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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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NATO chief urged Trump to see Ukraine aid as ‘a good deal’ for U.S.
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:48:01 +0000
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he told Donald Trump that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all also have a stake in the Ukraine war’s outcome.
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What’s at stake with a second Trump presidency – in charts and maps
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:00:51 GMT

Conflicts around the globe and domestic policies on immigration and vaccinations are likely to face upheaval

The second Donald Trump administration is expected to have a vast impact both domestically and around the world, potentially reshaping everything from the very private – such as abortion access in the US – right through to something as public as the health of the planet itself.

While Trump’s policies and their effects will take time to emerge, we can tell a lot about where things are heading by comparing the status quo to current data trends in six key areas, from migration and war through to climate and vaccine uptake.

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How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:53:44 +0000
A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel groups to overrun the Syrian Army.
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Biden surges arms to Ukraine, fearing Trump will halt U.S. aid
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:32:17 +0000
Biden’s Ukraine directive has stirred debate, as some officials worry it will cut too deeply into American stockpiles and jeopardize military needs elsewhere.
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Live updates: Peter Navarro, who was imprisoned for contempt of Congress, tapped for trade adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:51:45 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Mexico says Canada wishes it had its ‘cultural riches’ amid tariffs feud
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:53:49 GMT

Leaders cast the other as ill-prepared after Trump threatens to apply 25% taxes on goods from both countries

Mexico’s president has said Canadians “could only wish they had the cultural riches” of her country as tensions mount between the two nations, caught in a feud over tariffs and trade exacerbated by Donald Trump.

The US president-elect threatened in a social media post last week to apply devastating levies of 25% on all goods and services from both countries, and to keep them in place until “such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!”

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Trump’s union-friendly labor secretary choice sparks GOP anxiety
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:06:10 +0000
Trump’s selection of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer is fueling anxiety among some Republicans in the Senate and business trade groups who will consider her nomination.
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Trump energy nominee misinterprets studies to support claims, scientists say
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:01:38 +0000

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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

The post Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms. appeared first on The Intercept.

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If Trump’s tariffs start a trade war, it would be an economic disaster | Mark Weisbrot
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:05 GMT

The president-elect’s two main arguments for his tariff threat – to reduce migration and to combat drugs – are not credible

“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite word,” said Donald Trump last month. Pundits, politicians and financial markets are trying to figure out why, since he announced a week ago that he would impose tariffs on the United States’s three biggest trading partners: 25% for Mexico and Canada, and 10% for China.

One theory is that tariffs can be a beautiful distraction. Trump, more than any previous US president, has fed on distractions for years, both to campaign and to govern. He can move seamlessly from one distraction to the next, like a magician preparing for the opportune moment to pull a coin from where it appears to have been hidden behind your ear.

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To win again, Keir Starmer’s Labour party needs to get emotional | Letters
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:57:08 GMT

Sheila Duncan says Labour has to address the problems facing Britain with passion if it wants public support. Plus letters from David Diprose and Maureen Tilford

John Harris raises some important issues in his article (Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human, 1 December), but it’s crucial to dig deeper into the relationship between politics and emotion. Politicians like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are not more “human” than those in the centre or on the left. They just know how to manipulate dark human emotions – fear, anger and resentment – in societies where there is profound inequality, very little taxation of the rich and barely regulated privatisation of all that makes civilised life possible – health services, education, water, energy and transport.

They particularly know how to manipulate resentment – the emotion that underlies fascism – when so many people struggle for survival as they watch the smug satisfaction of those who don’t.

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Russia’s Embassy in South Korea told its citizens to remain calm, follow directions from local authorities...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:53:03 +0000

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China hits US with ban on critical minerals used in tech manufacturing
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:50:47 +0000
China bans US exports of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials.
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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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England’s Ben Stokes demands answers from ICC after latest over-rate sanctions
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:41:29 GMT

• Governing body has yet to address captain’s concerns
• ‘I’ve not signed an over-rate sheet since the Ashes’

Ben Stokes has revealed a personal stand-off with the International Cricket Council about over-rate penalties, including his refusal as England captain to sign the relevant post-match paperwork as a protest against the system.

Speaking before the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, and naming an unchanged England XI as they target an unassailable 2-0 lead, Stokes laid bare his frustrations at the sides being docked three World Test Championship points and 15% of their match fees for the sluggish, albeit four-day, series opener in Christchurch.

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South Korea president’s aides offer to resign en masse – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:57:13 GMT

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The White House has said it is “closely” monitoring the situation in South Korea.

“The administration is in contact with the ROK government and is monitoring the situation closely,” a spokesperson for the national security council said, using the official acronym for the Republic of Korea, where thousands of US troops are based as parts of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea.

All political activities are banned in South Korea following the imposition of martial law on Tuesday and all media will be subject to government monitoring.

All political activities, including those of the national assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies and demonstrations, are strictly prohibited.

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Trump's defence nominee hits out after reports he could be dropped
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:59:35 GMT
US media suggest the president-elect could replace Pete Hegseth, whose selection is under intense scrutiny.
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Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, emerged from a meeting with incoming Senate majority leader...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:51:45 +0000

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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, canceled a meeting with Sen. Josh Hawley...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:34:48 +0000

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Treasury yields slip after ISM’s services reading drops for November
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:16:00 GMT
U.S. government debt rallied on Wednesday, sending yields lower, after the Institute for Supply Management’s survey of service companies for November reflected anxiety over incoming-President Donald Trump’s economic plans.
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Trump considers DeSantis, Waltz to replace embattled Hegseth as defense secretary pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:11:37 +0000
The president-elect discussed the role with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Trump said he pulled Chad Chronister out of consideration for his head of the DEA
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:03:32 +0000

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‘This is not time for retreat or apathy’: Black women dissect Harris loss
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:00:20 GMT

Activists among 92% of Black women who voted for Harris discuss how intersection of racism and sexism led to defeat

Misogynoir, the intersection of racism and sexism, was the main reason behind Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 general election, a panel of Black female experts argued, noting how post-election coverage has failed to contend with how white supremacy undergirded the election results.

In a conversation titled “Views from the 92%: Black Women Reflect on 2024 Election and Road Ahead”, several academics dissected how and why the vice-president lost, particularly given Trump’s problematic history.

