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27 arrests and 248 potential victims identified in action week against labour exploitation
Europol, the European Labour Authority (ELA), and 34 participating countries today announced the results of an action week targeting human
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27 arrests and 248 potential victims identified in action week against labour exploitation
Europol, the European Labour Authority (ELA), and 34 participating countries today announced the results of an action week targeting human
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Kosovo Identifies Three More Wartime Missing Persons
Three Kosovo Albanian intellectuals who were forcibly disappeared by Serbian forces in April 1999 have been identified in a mass grave in the north of Kosovo.
GEOPOLITICS
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DEMOCRAT GAINS: Trump hand-picked Senate candidates, Republicans paid the price
Trump-backed Republican candidates lost key Senate races in South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas and Michigan, handing Democrats control of the chamber and exp
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First digital air traffic control in Asia at Penang Airport
ISO-Gruppe has successfully completed the implementation of its electronic flight strip and ground surveillance system, SKYcontrol Tower, at Penang Internationa
GEOPOLITICS
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Iran's chief negotiator says Americans voted 'no to war'
"We endorse this message," Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf says, as Donald Trump acknowledges the conflict's role in the Republican Party's defeat.
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Rwanda's army team removed from Africa league after US sanctions, NBA says
The US imposed sanctions on Rwanda's army over its role in the conflict in DR Congo.
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Quiénes son los grandes vencedores de la triunfal noche demócrata
Te presentamos algunas de las estrellas de la "ola azul" demócrata que obtuvo este martes una aplastante victoria en un duro revés contra las políticas de Trump
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‘JD, Habibi’: El-Sayed jokes about ‘delicious irony’ of Vance having to swear him into US Senate
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed took aim at US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance during his election victory speech in Michigan early Wednesday, after
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Netanyahu’s fall won’t solve Israel’s dilemma, and Eisenkot’s rise won’t solve it either
Whenever Israeli politics is shaken by an election or a domestic crisis, the same hope resurfaces in Western capitals: perhaps the problem is Benjamin Netanyahu
GEOPOLITICS
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Zelenskyy honours Melania Trump for helping secure ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga for her humanitarian work. She was instrumental in organizing a humanit
GEOPOLITICS
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US midterm takeaways: Trump’s blame game, Elon’s space lasers and the rest of the world
Follow the SCMP’s live coverage here Democrats won control of both chambers of the US Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections, dealing a heavy blow to President
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Tencent rolls out AI model trained with limited cybersecurity data amid hacking fears
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US voters back abortion rights and reject Trump's gerrymandering in state ballot measures
US voters in several states pushed back on President Donald Trump’s redistricting efforts and backed abortion rights in 145 ballot questions during the midterm
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Markets react with caution to Democrats' victory in US midterms
Investors shunned AI stocks and turned to government bonds on Wednesday in the wake of the Democratic Party's takeover of Congress in the US midterm elections.
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Washington excludes South Africa and Rwanda from US duty-free trade deal
South African and Rwandan exporters are weighing potential job losses and squeezed margins after Washington decided to exclude them from the AGOA program, the A
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'A generational win' for Dems as blue wave sweeps midterms
Democrats seized control of the US Congress on Tuesday, capturing the Senate and House of Representatives in a stunning, nationwide rejection of Donald Trump. F
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Cameroon’s Gulfcam taps new chief to drive Camship expansion
Cameroon’s Gulfcam is pursuing plans to acquire six vessels to expand its coastal container shipping operations between Kribi and Douala, with a former Ca
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Ardmore trims ageing tonnage amid Chinese newbuild drive
New York-listed Ardmore Shipping has sold another older product tanker, agreeing a $34.3m deal for the 2013-built Ardmore Endeavour as it continues to renew its
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Greenland’s scrubber ban sparks calls for wider Arctic crackdown
Greenland is moving to ban scrubber wastewater discharges throughout its territorial waters, prompting environmental groups to call for similar restrictions acr
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Orkim books $38m product tanker pair in China
Malaysian tanker owner Orkim has signed contracts for two more product tankers in China, committing about $37.6m as it presses ahead with fleet expansion follow
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MPC Oceanic strikes deal for 41% of Marlow Navigation
Hamburg-listed MPC Oceanic Group has agreed to acquire a 41% stake in Cyprus-based shipmanager Marlow Navigation in a deal that will also see Marlow’s exi
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Vedanta taps Exceed for Indian deepwater drilling campaign
India’s Vedanta Oil and Gas has signed a partnership agreement with UK-based well management specialist Exceed for an exploration and appraisal campaign i
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BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager
The Intelligence Community has decided AI agents are coming. It has not decided how they will be supervised, checked and held to analytic standards. In April, C
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Unraveling the Pentagon’s quantum problem
Defense agencies have just five years to comply with Executive Order 14412. The work starts with spreading awareness.
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