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Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
Thu, 09 May 2024 04:00:40 GMT
My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words
Most of my manuscripts are locked up in the filing cabinets of the ministry of security, and the agents there study and ponder them repeatedly, more carefully than the creator himself. The guys working this racket have superb memories; a certain chief of the Chengdu public security bureau can still recite the poems I published in an underground magazine in the 1980s. While the literati write nostalgically, hoping to go down in literary history, the real history may be locked in the vaults of the security department.
The above is excerpted from my book June 4: My Testimony, published in Taiwan in 2011. I wrote that book three times, the later drafts on paper much better than the paper I used for writing in prison, which was so soft and brittle I had to write very lightly. Paper outside prison is solid and flexible enough that you don’t have to worry about puncturing it with the tip of a pen. Thus, I restrained myself and filled in a page of paper, and then how many thousand – ten thousand? More? How many ant-sized words can be packed on to a page? Who knows.
On 10 October 1995, at two in the afternoon, three police cars carrying about a dozen special agents burst in on me. Everything was carried out in accordance with “legal procedures”, the officers’ IDs and search warrant were presented, the entire search process was meticulously videotaped, and all written matter in the house (including manuscripts, letters, and notes) was confiscated. And this included the very nearly completed draft of this testimony – more than 300,000 characters representing my painstaking efforts of the past year and a half.
I was breathing normally, signed with a smile, and asked: “Should I bring clothes?” The answer: “No.” I was uneasy leaving my money and valuables at home as I prepared to be the guest of the state for a long time. The agents laughed.
At 10 o’clock in the evening, I exited the Baiguolin police station in the Xicheng district of Chengdu and was politely told: “Don’t leave the city for the next month.” Thank God, my head was still on my shoulders and I could still write.
I cursed my carelessness with the foulest language imaginable and set about rewriting with all my might. Without inspiration or passion, the pen slashed the paper to ribbons, and often I could only produce a few hundred words a day. Staring at the paper was useless, and cold sweat couldn’t solve my writer’s block. But I’d made a bet; I couldn’t admit defeat. I wanted to use this to validate my own stupid way of living as an insignificant individual – a bet with the world’s largest dictatorship – with writing materials, so that in future my kids won’t think their dad was just talking big.
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Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:07:58 GMT
‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister
Malaysia plans to give orangutans as gifts to countries that buy its palm oil as part of an “orangutan diplomacy” strategy to ease concerns over the environmental impact of the commodity.
The south-east Asian country is the world’s second biggest producer of palm oil, which is found in more than half of supermarket packaged goods – from pizza and biscuits, to lipstick and shampoos. Global demand for palm oil has been blamed for driving deforestation in Malaysia and neighbouring Indonesia.
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Chinese PR boss says sorry after glorifying work-till-you-drop culture
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:11:04 GMT
In a crisis of her own making, Qu Jing also threatened Baidu staff who dared to question her management style
The head of public relations at China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, has apologised after creating her own PR crisis with a series of videos glorifying the country’s work-till-you-drop culture.
Qu Jing, who is also vice-president at the company, said she would not take responsibility for her staff’s wellbeing “as I’m not your mother” in the videos posted over the May bank holiday on Douyin, the most popular short-video app in China. In another she said: “If you work in public relations, don’t expect weekends off.”
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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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Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech
Thu, 09 May 2024 01:28:10 GMT
The territory’s justice minister has called for the anthem to be removed from the internet in the wake of the ruling
Hong Kong has demanded a protest song that was made popular during pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory be removed from the internet, in the wake of a court ruling which banned it.
In its judgment on Wednesday, the court of appeal described the song Glory to Hong Kong as a “weapon” to incite violent protests in 2019.
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Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:49:39 GMT
Critics said proposal to build canal linking Atlantic and Pacific would endanger environment and rural communities
Nearly a decade after it broke ground on a controversial plan to build a canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has canceled a concession granted to a Chinese businessman to complete the project which critics said would endanger the environment and displace rural communities.
Despite a symbolic “ground-breaking” in 2014, no work was done on the canal that was to link Nicaragua’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. At one point, crews broke ground on access roads near the canal but digging the waterway never started.
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Intel’s and Qualcomm’s Huawei export licenses get revoked
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:19:44 +0000
Huawei's phone division has moved on, but laptops will suffer without Intel.
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A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:07:13 +0000
You can take the platform away from American users, but it is far too late to contain the habits that it has unleashed.