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Trump names Adam Boehler as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:52:03 +0000

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Trump picks a former U.S. soldier turned investor as Army secretary
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:42:50 +0000

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Trump names businessman and private astronaut Jared Isaacman as head of NASA
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:37:44 +0000

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Trump and the GOP will have a historically tiny House majority. What that means.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:32:41 +0000
A look at the numbers, and how fraught and riven the next two years could be for President-elect Trump and the GOP.
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Peter Navarro, imprisoned for contempt of Congress, to return as Trump adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:23:16 +0000

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Former Trump defense official emerges as possible Hegseth replacement
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:08:12 +0000

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Trump’s top inauguration donors to be rewarded with dinners and access
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:46:18 GMT

Those who donate $1m or raise $2m will get invites to dinners with Donald and Melania Trump as well as JD Vance

Top donors to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee will be rewarded with dinners alongside the president-elect and his wife Melania before and after their return to the White House, according to multiple reports.

An “elegant and intimate dinner with President Donald J Trump and Mrs Melania Trump” on 19 January, the night before Trump’s swearing-in, has been billed as the “pinnacle event”, according to details sent to donors this week.

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Pete Hegseth’s strongest ally isn’t Trump. It’s Fox News.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:41:16 +0000
The potential defense secretary’s candidacy has been boosted far more robustly by his former employer than by his possible future one.
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, will cross over to the...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:19:35 +0000

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Trump advisers renew push for pardon of Edward Snowden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:10:52 +0000

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‘Straight in harm’s way’: can Trump open up Alaska’s 19m-acre refuge for drilling?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:00:18 GMT

Native leaders ready for a fight as Trump calls ANWR, one of the last truly wild places on Earth, the US’s ‘biggest oil farm’

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is one of the earth’s last intact ecosystems. Vast and little-known, this 19m-acre expanse along Alaska’s north slope is home to some of the region’s last remaining polar bears, as well as musk oxen, wolves and wolverines. Millions of birds from around the world migrate to or through the region each year, and it serves as the calving grounds for the porcupine caribou.

Donald Trump has called the refuge the US’s “biggest oil farm”.

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Hegseth says Trump told him to ‘keep fighting’ in tough confirmation process
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:50:48 +0000

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Trump’s union-friendly choice for labor secretary sparks GOP anxiety
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:43:29 +0000

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Pete Hegseth says Trump told him to ‘keep fighting’ amid rumors he’ll be replaced by DeSantis
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:37:26 GMT

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense vows not to back down despite multiple controversies emerging since he was named

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for secretary of defense, shared an impassioned post saying he will “never back down” amid a flurry of rumors that the president-elect is contemplating replacing him with Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

“I’m doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers. The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents. They are afraid of [Donald Trump] – and me. So they smear w/ fake, anonymous sources & BS stories. They don’t want truth. Our warriors never back down, & neither will I,” Hegseth wrote on X on Wednesday morning.

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Trump plans to restrict gender transition care for minors
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:36 +0000

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GB News overtakes rival Sky in latest live viewing figures, data shows
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:57:27 GMT

Rightwing broadcaster’s ratings surge in month featuring farmers’ protest in London and Trump re-election in US

It may be the bane of many liberals, and its provocative broadcasts have certainly kept Ofcom busy since its launch.

But despite all the controversy, the audience for GB News keeps rising, and November appeared to be another significant month.

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Will the incoming Trump administration change course in the case?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:41:06 +0000

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Trump said to have discussed defense secretary job with DeSantis
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:22:38 +0000

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Trump to attend Fox awards show to receive Patriot of the Year award
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:04:40 +0000

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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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Analysis: Senate GOP primary threats loom over Trump nomination battles
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:45:06 +0000

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Republicans take a closer look at Trump’s Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:30:36 +0000

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The happiest place to live in the UK? It’s not London …
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:22:05 GMT

With high scores for friendly neighbours and access to services, Woodbridge in Suffolk has topped Rightmove’s annual list for the first time

It may not have the bright lights of London or Edinburgh, or even the celebrity or notoriety of some of the Great Britain’s better known villages and towns.

But in one respect, Woodbridge in Suffolk seems to trump them all: it is the happiest place to live in Britain. At least that is the conclusion of a survey by the property website Rightmove.

Woodbridge, East of England, £441,569, £1,478

Richmond upon Thames, London, £939,329, £3,131

Hexham, North East, £313,147, £840

Monmouth, Wales, £320,974, £1,335

Harrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber, £394,312, £1,439

Skipton, Yorkshire and the Humber, £263,479, £1,030

Sevenoaks, South East, £881,061, £2,924

Leigh on Sea, East of England, £465,542, £1,796

Cirencester, South West, £384,013, £1,495

Wokingham, South East, £590,949, £2,120

Winchester, South East, £578,760, £2,069

Stirling, Scotland, £214,441, £1,227

Stratford-upon-Avon, West Midlands, £413,115, £1,604

Horsham, South East, £458,641, £1,983

Kendal, North West, £285,645, £966

Kensington and Chelsea, London, £1,667,573, £5,345

Chorley, North West, £197,199, £883

Hove, South East, £555,193, £1,993

Wandsworth, London, £865,205, £3,159

Hitchin, East of England, £510,612, £1,730

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Trump’s pick to head DEA withdraws after GOP criticism of his covid policies
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:15:21 +0000

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Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the threat to press freedom
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:07:14 GMT

A second term for Trump has chilling implications for critical independent journalism and the media the industry

Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office.

The president-elect made it clear during the campaign that he had the media in his sights. He told a rally on the eve of the election that he “wouldn’t mind” if an assassin shot the journalists standing in front of him.

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Biden could do so much good with pardons. Instead he bailed out his son | Tayo Bero
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:05 GMT

Hunter Biden cut the line while thousands of people who deserve similar considerations of mercy languish in prison

When Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would be pardoning his son Hunter – who was facing sentencing in two federal criminal cases – he helped cement Donald Trump’s much-repeated argument that the American judicial system is rotten, politicized and in need of an overhaul.

It’s a stupid refrain, but there are some heavy issues with Biden’s choice to do this now. What are we to make of the hypocrisy of a president who promised he’d “never interfere in the dealings of the justice department”, and swore even up until six weeks ago that he would not pardon his son? Or the fact that he just delivered Trump and the Republican party the kind of ammunition they need to justify pardoning, say, the orchestrators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol? More morally troubling is that there’s a million other worthy causes that Biden could be using his pardon powers for.

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‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:04:02 GMT

Figures in the art world including Amy Sherald and Marilyn Minter share their concerns ahead of Trump’s return

The Iraqi artist Vian Sora has seen the absolute worst that politics has to offer – she spent most of her first 30 years living under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq, then endured the destruction of her country following the US invasion in 2003. Years later, she surfaced in the United States as a refugee. Her art, which mixes bright, neon colors with motifs from the ancient history of her homeland, is a testament to the history that has scarred her and her resilience as a survivor.

