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Apple is preparing at least five new iPhones, including a foldable, just as a squeeze on memory and components hits the industry. Its plan is to win share while smaller rivals scramble for parts.
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This World Cup is being sold on its icons as much as its football. Messi, Mbappe, and Ronaldo have turned a contest between nations into a showcase for a handful of global superstars.
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Another Supreme Court term ends with the presidency stronger than it began. A run of rulings has steadily widened what a president can do, and narrowed who can stop him.
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Washington is forcing Chinese firms out of the United States while quietly working to hold on to the very technology they brought. It is a tricky balance, keep the know-how, lose the owner.
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Anthropic says a Chinese rival copied its model by quietly asking it questions. The accusation lands just as the company eyes a giant public listing, and it exposes an awkward truth about how shallow the moats in artificial intelligence may be.
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After months of strikes and stalemate, Iran and its adversaries have reached a thin agreement that halts the bombing and lets the oil flow again. It buys calm, but it settles almost nothing.
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The most powerful earthquake to strike Venezuela in roughly a hundred years has hit a nation hollowed out by years of crisis. The disaster is testing a state that was struggling to function even before the ground shook.
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Micron just posted a 346 percent jump in quarterly revenue as demand for the specialised memory inside AI servers outstrips what the world can make. The boom shows the AI gold rush is minting fortunes well beyond Nvidia.
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In 1956 a botched war over the Suez Canal quietly ended Britain's reign as the world's banker. Ray Dalio thinks today's stalemate with Iran, set against a mountain of debt, could mark a similar turn for the United States.
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UPS spent a century as the gold standard of parcel delivery. Now a leaner, faster FedEx is catching up, and the company built on brown trucks is fighting to prove it can still set the pace.
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In an internet flooded with AI text and polished marketing, Reddit is betting that real people talking to real people is the rarest thing of all. Its COO thinks that bet leads to a billion users.
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Cheap data and a new wave of AI tools are reaching the villages where most Indians still live. The result is a quiet revolution in how farmers earn, families bank, and a billion people get online.
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For years, cutting off Iran's oil sales was the heart of American pressure on Tehran. Easing those sanctions hands Iran a flow of money and a measure of legitimacy that years of squeezing were meant to deny it.
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The continent has long treated air conditioning as a wasteful foreign habit. As heatwaves grow longer and deadlier, that proud reluctance is becoming harder, and more dangerous, to justify.
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The mayor of Greater Manchester is the most talked about leader in waiting in British politics. Yet the road from city hall to Downing Street is narrower than his admirers like to think.
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A sharp fall in the value of his most prized company has pulled Elon Musk back below the trillion dollar mark. He is still extraordinarily rich, but the sense that his fortune could only rise has cracked.
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More than four years of war and sanctions have left deep cracks in Russia's economy, from raging inflation to a drained workforce. Yet the long predicted collapse keeps refusing to arrive.
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Halfway through the year, the shelves are unusually full. From confident debut novels to history that speaks to the present, here is what has made the first half of 2026 so rewarding for readers, and how to choose where to begin.
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Apple has spent two years looking like a straggler while rivals dazzled with chatbots. Yet its reach, its grip on personal data, and the trust of a billion users could still make it the contest's dark horse.
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Even as its economy matures and its population ages, China puts in hours that the rich world long ago abandoned. The grind has powered its rise, but the same culture of overwork is starting to exact a heavy price.
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European savers pour their wealth into American shares, funding the very companies inventing the next era. The returns are real, yet the continent risks becoming a customer of the future rather than its maker.
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Spending has carried the United States economy past one gloomy forecast after another. Beneath the resilient headline, though, a widening gap between richer and poorer households is testing how long the run can last.
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India's most trusted conglomerate is pouring billions into chips, cars, and airlines in a bid to build the industries of the future. The ambition is vast, the bill is larger, and the rewards remain stubbornly out of reach.
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The systems that once needed armies of human engineers are starting to design, train, and improve their own successors. That promises faster progress, and it raises a harder question about who stays in charge.
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After decades of stagnation, the return of inflation and rising interest rates has revived the profits of Japan's biggest lenders. The good times are real, yet the same forces lifting them could just as easily turn.
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Meeting in France, the club of rich democracies offered just enough common ground to revive talk of a settlement. Whether that opening leads anywhere depends on Moscow, Washington, and a wary Europe.
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Higher oil and gas prices, driven by fear of disruption in the Gulf, have lifted the fortunes of Norway's state energy champion. The boost is real, the timing is awkward, and the long game is far from settled.
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Once known mainly for its caution, the maker of Claude has become one of the fastest growing companies in technology. That success now invites fire from rivals, regulators, and its own soaring ambitions.
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