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Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), looks at TV news as he leaves the party’s headquarters following the upper house election in Tokyo, Japan on Monday, July 21, 2025. Japan’s ruling coalition looked set to lose its majority in the upper house, according to exit polls, an outcome that would further weaken embattled Prime Minister Ishiba’s leadership and potentially unsettle markets. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future is in doubt after disastrous loss in upper-house election

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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a statement next to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (out of frame) at Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on July 8, 2025. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Brazil’s President Lula calls Trump’s 50% tariff threat over Bolsonaro’s trial ‘unacceptable blackmail’

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C.C Wei, Chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) answers questions during the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Hsinchu on June 3, 2025. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng / AFP) (Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images)

TSMC chair C.C. Wei hails Nvidia’s renewed AI chip sales to China as ‘very positive news’

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CORFU, GREECE – MAY 22: Domenica Graci, the CEO and Founder of travel agency One Luxury, is seen wearing an elegant suit consisting of a white linen one-button blazer from Zadig & Voltaire and a white linen flared tailored trousers from Zadig & Voltaire, a light grey ribbed top from Massimo Dutti, a golden Vintage Alhambra bracelet with five onyx colored stones from Van Cleef & Arpels, a golden Love bracelet from Cartier, a golden Juste un Clou nail bracelet from Cartier, an Essential Lines bracelet with brilliant-cut diamonds from Cartier on May 22, 2025 in Corfu, Greece. (Footage by Moritz Scholz/Getty Images)

Surge in jewelry spending pushes Cartier owner Richemont sales higher

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BEIJING, CHINA – JULY 15: Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp, receives a media group interview before attending the welcome dinner of the third China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) on July 15, 2025 in Beijing, China. China will open the third China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on July 16, rallying multinational giants including Nvidia, Apple, and Airbus to showcase industrial resilience and cross-border collaboration. (Photo by Wan Quan/VCG via Getty Images)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘doing our best’ to serve China after meeting Beijing officials

By Peter Catterall and AFP

Hakan Samuelsson, chief executive officer of Volvo Cars NV, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview after the unveiling of the XC40 Recharge electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Volvo is tying the launch of its first all-electric vehicle to a broader plan for shrinking the carbon footprint of its models by 40% through 2025. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Volvo takes a $1.2 billion hit due to U.S. tariffs and production delays

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London, UK – October 02, 2021: Modern black cab parked outside Loro Piana store on Bond Street, one of the most famous streets for luxury shopping in London, selective focus.

Workplace Culture

LVMH’s Loro Piana under court supervision for worker abuse following Chinese employee beating investigation

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AHMEDABAD, INDIA – JUNE 13: Forensic experts and DGCA officials searching for evidence at Air India Plane crash site, on June 13, 2025 in Ahmedabad, India. The Air India flight, which was bound for London, crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport. Around 260 people lost their lives in the incident. (Photo by Raju Shinde/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Travel & Leisure

Fuel to Air India jet engines was cut off moments before crash, prompting confusion between pilots

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BROWNSVILLE, TX-MAY 27: Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

More than 90% of X’s Community Notes are never published and ‘stuck in limbo’, study finds

By Anuj Chopra and AFP

A member of staff works as bags of rice are seen piled up at a rice store in Tokyo on July 9, 2025. While US President Donald Trump imposed a 10 percent tariff on most US trading partners in April, the rate is set to rise for dozens of economies including the European Union and Japan come July 9. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump wants Japan to import U.S. rice to cut trade deficit but consumers hate it—American rice ‘tastes awful. It lacks stickiness’

By Hiroshi Hiyama and AFP

A worker paints a railing next to empty corrals at the Union Ganadera Chihuahua cattle import facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, US, on Friday, June 20, 2025. The US Department of Agriculture announced a plan to open an $8.5 million facility in South Texas to combat the spread of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating bug that is deadly to cattle. Photographer: Paul Ratje/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mexico barred from sending cattle to U.S. after some test positive for the flesh-eating New World screwworm

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Ultra-realistic humanoid artist robot Ai-Da looks on in front of paintings of Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Elizabeth II, displayed on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit organised by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, on July 9, 2025. When successful artist Ai-Da unveiled a new portrait of King Charles this week, the humanoid robot described what inspired the layered and complex piece, and insisted it had no plans to “replace” humans. (Photo by Valentin Flauraud / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images)

Humanoid robot Ai-Da that sold first robot art at auction for over $1 million now says it’s not aiming to ‘replace human artists’

By Nina Larson and AFP

The flags of South Korea (L) and Samsung (R) flutter outside the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on July 8, 2025. Samsung Electronics said July 8, it expected its second quarter operating profits to drop 56 percent, blaming US export controls on advanced AI chips to China. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Samsung projects a 56% plunge in operating profit, blaming U.S. chip controls on China

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TOPSHOT – This picture taken on May 12, 2025 shows Erin Patterson arriving in the back of a prison transport vehicle at Latrobe Valley Magistrate’s Court in Morwell, Australia. An Australian woman murdered her husband’s parents and aunt by lacing their beef Wellington lunch with toxic mushrooms, a jury found on July 7 at the climax of a trial watched around the world. Keen home cook Erin Patterson hosted an intimate meal in July 2023 that started with good-natured banter and earnest prayer — but ended with three guests dead. (Photo by Martin KEEP / AFP) / For any use in Australia and New Zealand, please contact the AFP sales department at sydsales@afp.com or +61 405 149 534. (Photo by MARTIN KEEP/AFP via Getty Images)

Australian woman found guilty of triple murder with ‘delicious’ toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington

By William West and AFP

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 27: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters following a Senate Republican luncheon, in the U.S. Capitol on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Republican leaders are pushing to get what Trump calls his One Big Beautiful Bill Act through Congress and to his desk before the July 4 Independence Day holiday. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

U.S. tariffs will return to ‘Liberation Day’ levels on Aug. 1, if no trade deals are reached by then, Bessent says

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