Settled now in Louisville, Kentucky, along with the family that she worked tirelessly to bring over from Iraq, she is a part of an art community grappling with what their vocation will mean now that Donald Trump has been elected president. The stakes for Sora are not just creative; her family itself may be threatened by Trump’s presidency. “I am acutely frightened by the prospects of refugees and immigrants becoming persona non grata,” she said, “as my sister has an asylum case that remains in jeopardy.”

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Trump’s pick to lead DEA announces his withdrawal from consideration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:38:03 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Asked about Donald Trump’s reported comment during dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday that Canada...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:38:03 +0000

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Analysis: The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:17:44 +0000

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French government teeters on brink of collapse as no-confidence vote looms
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:03:48 GMT

Administration of Michel Barnier likely to fall after far-left and far-right opponents table motions

France is staring into the unknown as the minority government of the prime minister, Michel Barnier, faces near-certain defeat in a no-confidence vote that could dramatically intensify the political crisis in one of the EU’s key member states.

If the vote on Wednesday is carried, Barnier’s administration, which took office only in September, would be the first in France to be ousted with a motion of no confidence since 1962. Its fall, at the hands of the far-right and leftwing parties, would be a significant blow to Europe weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House.

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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
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Trudeau meets rivals as he seeks united front in face of Trump tariff threat
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:51:08 GMT

Canadian government scrambles to ward off tariffs as prime minister briefs politicians on meeting with Trump

Canada’s federal government has redoubled its efforts to ward off potentially disastrous tariffs from its closest ally, but provincial leaders have hinted at divergent strategies in response to the protectionist threat from president-elect Donald Trump.

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, convened a rare, in-person meeting with his political rivals on Tuesday to brief them on a surprise meeting with Trump at his Florida resort over the weekend.

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Ireland Rejected the Far Right. The Election Conspiracy Theories Have Already Begun
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:27:21 +0000
Ireland’s far-right candidates expected to succeed on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric, but the people rejected them wholesale.
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US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:56:28 +0000
Wyden: "Unfortunately, it will be up to Trump's CFPB to finalize this proposed rule."
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After Trump threats, Hamas blames Israel for lack of hostage deal
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:46:17 +0000

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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
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Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman: ‘It’s a heartbreaking grief’
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:44 GMT

The musician is back with a live album and as passionate as ever. She discusses fans, failure, muses, misogyny – and why she won’t tolerate bad behaviour

By the third UK lockdown, Tori Amos was wondering if she would ever play live again. At her remote house in Cornwall, where we meet, she began mourning the loss of connection with her audience. When the US singer and songwriter is on tour, giving her famously passionate performances, hundreds of letters pour in every day, requesting songs. “I try to read as many as I can, and we change the show every night, except the bookends. Anything else is up for grabs.”

Her relationship with her fans has always been collaborative. They tell her things. They trust her. In person, she has an open-book quality that immediately draws you in. When I arrive at her place – a detached but unassuming house upfront, and a warren of more recently built workshops at the back, filled with beautiful pianos, a massive mixing desk and the harpsichord she played on her album Boys for Pele – we have lunch with her husband and sound engineer, Mark Hawley. The conversation roams through football, raving, legal training (their 24-year-old daughter Tash is studying law in Washington DC) and how good the pumpkin soup is.

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These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:26:10 +0000

The Intercept asked companies that store personal data if they will help Trump conduct mass deportations. Few had anything to say.

The post These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.

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R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it?
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Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:22:16 +0000
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Major war could destroy army in six months, minister warns
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:41:23 GMT
The defence minister said Russia was suffering 1,500 casualties a day in its conflict with Ukraine.
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South Korea’s martial law crisis stirs memories of 1980 Gwangju massacre
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:20:48 +0000
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a military dictator and triggered a deadly uprising.
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South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:56:15 GMT

Opposition parties submit motion to impeach Yoon after his shock bid to put South Korea under martial law for first time in over four decades

• South Korea crisis: live updates
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korean opposition parties have formally submitted a motion to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, over his short-lived declaration of martial law.

Early on Thursday, lawmakers presented to parliament an impeachment motion alleging that Yoon “gravely and extensively violated the constitution and the law” and accuses him of imposing martial law “with the unconstitutional and illegal intent to evade imminent investigations... into alleged illegal acts involving himself and his family”.

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British army could be wiped out within six months of Ukraine-scale war, minister warns
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:40:08 GMT

Alistair Carns says a casualty rate similar to Russia’s invasion could lead to the army being ‘expended’ within six to 12 months

The British army would be wiped out in as little as six months if it was forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict, a defence minister has warned.

Alistair Carns said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army being “expended” within six to 12 months.

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The South Korean coup is a perfect coda to the Biden presidency | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:22:33 GMT

Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy of pursuing detente against China at all costs meant embracing Yoon, whose anti-democratic attitude has always been clear

Jean Baudrillard’s 1986 travel diary of his time in Reagan’s America – “the only remaining primitive society on earth”, in his words – describes a paradox about the nature of late-century American hegemony. “American power does not seem inspired by any spirit or genius of its own,” wrote Baudrillard, “but it is, in a sense, uncontested and incontestable.” American “genius” appeared to suffer “from the weakening of all the forces that previously opposed it” – the incoherence of American strategic thinking, to Baudrillard, was thus a measure of its success.

Today, there are American adversaries everywhere – not least in what is now called the Indo-Pacific. But no such “spirit or genius” seemed to underpin the Biden administration’s response to the Tuesday coup in South Korea, much less South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted overthrow of democratic rule. The Biden administration’s response has been, to say the least, limp. At the time of writing, the state department has said little beyond an assurance that its alliance with South Korea is “ironclad” and that the United States will “stand by Korea in its time of uncertainty”.

Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York

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A Coup, Almost, in South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:21:40 +0000
President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests.
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Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:39:10 +0000
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
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Russian criminals helped UK drug gangs launder lockdown cash
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:33:10 GMT
UK drug gangs paid Russian criminals to swap their dirty street cash for untraceable cryptocurrency, police say.
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Global investigation exposes alleged billion-dollar Russian money-laundering network
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:30:18 GMT

UK and foreign law enforcement agencies say networks laundered cash and cryptocurrencies for organised crime gangs across the west

Operatives said to be behind a billion-dollar Russian money-laundering network – used by drug dealers, financial criminals and foreign spies – have been sanctioned and arrested in a coordinated international investigation led by the National Crime Agency.

The UK law enforcement body, which tackles serious and organised crime, said the actions constituted the “most significant money laundering operation” it had undertaken in the past few years. The operation involved America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, France’s Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire and Ireland’s Garda.