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Michael Schumacher on the phone in Japan: Jon Nicholson’s best photograph
Wed, 08 May 2024 13:44:50 GMT
‘“What do you want me to do?” he said when we got to his trailer. I couldn’t have him just staring at me, so I said: “Maybe pick up the phone?” I don’t know if he called anyone’
I got into photographing motor sport through my friendship with Damon Hill. When we met, 40 years ago, I had a job in the marketing department of an office supplies manufacturer and he was mostly on a motorbike, either earning his living as a dispatch rider or racing at Brands Hatch. Then he switched to racing on four wheels – his dad, Graham Hill, had been a double Formula 1 world champion. Damon is a really shy bloke and it was important to him to be with people who weren’t just fascinated by his family history. I didn’t know one end of a racing car from the other.
My ambition was to work for Allsport, the sports photography agency. Eventually, I got a job there and stayed on the staff for three years until I couldn’t cope any more with going to Tottenham on a Tuesday night in the middle of February. Eamonn McCabe, the picture editor of the Guardian and the Observer, gave me a few shifts a week, and suddenly I was in at the deep end.
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‘Countries are now forced to confront it’: Rise in Chinese espionage arrests alarms Europe
Wed, 08 May 2024 06:00:36 GMT
Increase in cases reflects changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say experts
As China’s president, Xi Jinping, arrived in Serbia for the second leg of his European tour, authorities across the continent were grappling with a wave of allegations about Chinese spying.
On Tuesday, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, revealed that a “malign actor” had compromised British military payroll records, with reports pointing the finger at China.
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NASA Licenses 3D-Printable Superalloy to Benefit US Economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:14:04 +0000
NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on the threshold of paying commercial dividends. The agency is licensing its invention, dubbed “GRX-810,” to four American companies, a practice that benefits the United States economy as a return on investment of taxpayer dollars. GRX-810 […]
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It won’t be easy for Caitlin Clark in the world’s most unmerciful sports league
Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:11 GMT
With only 144 spots and an ever-growing talent pool, the WNBA may be the most difficult league to make in all of sports. For a rookie class led by Caitlin Clark, it’ll be a whole new ballgame
From the moment Caitlin Clark was tapped by the Indiana Fever with the first overall pick in last month’s WNBA draft, the buzz surrounding the once-in-a-generation player from the American heartland has only redoubled.
The 22-year-old from West Des Moines, who broke Pete Maravich’s 54-year-old record to become the all-time leading scorer in major college basketball history earlier this year, is the bandleader of a sensational WNBA rookie class that has drawn millions of new fans to the women’s game in recent months – and generated an unprecedented sense of excitement as the league’s 28th season tips off on Tuesday night.
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Selling off the summer? Why Hundred plans should matter to all cricket lovers | Barney Ronay
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:42 GMT
The ECB’s proposals to invite private investment into its divisive tournament require further scrutiny with the wider game at stake
Why should anyone be worried about the England and Wales Cricket Board’s plan to sell its stake in the eight Hundred franchise teams to private investors? A deadline for counties to agree to a “direction of travel” on this issue has been set for Friday. The governing body’s preferred direction appears clear enough. The intention seems to be to sell English cricket’s chief domestic revenue levers as quickly as possible. Most likely this will be to the existing owners of Indian Premier League franchises. IPL owners already have teams in the US, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. So why not here?
To date nobody with any kind of platform in the game seems overly concerned about this prospect. We have seen no breaking of ranks among administrators, no big‑ticket media names pointing to the potential pitfalls, no European Super League-style protests on the streets.
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The Marshall Star for May 8, 2024
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:20:32 +0000
New Flag is in the Stars for Marshall’s Huntsville Operations Support Center By Wayne Smith A new flag is flying closer to the stars outside the Huntsville Operations Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center following a May 2 ceremony. The white flag features a blue logo of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and marks contributions […]
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Sulaiman Mountain Haze
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:43:42 +0000
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this Dec. 17, 2023, photograph of the Sulaiman Mountains in central Pakistan. The Sulaiman Mountains form a natural barrier between the plateaus to the west and the Indus River Valley to the east. Winds blowing from the Indian Ocean and Indus floodplain carry moisture and particulates inland, causing a […]
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‘We can’t defeat nature but we can be climate-resilient’: how plant roots can help stop landslides
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:34:31 GMT
Thanks to soil bioengineering in a village in north India, a submerged road was accessible in less than one week, according to officials
On 14 August 2023, heavy rainfall in north India triggered flash floods and landslides, devastating the region. Kishori Lal, the sarpanch (head) of the Kothi Gehri village in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, recalls the events of that day: “Our link road connecting to the state highway and a few homes along that road were completely devastated.”
