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    Céline Dion lands in Paris ahead of 16-concert arena residency

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The day brought a hard mix of war, technology risk and industrial retrenchment. Diplomacy tried to move around explosions, while companies and governments learned again that clever systems, whether artificial intelligence or supply chains, still break in very human ways.

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