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U.S. watches warily as key Asian ally descends into political chaos
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:54:10 +0000
The president of South Korea’s declaration of martial law caught Washington by surprise.
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South Korean opposition moves to impeach president after remarkable misstep
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:10 +0000
Lawmakers could vote to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol as soon as Friday. Regardless of the outcome, it is clear that the president’s political future is in grave doubt.
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Georgia protests gather momentum after pro-Russia party suspends E.U. bid
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:15:11 +0000
By suspending talks with the E.U., the party was decisively pivoting to Russia and away from its European aspirations — one of the few goals most Georgians agree on.
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Moscow claims ‘external forces’ seeking to escalate violence in Syria
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:08:51 GMT

Statement comes as Ukrainian intelligence says Russia will send mercenaries to support flagging troops allied to Damascus

Moscow has condemned “external forces” seeking to escalate violence in Syria, despite reports from Ukrainian military intelligence that Russia is to send mercenaries to support flagging troops allied to Damascus.

The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova blamed outside actors for instigating a recent sweeping insurgent offensive, after Islamist militants spearheaded by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took control of the city of Aleppo at the weekend in a shock advance.

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Russian court sentences kingpin of Hydra drug marketplace to life in prison
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:15:10 +0000
The underground marketplace distributed more than a metric ton of narcotics.
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Bronze snakes and perfectly intact eggs among treasures found at ancient Italian thermal spa
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:07:45 GMT

Trove had been preserved by warm waters and mud at the Tuscan springs near Siena

Bronze snakes, statues, two gold crowns, jewellery, thousands of coins and perfectly intact eggs are among the latest remarkable discoveries to emerge from the site of an ancient thermal spa in a small town in Tuscany.

The trove had been preserved by the warm waters and mud at the springs, believed to have been built by the Etruscans in the second century BC, in San Casciano dei Bagni, a hilltop town close to Siena.

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Fear, fury and triumph: Six hours that shook South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:09:49 GMT
A recap of a dramatic night that saw South Koreans rush to overturn the president's shock martial law order.
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Up to 100 ‘suspicious incidents’ in Europe can be attributed to Russia, Czech minister says
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:12:11 GMT

Czech foreign minister says Europe ‘needs to send a strong signal to Moscow that this won’t be tolerated’

A senior European diplomat said that up to 100 “suspicious incidents” in Europe this year could be attributed to Russia, as western officials grapple with how to respond to suspected Russian sabotage attempts.

Speaking ahead of a meeting with Nato counterparts in Brussels, the Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, stressed that Europe “needs to send a strong signal to Moscow that this won’t be tolerated”.

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South Korea crisis: motion to impeach President Yoon submitted, say opposition parties – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:51:12 GMT

Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachment

• Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shock
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korea’s finance ministry has said it stood ready to deploy “unlimited” liquidity into financial markets after President Yoon Suk Yeol lifted a martial law declaration he imposed overnight that pushed the won to multi-year lows, Reuters reports.

The announcement came after finance minister Choi Sang-mok and Bank of Korea governor Rhee Chang-yong held emergency talks overnight, and as the central bank board abruptly met to approve rescue measures for the local credit market.

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Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
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Could South Korean President Yoon be impeached over martial law decree?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:42:53 +0000
Calls are growing for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster after he declared then rescinded martial law. Here’s how an impeachment would work.
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Easey Street double murder and rape accused faces Melbourne court nearly 50 years after alleged attack
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:23:05 GMT

Perry Kouroumblis was extradited from Italy and charged over the 1977 deaths of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett

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An accused double murderer has faced a Melbourne court close to five decades after police allege he stabbed two women to death in a frenzied attack.

Perry Kouroumblis, 65, appeared bleary-eyed as he sat in the dock of the Melbourne magistrates court on Wednesday after arriving on Australian soil on Tuesday night.

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How Ukraine has faced its worst month on the battlefield in two years – visualised
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:00:00 GMT

November was Ukraine’s worst month since September 2022 for territory lost to Russian forces. These charts and maps show the latest developments in the war

Ukraine lost an area equivalent to the size of New York City to Russian forces in November – the worst monthly figure for Ukrainian defenders since September 2022.

After the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia gained ground quickly before being pushed back in a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Last year, with the conflict mostly at a stalemate, Institute for the Study of War (ISW) data shows that Russian forces took 2,233 sq km (862 sq miles) of territory. Already in 2024 they have taken about 2,656 sq km.

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South Korean president faces impeachment calls after martial law attempt
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000
The country reacted in anger and shock after President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly called for martial law Tuesday night, only to backtrack hours later.
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The leader of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, has called for Defense Minister...
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Declaration of martial law in Seoul causes chaos – in pictures
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:24:13 GMT

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol sparked major protests by announcing martial law. He reversed his decision in the face of massive opposition

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In a cabinet meeting before South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, defense minister...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:06:06 +0000

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s decision to rescind martial...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:45:18 +0000

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South Korea’s main opposition party is calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign or face...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:50:28 +0000

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Martial law, then a reversal: An astonishing six hours in South Korea
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:44:14 +0000
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the standards of South Korea.
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said South Korean President...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:53:35 +0000

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How the South Korean president's martial law declaration unfolded – video
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:16:13 GMT

After South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in the country, thousands of protesters took to the streets alongside the leading opposition Democratic party, urging MPs to head to the national assembly and vote it down. Following a dramatic night in which soldiers attempted to block MPs from entering parliament, lawmakers unanimously adopted a bill rejecting the martial law declaration, prompting the president to backtrack. Here is how the night unfolded in Seoul

• Declaration of martial law awakens ghosts South Koreans thought were laid to rest

• South Korea gripped by uncertainty as MPs defy president’s declaration of martial law

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The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, one of country’s largest labor union federations, called for its...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:13:02 +0000

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Martial law in South Korea
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:03:00 GMT
South Korea’s president hands power to the military
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The South Korean government passed a measure lifting martial law early Wednesday local time, the semiofficial...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:34:33 +0000

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South Korea’s Yoon declared, then lifted, martial law. Why?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:15:40 +0000

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South Korean President Yoon says martial law will be lifted
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:08:52 +0000

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Who is South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:25:35 +0000

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The Biden administration is “watching the recent developments” in South Korea “with grave concern,” Deputy Secretary...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:45:14 +0000

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The Guardian view on protests in Georgia: resisting a drift into Putin’s orbit | Editorial
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:42:54 GMT

The Georgian Dream government’s suspension of EU talks has sparked an existential struggle for democracy

In recent years, Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party has brazenly pursued a policy of gaslighting an overwhelmingly pro-European population. Rhetorically, it has paid enthusiastic lip service to the national goal of eventual accession to the European Union, an aim that is enshrined in the constitution. In practice, a party founded by the billionaire oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili – whose wealth was accumulated in Russia – has been pulling Georgia ever further into the authoritarian orbit of Vladimir Putin.