Torrential downpours in nearby Rewalsar, a picturesque lake town popular with tourists, led to several water bodies bursting their banks. The subsequent flooding and landslides wrecked homes in Lal’s village, necessitating the evacuation of hamlets and severing vital links to the outside world. With roads submerged, the ensuing closure of the Mandi-Rewalsar-Kalkhar Road and link roads left scores of tourists stranded and local communities isolated.
Amid this chaos, the resilience of Nog, a village in Bilaspur district, stands out. While roads across the region, including those in and around Kothi Gehri, remained closed, the road leading to Nog was accessible in less than one week, according to officials.
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Haley receives nearly 22 percent of Indiana vote
Wed, 08 May 2024 12:40:56 +0000
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Why have student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza gone global?
Wed, 08 May 2024 11:48:18 GMT
Ceasefire and divestment calls have spread beyond US campuses, with more expected as Rafah offensive begins
University campuses around the world have been the stage of a growing number of protests by students demanding academic institutions divest from companies supplying arms to Israel.
The protests, which first spread across college campuses in the US, have reached universities in the UK, the rest of Europe, as well as Lebanon and India.
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Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) is the projected winner of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Indiana that...
Wed, 08 May 2024 11:00:12 +0000
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy replaces special operations chief for second time in six months
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:31:17 GMT
Move comes after deputy prime minister and agriculture minister dismissed by government
South Korea’s position remains it will not supply lethal weapons to any country, president Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday, when asked if Seoul was prepared to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia.
Yoon also said his government intended to continue managing relations with Moscow to “pursue economic cooperation and mutual benefits” even though the two countries’ ties have become “uncomfortable” since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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Arrested U.S. soldier was in Russia to pursue girlfriend
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:51:31 +0000
Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, met a Russian woman while stationed in South Korea and followed her to Russia without notifying his commanders.
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The Beautifully Unnerving Gaze of “Evil Does Not Exist”
Fri, 03 May 2024 22:20:45 +0000
The Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi follows his Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” with a hauntingly ambiguous drama of nature and capitalism in conflict.
Match ID: 23 Score: 22.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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US official says Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating'
2024-05-09T02:37:41+00:00
Match ID: 24 Score: 20.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Malaysia offers trade partners 'orangutan diplomacy'
Wed, 08 May 2024 16:47:15 GMT
The great apes are proposed as gifts for palm oil importers, but conservationists voice concerns.
Match ID: 25 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news.
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India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video
Sat, 04 May 2024 08:30:41 GMT
Congress party’s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah
Indian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the country’s main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national election.
Arun Reddy of the Congress party was detained late on Friday in connection with the edited footage, which falsely shows India’s powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, vowing in a campaign speech to end affirmative action policies for millions of poor and low-caste Indians.
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‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites
Sat, 04 May 2024 05:00:35 GMT
Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom
Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.
For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called dakhma, or “towers of silence”. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of earth, fire and water, from being contaminated by corpses.
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Canadian police charge three over killing of Sikh activist
Fri, 03 May 2024 21:28:50 GMT
Prime minister said there were ‘credible allegations’ that India was behind killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Canadian police have charged three members of an alleged hit team for their role in the assassination of the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the first arrests in a high-profile killing that officials believe was masterminded by India.
The arrests come nearly a year after the prominent activist was killed in the parking lot of the Guru Nanak Sikh gurdwara on the evening of 18 June in the city of Surrey, British Columbia. In what investigators previously described as a carefully orchestrated operation, two assailants fired about 50 bullets at Nijjar and escaped the area in a grey car.
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Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who called for Nixon’s resignation, dies at 96
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:14:27 +0000
A decorated Marine, he led dissent against the Vietnam War and called for President Richard M. Nixon’s impeachment over his conduct of the war.
Match ID: 30 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:03:19 GMT
Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Niño
Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperatures, with unusually hot weather forcing schools to close and threatening public health.
