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A blue WLAN icon is superimposed on an image showing people at IT workspaces in a large room

A blue WLAN icon is superimposed on an image showing people at IT workspaces in a large room

Syria's tech industry: From survival to scale?

Syria's tech industry: From survival to scale?

From a homegrown tourist-rental platform to food delivery services, Syrian founders are pushing a tech comeback.

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sitting extreme right, and on screen bottom left, with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, bottom right, speak during a ceremony as they have remotely inaugurated the construction of a third nuclear reactor of the Akkuyu power plant

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sitting extreme right, and on screen bottom left, with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, bottom right, speak during a ceremony as they have remotely inaugurated the construction of a third nuclear reactor of the Akkuyu power plant

Nuclear diplomacy: Can the world catch up with Russia?

Nuclear diplomacy: Can the world catch up with Russia?

Russia is shaping the global nuclear energy landscape — but to what extent? And is it a concern?

Young Pakistani university students sit and chat in an auditorium with two women seated in the foreground to the right and a red map of Pakistan with blue arrows blended over the left part of the screen

Young Pakistani university students sit and chat in an auditorium with two women seated in the foreground to the right and a red map of Pakistan with blue arrows blended over the left part of the screen

Can Pakistan turn brain drain into brain gain?

Can Pakistan turn brain drain into brain gain?

Pakistan's talents are emigrating: Can the brain drain become a brain gain in the long term?

Women in Pakistan looking at their cell phones

Women in Pakistan looking at their cell phones

Pakistan's creator boom faces big risks

Pakistan's creator boom faces big risks

Will the content boom in Pakistan lift the creators, or crash under bans and payment hurdles?

Children looking at a laptop

Children looking at a laptop

What if African countries integrated their economies?

What if African countries integrated their economies?

Africa's 54 countries have 20% of the global population but under 3% of global GDP. But what about the future?

Shipping containers at the Hamburg Port

Shipping containers at the Hamburg Port

Global shipping companies faces twin threats from Trump

Global shipping companies faces twin threats from Trump

A storm is expected in global trade in October, when the US begins imposing docking fees on Chinese-built vessels.

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