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India’s bold, but difficult mission! Why countering China’s rare earth magnets' monopoly won’t be easy - major roadblocks ahead
The Times of India
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India's rare earth situation reflects limitations in technical capacity and economic viability rather than lack of intention. (AI image) China dominates the world’s rare earth metals and minerals supply - and it’s a fact that the world’s second...
India Tightens Border Trade With Bangladesh, Restricts Some Fabric Shipments to Ocean Routes
Sourcing Journal - New York
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July 3, 2025
India is imposing further restrictions on Bangladeshi exporters, preventing them from shipping certain materials including woven fabrics, jute and flax yarn through its land ports. The move, established by the country’s Directorate General of...
China denies military base ambitions in Pacific Islands, focus instead on improved livelihoods
The Straits Times
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July 3, 2025
SYDNEY – China’s embassy in Fiji on July 3 denied that Beijing wanted a military base or sphere of influence in the Pacific Islands after Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said islands were trying to cope with a powerful China seeking to...
China, US ease export curbs but Trump’s Vietnam deal risks blowback: analysts
South China Morning Post
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July 3, 2025
A week after announcing long-anticipated progress from high-level talks in London, China and the United States are taking concrete steps to clear export hurdles and issue licenses for strategic goods. The easing of trade restrictions signals a...
India Raises Alarm Over U.S. Plan to Slap 500% Tariff on Russian Oil Importers
Oil Price
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July 3, 2025
India is concerned with a U.S. Senator’s proposal to slap a 500% tariff on goods imported in America from countries buying Russian oil, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, adding that the world’s third-largest crude oil importer...
India Targets Critical Minerals in Zambia Amid Global Supply Concerns
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 3, 2025
India has deployed a team of geologists to Zambia to explore deposits of copper and cobalt, two minerals critical to its clean energy transition, according to two Indian government sources. The Zambian government has allocated 9,000 square...
India projected to clock 6.8-7 pc growthin Q2, current fiscal to register 6.3 pc
Nagaland Post
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July 2, 2025
India’s GDP growth is projected at 6.3 per cent in current fiscal (FY26) despite external headwinds, an HSBC report said on Wednesday, adding that with 70 per cent of the indicators growing positively, the Q2 growth (April-June) is trending at...
India to reinforce parliamentary ties with Ghana
Ghana News Agency
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July 3, 2025
By Godwill Arthur-Mensah Accra, July 3, GNA-Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi has given the assurance that India will further reinforce parliamentary ties with Ghana to strengthen the democracies of the two countries. He, thus,...
Japan PM sweats to keep coalition in upper house vote
Taipei Times
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July 3, 2025
Campaigning for Japan’s upper house election started yesterday, with unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fighting to maintain the ruling coalition’s majority. Ishiba, 68, has been head of a minority government since October last year,...
China dispatches aircraft carrier to Hong Kong for first time
NHK
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The Chinese military has dispatched a domestic aircraft carrier to Hong Kong for the first time since the territory was returned to China from British rule in 1997. July 1 marked the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China. On Thursday...
Japan aims for world’s first deep-ocean rare mineral extraction
News.Az
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The exploration vessel Chikyu will lower a pipe 5,500 meters below the ocean's surface to extract rare earths. (Photo: JAMSTEC) Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind,...
India News | Atheist China Defaming Dalai Lama for Long: Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Member Jigdal
Latestly
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July 3, 2025
Shimla, Jul 3 (PTI) Tibetan Parliament-in-exile member Tenzing Jigdal Thursday termed China an "atheist country" that had been defaming the Dalai Lama for a long time and asserting that the incarnation decision would be taken by the established...
Japanese Americans Gather to Build Resistance
North American Post - Washington State
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July 3, 2025
By Kiku Hughes NAP Contributor On May 3 over 150 Japanese Americans and their allies met at the historic Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington. They discussed the community’s role in the resistance to the U.S. President...
China urges U.S. to stop advancing so-called Taiwan-related act
CGTN
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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday urged the United States to stop advancing the so-called Taiwan-related act. Spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks at a regular press conference when asked to comment on the adoption of the...
Japan seeks 8th round of tariffs talks in U.S. amid Trump impasse
Kyodo News+
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July 3, 2025
TOKYO - The Japanese government has informed the United States that its chief negotiator intends to conduct an eighth round of ministerial-level talks in Washington early next week, a source close to the matter said Thursday. With President Donald...
China sentences Linfen Covenant Home Church leaders, members to prison
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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July 3, 2025
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Thursday, July 03, 2025 A man stands in a room in a house church in Puyang, in China's central Henan province on August 13, 2018. | GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty ImagesThree leaders of the Linfen Covenant...
India’s PM Hails Ghana’s Democracy
Daily Guide
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July 3, 2025
Narendra Modi India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has paid tribute to Ghana’s democratic credentials and called for a deepening of bilateral ties between India and Ghana. Addressing Parliament earlier today, Prime Minister Modi praised Ghana’s...
Chinese Hackers Exploit Ivanti CSA Zero-Days in Attacks on French Government, Telecoms
The Hacker News
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July 3, 2025
The French cybersecurity agency on Tuesday revealed that a number of entities spanning governmental, telecommunications, media, finance, and transport sectors in the country were impacted by a malicious campaign undertaken by a Chinese hacking...
India's rise as a manufacturing powerhouse making China nervous as geoeconomic advantage shifts
Firstpost
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July 3, 2025
As India increasingly attracts global supply chains and manufacturing investment, tensions with China are mounting, with signs that Beijing may be responding with quiet but targeted disruptions to India’s industrial ambitions. From electronics to...
ASEAN on the hot seat in US tariff negotiations
Asia Times
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July 3, 2025
As the 90-day ‘pause’ on Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” nears the finish line, countries across Southeast Asia are growing increasingly anxious that the price for securing a deal to lower those tariffs includes political backlash at home and...