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Weather tracker: Typhoon Gaemi wreaks havoc in Philippines and Taiwan
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:45:01 GMT
Half a million people evacuated, 21 deaths confirmed so far and capsized tanker in Manila causes huge oil spill
Typhoon Gaemi has been wreaking havoc, with the Philippines government forced to declare a state of calamity last week in its capital Manila, and flooding and at least three deaths in Taiwan. . Manila received more than 300mm of rainfall, with resulting floods reaching as high as one-storey buildings in places. More than half a million people have been evacuated or displaced, with 21 deaths confirmed so far.
Gaemi initially developed on Sunday as a tropical storm to the east of the Philippines and then tracked north-west, strengthening until it achieved typhoon status on Monday as it drew level with the northernmost tip of the Philippines. Despite not making landfall in the Philippines, the typhoon interacted with existing monsoon weather systems, worsening the already heavy rains across the island of Luzon and causing several landslides.
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'Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated' say Japan's last survivors
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:50:25 GMT
Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki believe their horrific past must act as a warning for the future.
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Oil falls for the week on Gaza cease-fire hopes, economic weakness in China
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:28:00 GMT
Oil settled lower on Friday and ended at a loss for the week, with prices weighed down by expectations of a Gaza cease-fire deal that would ease global supply concerns.
Match ID: 2 Score: 40.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
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How one Chinese machine tool maker is helping Russia’s war against Ukraine
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:00:35 +0000
NATO has accused Beijing of being a “decisive enabler” of Moscow’s ongoing war. The case of Oree Laser, now sanctioned by the U.S., shows how China is helping Russia.
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Apple's no longer among top 5 smartphone vendors in China as domestic brands dominate market
2024-07-26T08:20:02+00:00
Match ID: 4 Score: 40.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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NASA’s Fermi Finds New Feature in Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Yet Seen
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:00:18 +0000
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT — the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before. “A few minutes after the BOAT erupted, Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor recorded an unusual energy peak […]
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Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:30:00 +0000
Internal Google documents show the company planned to sponsor an Israel Defense Forces tech conference — but its name was erased at the last minute.
The post Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor appeared first on The Intercept.
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NORAD intercepts Russian, Chinese bombers off Alaskan coast
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:14:40 +0000
Defense officials have noted increased China-Russia cooperation in the Arctic, while cautioning that their collaboration is still “somewhat superficial.”
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The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:30:00 +0000
The latest dominant Covid variants have stronger infectiousness than their predecessors and the ability to evade vaccine-induced antibodies.
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‘High quality, low price and dizzying variety’: how the Chinese switched to electric cars
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:00:10 GMT
The country has long been the world’s biggest market – but the government’s interest is more geopolitical than environmental
When Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn’t even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk’s biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She also knew that if she bought an EV she could bypass the long wait and cost of getting licence plates, which are rationed by the government.
“It’s not easy to get a licence plate in Shanghai, but you get a licence for free when you buy an EV,” she said.
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‘Could we have imagined this moment would come?’: Kamala Harris and the rise of Indian American politicians
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:18:05 GMT
The vice-president’s ascent marks a historic moment. But the US must remain vigilant to the threat of the ‘model minority’ myth
“We are here! We are here! We have arrived!” cheered the lawyer and activist Valarie Kaur, to more than 4,000 south Asian participants mobilizing for Kamala Harris on a Zoom call on Wednesday night.
“I want to name this a historic moment – and as a moment for all of us to come together.” If elected, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would become the first woman, first Black woman, and first south Asian to win the US presidency.
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Match ID: 10 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Yvette Cooper under pressure to airlift Tamil asylum seekers to UK
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:54:57 GMT
Mass suicide attempt reported among ‘extremely vulnerable’ adults and children on British overseas territory
The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, is under mounting pressure to airlift a group of more than 60 Tamil asylum seekersfrom a remote Indian Ocean island to the UK.
The Tamils, a mix of single adults and children who are part of family units, have been stranded on Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), since October 2021.