“Foreign agent” legislation passed earlier this year – provoking large protests in Tbilisi – copied and pasted Russian laws designed to curtail the influence of independent civil society organisations. Subsequent restrictions placed on LGBTQ+ rights came from the same playbook. Having awarded EU candidate status to Georgia in 2023, these illiberal moves led Brussels to belatedly conclude that it was being taken for a ride by Mr Ivanishvili’s political placemen. Membership talks were accordingly paused in June. Nevertheless, in the lead-up to an election this October, GD politicians were still pledging their commitment to EU membership.

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The South Korean won was down sharply against the U.S. dollar — about 1,420 KRW to...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:39:14 +0000

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The U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Philip Goldberg, said in a statement Tuesday that the embassy...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:46:30 +0000

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Kim Yeon-hee, a 36-year-old South Korean office worker, stood at the perimeter of the massive crowd...
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I’m outside the South Korean National Assembly in the bitter cold with thousands of protesters who...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:19:01 +0000

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In photos: The clash at South Korea’s National Assembly building
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:09:18 +0000

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South Korean military officials say martial law will remain in place until President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:42:22 +0000

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According to the South Korean constitution, the president “shall comply” when the National Assembly requests the...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:26:00 +0000

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The South Korean National Assembly has voted to block President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:24:20 +0000

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What’s in the martial law South Korea’s president declared?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:08:24 +0000

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South Korean lawmakers assemble to respond to martial law
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:03:30 +0000

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The declaration of martial law faces stiff opposition among South Korean political leaders.
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:59:23 +0000

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Rebels and government battle in Syria; Lebanon ceasefire fraying
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:46:17 +0000
The ceasefire in Lebanon appears to be coming apart after Israel conducted strikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah fired rockets. In Syria, Russia and Iran have pledged to back President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Chinese Embassy in South Korea advised Chinese citizens in the country to “remain calm,” pay...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:43:17 +0000

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Martial law declared in South Korea for first time in 44 years
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:26:33 +0000

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Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Philadelphia school ordered teachers to “stay neutral” on Israel’s war on Gaza, but they helped students make pro-Palestine posters.

The post Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs appeared first on The Intercept.

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Syrian forces regroup with help from Iran, Russia after shock rebel advance
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:14:45 +0000

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Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:43 GMT

Canonisation has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its image. The Vatican is preparing to anoint its first millennial saint, but how does it decide who is worthy?

As a child growing up in Milan, Carlo Acutis collected stories of miracles. He wrote about the time when, in 1411, wine turned to blood in a castle chapel in Ludbreg, Croatia; of how, in 1630, a pastor in Canosio, Italy, saved his town from a flood by blessing the raging waters; of how, in 1906, a priest on the island of Tumaco, Colombia, held up a reliquary on the beach to stop an approaching tsunami. Acutis, 11 years old and a devout Catholic, began typing up these stories and posting them on his website, which he styled as a “virtual museum” of miraculous events. A section on the site invited visitors to “discover how many friends you have in heaven”, and to read stories of young saints.

Acutis hoped to one day join their ranks. He was convinced that he would die before he reached adulthood and told his mother, Antonia, that he would perish of “a broken vein in his brain”. He wanted to be buried in the town of Assisi, where his family had a summer home. In the meantime, he devoted his life to the church, which was a surprise to his largely secular parents. As a teenager, he taught catechism classes to young children, and offered them a step-by-step guide to becoming a saint. ““Always remember that you, too, can become a saint!” he would say. Every day, they were to go to mass, recite the Holy Rosary, read the scripture and confess their sins.

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Israeli military strikes Lebanese targets after Hezbollah fires on Israel
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:48:39 +0000
The rebel offensive in Syria started after Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a cease-fire in Lebanon, where conflict has weakened key backers of Syria’s government.
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Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him.
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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No more EV app folders: Universal plug-and-charge is due to launch in 2025
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:18:41 +0000
Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.
Match ID: 127 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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Lagniappe for December 2024
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:51:35 +0000
Explore Lagniappe for December 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Do you have time for a quick story? Recently, your ol‘ friend Gator had the chance to help his family move. This move was not the same as going to the Moon or Mars like NASA’s planned Artemis adventure, but it felt similar. The move brought friends, […]
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Cuba’s national grid collapses again, leaving millions without power
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:41:12 GMT

Blackouts reported across country as government grapples with economic crisis, fuel shortages and hurricanes

Cuba’s national electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the country’s largest power plant failed, the government said, the latest of several such failures as the island’s grid falls into disarray amid fuel shortages, natural disaster and economic crisis.

The country’s energy and mines ministry said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the island’s top electricity producer, had shut down at about 2am, prompting the grid collapse.

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Chargers are key to the electric vehicle transition | Letters
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:56:56 GMT

Stephen Smith says people won’t buy EVs until they can easily access the energy needed to drive them. Raj Parkash thinks every car should be charged using the same mechanism

Gaby Hinsliff’s article (Starmer has discovered a tricky truth about the electric vehicles transition: there’s no gain without pain, 29 November) doesn’t address the key point in the analysis of car companies’ difficulties in selling enough electric vehicles (EVs). There is a lack of demand that is only partly due to the higher prices. More importantly, it is due to a failure to install the necessary infrastructure to enable mass charging.

A minority of car owners live in houses where home charging is possible. For the rest, to make EVs a possibility, never mind attractive, there need to be a huge number of charging points to accommodate millions of people. I live in a city with a very high density of tenement and other flats; at the moment there are virtually no charging points easily accessible for flat owners. In such areas, where it is not possible to install a charger in your home, it is simply not possible to run an EV.

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Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:30:42 +0000
Enron was bigger than the Theranos scandal, before Theranos existed.
Match ID: 131 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
Match ID: 132 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:47:39 EST
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
Match ID: 134 Score: 10.71 source: www.politico.com age: 6 days
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The “Palestine Exception”
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:30:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.

The post The “Palestine Exception” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Nuclear deterrence talks between Washington and Seoul, plus a related exercise, have been postponed, a defense...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000

Match ID: 136 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
Match ID: 137 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 286 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 2.86 russia

Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 138 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:34:03 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza feel relief for the people of Lebanon. We are also heartbroken that we are still being slaughtered.

The post There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 139 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:24:15 +0000
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
Match ID: 140 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 8 days
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Pam Bondi, Trump's New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:05:33 +0000

Pam Bondi has replaced Matt Gaetz in Trump’s attorney general slot. Her lobbying clients include the GEO Group, among many others.

