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Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan's airspace. Against such economic headwinds, the airspace revenue stream "is helpful for the cash-strapped current administration", said Sulaiman Bin Shah, former deputy minister of industry and commerce in the ousted government and founder of the Catalysts Afghanistan consultancy.
Trump thumbs nose at decades of India courtship
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Brazil police target network that siphoned billions from fuel sector
Brazilian police cracked down Thursday on a sprawling criminal network that defrauded motorists at petrol pumps and concealed billions of dollars in illicit earnings in cahoots with financial companies. Brazilian police released images of a mass deployment of officers in Sao Paolo's Faria Lima Avenue Thursday, where many financial institutions are headquartered.
Luxury carmaker Lotus to slash UK jobs amid US tariffs
Chinese-owned luxury carmaker Lotus said Thursday that it planned to cut up to 550 UK jobs, in part over uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump's tariffs. The carmaker, which is majority owned by Chinese auto giant Geely, has several sites in the UK, including its headquarters in Hethel, eastern England.
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US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit Thursday to challenge Donald Trump's move to fire her from her position -- as the president intensified pressure on the independent central bank.
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