China rare-earth export curbs risk $6.5 trillion in production
Beijing’s planned restrictions underscored the country’s chokehold over an industry that is critical to the global…
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Protests after Ukraine dismisses popular defense minister
Mykhailo Fedorov was credited with masterminding key elements of Ukraine’s successful recent offensive against Russia.
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Mexico rejects US claims of ties to cartels
Washington has pressured Mexico’s president to extradite officials with alleged ties to organized crime gangs,…
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US slaps 25% tariffs on Brazil
Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs on Brazil over what he says is the unfair prosecution of…
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Fresh wave of attacks kill hopes for US-Iran truce
Washington struck a tanker and targets in northern Iran, while Tehran fired on US military facilities in Bahrain,…
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Migrants in US think highly of where they live, poll finds
Migrants living in the US are more likely than those in any other country to describe the community they live in as a…
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Rubio hosts ‘far-left terrorism’ summit
The US is hosting some sixty-five delegations from around the world.
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Democrats lean further away from Israel
Nearly half of the Democratic House caucus voted to support an amendment blocking aid to Israel.
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Democrats call truce in Maine amid proxy war over party’s direction
Lawmakers seem to have realized that their forays into Vacationland did not help their effort to defeat GOP Sen. Susan…
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Argentina returns to World Cup final after testy showdown with England
The match spotlighted a bitter, decades-long rivalry between two teams that hadn’t played each other in 21 years.
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Hyundai workers in South Korea strike over humanoids
Hyundai workers in South Korea began a partial strike this week after the company unveiled plans to introduce humanoid…
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Chinese chip giant's growing ambitions
Chinese chip giant CXMT is poised to go public in Asia’s largest market debut of the year, as it benefits from intense…
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US grapples with rise of Chinese open-source AI
Palantir’s chief technology officer said the Chinese technology poses an economic threat to the US.
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EU defense push meets reality
Europe remains reliant on China and the US for critical military components even as it projects confidence in…
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Ukraine locks in on Crimea strategy
In targeting Crimea, Ukraine is trying to demonstrate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to defend the…
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Depleted stockpiles stoke global oil supply anxiety
Energy markets had some slack to absorb the first shock, but renewed fighting jeopardizes oil shipments.
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Trump turns to commercial diplomacy in Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s warm welcome from Trump buoyed by billions in expected deal announcements
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How Obama fits into Democratic centrists’ comeback plot
Recent campaigns have revealed how hard it is for the Democrats to fight an insurgency without a clear leader.
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Democrats wage a new campaign culture war with the alpha left
The old divisions reopened between the party’s establishment and its swaggering young progressives won’t heal easily,…
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Washington confronts China’s open-source models
American AI labs view Chinese open-source models as essentially stolen goods, built with the help of American frontier…
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DeepSeek weighs IPO as Zhipu embraces AGI
The startup is also said to be considering raising new funds from private investors weeks after completing its first…
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DeepMind’s Hassabis emerges as unifying voice for the AI industry
On Tuesday, Google’s DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis stepped forth as a generally unassailable messenger…
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Dating apps add friction back into romance
Tech’s ambition is to work so well that it fades into the background of our day-to-day, but removing friction in some…
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Stripe and Advent bid $53B for PayPal
PayPal was valued at $360 billion in 2021, but that has now fallen to just $36 billion due to competition from Apple…
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West African photo project maps climate change solutions
The project uses imagined climate-adapted photos of areas that have already been hard hit by sea-level rise, flooding,…
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Mining developments eroding Africa’s forests, study finds
Nearly 190,000 hectares of forest were converted to mines in Africa between 2001 and 2020, according to researchers at…
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Human vaccine trials begin for latest Ebola strain
The trial comes as the virus spread to two new provinces in the DR Congo, fueling fears the fast-moving outbreak is…
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South Africa plans major fuel stockpile to buffer against energy shocks
Africa’s largest economy once refined its own fuel, but is now wholly dependent on imported petrol, diesel, and jet…
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Dangote refinery eyes pricing products in dollars over naira
The refinery agreed in 2024 to set depot prices in the local currency following a government deal that involved…
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‘Nobody told me how dangerous it is’: How Trump sees threats to his life
As fresh risks from Iran make headlines, those closest to the president told Semafor that, in private, he aims for…
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China reports lowest quarterly growth in more than three years
The world second-biggest economy expanded 4.3% in Q2, as the Iran war, lackluster domestic demand, and a lingering real…
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ASML raises forecasts as AI boom boosts sales
The Dutch technology giant expects an AI-driven boom in demand for its chipmaking machines to continue after Q2 sales…
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Abu Dhabi's oysters outnumber expectation
A three-year effort to map the oyster population in Abu Dhabi’s waters yielded more than expected, according to the…
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Revived Iran conflict dims Gulf's economic recovery hopes
The collapse of the interim peace deal between the US and Iran is delaying recovery in crucial economic sectors,…
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Ukraine strikes Russian vessels in key maritime corridor
Russia ships vast amounts of oil, steel, and grain through the Kerch Strait to the Black Sea, but traffic has slowed to…
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US deploys Coast Guard in Pacific as China tensions rise
Tensions have risen in the region as Beijing has sought to expand its maritime and territorial claims in recent years.
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