The post Pam Bondi, Trump’s New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 141 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 142 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
Match ID: 143 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
Match ID: 144 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 31 days
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Match ID: 145 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 176 days
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The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
2024-11-22T12:06:07Z

Interesting analysis:

We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedom­websites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions. U.S. policy prioritizes internet freedom and access to information in repressive regimes. Clarifying distinctions between free and paid websites, allowing trunk cables to repressive states, enforcing transparency in geoblocking, and removing ambiguity about sanctions compliance are concrete steps the U.S. can take to ensure it does not undermine its own aims.

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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

The post The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 149 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
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Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:22:48 +0000

The OSHA heat regulation was one of the few to have broad public support, but Democrats can’t ever seem to get their act together.

The post Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out. appeared first on The Intercept.

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How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:25:06 +0000
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.

The post Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives appeared first on The Intercept.

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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
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Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:04 GMT
Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
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Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:32 +0000
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:53:02 +0000
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:50:03 +0000
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
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It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:00 EST
The final paid messages: Economy, culture wars and character.
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:07 +0000
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
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Harris is pounding Trump on fascism. Some Dems think that’s a mistake.
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:53:07 EST
Harris has ratcheted up her warnings about the dangers of a second Trump term in recent weeks.
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:59:12 +0000
His zany promises would blow up the deficit
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:41:16 +0000
All come with their own drawbacks
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
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Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000
This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.
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The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
Match ID: 180 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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How Russia is winning the arms race in Ukraine – video
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:44:19 GMT

Russia is engaging in a 'shadow war' with Nato states, which is reportedly part of a deliberate strategy to undermine the alliance’s ability to support Ukraine. At the same time Russia's military industrial complex is producing arms at a formidable rate, and with Nato countries struggling to keep up in term of numbers, the arms race is having a big impact on the frontline. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how Russia is using hybrid warfare alongside boosting its arms industry to outpace Nato, and what this all means for the war in Ukraine

• West’s spy chiefs alarmed at recklessness of Russian counterparts

• Russia to raise defence budget by 25% to highest level on record

• ‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners

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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
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Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:03:12 +0000
At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […]
Match ID: 193 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 18 days
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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
Match ID: 194 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 21 days
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 198 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 322 days
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
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U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:00 GMT

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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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China hits US with ban on critical minerals used in tech manufacturing
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:50:47 +0000
China bans US exports of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials.
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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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The South Korean coup is a perfect coda to the Biden presidency | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:22:33 GMT

Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy of pursuing detente against China at all costs meant embracing Yoon, whose anti-democratic attitude has always been clear

Jean Baudrillard’s 1986 travel diary of his time in Reagan’s America – “the only remaining primitive society on earth”, in his words – describes a paradox about the nature of late-century American hegemony. “American power does not seem inspired by any spirit or genius of its own,” wrote Baudrillard, “but it is, in a sense, uncontested and incontestable.” American “genius” appeared to suffer “from the weakening of all the forces that previously opposed it” – the incoherence of American strategic thinking, to Baudrillard, was thus a measure of its success.

Today, there are American adversaries everywhere – not least in what is now called the Indo-Pacific. But no such “spirit or genius” seemed to underpin the Biden administration’s response to the Tuesday coup in South Korea, much less South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted overthrow of democratic rule. The Biden administration’s response has been, to say the least, limp. At the time of writing, the state department has said little beyond an assurance that its alliance with South Korea is “ironclad” and that the United States will “stand by Korea in its time of uncertainty”.

Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York

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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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Ding Liren and Gukesh D play to rollercoaster draw in Game 8 of title tilt
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:49:05 GMT

• Ding and Gukesh play to Game 8 draw in 4hr 35min
• Best-of-14-games title match all square at 4-all
• Ding Liren v Gukesh D: all your questions, answered
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Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a fifth successive draw on Wednesday in the eighth game of their $2.5m world championship showdown in Singapore, leaving the best-of-14-games match all square at 4-all after a rollercoaster affair which saw both players let winning chances slip away in the middlegame.

The 32-year-old reigning champion from China, after playing a new first move (1 c4) for the fourth time in four games with the favored white pieces, fought back from the brink of disaster by finding an incredible idea from a worse position while trailing badly on time. Helped by a Gukesh blunder, Ding played confidently and quickly to turn the tables.

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Donna Nelson, who claims she was love scam victim, jailed for smuggling drugs into Japan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:55:16 GMT

Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into country

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A court in Japan has sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison after finding her guilty of smuggling methamphetamine into the country, ignoring her claims that she had been the victim of an online romance scam.

Donna Nelson, from Perth, was found guilty of smuggling 2kg of the drug concealed beneath a false bottom in her suitcase when she arrived at Narita airport near Tokyo from Laos in January 2023.

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Tamils arriving in UK after three years stranded on Diego Garcia speak of relief
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:06:23 GMT

Lawyers and campaigners hail removal of 47 people from remote Indian Ocean island as ‘a big day for justice’

Dozens of people stranded in hellish conditions for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have arrived in the UK and told of their relief that their journey is over.

Lawyers and campaigners hailed the arrival of 47 Sri Lankan Tamils on Monday night as a “big day for justice”, with a further eight arriving on Tuesday morning from Rwanda, where they had been receiving medical treatment. Twelve children were among them.

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Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:57:21 +0000
In a letter to the Department of Defense, senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt are calling for an investigation into fallout from the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign.
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London to host only second professional Sumo wrestling contest outside of Japan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:52:45 GMT

Royal Albert Hall will host five-day event in October, after bringing in specialist soil and a strengthened stage the last time it was staged there

London will host only the second professional Sumo wrestling event ever staged outside of Japan at the Royal Albert Hall next October.

The Grand Sumo Tournament will take place at the 153-year-old venue in partnership with the Japan Sumo Association, Nihon Sumo Kyokai, to help mark its centenary.

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A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.
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GM to write down value of China business by more than $5bn
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:52:41 GMT

Automaker is restructuring in China after losing about $350m in the region in the first three quarters of this year

General Motors told shareholders on Wednesday that it would write down the value of its China business by more than $5bn.

The company’s board of directors determined that the non-cash charges were necessary “in light of the finalization of a new business forecast and certain restructuring actions” with the joint venture, according to a company filing.

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If Trump’s tariffs start a trade war, it would be an economic disaster | Mark Weisbrot
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:05 GMT

The president-elect’s two main arguments for his tariff threat – to reduce migration and to combat drugs – are not credible

“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite word,” said Donald Trump last month. Pundits, politicians and financial markets are trying to figure out why, since he announced a week ago that he would impose tariffs on the United States’s three biggest trading partners: 25% for Mexico and Canada, and 10% for China.

One theory is that tariffs can be a beautiful distraction. Trump, more than any previous US president, has fed on distractions for years, both to campaign and to govern. He can move seamlessly from one distraction to the next, like a magician preparing for the opportune moment to pull a coin from where it appears to have been hidden behind your ear.

