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It helps, too, that big companies tend to have more suppliers in more places. A study by the World Economic Forum and Kearney ...

Mr Trump prefers to govern by executive order, but the bill approved last week addressed administration priorities that couldn’t be tackled with his signature alone. Most significantly, it makes ...

This year’s figure was the highest since France’s Conference of Bishops began such records 20 years ago. At 7,404, the number ...

That might surprise people who had to cope with bubonic plague, ice ages, Vikings, world wars, colonisation and the rest. But ...

A LMOST EVERY week the world takes another step towards artificial super-intelligence. The most powerful AI models can do an ...

In April the party’s Politburo met for its second-ever study session on AI (the first was in 2018). At the meeting, Mr Xi ...

A YEAR AGO, for 30 drones to strike Ukraine in a single night was considered exceptional. Now Russia is saturating Ukraine’s ...

Thanks to new restrictions placed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, Canadians are allowed through ...

The debt of other governments looks newly risky, too, with long-term yields rising across much of the rich world (see chart).

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C HINA HAWKS in America have long wanted to ban TikTok on national-security grounds. Congress has ordered ByteDance, its ...