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Beijing: £57bn into state banks

China is deploying major capital injections into its top state-owned banks, raising a combined Rmb520bn (£57bn) in a rare government move to stabilise.

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Norway gets real on defence

Norway finds itself at a crossroads where virtue meets realpolitik. The theatre of ethics is clashing head-on with the choreography of geopolitics.  For.

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Trump tariffs to hit WM exporters

Donald Trump’s declaration of today, April 2, as “Liberation Day” for US trade might sound like political theatre – but for West Midlands.

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HIV/AIDS deaths set to rise

In the world of spin and political short-termism, few stories are as tragically ironic as this. After 22 years of what has been.

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Greenland tensions: Denmark v US

Tensions between Copenhagen and Washington have escalated after the US Vice President JD Vance accused Denmark of neglecting Greenland – prompting an upcoming.

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Trump’s anti-DEI push hits Europe

Donald Trump’s anti-diversity crusade has officially gone global. European companies have been left reeling after receiving letters from US embassies instructing them to.

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Beware Nigeria’s oil crisis

In a world where international politics and regional economics are more entangled than ever, the drama unfolding in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta should.

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Gaza: Odai Saadi – remember the name

In the theatre of tyranny, image is everything. And in Gaza this week, the curtain was torn down in the most horrific of.

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Taiwan’s posture of public strength

In the grand amphitheatre of geopolitics, Taiwan just took centre stage – and it’s not reading from the old script. The island’s latest.

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Turkey: Erdoğan ejects BBC

The playbook is familiar: detain, deflect, deport. This time, it’s the BBC’s Mark Lowen cast as the foreign antagonist in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s.

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