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Bill Gates has called on governments to tax AI and robot usage and to legally ring-fence certain human jobs — a radical proposition from one of tech’s founding architects. For India’s IT sector, the…
Trump signed a law sanctioning countries that buy Russian energy — then bought Russian diesel himself. With the Graham Act's…
Trump declared an immediate Russia-Ukraine ‘energy ceasefire’ on Truth Social — but Zelensky said he heard about it from the…
The White House announced an immediate energy ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war on October 11, 2026, calling for a halt to…
Iran's Foreign Minister used an international ecocide conference in Tehran to charge that US-Israeli strikes on Iranian energy…
A day after a Houthi strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed 12 and injured 309, Yemen's Houthis have…
Bangladesh's economy is caught in a stagflationary trap — inflation at 8.26%, wages trailing at 8.05%, and growth projected at…
A Houthi missile strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed 12 people — including a US national and citizens of…
Nepal's flood crisis is hitting its clean energy future hard. Flash floods on 11 October 2026 damaged four hydropower projects in…
