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Banned in the U.S. and Europe, Huawei aims for the developing world’s AI

18 September 2025 at 05:00
Barred from many Western markets by U.S.-led restrictions, Huawei is doubling down on developing countries for its cloud and artificial intelligence businesses. The move has put Huawei on a collision...

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A view of a Huawei retail store shows the company's logo and a large advertisement featuring a foldable smartphone on September 9, 2025, in Chongqing, China.

When Africa’s internet breaks, this ship answers the call

As the Léon Thévenin eased into Cape Town port last month, Shuru Arendse was ready to rush home to his family. He had a month off and a laundry list...

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Tyrone November (L) and Didier Towanou, both able seamen, wrangle a debris-covered segment of cable hauled in from the seabed.

Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley

16 September 2025 at 05:00
At the end of November, Hamza Hourani’s phone rang. It was a cloudy morning in Damascus, and some Syrians were quietly stocking their cupboards as rebel fighters marched south toward...

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An aerial photo showing the Syrian capital Damascus.

The cold truth about EVs: Freezing weather slashes battery mileage

11 September 2025 at 05:00
Bashir Ahmad sold his wife’s gold jewelry to buy an electric three-wheeler that would revolutionize his apple business in Kashmir. Until winter arrived and killed it. On a freezing morning,...

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A boy pushes an e-rickshaw in a snowbound area of Rafiabad, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

How a movement against corruption on Nepali social media triggered unrest and death

9 September 2025 at 06:30
Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned following two days of protests against rampant corruption and inequality, exacerbated by the government’s recent decision to ban some social media platforms...

Demonstrators try to break through police barricades during a protest against corruption and the government's decision to block several social media platforms, in Kathmandu, Nepal, September 8, 2025. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

Indigenous group in Brazil takes TikTok to court over planned data center

8 September 2025 at 05:00
In late August, an Indigenous group in the Brazilian state of Ceará, in the country’s northeast, brought a formal complaint before federal authorities, asking them to halt the development of...

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Part of the Anacé from the traditional land hold up a banner in protest against the data center that reads "we are not a data center backyard".

EV jobs are starting to slip away

4 September 2025 at 05:00
The electric vehicle industry is cutting staff faster than smoke. More than 30,000 workers have lost their positions at electric-vehicle makers and related industries worldwide over the past year, according...

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Employees work on a Trumpchi brand vehicle production line at the Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd. (GAC) plant. Trumpchi, the Chinese auto brand established in 2010 and now preparing for U.S. sales, has become a topic of debate as owner GAC considers whether American consumers would love or hate the marque with a name similar to that of the controversial former U.S. president.

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My mom and Dr. DeepSeek

2 September 2025 at 05:00
Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills...

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