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China sounds warning after Philippines and US announce most expansive military drills yet
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:26:45 GMT
Exercises starting on Monday will be the first to be held outside Philippines’ territorial waters, and come amid a rise in tensions in the South China Sea
Philippine and US forces will carry out their first ever military exercises outside the south-east Asian country’s territorial waters, in a move China has said will only lead to greater insecurity in the South China Sea.
The annual Balikatan or “shoulder-to-shoulder” drills – which will run from 22 April to 10 May – will involve 16,700 soldiers simulating retaking enemy-occupied islands in areas facing Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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qualifiers: 40.00 china, 35.00 south china sea, 20.00 taiwan, 15.00 philippines
Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:08:59 +0000
Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.
The post Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood appeared first on The Intercept.
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Philippines plans ambitious exercise with U.S. as concerns over China grow
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:00:06 +0000
In the military exercise, U.S. and Philippine troops will perform joint operations off the northern tip of the island of Luzon, facing Taiwan.
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How a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ finalist became an unlikely ambassador for Taiwan
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:00:18 +0000
Nymphia Wind has found an international stage where China has no interest (or influence) — and is using her platform to make gains for queer inclusivity in Asia.
Match ID: 3 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china, 20.00 taiwan
Chinese cities sinking under their own weight
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:00:01 GMT
Extracting ground water for growing urban populations causes half of China's big cities to sink.
Match ID: 4 Score: 40.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
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Chinese EV makers won’t get subsidies from Mexico after US pressure
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:38:53 +0000
Mexico has offered generous incentives for automakers in the past.
Match ID: 5 Score: 40.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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Tesla's Layoffs Won't Solve Its Growing Pains
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:47:32 +0000
The car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from China, it has to figure out what to do next.
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Climate Change Research
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000
Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures, shifts in rain patterns, and sea level rise. Collecting climate data helps communities better plan for these changes and build more resilience to them. The International Space Station, one of dozens of NASA missions contributing […]
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UK firms may be barred from funding emerging tech in hostile countries
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:41:01 GMT
Minister says move being considered over concerns UK money could finance projects that undermine national security
Ministers are considering blocking British investors from funding emerging technologies in hostile countries if they believe the technology could pose a threat to UK security, the deputy prime minister has said.
Oliver Dowden said on Thursday the government would consult on curbing British investment abroad, after becoming concerned that money from the UK could be used to finance projects that could undermine national security.
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Martin Scorsese to revive Frank Sinatra biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:31:15 GMT
The director is planning to return to his long-delayed project with Jennifer Lawrence co-starring as Ava Gardner – but rights may prove a stumbling-block
Martin Scorsese is reportedly reviving his dormant Frank Sinatra biopic, with regular collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role.
According to Variety, Scorsese is planning to start filming a Sinatra project directly after completing shooting on his film about Jesus, adapted from a book by Japanese writer Shūsaku Endō. Variety also suggested that DiCaprio will play Sinatra while Jennifer Lawrence will be cast as Ava Gardner, who was married to the singer between 1951 and 1957. However, Variety reports that Scorsese has not yet secured the approval of Sinatra’s daughter Tina, who controls her father’s music and image rights.
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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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Australia plans for a ‘less certain’ future in Asia — one where the US may not remain the dominant force
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:12:13 GMT
The US talks of Aukus as ‘binding’ the allies for decades to come, but Richard Marles says Australia must become more ‘self-reliant’
Australia’s defence overhaul has accelerated some projects and cut others and has already prompted a plea from China to abandon a “cold war mentality”.
But as the dust settles on a plan to increase overall military spending, the Albanese government has also sent some significant signals on how it sees the future of the Indo-Pacific region – and these aren’t exactly how Australia’s top security ally, the US, might see things.
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The West says China makes too much. Its workers disagree
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:22:21 GMT
Migrants are caught in China's manufacturing battles with the West, as Beijing tries to save its economy.
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Japan to allow divorced parents to share custody of children
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:41:02 GMT
Change to civil code will bring Japan into line with other G7 countries, amid concerns existing law inflicts psychological harm on children
Divorced couples in Japan will for the first time be able to negotiate joint custody of their children after parliament voted this week for changes to laws permitting only sole custody.