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Conservatives’ racist and sexist attacks on Kamala Harris show exactly who they are | Judith Levine
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:00:48 GMT
Hatred will continue to ooze from the right. Pay attention – because that bigotry isn’t just talk, it’s Republican policies
Like a warm compress drawing pus from a wound, the Democratic presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris immediately brought out the misogyny and racism of the Maga Republican party.
Tim Burchett, the Tennessee Republican representative, called Harris, the child of a Black Jamaican father and an Indian mother, a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hire – picked, that is, because she is Black, not because she’s qualified. Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, insinuated that Harris is a welfare queen. “What the hell have you done other than collect a check?” he asked at a Michigan rally of Harris, a former state attorney general, US senator and now the vice-president. At the same time, social media posts showing Harris with her parents falsely claim she’s not really Black, because her father is light-skinned.
Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books
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Match ID: 12 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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From Intern to Astronaut
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:12:48 +0000
On Sept. 2, 2022, NASA astronauts Anil Menon (left), Deniz Burnham (center), and Marcos Berrios (right) posed for a photograph in front of NASA’s Artemis I SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Burnham began her career as an intern at NASA’s Ames Research Center. She earned a […]
Match ID: 13 Score: 35.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 1 day
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Typhoon Gaemi: ‘race against time’ to contain massive oil spill in Philippines
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:15:28 GMT
Coastguard reports 4km oil slick as strong winds hamper cleanup efforts after 25 die in the Philippines and Taiwan
The Philippines coastguard said it was “racing against time” to contain a massive oil spill that was at risk of becoming the biggest in the country’s history.
The MT Terra Nova, a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4m litres of oil, capsized in Manila Bay in the early hours of Thursday, as Typhoon Gaemi charged through the busy shipping route, whipping up aggressive winds and leaving 25 people dead in Taiwan and the Philippines.
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Monsoon rains from Typhoon Gaemi strike Philippines – in pictures
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:31:26 GMT
Residents evacuated in Metro Manila and nearby provinces as flooding wreaks havoc
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The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
2024-07-23T00:00:00Z
Trade tensions between the US and China have continued well beyond the Trump Administration's tariffs. Harvard Business School faculty offer insights for leaders managing the complexities of doing business with the world's second-largest economy.
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Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:00:57 GMT
The success of Manchester’s Outbreak festival shows the appetite for the genre isn’t just healthy, it’s on the rise. Its organisers discuss the scene’s evolution, its fragility, and its (very loud) future
At the end of June this year thousands of people – from Scotland to Bulgaria, Chile to Singapore – gathered in an industrial estate in Manchester to boot each other in the head. That wasn’t the express purpose, of course, but a common side-effect of attending Outbreak, the hardcore punk festival that has become a flagship event for a genre experiencing an unprecedented moment of mainstream visibility.
Bursting out of the American suburbs in the late 1970s, hardcore was a response to the punk and new wave invasion that had dominated the years prior. Early bands such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and Dead Kennedys distilled the rawness of punk and pushed it to extremes, pioneering a do-it-yourself ethos, and a fast, frantic sound that became the definitive sonic kickback to a decade of Reaganomics and rising conservatism. Though the sound of hardcore has evolved over the decades, spawning various subgenres (screamo, queercore, powerviolence) and acting as the jumping-off point for many of the pop-punk and emo bands that defined the 2000s, that grassroots philosophy has been unwavering. It’s there in the origins of Outbreak, too.
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Biden's Failing Mind Might Explain His Incoherent Gaza Policy
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:45:00 +0000
Biden’s approach to Gaza isn’t just immoral, it’s incoherent. A new candidate could break with his confused course for good.
The post Biden’s Failing Mind Might Explain His Incoherent Gaza Policy appeared first on The Intercept.
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The List of Conservative Groups Abandoning Project 2025 Keeps Growing
Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:13:49 +0000
The Intercept keeps finding more conservative groups that were quietly removed from the Project 2025 website.