Thousands of schools across the Philippines, including in the capital region Metro Manila, have suspended in-person classes. Half of the country’s 82 provinces are experiencing drought, and nearly 31 others are facing dry spells or dry conditions, according to the UN, which has called for greater support to help the country prepare for similar weather events in the future. The country’s upcoming harvest will probably be below average, the UN said.
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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: 32 Score: 10.00 source: www.economist.com age: 7 days
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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
Match ID: 33 Score: 8.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:13:46 +0000
China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
Match ID: 34 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 35 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 9 days
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School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program.
Match ID: 36 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
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Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
Match ID: 37 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
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'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.
Match ID: 38 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 14 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: 15 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 21 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
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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: 28 days
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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
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
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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
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 39 days
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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
Match ID: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 51 days
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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
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 51 days
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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
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 56 days
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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%
Match ID: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 56 days
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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
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
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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?
Match ID: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 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: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
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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
Match ID: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 91 days
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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
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 98 days
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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
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 101 days
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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
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 105 days
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WhatsApp in India
2024-04-30T11:00:28Z
Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 9 days
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India election: Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:30:27 GMT
Parties clash over communal issues in increasingly charged campaign amid concerns unseasonably hot weather affecting voter numbers
India has held the second phase of the world’s biggest election, with prime minister Narendra Modi and his rivals hurling accusations of religious discrimination and threats to democracy amid flagging voter turnout.
Almost 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the seven-phase general election that began on 19 April and concludes on 1 June, with votes set to be counted on 4 June.
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Match ID: 58 Score: 5.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 12 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
Match ID: 59 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
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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
Match ID: 60 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 35 days
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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
Match ID: 61 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 43 days
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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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Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy replaces special operations chief for second time in six months
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:31:17 GMT
Move comes after deputy prime minister and agriculture minister dismissed by government
South Korea’s position remains it will not supply lethal weapons to any country, president Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday, when asked if Seoul was prepared to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia.
Yoon also said his government intended to continue managing relations with Moscow to “pursue economic cooperation and mutual benefits” even though the two countries’ ties have become “uncomfortable” since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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Arrested U.S. soldier was in Russia to pursue girlfriend
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:51:31 +0000
Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, met a Russian woman while stationed in South Korea and followed her to Russia without notifying his commanders.
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Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur
Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:37 GMT
As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan
Gruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.
Witnesses describe children, still alive, being “piled up and shot” by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they attempted to escape the regional capital of El Geneina in June last year during a bout of ethnic violence in which thousands of civilians were killed.
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Ukraine orders nationwide electricity rationing after Russian airstrikes
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:28:10 +0000
The Russian missile and drone strikes, which lasted more than three hours early Wednesday, targeted energy infrastructure in six Ukrainian regions.
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Emboldened Russia marks Victory Day with parade of nuclear-capable weapons
Thu, 09 May 2024 10:29:30 +0000
Vladimir Putin delivered a bellicose speech on Red Square at a commemoration of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II, signaling his confidence about Russia’s battlefield advances in Ukraine.
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Western military trainers could go to Ukraine, Lithuania minister says
Thu, 09 May 2024 06:00:41 GMT
Gabrielius Landsbergis also backs David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron on standing up to Putin
Lithuania’s foreign minister has raised the prospect of an ad hoc coalition of western countries sending military training personnel into Ukraine backed by ground-based air defence, days after Russia took an increasingly strident tone against what it sees as the threat of deeper western involvement in the war.
Speaking to the Guardian after meeting his British counterpart, David Cameron, in London, Gabrielius Landsbergis also backed the British foreign secretary for saying that Ukraine could use British-made weapons against Russia; remarks that alongside Emmanuel Macron refusing to rule out western troops in Ukraine prompted the Kremlin to threaten UK assets and order a tactical nuclear training exercise.
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Extending Trump’s tax cuts could ‘run the deficit into the stratosphere.’ Here’s how much that could cost.
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:57:00 GMT
Extending a spate of the 2017 tax cuts enacted under former President Donald Trump could cost $4.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a fresh estimate on Wednesday.
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Live updates: Stormy Daniels spars with Trump attorney while testifying in hush money trial
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:52:13 +0000
Stormy Daniels returned to the stand Thursday to continue her testimony in Donald Trump’s trial on allegations of business fraud related to hush money paid.