Under Japan’s civil code, couples must decide which parent will take custody of their children when their marriage ends – a requirement that critics say causes children psychological harm and prevents the “left-behind” parent from playing a fuller role in their upbringing.
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The desperate alignment of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:00:04 +0000
These disparate countries have been driven together through a combination of factors, including U.S. sanctions. Ripping them apart will be far harder.
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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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Water Touches Everything
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:25:07 +0000
Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” The major ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern – shape our planet’s climate and weather by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, water, and carbon […]
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Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:46:20 GMT
Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its prey
Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length – longer than a T rex.
Scientists have recovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, including a few still in the same position as they would have been when the reptile was alive. They said the snake, which they named Vasuki indicus, would have looked like a large python and would not have been venomous.
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Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:00:27 GMT
Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles
An early Shirley in this epic Technicolor comedy-adventure based on Jules Verne, overstuffed with superstar cameos and produced by the impresario Mike Todd. David Niven sauntered through the role of the globe-circling gent Phileas Fogg and 22-year-old MacLaine was cast in the way Hollywood sometimes saw her in those days … as someone whose feline, gamine looks had something exotic and Asiatic about them. She was the Indian Princess Aouda, widowed after a loveless arranged marriage but rescued from the funeral pyre by the bold Fogg, whom she then joins on his travels for a while. A sweet and likable comic turn.
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As India votes, women and youth could put Modi and his BJP over the top
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:00:24 +0000
Unlike in most democracies, women and young people tend to be relatively conservative in India and represent key support for Prime Minister Modi and his BJP party.
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Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:00:19 GMT
As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panels
Under the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape. Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern India, is the world’s third-largest solar power plant, with 25m panels across a huge 50 sq km site, and a capacity of 2,050MW of clean energy.
India has 11 similarly vast solar parks, and plans to install another 39 across 12 states by 2026, a commitment to a greener future.
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Gang members fire at Bollywood star’s home in antelope killing row
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:44:51 GMT
Two men from Bishnoi gang, whose leader has threatened to kill Salman Khan, arrested over Mumbai shooting
Two members of a criminal gang have been arrested by Indian police for firing at the home of the Bollywood actor Salman Khan in retaliation for the star’s killing of two antelopes.
The Bishnoi gang, accused of several murders and extortion rackets, hails from a wider desert-based religious sect that considers the species to be the reincarnation of their guru.
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The US Government Has a Microsoft Problem
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years. Experts say the US government’s reliance on its systems means the company continues to get a free pass.
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Indonesia volcano eruption sparks tsunami fears
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:36:31 GMT
Mount Ruang has repeatedly erupted, and officials fear it could collapse and create a tsunami, with thousands being evacuated from the area
Authorities in Indonesia have issued a tsunami alert after a volcano erupted five times in the province of North Sulawesi, spewing a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes.
Mount Ruang, a stratovolcano, first erupted at 9.45pm local time on Tuesday and then four times on Wednesday, Indonesia’s volcanology agency said.
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Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S. Into War With Iran
Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:38:27 +0000
Netanyahu’s recklessness was fostered by blind U.S. support, but Israel is the one pushing its war with Iran out of the shadows.
The post Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S. Into War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.
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U.S. Military Isn’t That Concerned About War With Iran
Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:14:19 +0000
If Washington believed that Iran was about to start a war with Israel, would the Pentagon be bringing home its morticians?
The post U.S. Military Isn’t That Concerned About War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.
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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 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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US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
2024-04-09T13:56:55Z
The US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior US government officials.
From the executive summary:
The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred. The Board also concludes that Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul, particularly in light of the company’s centrality in the technology ecosystem and the level of trust customers place in the company to protect their data and operations. The Board reaches this conclusion based on:...
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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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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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The false promise of friendshoring
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:14:50 +0000
America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals
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As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:13:53 +0000
Optimism about the world’s second-largest stockmarket is a distant memory
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China’s population is shrinking and its economy is losing ground
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:14:24 +0000
The “peak China” narrative is proving difficult to shift
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Xi Jinping risks setting off another trade war
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:27:54 +0000
Why Western politicians should prepare for a second “China shock”
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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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How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi?
Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:40:33 +0000
It has neither boomed nor slumped. But growth may be taking off
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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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Blow for Myanmar’s military as rebels say hundreds have surrendered at key border town
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 03:07:37 GMT
Thailand PM says army is weakening after junta requests permission to land evacuation flight from Myawaddy across the border
Myanmar’s embattled military is on the brink of losing control of one of the country’s major border crossings, in another humiliating defeat to the junta.
Hundreds of soldiers have surrendered in the town of Myawaddy, near to the border with Thailand, according to opposition groups, while Myanmar junta authorities asked Thai officials for permission to land an evacuation flight across the border on Sunday. Thailand said it granted the request on humanitarian grounds, but clarified on Tuesday that it carried only cargo and no personnel, according to media reports.
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Cannon denies dismissal motions by Trump co-defendants in documents case
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:39:41 +0000
U.S. Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors had adequate evidence in the indictment to bring obstruction charges against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.
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Guardian wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:14:26 GMT
Press Awards recognise newspaper’s cross-platform Cotton Capital series amid wins for several Guardian reporters
The Guardian has won a diversity award at the prestigious Press Awards after its exposé on its founders’ links to transatlantic slavery, as one of its reporters took home the award for news reporter of the year.
Judges at the Press Awards called the Guardian’s cross-platform Cotton Capital series, encompassing news articles, long-form essays, podcasts, video, a magazine, a 15-part newsletter and social media content, a “breathtakingly honest mea culpa”.
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Judge shoots down request to tell Trump who the first 3 trial witnesses will be
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:08:34 +0000
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All 12 jurors seated for Trump’s historic criminal trial – as it happened
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:02:31 GMT
This live blog is now closed. For the latest on Trump’s criminal trial, read our full report:
Judge Merchan, in directing the press not to use physical descriptors to describe jurors, complained specifically about mentioning one of the jurors had an Irish accent.
“We just lost” what would have been a good juror for the case, Merchan said, after one of the jurors was excused after she told the court that she had concerns about her ability to be impartial. Merchan added:
She said she was afraid and intimidated by the press, all the press.
I would recommend the press simply apply common sense and refrain from anything that has to do, for example, with physical descriptions. It’s just not necessary, it serves no purpose.
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A silent Trump glowers and stares during third day of criminal trial
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:59:51 GMT
This was not Donald Trump the business mogul or Donald Trump the 45th president – it was Donald Trump the defendant
With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case against him summed up the experience in just three words. “This is bizarre,” she said, with just a slight hint of a seasoned New York accent.
Bizarre it was. There was a potential juror who once spent the night at one of Trump’s lawyers’ homes more than a decade ago (Trump’s team used one of its pre-emptory strikes to remove the juror). The microphones didn’t work. The proceedings had to start over when Judge Juan Merchan realized that a court reporter hadn’t been present first thing. And the temperature in the courthouse was so frigid that Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s lawyers, asked Merchan if it would be possible to turn up the temperature “just one degree”.
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Lawyers ask judge to remove some potential jurors
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:19:00 +0000
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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:13:21 +0000
Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."
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The Guardian view on the catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis | Editorial
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:34:20 GMT
Hopes of a ceasefire have ebbed, concerns about an assault on Rafah endure, and aid remains wholly insufficient
The Middle East is “on the precipice” and “one miscalculation, one miscommunication, one mistake, could lead to the unthinkable,” the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned on Thursday. Israel has vowed to retaliate to Iran’s weekend barrage of missiles and drones – itself a response to Israel’s killing of two generals at an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus. It is hard to have confidence in either’s ability to calibrate their actions when both have misjudged already.
Yet the spectre of full-scale regional conflict, and the many deaths that could result, must not draw attention away from the almost 34,000 Palestinians already killed in Gaza, according to its health authorities, and the many more who will soon die without an immediate ceasefire and massive increase in aid in what Mr Guterres called a “humanitarian hellscape”.
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Judge Merchan said a short time ago that they would go through the rest of the...
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:45:44 +0000
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Judge says court temperature difficult to set
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:30:17 +0000
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Before questioning of more prospective jurors resumes, prosecutors are telling the judge they believe Donald...
