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At her second State of the Union, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum drew a hard line: cooperation with the US, yes — but not at the cost of sovereignty. With 17 Mexican nationals dead in US…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared Iran is in an economic 'death spiral' — its currency having collapsed from 800,000…
Belgian PM Bart De Wever's first India visit since taking office is more than a courtesy call — it puts defence cooperation,…
India and the World Bank Group are rewriting the terms of their relationship — moving from a lender-borrower dynamic to a…
The US has launched a second round of strikes on IRGC targets inside Iran, with President Trump threatening near-total…
On the sidelines of the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, the US quietly lobbied China and Russia on Iran — and got…
A Bank of America vice president was stabbed to death in broad daylight at Times Square — one of the world's most surveilled…
Without spending a single federal dollar, Washington has quietly locked in a 35% equity stake in Venezuelan oilfields holding 65…
The US is on track to pour USD 1.4 trillion into AI infrastructure in 2026 alone — a capital build-out that a former White House…
