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Taiwan’s Lai Urges Democracies to Unite After Trump-Xi Talks automated-news
Taiwan’s Lai Urges Democracies to Unite After Trump-Xi Talks

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called on democracies in the region to unite against threats to stability, as the island faces pressure from Beijing and concerns that US President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with China could come at Taiwan’s expense.

10 Oct 2026 🔒
AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge automated-news
AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge

Appetite for financing infrastructure boom is tested after months of record-breaking bond issuance

10 Oct 2026 🔒
India’s central bank tries to shore up rupee as it nears record lows automated-news
India’s central bank tries to shore up rupee as it nears record lows

Rise in energy costs due to US-Israel war on Iran has put downward pressure on the currency of the world’s fastest-growing major economy

10 Oct 2026 🔒
Trump Tariffs: Iowa Steel Plant Looks Like a House of Cards automated-news
Trump Tariffs: Iowa Steel Plant Looks Like a House of Cards

The White House’s tariff regime is mostly working for steelmakers — not for the downstream consumers being hit with the bills.

10 Oct 2026 🔒
Trump's Russian Diesel Deal Draws Ukraine Criticism automated-news
Trump's Russian Diesel Deal Draws Ukraine Criticism

Atlantic National Security Staff Writer Nancy Youssef tells Bloomberg This Weekend that President Donald Trump's agreement to import Russian diesel could provide limited relief from high fuel prices while potentially increasing Moscow's revenue as it continues its war in Ukraine. Speaking with hosts

10 Oct 2026 🔒
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing automated-news
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing

Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow

10 Oct 2026 🔒
Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine automated-news
Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

What Kyiv needs to survive.

09 Oct 2026 🔒
Why Iran Escalates automated-news
Why Iran Escalates

Tehran’s strategy to drive America out of the Middle East.

09 Oct 2026 🔒
School of War or School of Battle? Educating for an Uncertain Future automated-news
School of War or School of Battle? Educating for an Uncertain Future

In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study of history had become useless. He castigated military officers who prepared for future war based on “musty precedents” and who failed to recognize that the past was as irrelevant t

09 Oct 2026 🔒
Governments want to hold America’s shares more than its debts automated-news
Governments want to hold America’s shares more than its debts

When countries switch towards riskier assets, the global economy feels the consequences

09 Oct 2026 🔒
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