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Daniels, Trump attorney spar over ‘Stormy Saint of Indictments’ candle
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:52:13 +0000
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Trump attorney says Stormy Daniels is a woman who makes up stories
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:50:00 +0000
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Biden threat to stop Israel arms shipments welcomed by Democrats and criticized by Israeli officials and Republicans – live
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:48:41 GMT
US president applauded by progressive lawmakers amid criticism from Israel and Republicans
US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who previously called Israel’s attacks on Gaza an “unfolding genocide, said that “[Biden]’s historic shift to include Israel in US standards makes the world safer and our values clear.”
“President Biden enforcing conditions on US military aid and holding the Israeli gov to the same bar we hold all our allies to is the responsible, secure, and just thing to do,” she added.
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Trump lawyer argues Stormy Daniels was out to make money as testimony continues in hush-money trial – live
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:43:14 GMT
Defense attorney Susan Necheles’ rapid-fire questioning appears aimed at showing Daniels’ revelation about alleged affair was motivated by money
Donald Trump’s motorcade has arrived at the Manhattan courthouse.
Juan Merchan, the judge, has instructed that photography is no longer allowed in the courtroom for the rest of the trial, per pool, citing a court officer.
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Election 2024 latest news: Biden heading west on fundraising swing; Trump back in court
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:39:05 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Daniels: Show me when I said I would be instrumental in getting Trump jailed?
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:38:21 +0000
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Donald Trump appears engaged and looking at a screen in front of him as his attorney...
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:33:19 +0000
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Daniels is denying many of Trump lawyer’s accusations in heated cross-examination
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:26:27 +0000
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Lawyer portrays Stormy Daniels vs. Donald Trump as a battle of brands
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:22:21 +0000
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Attorney tries to bolster claim that Trump wanted to keep story quiet to protect family
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:19:43 +0000
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FreedomWorks, an organization that mobilized tea party conservatives, dissolves
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:52:35 +0000
The group that helped turn the tea party into a political force within the GOP is shuttering. Its president blames the party’s ideological realignment toward Trump.
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Donald Trump is frequently whispering to his attorney Todd Blanche, as Susan Necheles conducts the cross-examination.
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:51:12 +0000
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Analysis: How Trump could wiggle out of his legal woes
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:50:11 +0000
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As Trump entered the courtroom earlier, he gave a thumbs-up to conservative journalist Greg Kelly, son...
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:38:59 +0000
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The jury has entered the courtroom and Stormy Daniels is back on the stand. Trump’s attorneys...
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:37:22 +0000
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Donald Trump described Justice Juan Merchan on Thursday morning as “totally conflicted” and said his team...
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:35:39 +0000
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New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has taken the bench.
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:30:00 +0000
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Donald Trump has entered the courtroom and taken a seat at the defense table.
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:27:03 +0000
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Donald Trump just told reporters, “We just filed a major motion in the appellate division concerning...
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:24:41 +0000
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Analysis: Judge keeps tying Trump to possible intimidation
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:13:33 +0000
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Trump’s reaction will be closely watched as cross-examination continues
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:04:20 +0000
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Stormy Daniels clashes with Trump lawyer over sex claim and cash
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:55:58 GMT
The adult-film star's cross-examination continues after a very heated testimony on Tuesday.
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What Stormy Daniels said happened in Trump’s hotel suite, from the transcript
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:52:32 +0000
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How Trump’s allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:37:46 +0000
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Why Stormy Daniels’s account of sex with Trump may be problematic
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:30:44 +0000
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Listen to the latest episode of Post Reports, titled “Stormy Daniels takes the stand (and Trump...
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:28:14 +0000
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:22:32 +0000
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Barron Trump makes political debut as Florida delegate for GOP convention
Thu, 09 May 2024 11:15:01 +0000
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Top Republicans, led by Trump, refuse to commit to accept 2024 election results
Thu, 09 May 2024 10:30:46 +0000
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The Pure Chaos Inside Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial
Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Stifled by a court-imposed gag order, the former President must sit and listen to hours of “at times tedious, at times embarrassing, at times damning evidence against him,” the staff writer Eric Lach says.
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Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind | Emma Brockes
Thu, 09 May 2024 08:00:43 GMT
At some deep level, the former adult film star clearly has his number and knows how to hit him where it hurts
The spectacle of Stormy Daniels on the witness stand in a Manhattan courtroom this week sent one back to the image of Trump’s last female antagonist, E Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who famously sued Trump for sexually assaulting her, standing victorious outside another courtroom in January. Daniels, unlike Carroll, is not the plaintiff in this case. Nonetheless, Trump’s fortunes rest, to a large degree, on her credibility, a 45-year-old former porn star who the New York Times described this week as “a complicated and imperfect witness”. If Carroll – elegant, measured, articulate – was the perfect victim, Daniels is practically the archetype of the woman court systems tend to revile. And yet, on the strength of her opening testimony, she strikes me as Trump’s very worst nightmare.
