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Briefing: Ohtani jersey from WBC goes for record $1.5M

Strategic angle: The jersey worn by Shohei Ohtani during Japan's victory in the World Baseball Classic sold for a record amount.

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Briefing: Pro-Kremlin blogger turns on Putin, sent to psychiatric care

Strategic angle: After seemingly switching sides, a pro-government blogger in Russia who criticized President Vladimir Putin has been admitted to psychiatric care in St. Petersburg.

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Briefing: CNBC Daily Open: clock ticks on Trump's Hormuz ultimatum

Strategic angle: Tensions between Trump and Tehran rise as the clock ticks on the U.S. President's Hormuz ultimatum.

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Briefing: Ligue 1: Lille defeat Marseille thanks to Olivier Giroud and close in on 3rd place

Strategic angle: LOSC beat Marseille (2-1) at the Stade Vélodrome on matchday 27 of Ligue 1 and are closing in on a top-three finish.

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Briefing: Zijin Mining Group acquires Chinese rival for $2.6B

Strategic angle: Zijin Mining Group has successfully acquired a Chinese competitor in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.

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Briefing: Old masters, new methods: The tech transforming art restoration

Strategic angle: A new wave of technology is saving masterpieces, from AI-generated masks to eco-friendly cleaning gels.

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Briefing: Wealth Tax on the Rich and Nuclear Power: Investor Guide to Danish Vote

Strategic angle: An essential guide for investors on the implications of Denmark's wealth tax and nuclear energy policies.

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Briefing: China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’

Strategic angle: Share price rises for clean energy companies outstrip oil majors as investors bet on switch to renewables.

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Briefing: Moving on up

Strategic angle: An overview of the latest developments in the mining sector.

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Briefing: Meet the co-founder of Airbnb: How a weekend scheme to pay the rent turned into an industry giant

Strategic angle: Airbnb was first dreamed up in 2008, with people initially asking 'how could you trust a stranger ever in your own home?' In 2025, $92 billion was transacted on the platform. So how did they do it?

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Briefing: What's next for Germany's troubled car giants?

Strategic angle: German automakers are in a crisis due to stagnant sales, falling profits and constant strategy shifts. Can the industry recover?

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Briefing: IAEA Director: Only Nuclear War Could Halt Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Strategic angle: The head of the IAEA warns that conventional warfare will not deter Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities.

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Briefing: Why Google will win the agentic e-commerce race and what it means for travel

Strategic angle: An analysis of Google's competitive edge in the evolving landscape of e-commerce and its implications for the travel industry.

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Briefing: Qatar Airways parks long-haul jets in storage in Spain

Strategic angle: Transfer of planes to Teruel airport signals airline is preparing for ongoing Gulf conflict

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Briefing: Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s

Strategic angle: From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran

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Briefing: America keeps bailing out Trump

Strategic angle: The country’s underlying strengths are absorbing his erratic choices, including the war on Iran

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Briefing: Iran war is a risk to the flow of Gulf funds around the globe

Strategic angle: World has come to depend on capital from the region more deeply than many realise

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Briefing: ‘It’s always Putin’ behind every EU migration crisis, official says

Strategic angle: Russian president is ‘biggest driver’ of immigration due to his role in wars over past decade, says EU commissioner

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Briefing: Military briefing: the high cost of using fighters to down Iranian drones

Strategic angle: Gulf states’ reliance on jets to battle waves of cheap Shaheds is testing their finances, pilots and planes

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Briefing: Iran and U.S.-Israel continue to raise the stakes as Strait of Hormuz tensions build

Strategic angle: Iran widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats as the war entered its fourth week.