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10 countries where people are the happiest in 2025
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 4, 2025
If happiness were a passport, these countries would be first-class destinations. According to the newly released World Happiness Report 2025, Finland is still holding tight to its crown as the happiest country in the world. This marks the eighth...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Global shift: Investors flee USD on Trump risk, EU gains
Azzet
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July 2, 2025
“Suddenly everything I ever wanted has passed me by – I’m crying in the rain”: The immortal lines to Dionne Warwick’s 1980s iconic hit could end up being a bitter corollary to Donald Trump's United States presidency. His wrecking ball economic...
IQ-EQ Adds Managing Directors in Singapore, Japan
finews.asia
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June 26, 2025
Luxembourg-based investor services firm IQ-EQ has expanded with the hire of new managing directors in Singapore as well as Japan. IQ-EQ has appointed Divya Doshi as managing director, sales for Asia and the Middle East, according to a statement,...
EU initiative "Stop Killing Games" reaches one million signatures
Notebook Check
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July 4, 2025
Goal reached: One million signatures have been collected. (Image source: Stop Killing Games) For a long time, it looked as though the EU initiative "Stop Killing Games" was doomed to fail. Initially, all metrics pointed to success, but then the...
Autonomous driving innovation fuels AI reach worldwide
People's Daily Online
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BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) -- On the outskirts of Beijing, a self-driving bus navigated effortlessly through traffic, demonstrating China's rapidly advancing autonomous driving technology. Developed by UISEE, a Beijing-based unicorn, this solution...
Fantasia Fest Reveals Third Wave Of 2025 Films: Queens Of The Dead, Fixed, It Ends, More
411Mania
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Fantasia International Film Festival has announced a strong final wave of films for its 2025 edition including Tina Romero’s Queens Of the Dead and more. The biggest genre film festival in North America announced the third wave of titles on...
Fantasia International Film Festival announces final wave of titles for 29th edition!
JoBlo
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July 3, 2025
The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 16th (one day earlier than previously announced) through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings...
Philips’ new ambient wall light is now available
The Verge
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June 17, 2025
Signify has officially announced its new Philips Hue Play Wall Washer light, which was previously leaked by Amazon UK earlier this month. The company has also launched its new Philips Hue AI assistant in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg,...
Spain overtakes Japan in GDP per capita - what is behind the numbers?
Euronews
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What once seemed improbable became possible when the Spanish economy produced higher GDP per capita, a metric closely linked to living standards, than the G7 member Japan, according to IMF data. This, in itself, doesn’t mean that the Southern...
Upwards of 100K people march in Budapest Pride
Washington Blade - Washington D.C.
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June 29, 2025
The governments of 20 European Union countries on Tuesday said they are “alarmed” over Hungary’s worsening anti-LGBTQ crackdown. Hungarian lawmakers in March passed a bill that bans Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition...
China Focus: Autonomous driving innovation fuels AI reach worldwide
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) -- On the outskirts of Beijing, a self-driving bus navigated effortlessly through traffic, demonstrating China's rapidly advancing autonomous driving technology. Developed by UISEE, a Beijing-based unicorn, this solution...
The future is being written for listening to the radio in cars
Global News
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June 29, 2025
Listening to the radio in the car is almost as old as the automobile itself. The very first time anyone demonstrated the operation of the new-fangled wireless devices was at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis when American inventor Lee DeForest...
Royal Teen Prince’s Secret DJ Career Revealed
The Daily Beast
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July 3, 2025
Prince Emmanuel, the 19-year-old son of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, is pursuing a new career path. The royal teen has started releasing music under the DJ name “Vyntrix,” releasing two dance tracks on Spotify in the last month....
Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe
The Conversation
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July 3, 2025
The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows election quality in the UK is now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. The Global Electoral Integrity Report...
Coinbase becomes second major crypto firm to move regulatory hub out of Ireland in 2025
Irish Independent
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Some of the crypto industry’s biggest companies are ditching Ireland as a regulatory hub as the Central Bank continues to refer to the sector as “a ponzi scheme” The company has obtained its Markets In Crypto Assets (Mica) licence, a foundational...
Arla Foods and DMK Group secure board approval for dairy merger
The Chemical Engineer
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DAIRY cooperatives Arla Foods and DMK Group have had their proposed merger approved by both boards of representatives. The new merged company will continue trading as Arla Foods and will be wholly owned by over 12,000 dairy farmers across northern...
Notre Dame Law School Professors Sadie Blanchard and Sherif Girgis granted tenure and promoted to full professor
Notre Dame Law School - Indiana
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July 3, 2025
Two members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty, Sadie Blanchard and Sherif Girgis, have been granted tenure and promoted to full professor effective July 1, 2025. "Sadie Blandard and Sherif Girgis are both exemplary voices in legal scholarship....
In Paris, these extraordinary museums hide unique treasures
The Toronto Star
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Paris is a city of museums, nearly 150 by my unofficial count. Beyond the state-owned grandes dames — the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and Versailles (if you define a palace as a museum) — there are free city museums (the Petit Palais and the...
JAO invests in next-generation auction platform to support ambitious EU electricity interconnection targets
Electrical Engineering
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June 10, 2025
Luxembourg, 10th June, 2025: Joint Allocation Office (JAO), which provides a one-stop-shop to support the European electricity capacity market, has announced an investment in its cross border auction platform. The next generation platform,...