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Opinion: Iran War Is Now All About Future Of Hormuz
Trump has extended his ultimatum threatening to bomb Iran's energy infrastructure by a further 10 days.
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Opinion | The Iran War Is Costing China Dearly, Too
With the Iran war entering the fourth week, the much-anticipated visitors from the region have practically disappeared as air traffic disruptions continue.
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Trade War: The Theatre Of The Absurd In Trump's New Fight On Tariffs
Everyone knew that President Donald Trump's response to the Supreme Court striking down his tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act would be to find another law that lets him do exactly what he was just forbidden from doing.
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Opinion | Three Targets For US Boots On The Ground In Iran
As President Donald Trump's administration wrestles with options in the war with Iran, it continues to consider "boots on the ground."
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Opinion | We're All Trapped In Trump's 1980s Worldview
Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events. At the end of last week, US officials leaked to the Washington Post that Russia had been giving Iran target data to strike US military assets in the Persian Gulf.
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Opinion | Why US Strikes On Iran Will Harden North Korea's Nuclear Resolve
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un will draw a dangerous conclusion from the US and Israel's strikes on Iran: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of regime survival.
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Israel-Iran War: These Saudi And UAE Oil Pipelines Could Decide Who Wins
Iran's strategy in its war with the US and Israel is by now clear: Impose an intolerable economic cost on President Donald Trump, forcing him to abandon his "war of choice" as American gasoline prices surge.
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Hormuz Is The Hidden Risk To The AI Economy
A world where we can cook up AI videos in seconds from the apps on our phones might seem remote from the physical realities of warfare in the seaways of the Persian Gulf. In fact, they're closely intertwined.
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How Anthropic's Claude AI Helped US Bomb Iran
Hours before the Iran strikes, Donald Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using Claude after a dispute with its maker.
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Opinion| India's Risks In The Iran Conflict Go Way Beyond Oil
Past conflicts in the Middle East typically hit India at the gas station. This time, the risks transcend oil, threatening everything from smartphone exports to New Delhi's fragile finances.
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Opinion: Tim Cook Seems Determined To Keep Bruising Apple
For 13 years running, the iPhone maker has been the world's most valuable brand as measured by the consulting firm Interbrand.
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Opinion: The US Is Multitasking 2 Very Different Peace Deals
The US opened two sets of major peace negotiations in Geneva on Tuesday, in what's best described as a form of diplomatic speed dating.
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Opinion | Will Bangladesh Emerge As South Asia's New Power Player?
Bangladesh's election marks a welcome break from the past. The embrace of democracy is a hopeful sign, but the result also shows how deeply entrenched dynastic politics are in the nation of more than 170 million.
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Chinese AI Videos Used To Look Fake. Now They Look Like Money
While attention remains fixed on the race to build massive foundation models like DeepSeek's, the real contest is shifting to AI products that people will pay for and the search for a killer AI app.
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Opinion | PM Modi Has A Shot At History-Making With EU's India Visit
At Davos, Ursula von der Leyen made India the centrepiece of her declaration of European independence. The president of the European Commission said that she was travelling to New Delhi to energise the relationship.
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Opinion | Europe Has The Weapons For Trump's Greenland Tariff War
The Cold War satirical novel The Mouse That Roared imagined a tiny European statelet declaring war on the US in the hopes of being lavished with American aid after its inevitable defeat.
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Opinion | Why 10-Minute Delivery Model Is Under Pressure In India
Indias booming quick-commerce industry is on notice. In a New Years Eve flash strike, more than 200,000 riders refused to ferry food, grocery and other orders nationwide.
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Opinion | Five Questions About Money to Ponder in 2026
Stablecoins had their ChatGPT moment in 2025. Payment tokens that were until now used mostly by crypto traders are raring to go mainstream, and not just in the US, where they got regulatory blessing through the Genius Act.
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Opinion | US' Trumped-Up Tariffs Have No Effect On Global Trade
Last year was supposed to mark the moment international trade was dismantled. President Donald Trump's tariffs, we were told, were so unprecedented in scale and ambition that they might stop globalisation in its tracks.
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Opinion | Bollywood Is No Match for India's New Wave Cinema
The signature motif of Kantara: A Legend Chapter 1, India's second-biggest box-office success of 2025, is a primordial scream. It may as well be the sound of old Bollywood in its death throes or the birth pangs of a new industry.