This impression is extrajudicial. Daniels, who has already been rebuked by the judge for straying off topic, may prove too wayward a witness to achieve what Carroll did: the civil case equivalent of a guilty verdict against a man almost supernaturally able to avoid them. If we are looking beyond verdicts to the public image, however, Daniels is in some ways by far the more menacing foe for Trump. You couldn’t make up the details of her testimony this week, which sent court reporters scrambling to find sober ways to present her account of spanking Trump with a rolled up magazine and insisting on having sex with her without a condom. This is a woman willing to meet Trump at his preferred site of conflict – public humiliation – and on the evidence so far, he isn’t weathering it well.
Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist
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Judge keeps tying Trump to possible intimidation
Thu, 09 May 2024 00:17:31 +0000
Juan Merchan has cited at least three instances of Trump’s potentially intimidating a witness or jurors. But experts say it’s hard to police.
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Biden says he doesn’t believe Trump will accept the results of the 2024 election
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:19:43 +0000
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The Washington Post analyzed 14,101 of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts from the day he announced...
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:39:30 +0000
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Stormy Daniels takes the stand (and Trump curses)
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:26:09 +0000
This week in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president, Stormy Daniels gave explicit and disturbing testimony and sparked an angry reaction from Donald Trump.
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In new ad, Democratic House candidate John Avlon focuses attention on Trump
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:22:14 +0000
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The 2020-was-stolen crew is here to stoke fears of noncitizen voters
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:19:55 +0000
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) led a news conference featuring key Trump allies in which he tried to amplify baseless warnings about non-citizen voters.
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Poll: Biden leads Trump in Wisconsin, but race tightens with third-party candidates
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:52:21 +0000
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The Marshall Star for May 8, 2024
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:20:32 +0000
New Flag is in the Stars for Marshall’s Huntsville Operations Support Center By Wayne Smith A new flag is flying closer to the stars outside the Huntsville Operations Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center following a May 2 ceremony. The white flag features a blue logo of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and marks contributions […]
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Biden touts Microsoft AI center on site of Trump’s failed Foxconn deal
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:11:11 +0000
The multibillion-dollar investment is expected to create 2,000 permanent jobs and 2,300 temporary union construction jobs.
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For all the complaints, Trump isn’t campaigning much on trial off-days
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:55:08 +0000
The former president insists that the trial is meant to keep him off the campaign trail. So what’s keeping him off it on other days?
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Biden highlights Trump’s connection to a failed Foxconn deal in Wisconsin
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:50:53 +0000
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Analysis: For all the complaints, Trump isn’t campaigning much on trial off-days
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:27:27 +0000
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Why conservative media is suddenly turning on Kristi Noem
Wed, 08 May 2024 16:48:51 +0000
The Trump-era right wing has proven it will put up with plenty — until it decides you’re a political liability.
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Analysis: Trump’s classified documents trial blown apart by Cannon
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:59:21 +0000
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Georgia court to hear Trump appeal seeking to disqualify Fani Willis
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:37:47 +0000
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Trump’s classified documents trial blown apart by Cannon
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:33:07 +0000
Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee in charge of the Florida prosecution, has repeatedly given Trump’s team exactly what it wants. His fans have noticed.
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New Biden campaign ad targets Trump’s efforts to repeal Obamacare
Wed, 08 May 2024 14:39:06 +0000
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Tracking the Trump criminal cases and where they stand
Wed, 08 May 2024 14:27:35 +0000
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has been indicted in four criminal cases. Here is the latest news on each.
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Biden to tout new Microsoft AI center on site of Trump’s failed Foxconn deal
Wed, 08 May 2024 13:51:28 +0000
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Former House speaker Paul Ryan says he won’t vote for Trump
Wed, 08 May 2024 12:03:11 +0000
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Stormy Daniels testifies, Trump curses in an angry day in court
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:30:32 +0000
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Judge indefinitely delays Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:15:55 +0000
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Can Suing People for Lying Save Democracy?
