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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump’s order imposing additional tariffs on China this week also suspended a popular trade exemption known as the de minimis provision that has let bargain platforms such as Shein and Temu skirt import duties and red tape on low-value packages from China. The order caused widespread confusion and prompted the U.S.

McKinsey & Co. partners have been questioning the consulting giant’s presence in China, worried that doing business there may not be worth the risks given the Asian superpower’s increasingly volatile relationship with the US.

ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the U.S. leader proposed that Palestinians resettle elsewhere and the United States take over the war-torn enclave.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Kiev on Wednesday, where the two leaders discussed sanctions on Russia and the implementation of the 100-year partnership agreement between the two countries.

DeepSeek's access to work computers, following a request from the country's data watchdog for the Chinese AI startup to clarify how it manages user information.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The pace of change in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is “unbelievably more powerful than Moore's Law", Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI said in an interview on Tuesday, when he was in India as part of a larger tour of several countries. The tour comes barely a fortnight after the release of China's DeepSeek R1 shook the market values of some of the world's biggest tech and AI firms.

RCMP has released video of an interception of migrants illegally entering Canada from the United States as Ottawa ramps up border security amid growing pressure from the new Trump administration.Aerial video first shared with Global News on Wednesday was taken from a surveillance aircraft as Mounties stopped the migrants near the Emerson border crossing in Manitoba last month.The video shows thermal imaging of six people who were arrested crossing the border illegally in the middle of the night on Jan. 14.The individuals are seen running into a wooded area, followed shortly afterward by RCMP officers who arrived in ground vehicles.“With the RCMP plane directing officers on the ground, all six were arrested without incident and transferred to the CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency),” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland, the northwest regional commander of federal policing, said at a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday.“To anyone who is thinking about crossing the border (illegally), don’t.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after U.S. President Donald Trump promised to cut the country's funding over a land expropriation law

Maurice Obstfeld, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he discusses burgeoning tariffs — and their effects on prosperity:

birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling citizenship a «most precious right.»

Tesla sales plunged in Germany last month, official data showed Wednesday, after billionaire owner Elon Musk waded into the country's election campaign by vocally backing the far right. Shares of the company were trading 2.61% down at $381.99 at 11.38 am on Nasdaq.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : One of India’s largest renewable power generators, Tata Power, has not participated in the country's nascent International Renewable Energy Certificates (IRECs) market—considered an alternative to carbon credits—citing a lack of buyers. Praveer Sinha, Tata Power's managing director and chief executive officer, said policy intervention—in terms of target-based incentives and disincentives—is a must to breathe life into the IREC and carbon credit market in India.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Centre plans to develop India’s premier hospital—All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi—as a model Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) facility where only e-prescriptions will be generated.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s highest decision-making body on technical matters related to medicines ceased to exist in October after its three-year term came to an end, grinding to a halt all drugs-related policy activities in the country ever since.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Generative AI pioneer OpenAI has begun discussions to house data of its Indian users within the country, three executives who attended Wednesday's New Delhi meeting with the company's chief executive said. “OpenAI is looking for ways to expand its India presence, which is a natural process since India is one of the biggest developer ecosystems for the company.

Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that U.S. President Donald Trump's «loud thinking» on the future of Gaza is bizarre, dangerous, and totally unacceptable.

Donald Trump's FBI nominee, Kash Patel is a country music artist named Alexis Wilkins. Last week, Kash Patel, the FBI nominee for President Donald Trump, had a flurry of close friends and family gathered in the front row of his Senate confirmation hearing.

JLL India highlighted that in 2024, 27 new brands of international origin entered India, nearly doubling from 14 in 2023.