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How to Use the Big Mac Index to Make Better Trading Decisions
Investing
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July 26, 2025
The Big Mac Index is a common measure of exchange rates, but can it be used to make trading decisions? Find out what the Big Mac Index is and how it works. What is the Economist’s Big Mac Index? The Big Mac Index was created by The Economist in...
Cambodia records 50.7 pct rise in Chinese tourist arrivals in H1 2025
Xinhua News Agency
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PHNOM PENH, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has reported a 50.7-percent year-on-year increase in the number of Chinese tourists in the first half of 2025, said the Ministry of Tourism's latest report released on Saturday. A total of 586,771 Chinese...
GUEST APPEARANCE: Defend personal space, reduce anxiety
Finger Lakes Times - New York
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Surrounded by a modest, waist-high fortification made up of both rounded and pointed treated pine pickets, I’m outside in the garden on my hands and knees pulling weeds. Where lengthy green stems boost Mary Todd (Lincoln) lily buds above the...
These Are The 40 Countries With The 'Best' Culture And Heritage
Zero Hedge
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The richness of a country’s culture and heritage is often what makes it unforgettable to visitors and cherished by its people. From ancient ruins to cuisine, music, and tradition, culture helps define national identity and global influence. This...
Trump has momentum heading into Aug. 1 ‘reciprocal tariff’ deadline after Asian trade deals, experts say
New York Post
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July 26, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Trump has “leveraged American bargaining power” with three Asian nations this week — and given himself momentum ahead of the looming Aug. 1 deadline for most “reciprocal tariffs,” experts predict. Trump secured Japan’s...
World Anti-Doping Agency Intelligence and Investigations Workshop held in Delhi
The Statesman (India)
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July 26, 2025
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) India with support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, hosted the second edition of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Intelligence and Investigations (I&I) Workshop in the national capital. The...
The world this week | India-UK trade deal enables duty-free exports, China’s mega dam causes fresh unease, Gaza at breaking point
The Indian Express
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July 26, 2025
India signs its first landmark trade deal with the UK, secures enhanced market access in export-oriented and job-creating sectors; During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Maldives, New Delhi launches talks on FTA, announces a Rs...
Costa Rica Faces Economic Blow as Intel, Pfizer, and Qorvo Announce Restructuring
Tico Times
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July 26, 2025
Intel announced that it will shut down its chip assembly and test plant in Costa Rica, part of a broader global restructuring aimed at improving operational efficiency. “Following a comprehensive review of our business, we are announcing changes...
VinFast Indonesia to expand dealership network to 85 showrooms nationwide
The Slovenia Times
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July 26, 2025
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Media OutReach Newswire - 26 July 2025 - VinFast, the Vietnamese Nasdaq-listed EV manufacturer, has officially signed agreements with 20 new dealership partners during the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS)...
37 tourists confirmed dead in cruise ship accident in Vietnam
Gulf Today
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July 20, 2025
A total of 47 people have been recovered, including 10 survivors and 37 confirmed dead, after a cruise ship capsized in Ha Long Bay, northern Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency reported on Sunday. The wreck was salvaged and towed ashore on early on...
The beauty of Billy Joel? Unlike with so many stars, there’s no myth-building
New York Post
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July 25, 2025
Normally, if you see someone’s four wives all speaking about them on TV, it’s a safe bet you’re watching a “Dateline” murder mystery. So it’s astonishing to witness all three of Billy Joel’s exes appear as well as his current wife in the...
CETA Boosts Indian Seafood Exports to UK by 70%
Pragativadi
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July 26, 2025
India’s marine export industry has entered a new era with the signing of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between India and the United Kingdom on July 24, 2025. The milestone agreement, witnessed by Prime Ministers Shri...
Opinion: Asheville's Pack Square Park a place of hope and celebrationDave Stern
Asheville Citizen Times - North Carolina
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Long before Asheville emerged as a vibrant city, Pack Square was an important crossroads. The Square’s history dates to the time of Indigenous peoples, especially the Cherokee Nation, who used it as a site for trading and burial. After the Civil...
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Every third smartphone US imports is now made in India as China's share declines
Firstpost
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July 26, 2025
Driven primarily by Apple iPhones, India now accounts for one in every three smartphones imported by the US, amid ongoing trade negotiations with Washington. read more India’s share of US smartphone imports skyrocketed to nearly 36 per cent in the...
In a world of tariff pain, USMCA gives Canada an edge – for now
The Globe and Mail
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July 26, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Steel coils at ArcelorMittal Dofasco's mill in Hamilton, Ont., in June. The majority of Canadian goods that flowed across the border in May were not subject to duties, a Globe analysis shows, but exports have fallen more...
Famed CT protest artwork ‘Lipstick’ to be removed and restored
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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July 26, 2025
A giant modern art sculpture that appeared overnight on the Yale campus in 1969 and became part of political protests and demonstrations at the university for decades will be fully restored thanks to a major arts conservation grant, the Yale...
In Fall River, a hellish nightmare of a fire
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Some residents were already in bed and panic quickly set in as some felt trapped in their rooms. Many were elderly, and some were in wheelchairs or had limited mobility or other health complications. Terrified residents made multiple 911 calls,...
World’s best holiday cities revealed and three of them are only two hours from the UK
The Sun
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July 26, 2025
THREE of the world's best cities are just a few hours away from the UK, offering sun and beautiful sights. Florence, Seville and Porto all won big at the Travel + Leisure Awards 2025 - and you can get to all three of them in just over two hours...
Intel cuts back spending as chipmaker mounts comeback
The Antelope Valley Press - California
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July 26, 2025
Intel Corp. is shedding thousands of workers and cutting expenses as its new CEO works to revive the fortunes of the struggling chipmaker that helped launch Silicon Valley but has fallen behind rivals like Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices...
Four more bodies found after Vietnamese boat capsized, death toll at 38
TASS
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July 20, 2025
HANOI, July 20. /TASS/. Rescuers found four more bodies of people, who drowned when a tourist boat capsized in Ha Long Bay of the South China Sea, off Vietnam’s northern coast, the VTC news portal reported. By midnight GMT, the crisis response...