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:50:01 +0000
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Judge excuses one of the seven jurors already selected
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:45:59 +0000
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Having remade Twitter, Elon Musk takes his speech fight global
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:00:04 +0000
The X owner’s dispute over disinformation with a Brazilian judge could influence social media use everywhere.
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A rape took place in Parliament, judge rules in case that consumed Australia
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:24:13 +0000
After Brittany Higgins accused her colleague Bruce Lehrmann of rape, he sued a TV network for airing her story. The case’s dismissal caps a years-long legal saga.
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Stories from the Trump Bible
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
And Jesus said to Pontius Pilate, “This trial is very unfair. You are a corrupt judge, and your wife is a very nasty woman.”
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U.S. Troops in Niger Say They’re “Stranded” and Can’t Get Mail, Medicine
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:22:11 +0000
U.S. military service members interviewed for a congressional inquiry said intelligence reports about how bad the situation is were being suppressed.
The post U.S. Troops in Niger Say They’re “Stranded” and Can’t Get Mail, Medicine appeared first on The Intercept.
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Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:41:47 +0000
The university suspended three students out of hundreds participating in an on-campus encampment to protest the Israeli government.
The post Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators appeared first on The Intercept.
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36-year-old Republican congressman from Kansas won’t seek reelection
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:09:27 +0000
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55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:36:56 +0000
The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all three components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit in May, in a dress rehearsal for the landing itself. Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John […]
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The Gaping Hole in Supreme Court Rules for Tracking Links Between Litigants and Influence Groups
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:24:39 +0000
Parties appearing before the Supreme Court can fund the groups that file briefs supporting their arguments — and almost never have to disclose it.
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Columbia Suspended Two Students for Assault on Gaza Rally, School Says in Antisemitism Hearing
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:58:01 +0000
In congressional testimony, school administrators also said they are investigating pro-Israel and pro-Palestine professors.
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Defying Niger exit order leaves U.S. troops vulnerable, whistleblower says
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:52:05 +0000
A U.S. Air Force leader in Niger made a whistleblower complaint to Congress raising alarm over the Biden administration’s reluctance to heed an eviction notice.
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Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:08:59 +0000
Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.
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Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:11:29 +0000
One of Silicon Valley’s most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration–backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.
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Russia hits Chernihiv, killing 18 as Ukraine pleads for air defense
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:00:56 +0000
With a U.S. aid package stalled in Congress, Russia has exploited Ukraine’s ammunition and air defense shortages, destroying energy infrastructure across the country.
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From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:00:05 GMT
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
This week, from 2021: Flordelis grew up in a Rio favela, but rose to fame after adopting more than 50 children, becoming a hugely successful gospel singer and winning a seat in congress. And now she is on trial for murder. By Tom Phillips
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Democrats Question U.S. Claims That Israel Isn’t Violating International Law Using American Weapons
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:03:12 +0000
Biden campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar co-led a congressional letter questioning the administration's compliance with its own arms transfer memo.
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US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:02:58 +0000
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.
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Ahead of Congressional Testimony, Columbia President Cracks Down on Student Advocacy for Palestine
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:14:07 +0000
Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Pomona College all seriously disciplined students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza this month.
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Remember the Centrists Who Lost the House in 2022? They’re Back!
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
New York congressional hopeful John Avlon, a centrist with GOP ties, was endorsed by a party chair widely blamed for losing the House.
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House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:30:44 +0000
The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans’ information.
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There’s a Bigger Driver of Veteran Radicalization Than Donald Trump
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:29:40 +0000
A RAND Corporation study finds that negative experiences in the military are a main cause of veterans turning to extremism.
The post There’s a Bigger Driver of Veteran Radicalization Than Donald Trump appeared first on The Intercept.
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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:15:05 +0000
An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law.
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Section 702: The Future of the Biggest US Spy Program Hangs in the Balance
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:21:16 +0000
The US Congress will this week decide the fate of Section 702, a major surveillance program that will soon expire if lawmakers do not act. WIRED is tracking the major developments as they unfold.
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A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
Sun, 07 Apr 2024 21:13:18 +0000
While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.
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News live: attorney general says Australia facing a ‘crisis of male violence’; hospitals deliver record wait times for surgery
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:46:57 GMT
Mark Dreyfus decries ‘scourge’ of violence against women; Australian Medical Association says people waiting almost twice as long for planned surgery than 20 years ago. Follow the day’s news live
The NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, is speaking to the media after a 16-year-old was charged with a “terrorist act” for allegedly stabbing a bishop on Monday and is expected to appear at a bedside hearing today.
