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Will the Australian dollar keep rising in 2026?

After several years of steadily declining, the Australian dollar staged a meaningful recovery in 2025, culminating in a two-cent rally over the past month. Since the start of the year, the value of the Australian dollar has risen by more than 6% against the US dollar, reversing

Indonesia’s white-flag shame in flood-ravaged Sumatra

As the waters begin to recede across Sumatra, what lingers is something far colder than the floods that swept through Aceh, darker than the landslides in North Sumatra and more unsettling than the rubble left behind in West Sumatra at the close of 2025. It is the chill of

Study links full-fat cheese to lower dementia risk

Eating full-fat cheese and cream may be associated with a lower risk of dementia, according to a large study that tracked people for more than 25 years. Those who consumed higher amounts of these foods developed dementia less often than those who ate little or none.

Important counter to Trump-Putin narrative on Ukraine

Well, it wasn’t very noble and it flinched at the last moment from sending the powerful political message that the situation warranted. But the European Union’s agreement to lend Ukraine 90 billion euros (US$105.5 billion) is nonetheless an important contribution to

Trump names Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland

President Trump named Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) as his special envoy to Greenland on Sunday, after the president repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring the autonomous territory earlier this year. Trump said on Truth Social that Landry “understands how essential