city-state
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Officials for the city-state said an initial data leak occurred between 7 and 12 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
SINGAPORE—A Singaporean real-estate billionaire is suing Brookfield Asset Management over alleged breaches of contract and confidentiality related to a proposed joint venture to buy industrial properties in the Southeast Asian city-state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The head of the CDU in the northern city-state of Bremen, Heiko Strohmann, told Merz in a recent party meeting that he "was running a political party, not a business".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, the company’s insurance segment is likely to benefit from new regulations for a certain plan type in Singapore, which should structurally improve industry claims ratios in the city-state, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He has his eye on Milan, the northern city-state run by Duke Ludovico Sforza.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Patri Friedman, a software engineer and grandson of economist Milton Friedman, first tried building floating city-states, and then launched a fund to seed “startup cities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The region's city-states -- Ur, Uruk, and Lagash among them -- developed complex political and religious systems that became the blueprint for later societies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
“Antigone” was performed during an uneasy respite from war with other Greek city-states.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024
And the theater was used to help keep the coalition of city-states that made up ancient Greece from tearing one another apart for two centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
In politics, much has been made of the rise of monarchies at the expense of formerly self-governing city-states throughout the Greek world.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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