She said members of the joint counter-terrorism team interviewed the alleged offender at a medical facility last night, and he was subsequently charged with a commonwealth offence for terrorism and refused bail.
We expect he will be attending a bedside court hearing today to determine bail. This relates to the stabbing of the Bishop [Mar Mari Emmanuel, who] we allege on Monday night [was] stabbed up to six times.
We also allege that the boy had travelled for 90 minutes to attend that location from his home address.
We’ve got a crisis of male violence in Australia. We know that it’s a scourge in our society, we know it must end and I think it’s really clear women can’t be expected to solve violence against women although it is time for men to step up.
I don’t think debating definitions is the way to go … We need to act, we need to educate ourselves, men need to step up, we need to talk to our sons, to our colleagues, to our friends. We need to work together to a solution. And I think going down some kind of almost a wrong path to say let’s redefine – it’s not about definitions. This is about action. We need to shift the way in which we think about this …
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55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:36:56 +0000
The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all three components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit in May, in a dress rehearsal for the landing itself. Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John […]
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Shock of the old: 11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:38:51 GMT
From Leonardo da Vinci to the engineers of Bell Aerosystems, some of our finest minds have devoted themselves to finding a better form of travel. Still, anyone can have an off day …
There’s an innocent optimism to transport visionaries. They really thought they could change the world! They absolutely couldn’t! But all respect to them for trying: someone got lucky with the wheel once, didn’t they?
Being a transport visionary must have been more interesting back before technological progress and grotesque wealth allowed billionaires to “disrupt” the boring A-to-B-ness of conventional travel and blast a car into space, just because. Imagine conceiving of human flight back when your only model was birds and some gossip about a guy called Icarus. Or looking at a horse and thinking: “Hmmm, that’s fast, muscular and terrifying; I wonder if I could compel it to take me somewhere, somehow?”
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Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:00:27 GMT
Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles
An early Shirley in this epic Technicolor comedy-adventure based on Jules Verne, overstuffed with superstar cameos and produced by the impresario Mike Todd. David Niven sauntered through the role of the globe-circling gent Phileas Fogg and 22-year-old MacLaine was cast in the way Hollywood sometimes saw her in those days … as someone whose feline, gamine looks had something exotic and Asiatic about them. She was the Indian Princess Aouda, widowed after a loveless arranged marriage but rescued from the funeral pyre by the bold Fogg, whom she then joins on his travels for a while. A sweet and likable comic turn.
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Footage shows people in Gaza fleeing strikes as people try to return to the north – video
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:36:36 GMT
Video shared across social media shows alleged IDF strikes and sniper fire targeting groups of people attempting to travel to the north of Gaza, which Israel says is an active 'war zone'. The northern half of the coastal enclave has been sealed off by the Israeli military, but rumours spread over the weekend of civilians passing through, triggering a wave of people trying to return to their homes
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NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:40 +0000
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
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‘Hidden in plain sight’: the European city tours of slavery and colonialism
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:30:02 GMT
From Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid to the Tuileries Garden in Paris, guides reshape stories continent tells about itself
Dodging between throngs of tourists and workers on their lunch breaks in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol plaza, we stop in front of the nearly 3-tonne statue depicting King Carlos III on a horse. Playfully nicknamed Madrid’s best mayor, Carlos III is credited with modernising the city’s lighting, sewage systems and rubbish removal.
Kwame Ondo, the tour guide behind AfroIbérica Tours, offers up another, albeit lesser-known tidbit about the monarch. “He was one of the biggest slave owners of his time,” says Ondo, citing the 1,500 enslaved people he kept on the Iberian peninsula and the 18,500 others held in Spain’s colonies in the Americas. As aristocratic families sought to keep up with the monarch, the proportion of enslaved people in Madrid swelled to an estimated 4% of the population in the 1780s.
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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
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New Look at NASA, Boeing Sustainable Experimental Airliner
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000
As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds. A new rendering of the X-66 from Boeing demonstrates the aircraft’s signature […]
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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.
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