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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a bilateral meeting during the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
India is set to become the world's No. 3 economy within five years. But growing so rapidly will test the pragmatism of its Hindu-nationalist prime minister.
Models of oil barrels and a pump jack are seen in front of displayed EU and Russia flags colors.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Capping the price of Russian oil is harder than the West thought, Iran scraps its hated morality police
Richarlison (L) and Neymar (R) of Brazil celebrate after scoring the first goal during the FIFA World Cup 2022 match against Serbia in Doha.
BILDBYRÅN via REUTERS
The tournament has highlighted the soccer-crazy country's political polarization.
Hard Numbers: All the pretty camels, Tigrayan troops withdraw, South Korean truckers strike, Bukele vs. gangs
December 04, 2022
First-place camel is pictured after a beauty contest in Qatar.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
Apart from the soccer World Cup, this week Qatar also hosted a beauty pageant for ... camels.
A researcher wearing cleanroom suit displaying a wafer in the lab of Shanghai Microsemi Semiconductor Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China.
Reuters
When it comes to semiconductor production, there’s just one superpower: Taiwan. The self-governing island produces more than two-thirds of the world’s chips, and almost all of the advanced ones.
Why Iranians Celebrated Their Soccer Team’s World Cup Elimination | GZERO World
Withhold your sympathy for the Iranian national soccer team, says Iranian activist and journalist Masih Alinejad. They represented the Islamic regime, she tells Ian Bremmer in an upcoming GZERO World interview, not the people.
US President Joe Biden grapples with inflation.
GZERO Media
The jobs report for November came in hot Friday, revealing that wage and job growth in the world’s largest economy remain robust. Sounds like a good thing, right? Well, not when the US economy is reeling from decade-high inflation.
Hard Numbers: Thirsty industry, global economic slump, China’s contraction, India enters the fray
December 02, 2022
Semiconductor manafacturing require a lot of water.
GZERO Media
The Graphic Truth: A US cellphone chip's global journey
December 02, 2022
A US cellphone chip's global journey
GZERO Media
Semiconductors bind the electrical circuits in the tech we use every day. In mid-2021, a global semiconductor shortage caused by COVID supply/demand issues and a drought in Taiwan made many devices hard to come by. But the self-ruled island in China's crosshairs is only part of the global chipmaking supply chain, which travels back and forth between Europe, Asia, and the US. We follow its steps for a smartphone.
Semiconductor manufacturing.
Annie Gugliotta.
Global semiconductor supply chains have some big resistance points that threaten to make microchips a macro-geopolitical flashpoint.
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