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China’s Indonesian nickel boom runs into a limestone wall

Some environmental disasters announce themselves: a spill draws cameras, an apology, a cleanup crew. Most do not. They begin instead as paperwork — a mining permit, a revised land-use map, a supply contract signed in some distant boardroom. By the time anyone notices, the

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AfD’s rise is paralyzing Germany’s political center

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Firewall against the AfD is becoming a trapDiego Faßnacht reports that the AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt breakthrough has pushed Germany’s firewall strategy to its limits,

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Myanmar's Mandalay airport shuts after drone attack

Sept 11 - Flight operations at the international airport serving Myanmar's second-largest city have been shut down, according to a major domestic airline, following a drone attack on Thursday by rebels fighting the country's military in a protracted civil war.

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The chip industry’s future is memory by design

In 1884, an English schoolmaster wrote a short novel about a world with only length and breadth, whose inhabitants could not conceive of a third direction until one of them was lifted out of the plane and shown his own country from above. Semiconductors have lived in that world

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Bessent’s big talk runs into bigger market realities

Scott Bessent may have imagined a triumphant return to hedge fund row after his stint as US Treasury secretary. Right now, that homecoming looks like it needs a rewrite. Bessent came up under George Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, and he’s been leaning on that pedigree as

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Trump laughing all the way to the bank… at the end of the world

Honestly, I don’t think we really get it yet. Let’s face it. It’s going to be hot, hot, hot. Or do I mean hotter, hotter, hotter, or even hottest, hottest, hottest, or someday, for all we know, beyond any words we might now have to describe it. Though it seldom seems that way

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