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Corporate webs at sea: Who controls the world’s fishing fleets

MANILA, Philippines — Complex corporate structures behind the world’s industrial fishing fleets have been revealed in a landmark study that exposed who ultimately controls and profits from them. Last year, ocean conservation group Oceana and researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela released the most comprehensive mapping to date of ownership of large-scale fishing

Teacher dies after Thailand school shooting

BANGKOK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A ⁠female teacher died on Thursday in southern Thailand's ⁠Hat Yai district after a gunman opened fire ‌at a school where she worked, the provincial administration said on social media. Read full story

Hundreds of jobs to go as lithium giant pulls pin on WA processing plant

US lithium giant Albemarle has shut down its Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in WA’s South West in a move expected to impact about 250 workers.

Bangladesh election 2026: Polls open in democracy test

Voting has started in Bangladesh's first election since Gen Z mass protests toppled longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Follow DW for more.

China’s Baidu unveils AI-driven Wikipedia challenger in bid for international users

Chinese tech giant Baidu launched a Wikipedia challenger this week, banking on artificial intelligence to bridge information gaps for local and worldwide audiences in a move analysts said was aimed at seizing global opportunities. BaiduWiki, a Wikipedia-style service available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Japanese, quietly went live on Monday, according to records from the Wayback Machine, a digital archive platform. A now deleted post on Baidu’s official account on social-media site...

Oil chief rejects Trump’s push to return to Venezuela