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Thousands of small satellites now circle the Earth in low orbit, transforming both how militaries see the battlefield and how forecasters predict your weekend weather.
The Daily World · 1 April 2026
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A single vote from one of five countries can block any United Nations Security Council resolution, making the veto one of the most powerful and contested tools in global diplomacy.
The Daily World · 30 March 2026
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Nuclear energy generates a significant share of the world's electricity with almost no direct carbon emissions, yet it remains one of the most contested power sources on the planet.
The Daily World · 28 March 2026
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Gold has served as a refuge for wealth for millennia, and the logic behind its price spikes reveals how fear moves financial markets.
The Daily World · 26 March 2026
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Inflation is one of the most reported numbers in economic news and one of the least understood, measuring something more specific than 'things cost more'.
The Daily World · 22 March 2026
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The energy transition has made a short list of metals the most strategically contested resources on the planet, and Australia is sitting on a significant share of them.
The Daily World · 20 March 2026
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A stock market index appears daily in the news as a number going up or down, but what it measures, and what it misses, is less well understood.
The Daily World · 18 March 2026
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The G20 is not a world government, but it is the closest thing the world has to a room where the biggest economic decisions get pre-negotiated.
The Daily World · 16 March 2026
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Migration is one of the oldest human behaviours and one of the most misunderstood, driven far more by labour demand and family ties than by crisis alone.
The Daily World · 14 March 2026
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Fresh water is not running out, but it is very badly distributed, and the gap between where people live and where water falls is widening.
The Daily World · 12 March 2026
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Governments around the world are asserting the right to control where their citizens' data lives, and the fight is reshaping the internet's architecture.
The Daily World · 10 March 2026
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A semi-enclosed sea roughly the size of the Mediterranean sits at the intersection of the world's busiest trade lanes and the sharpest territorial disputes in Asia.
The Daily World · 8 March 2026
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A group of 17 metals most people have never heard of sit at the centre of modern technology and a high-stakes contest between nations.
The Daily World · 6 March 2026
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The pandemic exposed how fragile the world's just-in-time logistics networks really were, and countries are still reshaping them today.
The Daily World · 4 March 2026
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Some of the world's smallest countries own stakes in some of the world's largest companies, because they turned a windfall into a permanent endowment.
The Daily World · 1 March 2026
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Fish do not respect national borders, which is why managing them requires international cooperation that is notoriously difficult to achieve.
The Daily World · 27 February 2026
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Three private companies issue judgements that affect how much every government on earth pays to borrow money, yet most people have never heard of them.
The Daily World · 25 February 2026
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India now has more people than any other country and an economy growing faster than almost any other, yet its path to great-power status is neither straight nor guaranteed.
The Daily World · 23 February 2026