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Southeast Asia's Innovation Gap Is Now an Efficiency Problem
Five Southeast Asian economies have expanded innovation plans, but rankings and efficiency ratios show a persistent divide between inputs and usable outputs.
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Europe
ICC condemns US sanctions on court president and senior trial lawyer
The Hague tribunal called the measures a direct assault on judicial independence as Washington widened a campaign that now reaches half of the court's judges.
Middle East
UAE suspends trade with Iran after renewed ballistic missile fire
An indefinite halt to trade and financial transactions cuts a major commercial gateway for Iran as missile alarms, tanker attacks and restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz intensify.
Africa
Zimbabwe opens a new land-reform chapter with three routes for disputed farms
The government will return 67 treaty-protected farms, restore 840 properties acquired in error and let 409 remaining white farmers buy occupied land, while insisting redistribution is irreversible.
Brazil
Lula campaign recasts agribusiness as central to Brazil's growth and trade
The president's new platform gives agribusiness a more explicit economic role than in 2022, promising easier credit, diversified financing, technology and greater value added to exports.
Brazil
Brazil's Rare Earth Strategy Moves Into Policy Design
A new final report prepared to support Brazil's National Rare Earth Strategy places the country's mineral agenda within the contest for higher value-added supply chains.
Asia
Extreme El Niño threatens Southeast Asia's water, food and urban resilience
Pacific temperatures could average 2°C above normal and drive severe drought, crop losses, haze and inflation, while governments expand pumps, irrigation, monitoring and water coordination.
Russia
Putin cites slower Russian inflation while acknowledging signs of labor-market weakness
The Russian president said annual inflation had eased to 8.8 percent by the end of July 2025 and could reach 6 to 7 percent by year-end, while warning that both recorded and concealed unemployment were beginning to rise.
United States
Michigan primary widens Democrats' progressive lane ahead of US midterms
Abdul El-Sayed's Senate nomination in a pivotal Midwestern state has intensified the Democratic debate over economic populism, Gaza, campaign money and the leadership the party will carry into 2026 and 2028.
Asia
Korean retail investors return to US stocks as KOSPI rout weakens reshoring push
Retail purchases of US equities reached $4.6 billion in July as the Korean benchmark suffered its worst month since 2008, reversing a government effort to draw household savings back into the domestic market.
India
RBI moves to align loan-rate rules across banks and non-bank lenders
The proposed framework could require recognized benchmarks and fixed reset schedules for floating-rate loans, narrowing the pricing discretion of NBFCs while making policy-rate changes more visible to borrowers.
Europe
EU directs €1.4 billion in Russian-asset profits to Ukraine financing and military aid
The latest allocation will send €1.33 billion to a mechanism servicing G7 and EU loans to Kyiv and €70 million to military assistance, while the immobilised central-bank principal remains untouched.