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Briefing: China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’

Strategic angle: Share price rises for clean energy companies outstrip oil majors as investors bet on switch to renewables.

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Briefing: Moving on up

Strategic angle: An overview of the latest developments in the mining sector.

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Briefing: Meet the co-founder of Airbnb: How a weekend scheme to pay the rent turned into an industry giant

Strategic angle: Airbnb was first dreamed up in 2008, with people initially asking 'how could you trust a stranger ever in your own home?' In 2025, $92 billion was transacted on the platform. So how did they do it?

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Briefing: Hockey world mourns loss of Wild reporter Pierce

Strategic angle: Jessi Pierce, a dedicated NHL.com correspondent, tragically lost her life along with her three children in a house fire.

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Briefing: Kansas' Self: No decision yet on coaching future

Strategic angle: Longtime Kansas coach Bill Self reflects on his future after season-ending loss.

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Briefing: What's next for Germany's troubled car giants?

Strategic angle: German automakers are in a crisis due to stagnant sales, falling profits and constant strategy shifts. Can the industry recover?

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Briefing: Trump installs Columbus statue in White House campus

Strategic angle: The Columbus statue installed near the White House is a replica of the one tossed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 2020 amid the Black Lives Matter protests.

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Briefing: IAEA Director: Only Nuclear War Could Halt Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Strategic angle: The head of the IAEA warns that conventional warfare will not deter Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities.

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Briefing: Why Google will win the agentic e-commerce race and what it means for travel

Strategic angle: An analysis of Google's competitive edge in the evolving landscape of e-commerce and its implications for the travel industry.

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Briefing: Qatar Airways parks long-haul jets in storage in Spain

Strategic angle: Transfer of planes to Teruel airport signals airline is preparing for ongoing Gulf conflict

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Briefing: Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s

Strategic angle: From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran

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Briefing: America keeps bailing out Trump

Strategic angle: The country’s underlying strengths are absorbing his erratic choices, including the war on Iran

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Briefing: Iran war is a risk to the flow of Gulf funds around the globe

Strategic angle: World has come to depend on capital from the region more deeply than many realise

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Briefing: ‘It’s always Putin’ behind every EU migration crisis, official says

Strategic angle: Russian president is ‘biggest driver’ of immigration due to his role in wars over past decade, says EU commissioner

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Briefing: Military briefing: the high cost of using fighters to down Iranian drones

Strategic angle: Gulf states’ reliance on jets to battle waves of cheap Shaheds is testing their finances, pilots and planes

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Briefing: Iran and U.S.-Israel continue to raise the stakes as Strait of Hormuz tensions build

Strategic angle: Iran widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats as the war entered its fourth week.

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Briefing: Lai Administration Reverses Course on Nuclear Energy

Strategic angle: The Lai Administration shifts its stance on nuclear energy, signaling a significant policy change.

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Briefing: Lithium Tantalate: Making a Material Difference

Strategic angle: Exploring the impact of Lithium Tantalate in the optics and photonics industry.

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Briefing: Battle sends Minn. to first Sweet 16 in 21 years

Strategic angle: Amaya Battle hit a tiebreaking jump shot with 0.7 seconds left, lifting Minnesota past Mississippi 65-63 in the second round Sunday.

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Briefing: Booker dominates Oregon with 40 in Texas win

Strategic angle: Madison Booker scored a career-high 40 points in a dazzling display of shotmaking and No. 1 Texas rolled past No. 8 Oregon 100-58.