US and Taiwan strike trade deal tied to $250bn chip investment
Agreement will reduce tariffs on goods from the island to 15% and will ease tensions between the two countries...
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Agreement will reduce tariffs on goods from the island to 15% and will ease tensions between the two countries...
Pakistan has signed an agreement with SC Financial Technologies, a firm linked to Trump-backed World Liberty Financial, to explore using its USD1 stablecoin for payments....
The draft provision would treat tokens as “non-ancillary” assets, exempt from SEC securities rules, if they were in an ETF by 2026....
A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department rule that prohibits female inmates from wearing shorts in summer, with the court ruling that the women...
The US president said the UK's decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is among the reasons he wants to take control of Greenland....
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Sen. Mark Kelly said his lawsuit is about fighting back on the Pentagon's crackdown on speech. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Senator Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Pentagon's spe...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first visit to Asia has raised India’s hopes for a long-awaited trade pact with the European Union as Berlin pushes for deeper engagement with South Asia amid height...
Authorities said Grok was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual AI images....
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Liberal trade policies are giving way to frictions that could lead to outright conflict...
Deal marks government’s first direct-to-supplier agreement but raises questions over conflict of interest...
Semiconductor levies are designed to enact a deal Donald Trump cut with chipmakers to allow shipments of AI processors...
US president says moving National Economic Council director to lead the central bank would be a ‘serious concern for me’...
The new head of the International Bar Association (IBA) has said that the organisation will speak out if unjustified and illegal sanctions are imposed on legal professionals in Hong Kong. The remarks ...
Reforms under discussion would tear up accession rules used since cold war to allow Kyiv to join in a potential peace deal...
At Davos, the historian said AI is evolving into an autonomous agent that could eventually force governments to decide whether machines deserve legal recognition....
Anders Fogh Rasmussen says US president is using island as a ‘weapon of mass distraction’ from real threats such as Russia’s war in Ukraine...
Germany's trade and industry lobby say Trump's Greenland demand is "blackmail" and "unacceptable" and warn that giving in will only lead to further "ludicrous" demands. Follow DW....