2026-03-13
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This is The World in Brief from The Economist.
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Over two years after cancelling the planned production of three new electric vehicle models in North America,
Iran's new supreme leader pledged to, quote, avenge his country's martyrs in his first public comment since succeeding his father.
the Japanese carmaker is grappling with a slowdown in America's electric vehicle market and expects
In a written statement aired on state television, Mushtaba Khamenei...
Threatened to open new fronts against America and pledged to continue the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz,
to make an annual net loss of up to 630 billion yen,
a key oil-shipping route.
its first since it went public nearly seven decades ago.
He is believed to have been injured in an American strike.
China approved a law that will force the country's ethnic minorities to learn Mandarin.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, jumped back above $100 a barrel.
The language of the dominant Han Chinese group.
It will become the main language in schools and official communication.