In the fashion of American democracy, when someone believes there’s a problem with their local school, they may decide to make a call or send an email to their elected school board members, whom they almost always have to look up first.…
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Indonesia, the scene of two of the 20th century’s epic slaughters, may be on the verge of a return to army rule at the hands of its most notorious general.
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Anyone who grew up in the 1990s may well remember this movie scene: a 3.6-tonne orca leaping to freedom over a harbour wall and swimming off into the sunset with his family.…
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Open this photo in gallery: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is greeted by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on as they arrive at a signing ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept.…
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BEIJING, Feb. 10, 2024 /CNW/ — This year’s Spring Festival Gala, an annual celebration produced and broadcast by China Media Group (CMG), unfolded on the eve of the Spring Festival on Friday evening.…
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Over multidecade periods, Wall Street has proved unstoppable. But over shorter time lines, the stock market's most prominent indexes have often been volatile and unpredictable — perhaps none more so than the growth-fueled Nasdaq Composite (…

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This week, all eyes are on Chinese ADRs. Yesterday, Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) reported its earnings for the quarter ended December 31, and announced a $25 billion increase …

The Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov was having dinner with friends at his home in Kyiv on the evening of 24 February 2022 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Within hours he was advised that his name probably featured on a Russian list targe…

Thousands of Tibetans around the world have been subjected to spying, blackmail and threats against family members still living in Tibet, according to a new report.
The Chinese government’s repressive policies in Tibet continue to be documented, but th…

Global supply chain problems are starting to look like that bus you might wait ages for, only to see two come along at once.
The first – and most enduring – threat to the carefully calibrated chain that links products from the “world’s factories” in th…

But these days, when Trump talks about his time in office, he tells a story of staggering economic growth, exquisite statesmanship, and unrivaled prosperity.
WASHINGTON — In the last year of former president Donald Trump’s administration, the economy p…

Amid the flickering of flares and torches, many of the 1,600 people losing their jobs stood stone-faced as the glowing metal of the plant’s last product — a steel pipe — was smoothed to a perfect cylinder on a rolling mill.…
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The Galaxy S24 Ultra has landed at the top of the best Android phone rankings, and for good reason — the new Galaxy AI features put artificial intelligence to practical use in ways that speed up everyday tasks.…
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As part of their Maritime, Defence and Security Operations (MDSO), the Irish Air Corps Maritime Patrol Aircraft have observed Russian commercial vessels in international waters off the island of Ireland. Photograph: Irish Defence Forces (105 Sqn, Irish…

The Narendra Modi government has started work on building a new civilian terminal building at the Thoise airbase in the Nubra region in Ladakh, very close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.…
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Silicon Valley, the Mecca for techies, looks tempting since the media often glorifies and turns startups and their founders into rockstars. However, Mark Judge’s 2000s show revealed the gritty reality for first-time viewers through a team of six, inclu…

Amidst geopolitical flux and increasing tensions, the Indo-Pacific remains one of the world’s most important economic and geopolitical regions. This shared space comprises 40 economies, 65% of the world’s population (around 4.3 billion people) and $47….

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The energy market remains volatile, especially the trade in crude oil. After running up to $120 a barrel in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, the price of Brent crude oil, the in…

Angus Maddison, renowned British historian, in his monumental work The World Economy: Historical Statistics (2003), argued that India had been the largest economy in the world in the first millennium with a share of almost 33 per cent of the world’s GD…

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has often spoken of Irish rock band U2’s hit, Where the streets have no name, a song about wanting to break free and be in a world with no limitations, as his “life story in a way”.…
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