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Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani leaves the Presidential Palace after meeting with Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides in the capital Nicosia. Cyprus, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Qatar's Emir is in Cyprus for an official visit. (Photo by Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Qatar and the U.K. to invest £1 billion in climate-friendly technologies

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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – DECEMBER 03: In this handout image provided by South Korean Presidential Office, South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol speaks during the declaration of emergency martial law at the Presidential Office on December 03, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law on Tuesday, accusing the opposition of “anti-state activities plotting rebellion.” (Photo by South Korean Presidential Office via Getty Images)

South Korea’s president abandons martial law, opposition demands immediate resignation over ‘insurrection’

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Amazon unveils its Nova collection of AI models to compete with ChatGPT, Google, and Microsoft

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South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol attends the third session of the G20 Leaders’ Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 19, 2024. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

South Korea’s president, describing opposition as ‘anti-state forces’, declares martial law

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A worker inspects green bottles of Carlsberg beer from the production line at the Baltika Breweries LLC plant, operated by Carlsberg A/S, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, May 10, 2018. A slowdown in Russian demand for beer as international sanctions threaten the country’s economy is weighing on Danish brewer Carlsberg’s sales. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images

After ‘exhausting all options’ Carlsberg finally sells off its controversial Russian business with Putin’s blessing

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The beatles, the ed sullivan show, new york, 60s. (Photo by: Universal Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Long-lost legal documents found hidden in a cupboard shed light on The Beatles’ split

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UNITED KINGDOM, LONDON – AUGUST 29: A Chineses rufous horseshoe bat which is thought to be the origin of the Covid-19 virus in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington on August 29, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images)

Beijing pushes back as U.S. house lawmakers support COVID Chinese lab leak theory after 2-year probe

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TOPSHOT – Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan (C) looks on at a court in Ho Chi Minh city on April 11, 2024. A top Vietnamese property tycoon could face the death penalty when she and dozens of other co-accused face verdicts on April 11 in one of the country’s biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of USD 12.5 billion. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Vietnam tycoon loses death penalty appeal in $27 billion fraud but court says it could spare her life if she returns 3/4 of stolen assets

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Christophe Fouquet, chief executive officer of ASML Holding NV, at the Bloomberg Tech Summit in London, UK, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. The event brings together visionaries, investors, founders and policymakers to discuss; how much can we – and should we – trust technology, and why does it matter and how do we build it? Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Dutch chip giant ASML forecasts Trump tariffs won’t have a ‘material impact’ on business in 2025

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SINTRA, PORTUGAL – JANUARY 09: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen smokes an electronic cigarette while attending with the president of the Portuguese far-right party Chega (Enough) André Ventura a dinner in support of his presidential candidacy in Casa Da Azenha – Quinta da Ribeira, Vale de Lobos, on January 09, 2021, in Sintra, Portugal. The dinner was restricted to a limited number of people due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. French National Union (ex-National Front) leader Marine Le Pen is on a two-day visit to Portugal to support the launch of André Ventura’s electoral campaign as candidate to the Portuguese presidency. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Italy and Romania up in arms as EU’s outdoor smoking and vaping ban labelled ‘a violation of individual freedom’

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 16: President-elect Donald Trump looks on during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Trump promises to block Nippon’s $14.9 billion bid for ‘the once great and powerful’ U.S. Steel

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This photograph shows the Sarco suicide capsule

A new self-operating death pod promises a peaceful assisted suicide. But the first to die in it reportedly had mysterious neck injuries

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French Prime Minister Michel Barnier meets with medical staff during a visit at the “House of Women of the AP-HP” (“Maison des Femmes de l’Assistance Publique – Hopitaux de Paris”) in Paris, on November 25, 2024 as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Euro sinks as French budget crisis risks toppling Michel Barnier’s government in parliamentary showdown

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – SEPTEMBER 12: A man inspects the military equipment during the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London, United Kingdom on September 12, 2023. the Turkish firms such as ASELSAN, HAVELSAN, ROKETSAN, MKE, BMC and REPKON also attend the exhibition. The four-day event, taking place at the ExCel center in London, brings together all the pillars of national security and defense, including air, space, land, naval, security, cyber, and joint. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Wars and rising tensions spark global demand for arms, as sales hit record $632 million

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Hundreds of employees of Volkswagen (VW) demonstrate with a banner of IG Metall union reading “Ready for strike” in front of the plant of German car maker Volkswagen (VW), on December 2, 2024 in Zwickau, eastern Germany, as thousands of Volkswagen workers go on strike all over Germany in an escalating industrial dispute at the crisis-hit German auto giant with thousands of jobs at stake. VW has been hit hard by high manufacturing costs at home, a stuttering shift to electric vehicles and tough competition in key market China. It has announced a plan to cut billions of dollars in costs. (Photo by Jens Schlueter / AFP) (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)

Volkswagen workers walk out on strike as German auto industry is engulfed in crisis

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