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Canada grows the food. Why isn’t it building the industry?

A new CFIN report explores why Canada grows so much of the world’s food, yet much of the industry that processes it sits elsewhere,...

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Joseph Stiglitz told AFP the United States was at high risk of falling into stagflation Joseph Stiglitz told AFP the United States was at high risk of falling into stagflation

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Stagflation risk in US ‘quite high’: Nobel-winning economist Stiglitz

The war in the Middle East has put the United States at high risk of falling into stagflation.

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Strong demand for AI hardware brought a 24 percent annual net profit jump last year for Foxconn Strong demand for AI hardware brought a 24 percent annual net profit jump last year for Foxconn

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AI to drive growth despite geopolitics, Taiwan’s Foxconn says

Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn on Monday said it expected the booming market for artificial intelligence servers to drive growth this year.

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Britain's economy is expected to slow to 1.1 percent in 2026

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Middle East war: global economic fallout

Oil prices rose further above $100 a barrel and Asian stocks mostly fell as the Iran war moved into a third week.

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Senegal expects the oil and gas sector to general more than $1 billion per year.

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Oil hovers around $100, stocks mixed as Iran war rages
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AI and automation cut 54,836 U.S. jobs in 2025

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AI could transform careers support for neurodivergent learners

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London’s highest and lowest paying boroughs revealed

Wages across London vary considerably, as new survey finds.

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Smoke rises from the site of air strikes in the Iranian capital

World

The environment, another casualty of war in the Mideast
Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix says people are growing tired of seeing data centers multiply in their communities

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US mayors push back against data center boom as AI backlash grows
Many insurers remain reluctant to cover business mistakes made by 'agentic" AI programmes housed in data centres

Business

Who covers AI business blunders? Some insurers cautiously step up

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Beijing, which has poured huge resources into its space programme to catch up with the United States and Russia, is aiming to put humans on the Moon by 2030

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Op-Ed: Australia’s first Moon Rover is called “Roover”. A strong dose of realism added.

Once a jolly swag-rover camped by a valley on Mars? Yeah, it’ll happen.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says artificial intelligence powered by the company's graphics processing units is quickly infusing nearly everything from Disney character robots to data centers that may one day be orbiting the planet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says artificial intelligence powered by the company's graphics processing units is quickly infusing nearly everything from Disney character robots to data centers that may one day be orbiting the planet

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Nvidia making AI module for outer space

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang on Monday said the leading artificial intelligence chip maker is heading for space with a goal of powering orbiting data...

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Asian labourers working in the United Arab Emirates have been caufght up in the Middle East war triggered by the US-Israeli assault on Iran Asian labourers working in the United Arab Emirates have been caufght up in the Middle East war triggered by the US-Israeli assault on Iran

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Migrant workers bear brunt of Iran attacks in Gulf

Bangladeshi migrant Ahmad Ali, 55, was doing his regular round delivering drinking water to residents in the United Arab Emirates when Iran launched its...

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Iran's players salute during the national anthem at the Women's Asian Cup in Australia

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Iran footballers train with Australia club and say ‘everything will be fine’

Two Iranian women footballers have trained with the Australian club Brisbane Roar after seeking asylum in the country, with one of them uploading a...

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An injured man looks out of an ambulance at a hospital in Maiduguri following blasts across the northeastern Nigerian city An injured man looks out of an ambulance at a hospital in Maiduguri following blasts across the northeastern Nigerian city

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Multiple suicide bombers hit Nigeria’s Maiduguri city after years of calm

Multiple explosions from suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri Monday evening, police said, on the back of an overnight attack...

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The UN population agency says the war in Ukraine is endangering pregnant women there and mortality rates among pregnant women have risen sharply The UN population agency says the war in Ukraine is endangering pregnant women there and mortality rates among pregnant women have risen sharply

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New study expands pesticide risk window to before pregnancy

New research highlights the risk of pesticides on newborns.

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Israel's President Isaac Herzog gives an interview at his residence in Jerusalem Israel's President Isaac Herzog gives an interview at his residence in Jerusalem

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Israel president tells AFP Europe should back efforts to ‘eradicate’ Hezbollah

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog told AFP Monday that Europe should back his country’s fight against Hezbollah, as Israeli forces carried out ground operations in...

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Cargill invests in Ukraine grain giant

US agricultural trading giant Cargill has acquired five percent of Ukraine’s biggest farming producer Ukrlandfarming, as the companies team-up to boost exports to China...

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