Kazakhstan has announced efforts to promote the use of the Kazakh language over Russian in its media, amid growing scepticism over Moscow’s influence in the country since the invasion of Ukraine.…
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EXCLUSIVE — An annual football game featuring lawmakers and ex-NFL players was co-sponsored this year by an affiliate of a Chinese electric carmaker, while the organizing charity has been led by a recent lobbyist for a sanctioned Chinese military-backe…

Christopher Pollon is the author of Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places, from which this essay has been adapted.
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[1/3] Afghan women who are living in Pakistan wait to get registered during a proof of registration drive at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Peshawar, Pakistan September 30, 2021.…
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The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is an ambitious plan to dismantle, downsize, and radically reshape the federal government so that it more closely tracks with the moral, cultural, and political values of the current conservative movement.…
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HOMS, Syria (AP) — Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony that killed scores gathered outside a military hospital in the central city of…

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The annual Nobel Prize announcements are almost over with five of the six awards unveiled so far by prize committees in Stockholm and Oslo.
Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday f…

The FIR, a copy of which ThePrint has accessed, states that “it is further learnt that big Chinese Telecom companies like Xiaomi, Vivo, etc. incorporated thousands of shell companies in India in violation of PMLA/FEMA (Prevention of Money Laundering A…

Russia's State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin attends a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022.…
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Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about US nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire, Anthony Pratt, three months after leaving office, according to a new report.
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Climate activists are calling out Shell for partnering with popular video gamers and online youth influencers to promote fossil fuels to a younger generation.
The oil giant, which in July reported quarterly profits of more than $5bn (£3.9bn), worked wi…

Spanning most of the last century, the Chilean writer Benjamin Labatut’s stunningly propulsive new novel, The MANIAC, presents as a triptych about three (real) scientific prodigies whose gifts lead them down the path to madness, and our world to a new…

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Wall Street futures were largely treading water early Friday as traders await key U.S. jobs figures ahead of the opening bell. Major European markets were positive. TSX futures saw modest gains with employment data also due in Canada this morn…

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Nio, a Chinese electric car company that competes with Tesla, employs 11,000 people in research and development, but sells a mer…

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David Grichting, the new director of the foreign ministry’s Consular Division, faces a number of challenges.…
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A man walks along a destroyed road in India's Sikkim state after a flash flood triggered by a glacial lake burst. Photograph: PANKAJ DHUNGEL/AFP via Getty Images
At least 40 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered fl…