers as sanctions imposed by the United
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