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TOKYO — Chinese stocks just had a remarkable week, with stellar news from startup Moonshot AI delivering a DeepSeek-like jolt to a fragile market. Its new AI model reminded investors how fast China In...
Despite his controversies and contradictions, Elon Musk may prove an unlikely force in moderating US-China rivalry and the AI risks it amplifies. In June, following SpaceX’s listing, Musk became...
History suggests geography can be a nation’s greatest economic asset or its greatest geopolitical liability. Whenever maritime arteries have been disrupted — whether by war, conflict or politica...
On Monday (July 20), the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen announced they would impose a “maritime embargo” on Saudi Arabia, in what could mark a dangerous escalation in the ongoing conflict between ...
Myanmar coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s arrival in Vientiane, Laos, on July 3, his first state visit to an ASEAN member since crowning himself president in April, has produced a fam...
Washington is threatening to impose sanctions on Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies for building their models by distilling outputs from American AI systems, saying it has found evidence o...
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a record $1.15 trillion military spending authorization bill containing a highly controversial pro...
Nonproliferation experts are raising alarms after Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to ask Congress to approve a deal that could allow Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear...
Europe’s strategic environment is changing rapidly. Russia’s war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing insecurity in the Red Sea and renewed concerns over supply-chain re...
Indonesia is building a battery industry and an EV ecosystem as part of its broader nickel downstreaming agenda. The objective is that downstreaming should not stop at smelters. It must move deeper in...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently made the controversial decision to dismiss Mykhailo Fedorov, his minister of defense. Fedorov, admired both by Ukrainian troops and Western allies, was ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is on something of a diplomatic roll at the moment. Having concluded a weeklong visit to the United States on July 19, 2026, during which he charmed President Donald ...
To say Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left office in disgrace would be an understatement by any political measure. Ousted following the student-led uprising of August 2024, she fled ...
The instinct among global investors watching this Middle East crisis is simple. Oil goes up, the Fed delays cuts, the dollar strengthens, and everyone adjusts their U.S. exposure accordingly. WhatR...
Shares of Chinese chip makers tumbled on Thursday after state fund support that had briefly steadied broader tech stocks earlier in the week failed to hold back a sector that analysts say has long bee...
In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been resolve...
The punk-rap star’s latest album, Looking For People to Unfollow, is all about celebrating artistry, genuine connections and long-form listening – all of which were present at last week’s intimate mee...
Photographer Lauren Corelli captured the ‘sexy and silly’ looks among WHOLE 2026’s FLINTA crowd, as they claimed their own space away from the muscle gays
As ‘psyop’ replaces ‘industry plant’ as the go-to insult for contrived artist breakthroughs, we look back at the times musicians were accused of actually being involved in state-led psychological oper...
Fragrance has become a new political currency in Trump’s America, as a new wave of products reassert traditional ideas about gender