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Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX lists on Nasdaq at a staggering $1.77 trillion valuation, a number so absurd it almost sounds like a typo.
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The Pentagon has officially redesignated Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, and over a dozen other major Chinese firms as “Chinese military companies”, a blacklist that keeps growing even as Washington and Beijing sip tea together.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent an open letter to Vladimir Putin on June 4, proposing a face-to-face meeting in a neutral country and a full ceasefire during negotiations, after over four years of war and more than 1.37 million Russian casualties.
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The Del Vecchio inheritance dispute, a four-year soap opera played out in courtrooms from Milan to Luxembourg over the fortune behind EssilorLuxottica, has taken a significant turn, with two of the billionaire heirs reaching a provisional agreement to stand down from legal warfare.
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The USTR has proposed 12.5% additional duties on India and 53 other countries for allegedly failing to ban goods made with forced labour and the timing couldn’t be more awkward, with US trade delegates literally in New Delhi as the report dropped.
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SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable listed company after an AI-driven 14% single-day surge pushed its market cap above ¥48 trillion, ending Toyota’s 22-year reign at the top of Japan’s corporate pile.
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Wockhardt’s Zaynich FDA approval has made history as the first New Chemical Entity fully developed by an Indian pharma company to receive a US FDA nod. With an 89% efficacy rate against drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and eyes on a $9 billion antibiotics market, India’s pharma ambitions just got a whole lot louder.
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India has officially confirmed a BrahMos missile deal with Vietnam, while the BrahMos missile Indonesia deal is reportedly in its final stages, making Southeast Asia the newest fan club of the world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile. Here’s why everyone wants a piece of it.
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For nearly a decade, Narendra Modi built his foreign policy around a single goal: making Pakistan a pariah. Today, the plan has gone spectacularly wrong.
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Anthropic surpasses OpenAI after closing a landmark $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation — nearly tripling its worth from just three months ago and reshaping the global AI investment landscape ahead of a widely anticipated IPO.
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A rare albino buffalo weighing nearly 700 kilograms, hilariously nicknamed “Donald Trump buffalo Bangladesh” for its striking blond hair, has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice following last-minute government intervention. The story of how an animal with such an absurd name ended up at the national zoo is everything you didn’t know you needed this May.
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Taiwan stock market overtakes India with $4.95 trillion market cap, becoming the world’s fifth-largest equity market. TSMC’s AI boom drives the surge past India’s $4.92 trillion.