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            <title><![CDATA[Syria Forces Seize Major Oil, Gas Fields, Reuters Reports]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Micron to Buy Taiwan Chip Fabrication Site for $1.8 Billion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:49:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Musk Says Tesla Is Close to Finalizing the Design of AI5 Chip]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:30:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[WPP Draws Interest from Havas and Private Equity, Times Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:37:56 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A company plaque is seen outside the offices of British advertising giant WPP in London on August 23, 2017. - The British advertising giant WPP has downgraded its growth forecast for 2017 because of a slowdown in the market, causing a fall of over 10 per cent in the company&apos;s stock price. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Theon to Buy 9.8% Stake in French Night-Vision Gear Firm Exosens]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Octopus Energy Eyes Demerger of Tech Arm Kraken, Sky Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:54:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Musk Vows to be ‘Super Focused’ on Companies Amid X Outages]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 16:10:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, April 10, 2025. US President Donald Trump said he is looking to allow undocumented farm and hospitality industry workers to leave the US for a short period of time and reenter the country legally, a bid to address concerns about labor shortages from his crackdown on undocumented migration.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nvidia Plans Cheaper Blackwell AI Chip for China, Reuters Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 13:05:23 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Nvidia Corp.&apos;s logo on the company&apos;s Blackwell GPU chip displayed at the Nvidia AI Summit Japan in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. SoftBank will be the first Nvidia customer to build a supercomputer based on the chipmaker’s new Blackwell design, a move to meet growing demand in a country eager to catch up in artificial intelligence.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[EPA Wants to End Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants, NYT Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 09:58:52 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Piles of coal at the PacifiCorp Hunter coal-fired electrical generation plant in Castle Dale, Utah, US, on Monday, June 13, 2022. Residential electricity rates have been surging for months and are poised to climb even higher this summer on a combination of tight supplies of natural gas and coal, an unrelenting drought in the Western US, and a nationwide forecast for extreme heat.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GTCR Eyes Sale of Health Firm Cedar Gate Technologies, FT Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:12:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says US to ‘Take a Pass’ If Russia or Ukraine Balk on Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:55:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-In Ceremony for the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 18, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says China Has Been Hit Harder Than US, Touts Investment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:55:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tsunami Warning Lifted after Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Near Tonga]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:16:38 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>This image taken from video provided by Viral Tonganz shows vehicles in traffic after a strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Tonga, prompting an initial tsunami warning that was later lifted for the Pacific island country. (</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hegseth Signs Memo to Reduce Department of Defense’s Workforce]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:54:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A view of the Pentagon on December 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. Home to the US Defense Department, the Pentagon is one of the world&apos;s largest office buildings. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel Strikes Hezbollah Targets as Fragile Ceasefire Frays]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:16:56 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Smoke billows from the site of Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the area of the southern Lebanese village of Yohmor on March 22.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shein Profit Dropped Last Year, Further Challenging IPO, FT Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:09:22 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Shein signage outside a Forever 21 store in New York, US, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Forever 21 is considering multiple options to turn around its business, which could include a second bankruptcy filing, according to people with knowledge of the matter.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[SEC Staff Told to Seek Approval to Start Probes, Reuters Reports]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:47:46 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has retreated from a plan that would have forced many mutual funds to overhaul their pricing models.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[UniCredit Says It Holds Equity Stake of About 4.1% in Generali]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:37:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Allianz, Generali and Libeskind, left to right, skyscrapers seen from the UniCredit SpA headquarters in Milan, Italy, on Sunday July 31, 2022. UniCredit top corporate and investment bankers are betting on surging demand for risk products in the most volatile market in a decade, and taking deal-making business from rivals to help meet ambitious revenue targets set down by Chief Executive Officer Andrea Orcel.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Consumer Protection Watchdog Chopra Says He Has Left Role]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:24:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), during an interview in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. “The CFPB is suing Capital One for cheating families out of billions of dollars on their savings accounts,” Chopra said in a statement on Tuesday.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ackman Says He’s Reincorporating Management Company in Nevada]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:08:34 GMT</pubDate>
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