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South Korean engineers work on a K-30W Chunho 30mm wheeled anti-aircraft gun at Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon on November 21, 2024. Longstanding domestic policy bars Seoul from providing weapons into active conflict zones, but ever since its spy agency accused the nuclear-armed North last month of sending thousands of soldiers to help Moscow fight Kyiv, South Korea has warned it might change course. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY SKorea-NKorea-Ukraine-weaponry-conflict / FOCUS BY Kang Jin-kyu (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

South Korea’s arms industry, once seen as backward for focusing on land weapons, is booming post-Ukraine

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People gather next to the Merlion statue at the Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade in Singapore on August 7, 2024. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Singapore’s GDP growth last quarter zooms past forecasts due to booming chip demand

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A woman uses her phone as she stands on a footpath in central Sydney on November 7, 2024. Australia will move to pass new laws banning children under 16 from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, vowing to crack down on tech giants failing to protect vulnerable users. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia plans to hit social media companies with $30 million fines if they fail to keep kids off their platforms

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This July 28, 2017 picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 29, 2017 shows North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Hwasong-14 being lauched at an undisclosed place in North Korea. Kim Jong-Un boasted of North Korea’s ability to strike any target in the US after a second ICBM test that weapons experts said could even bring New York into range -– in a potent challenge to US President Donald Trump. (Photo by KCNA VIS KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT —EDITORS NOTE— RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS<br />
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Ukraine-Russia war escalates as Kremlin launches intercontinental ballistic missile for first time

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Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 19, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss pharma giant Novartis says 30 pipeline drugs with ‘significant potential’ will drive long-term growth

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Chief executive officer (CEO) of Irish airline Ryanair Michael O’Leary gestures during a press conference, on January 16, 2013 in Vitrolles, near Marseille’s airport, southern France. Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is to open two new bases this spring in Morocco, its first outside Europe, company chief Michael O’Leary told AFP on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO/GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Ryanair threatens to drop 10 French regional airports over ‘short-sighted’ airline ticket tax hike

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LISBON, PORTUGAL – JULY 11: The President of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity jury, Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers remarks onstage at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on July 11, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. The ceremony attended by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Minister of the Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, the President of the Jury, Angela Merkel, the President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, António Feijó, the President of the Portuguese Parliament, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Rosário Palma Ramalho, the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, and the Secretary of State for Health Management, Cristina Vas Tomé. The Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, which honors exceptional contributions and solutions to combat climate change, received a record number of entries for the 2024 edition, with 180 nominations from all over the world. The prize, worth one million euros, rewards outstanding contributions to climate action and climate solutions that inspire hope and new possibilities. Awarded for the first time in 2020, it distinguishes individuals and organizations leading society’s efforts to tackle climate change, humanity’s greatest current challenge. The winner of the Prize is selected by an independent jury, chaired by former German chancellor Angela Merkel and made up of experts in earth system science, climate action, environmentalism and climate justice, from the scientific, technological, political and cultural fields. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Angela Merkel, once celebrated as one of the world’s most popular politicians, now faces growing scrutiny over her legacy

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20 November 2024, Greece, Athen: Trade union members and citizens protest during a 24-hour general strike in Athens. Many people in Greece are laying down their work for 24 hours. They are responding to a call from the umbrella organizations of the Greek trade unions. They are criticizing the government’s economic policy and demanding better action against inflation, stagnating wages and salaries and improved social benefits. Photo: Socrates Baltagiannis/dpa (Photo by Socrates Baltagiannis/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Greece grinds to a halt: Thousands go on general strike over rising cost of living

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Rene Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” is on display during a press preview for Christie’s Fall 20/21 Marquee Week in New York, November 8, 2024. A work by Belgian painter René Magritte, another by American Ed Ruscha and a vulgar banana are the stars that could set records for their authors in the art auctions that begin this week in New York in a market that hopes to overcome last year’s slump.<br />
The two main houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s compete from November 18 with a rich offer in which the greatest exponents of 20th and 21st century painting abound, such as Picasso, Magritte, Matisse, Miró, Kankinsky, Moore, Ruscha, Basquiat, Carrington, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Giacometti or Haring. (Photo by kena betancur / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Ana FERNANDEZ: “Magritte, Rucha and… a banana, in a bid to set new records at New York auctions” (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Rene Magritte painting ‘Empire of Light’ nets auction record of $121 million at Christie’s in New York

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World’s biggest luxury goods company LVMH’s CEO Bernard Arnault addresses employees as he visits the world leader for the production of Cognac Hennessy’s new bottling plant on October 18, 2017 in Salles-d’Angles. (Photo by GEORGES GOBET / AFP) (Photo credit should read GEORGES GOBET/AFP via Getty Images)

LVMH’s Hennessy plan to trial bottling in China and bypass tariffs sparks hundreds protesting on home turf

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Scott O’Neil chief executive of Merlin entertainments arriving for the launch of the new themed land, World of Jumanji, at Chessington World of Adventures Resort, south west London, which opens to the public on Monday. Picture date: Saturday May 13, 2023. (Photo by David Parry/PA Images via Getty Images)

Minecraft is set to enter the real world in £85 million theme park deal in U.K. and U.S.

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China’s President Xi Jinping arrives at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting (AELM) at the Convention Centre in Lima, on November 16, 2024. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Xi Jinping will visit Brazil to ‘further enhance’ ties amid cloud of Trump’s return to White House

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19 November 2024, North Rhine-Westphalia, Essen: Miguel Lopez, CEO of thyssenkrupp, stands at thyssenkrupp’s annual press conference at the company’s headquarters. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa (Photo by Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Losses linger for crisis-hit Thyssenkrupp as steel sector suffers

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crowd of people and passengers walking at the metro entrance, Paris cityscape French Culture.

Paris is panicking as 10,000 Parisians are abandoning the city each year

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Boeing machinist Andre Johnstone, who says he does not support the new contract offer, pickets outside the Renton Production Facility one day before striking union members will vote on a new contract offer in Renton, Washington on November 3, 2024. US aviation giant Boeing has once again improved the conditions in its contract offer to thousands of striking workers, hoping to put an end to a painful strike that has paralyzed its two main factories for seven weeks. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, the union which represents more than 33,000 workers who went on strike on September 13 in the Seattle area, on October 31, 2024 endorsed the new offer and set a vote for November 4, 2024. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Boeing starts sending out its 2,199 layoff notices in Washington, the state where it was founded

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