The post The List of Conservative Groups Abandoning Project 2025 Keeps Growing appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 19 Score: 11.43 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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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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Bangladesh student protests turn into ‘mass movement against a dictator’
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:56:43 GMT
Strength of PM’s crackdown shows her nervousness and that climate of fear is breaking down, say critics
Hasan still has the metal pellets Bangladesh police fired at him lodged deep in his bones. Fearful he will join the growing ranks of those thrown behind bars by the state for participating in protests that have swept Bangladesh this month, Hasan has been in hiding for a week and described his state as one of “constant panic and trauma”.
“Whenever I hear the sound of a car or a motorbike, I think it might be the police coming for me,” he said.
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Match ID: 21 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Platforms combining plants and recycled garbage could offer a cut-price solution for reviving polluted bodies of water.
Match ID: 22 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Bangladeshi students allege police torture after protests crackdown
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:25:23 GMT
More than 150 reported dead and thousands injured as peaceful demonstrations turn violent
Student activists in Bangladesh have alleged they were abducted and tortured during a violent police crackdown on the protests that have swept the country and led to the arrest of thousands of political opponents and government critics.
Nahid Islam, a Dhaka University student and one of the main organisers of the protest movement, which has been fighting against “discriminatory” quotas for government jobs, said he was picked up by police late last week, tortured and left unconscious on the side of the road.
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Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests
Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:24:47 GMT
Court overturns ruling reserving 30% of government jobs for independence war veterans and their relatives
Bangladesh’s top court has scaled back the quotas on government jobs that led to widespread student-led protests and violent clashes that killed more than 100 people.
On Sunday afternoon the supreme court overturned a ruling that had reintroduced quotas for all civil service jobs, meaning that 30% were reserved for veterans and relatives of those who fought in the Bangladesh war of independence in 1971.
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Match ID: 24 Score: 5.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
Match ID: 25 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 8 days
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Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China
Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:22:57 GMT
Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?
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Match ID: 26 Score: 5.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
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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
Match ID: 27 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 11 days
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Satellite captures first-of-a-kind cloud image
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:26:50 GMT
A joint European-Japanese mission captures a space view of the internal structure of a cloud.
Match ID: 28 Score: 5.71 source: www.bbc.com age: 29 days
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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
Match ID: 29 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 43 days
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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
Match ID: 30 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 46 days
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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
Match ID: 31 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 53 days
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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
Match ID: 32 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 57 days
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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
Match ID: 33 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
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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
Match ID: 34 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 73 days
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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
Match ID: 35 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 78 days
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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
Match ID: 36 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 78 days
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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
Match ID: 37 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 78 days
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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
Match ID: 38 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
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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
Match ID: 39 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
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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
Match ID: 40 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 99 days
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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
Match ID: 41 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 101 days
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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
Match ID: 42 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 106 days
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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
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 36 days
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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
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 57 days
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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
Match ID: 45 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 85 days
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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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Bangladesh police given ‘shoot-on-sight’ orders amid national curfew
Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:34:38 GMT
Citizens confined to homes with no internet access as student-led protests lead to deadly clashes with authorities
Police in Bangladesh have been granted “shoot-on-sight” orders and a nationwide curfew has been imposed as student-led protests continue to roil the country, leaving more than 100 people dead.
The curfew, imposed at midnight on Friday, was expected to last until Sunday morning as police tried to bring the swiftly deteriorating security situation under control, with military personnel patrolling the streets of the capital.
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National curfew imposed in Bangladesh after student protesters storm prison
Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:11:59 GMT
Army to be deployed to keep order after demonstrators free hundreds of prisoners and country is hit by serious unrest
The Bangladeshi government has declared a national curfew and announced plans to deploy the army to tackle the country’s worst unrest in a decade, after student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates.
“The government has decided to impose a curfew and deploy the military in aid of the civilian authorities,” a government spokesperson said late on Friday.
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Match ID: 48 Score: 2.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
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Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video
Wed, 15 May 2024 10:47:18 GMT
Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population. Currently, there are only four students attending the school, often leaving just one in each classroom. The village has experienced severe coastal erosion, causing 1.1-2km (0.5-1.2 miles) of shoreline to disappear since the mid-1950s
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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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