Business & Economy
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Sovereign AI: The Gulf’s High-Stakes Battle for Compute
As artificial intelligence transitions from consumer software to vital national security infrastructure, Gulf sovereign wealth is mobilizing hundreds of billions…
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IMEC vs Belt and Road: The New Era of Swing State Trade
As the United States and Europe aggressively erect tariff walls against Chinese overcapacity, a massive realignment of global trade routes…
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How Archaeology and Archives Exposed Thomas Jefferson’s Nailery
History is rarely rewritten by a single, explosive revelation. More often, the dismantling of a deeply entrenched national myth requires…
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Monticello’s Child Labor: The Dark Reality of Thomas Jefferson’s Nailery
In the American historical imagination, Thomas Jefferson is almost exclusively portrayed as the ultimate agrarian philosopher. He is the gentleman…
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Under MBZ’s Patronage, the Arab Monetary Fund Charts the Next Half-Century of Regional Wealth
Half a century after its inception amid the geopolitical and economic turbulence of the 1970s, the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)…
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AI and Green Finance Top the Agenda at Arab Finance Summit in Abu Dhabi
As the morning sun rises over the gleaming towers of the United Arab Emirates capital this Monday, the region’s elite…
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Inside the 50-Year History of the Arab Monetary Fund
In the spring of 1976, the global financial order was undergoing a seismic realignment. The world was still reeling from…
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Aliko Dangote and the Mega-Refinery Powering an African Industrial Revolution
For decades, the narrative surrounding the African economy was one of immense potential consistently undermined by structural paradoxes. The continent…
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Trump Torpedoes Iran’s Truce Offer to Reopen Strait of Hormuz, Escalating Global Energy Crisis
United States President Donald Trump on Saturday summarily rejected a sweeping diplomatic proposal from Iran that sought to pause the…
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Trump Slashes $1 Billion in Refugee and Immigrant Funding Using ‘Illegal’ Tactic
WASHINGTON – In a move that has drawn swift and bipartisan condemnation, President Donald Trump late Friday announced the cancellation…
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