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Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:53:49 GMT

Hong Kong carrier removes episode from entertainment system after social media complaint that it might breach national security laws

Hong Kong’s flagship airline, Cathay Pacific, has apologised over the inclusion of a Family Guy episode in its inflight entertainment system that features a scene depicting Tiananmen Square.

The airline told the South China Morning Post it had apologised to customers after a complaint was raised on social media that the episode might breach Hong Kong’s national security laws.

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The 40 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (December 2024)
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Interior Chinatown, What We Do in the Shadows, and La Máquina are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
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NATO chief urged Trump to see Ukraine aid as ‘a good deal’ for U.S.
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:48:01 +0000
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he told Donald Trump that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all also have a stake in the Ukraine war’s outcome.
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Replica Harry Potter swords recalled over Japan’s strict weapons laws
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:10:13 +0000
The decorative Gryffindor swords, sold by Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, fell foul of Japan’s weapons laws, which are among the strictest in the world.
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Starbucks and Nestlé face scrutiny over labor practices in China
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“Ghost” coffee farms in Starbucks’s and Nestle’s supply chains in China are overworking farmers and allowing underaged labor, China Labor Watch has found.
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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Australia head into Adelaide Test against India at risk of blowing world title | Martin Pegan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:29 GMT

The reigning champions have tumbled from first to third place in the World Test Championship standings and there remains little margin for error

Australia have only just begun the first of back-to-back home summers where an ageing side is seeking to cement its legacy in a pair of Test series against arch-rivals India and England. Yet one match into the stretch of 10 high-stakes clashes and cracks are already starting to appear that might end some international red-ball careers – and the defence of one of their two world crowns.

India quick Jaspit Bumrah had more than enough tools to prise open the fractures in Australia’s batting lineup when twice tearing through the top order at the hosts’ former fortress in Perth. The humbling defeat leaves Australia needing to overcome a 1-0 deficit to win a Test series for the first time in 27 years if they are to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. It isn’t quite vital that Australia immediately bounce back in the second Test starting in Adelaide on Friday, but another loss would leave them with next to no margin for error in pursuit of not one but two prized titles.

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New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:16:02 +0000
Upload your photo and get a thorough, three-paragraph description of it.
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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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South Korea’s martial law crisis stirs memories of 1980 Gwangju massacre
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:20:48 +0000
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a military dictator and triggered a deadly uprising.
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South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:56:15 GMT

Opposition parties submit motion to impeach Yoon after his shock bid to put South Korea under martial law for first time in over four decades

• South Korea crisis: live updates
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South Korean opposition parties have formally submitted a motion to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, over his short-lived declaration of martial law.

Early on Thursday, lawmakers presented to parliament an impeachment motion alleging that Yoon “gravely and extensively violated the constitution and the law” and accuses him of imposing martial law “with the unconstitutional and illegal intent to evade imminent investigations... into alleged illegal acts involving himself and his family”.

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A Coup, Almost, in South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:21:40 +0000
President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests.
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Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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U.S. watches warily as key Asian ally descends into political chaos
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:54:10 +0000
The president of South Korea’s declaration of martial law caught Washington by surprise.
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South Korean opposition moves to impeach president after remarkable misstep
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:10 +0000
Lawmakers could vote to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol as soon as Friday. Regardless of the outcome, it is clear that the president’s political future is in grave doubt.
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Fear, fury and triumph: Six hours that shook South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:09:49 GMT
A recap of a dramatic night that saw South Koreans rush to overturn the president's shock martial law order.
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South Korea crisis: motion to impeach President Yoon submitted, say opposition parties – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:51:12 GMT

Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachment

• Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shock
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korea’s finance ministry has said it stood ready to deploy “unlimited” liquidity into financial markets after President Yoon Suk Yeol lifted a martial law declaration he imposed overnight that pushed the won to multi-year lows, Reuters reports.

The announcement came after finance minister Choi Sang-mok and Bank of Korea governor Rhee Chang-yong held emergency talks overnight, and as the central bank board abruptly met to approve rescue measures for the local credit market.

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Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
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Could South Korean President Yoon be impeached over martial law decree?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:42:53 +0000
Calls are growing for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster after he declared then rescinded martial law. Here’s how an impeachment would work.
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South Korean president faces impeachment calls after martial law attempt
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000
The country reacted in anger and shock after President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly called for martial law Tuesday night, only to backtrack hours later.
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South Korea president’s aides offer to resign en masse – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:57:13 GMT

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The White House has said it is “closely” monitoring the situation in South Korea.

“The administration is in contact with the ROK government and is monitoring the situation closely,” a spokesperson for the national security council said, using the official acronym for the Republic of Korea, where thousands of US troops are based as parts of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea.

All political activities are banned in South Korea following the imposition of martial law on Tuesday and all media will be subject to government monitoring.

All political activities, including those of the national assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies and demonstrations, are strictly prohibited.

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The leader of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, has called for Defense Minister...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:34:35 +0000

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Declaration of martial law in Seoul causes chaos – in pictures
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:24:13 GMT

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol sparked major protests by announcing martial law. He reversed his decision in the face of massive opposition

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In a cabinet meeting before South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, defense minister...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:06:06 +0000

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s decision to rescind martial...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:45:18 +0000

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South Korea’s main opposition party is calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign or face...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:50:28 +0000

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Martial law, then a reversal: An astonishing six hours in South Korea
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:44:14 +0000
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the standards of South Korea.
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said South Korean President...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:53:35 +0000

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How the South Korean president's martial law declaration unfolded – video
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:16:13 GMT

After South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in the country, thousands of protesters took to the streets alongside the leading opposition Democratic party, urging MPs to head to the national assembly and vote it down. Following a dramatic night in which soldiers attempted to block MPs from entering parliament, lawmakers unanimously adopted a bill rejecting the martial law declaration, prompting the president to backtrack. Here is how the night unfolded in Seoul

• Declaration of martial law awakens ghosts South Koreans thought were laid to rest

• South Korea gripped by uncertainty as MPs defy president’s declaration of martial law

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Martial law in South Korea
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:03:00 GMT
South Korea’s president hands power to the military
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The South Korean government passed a measure lifting martial law early Wednesday local time, the semiofficial...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:34:33 +0000

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South Korea’s Yoon declared, then lifted, martial law. Why?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:15:40 +0000

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South Korean President Yoon says martial law will be lifted
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:08:52 +0000

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Who is South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:25:35 +0000

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The Biden administration is “watching the recent developments” in South Korea “with grave concern,” Deputy Secretary...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:45:14 +0000

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The South Korean won was down sharply against the U.S. dollar — about 1,420 KRW to...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:39:14 +0000

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The U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Philip Goldberg, said in a statement Tuesday that the embassy...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:46:30 +0000

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Kim Yeon-hee, a 36-year-old South Korean office worker, stood at the perimeter of the massive crowd...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:38:54 +0000

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I’m outside the South Korean National Assembly in the bitter cold with thousands of protesters who...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:19:01 +0000

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In photos: The clash at South Korea’s National Assembly building
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:09:18 +0000

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South Korean military officials say martial law will remain in place until President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:42:22 +0000

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According to the South Korean constitution, the president “shall comply” when the National Assembly requests the...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:26:00 +0000

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The South Korean National Assembly has voted to block President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:24:20 +0000

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What’s in the martial law South Korea’s president declared?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:08:24 +0000

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South Korean lawmakers assemble to respond to martial law
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:03:30 +0000

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The declaration of martial law faces stiff opposition among South Korean political leaders.
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:59:23 +0000

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Russia’s Embassy in South Korea told its citizens to remain calm, follow directions from local authorities...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:53:03 +0000

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The Chinese Embassy in South Korea advised Chinese citizens in the country to “remain calm,” pay...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:43:17 +0000

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Martial law declared in South Korea for first time in 44 years
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:26:33 +0000

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Landmark space mission set to create artificial solar eclipses using satellites
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:00:18 GMT

Two satellites in Proba-3 mission expected to be launched on Wednesday in India and will work in tandem to study sun’s corona

Final preparations have begun for a landmark space mission that will use satellites flying in close formation to create artificial solar eclipses high above the Earth.

The Proba-3 mission is the European Space Agency’s first attempt at precise formation flying in orbit and calls for two spacecraft to loop around the planet in an arrangement that never deviates by more than a millimetre, about the thickness of a human fingernail.

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Vietnam court says tycoon must repay embezzled billions to avoid execution
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:18:57 +0000
An appeals court upheld Truong My Lan’s death sentence for bank fraud but suggested she could avoid execution by repaying three-quarters of the money she stole.
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How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:53:20 +0000

Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent.

The post How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The post Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears appeared first on The Intercept.

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Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
2024-10-24T00:00:00Z
Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
Thu, 23 May 2024 10:13:46 +0000
To avoid an economic shock, they are pursuing a strange mix of free trade and protectionism
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Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

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NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
2024-11-27T12:05:16Z

The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we’ve learned that that’s not true: that NSO Group employees operate the spyware on behalf of their customers.

Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker ­ and not its government customers ­ is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software...

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Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving “Worthless” Advice on Airstrikes
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:23:02 +0000

The marketing of a new military tech tool powered by Meta’s artificial intelligence is “irresponsible” and “clumsy,” experts said.

The post Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving “Worthless” Advice on Airstrikes appeared first on The Intercept.

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China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:22:23 GMT
These caves were unexplored for thousands of years, protected by swirling mists and terrifying tales.
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The company gave details for the first time on its approach to combating organized criminal networks behind the devastating scams.
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China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT

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China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
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At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
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Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
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China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:14:09 +0000
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
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China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:08:43 +0000
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire
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Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:06:54 +0000
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
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The property firm that could break China’s back
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:04:20 +0000
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
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What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
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What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
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China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
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Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
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China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:35:54 +0000
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:10:43 +0000
The government is not used to being bullied
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Friday Squid Blogging: Transcriptome Analysis of the Indian Squid
2024-11-22T22:01:32Z

Lots of details that are beyond me.

Blog moderation policy.

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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
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Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
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Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:05:08 +0000
A roaring economy is not enough to entice them
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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
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How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
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How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
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How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:40:24 GMT

Min Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humanity over deportation and persecution of Rohingya minority

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) is seeking an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, for crimes against humanity over the deadly crackdowns against the country’s Rohingya minority that drove hundreds of thousands to flee to Bangladesh.

Karim Khan said that “after an extensive, independent and impartial investigation” his office had concluded there were reasonable grounds to believe that the Myanmar junta chief “bears criminal responsibility for the crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution of the Rohingya committed in Myanmar and in part in Bangladesh”.

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Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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NASA Attorney Enjoys Serving Others and Contributing to the Team Mission
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:19 +0000
NASA attorney Jeff Renshaw’s work has primarily revolved around two things: serving others and solving problems. The New Orleans native retired as an U.S. Air Force judge advocate following more than two decades of service. Renshaw now has worked for more than eight years as an attorney advisor at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay […]
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Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:33:16 +0000

George Mason University suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.

The post Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation appeared first on The Intercept.

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Economic hardship looms over Ghana as country readies for polls
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:20:22 GMT

Election is being contested between vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia and former president John Mahama, under whom corruption ballooned

When the Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidential election on his third attempt in 2016, many saw it as a turning point.

The first person to unseat an incumbent, his historic win captured his compatriots’ frustration. Alleged corruption had ballooned under his predecessor, John Mahama: in one instance, Mahama accepted a $100,000 (£79,000) car from a foreign contractor that his spokesperson said was put into a pool of presidential vehicles; in another, judges were captured on video collecting bribes to dispense justice.

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Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:00:03 GMT

Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban

Destitute Afghan women arrested for begging under draconian new Taliban laws have spoken of “brutal” rapes and beatings in detention.

Over the past few months, many women said they had been targeted by Taliban officials and detained under anti-begging laws passed this year. While in prison, they claim they were subjected to sexual abuse, torture and forced labour, and witnessed children being beaten and abused.

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Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

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Live updates: Peter Navarro, who was imprisoned for contempt of Congress, tapped for trade adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:51:45 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Peter Navarro, imprisoned for contempt of Congress, to return as Trump adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:23:16 +0000

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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

The post Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Trump’s pick to lead DEA announces his withdrawal from consideration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:38:03 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.
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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The post Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:00:16 +0000

The Intercept’s lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story’s title or byline.

The post The Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

The post The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:22:48 +0000

The OSHA heat regulation was one of the few to have broad public support, but Democrats can’t ever seem to get their act together.

The post Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.

The post Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives appeared first on The Intercept.

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Gateway refuelling module gets a boost
Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0200

ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract amendment today at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan to extend the Lunar View refuelling module for the lunar Gateway.

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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Lagniappe for December 2024
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:51:35 +0000
Explore Lagniappe for December 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Do you have time for a quick story? Recently, your ol‘ friend Gator had the chance to help his family move. This move was not the same as going to the Moon or Mars like NASA’s planned Artemis adventure, but it felt similar. The move brought friends, […]
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Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Philadelphia school ordered teachers to “stay neutral” on Israel’s war on Gaza, but they helped students make pro-Palestine posters.

The post Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs appeared first on The Intercept.

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How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:53:20 +0000

Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent.

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The “Palestine Exception”
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:30:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.

The post The “Palestine Exception” appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
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