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The lawyers at Protect Democracy have brought defamation suits against Rudy Giuliani, Kari Lake, and Project Veritas, hoping to limit the spread of disinformation. Others worry that their efforts could impinge on freedom of speech.
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Actually, I Can’t Wait for a Trump-Biden Rematch
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
This time around, we’ll remember to stock the appropriate amount of Xanax, anticipating that the election will take several days to call.
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Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial - podcast
Wed, 08 May 2024 07:25:22 GMT
It was the moment Donald Trump was dreading. The former president could only sit and watch as the adult film actor Stormy Daniels told her version of events from an alleged sexual encounter they had in 2006. Prosecutors say that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen shuttled a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, to keep her from talking to anyone about her alleged encounter with Trump.
So how bad was Daniels’ testimony for the presumptive GOP candidate? Jonathan Freedland and the political commentator Molly Jong-Fast discuss an extraordinary day in a Manhattan courtroom
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What Sleepy Trump Dreams About at Trial
Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Mashed-potato nightmares! Kafka in the Oval Office! And other things going through the mind of the nap-happy ex-President in court.
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NASA Administrator to Engage Officials in Italy, Vatican, Saudi Arabia
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:56:33 +0000
Continuing his engagement to deepen international collaboration and the peaceful use of space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to Italy and Vatican City, followed by Saudi Arabia, beginning Thursday. Nelson will meet with key government and space officials in each country. Italy is a longstanding partner in human spaceflight and Earth science. Nelson will […]
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Jorginho signs Arsenal contract extension after rejecting Serie A return
Thu, 09 May 2024 13:00:31 GMT
- Mikel Arteta thrilled with ‘unique’ player’s short-term contract
- Midfielder, 32, had been linked to a return to Italy
Arsenal have announced that Jorginho has signed a short-term contract extension, with the Italy midfielder believed to have turned down the opportunity to return to Serie A.
The 32-year-old has played an important role this season as Arsenal attempt to win a first title for 20 years, having made most of his 10 Premier League starts since the turn of the year as Mikel Arteta’s side battle with Manchester City.
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Putin hails army 'heroes' and warns off West in WW2 parade
Thu, 09 May 2024 11:50:44 GMT
Russia's leader marks Victory Day by making clear the country's military is always on combat alert.
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The Government Inspector review – Ghosts stars team up for cartoonish corruption satire
Thu, 09 May 2024 11:33:34 GMT
Marylebone theatre, London
Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Martha Howe-Douglas ably embody Gogol’s schemers, but this show doesn’t hit any 21st-century targets
You can see why, in 2024, one might revive Gogol’s play about rampant government corruption, and adaptor/director Patrick Myles asserts its topicality in the programme notes as well as onstage. “You’re laughing at yourselves!” Dan Skinner’s puffed-up provincial governor howls at us, breaking the fourth wall in a pointed moment near the end. But are we? Everything onstage is so cartoonish, and the characters played as such fools, it’s unlikely anyone’s sitting in the crowd thinking: “That’s me, that is.”
Myles sets the play in some hybrid of imperial Russia and Victorian/Edwardian England, a culturally unspecific world where the gramophone exists, Dickens and Wilde are au courant, and “we could be sent to London in chains!”, frets Skinner’s Swashprattle, aghast that the titular inspector might dob him in for graft. So he and his council of cronies brown-nose, bribe and grease their way into their visitor’s favour – little knowing that Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s Fopdoodle is no official, just a spoilt toff on the make.
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‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’: Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic
Thu, 09 May 2024 11:31:15 GMT
His Costa-shortlisted first book examined his own schizophrenia, from hospital breakouts to hiding from the police. Now the writer has fed this into Tale of Ahmed, a story in rap verse about a boy fleeing Afghanistan for Britain
Asylum. It is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, either “the protection granted by a state to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee” or “an institution for the care of the mentally ill”. Both definitions play their part in the remarkable and original Tale of Ahmed, written in verse and illustrated by Henry Cockburn. Tale of Ahmed is a fictional account of how a 14-year-old Afghan boy sets out from Kabul, after his father has been killed by a warlord, aiming to seek asylum in Britain. By land and sea, through Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, Ahmed and an ever-changing crew of fellow refugees experience all the dangers and disappointments of the road, but also the highs of optimism and comradeship.
Cockburn has had his own very personal experience of being on the run, of being uncertain what might next befall him and where his journey would take him. His previous book – co-written with his father, the journalist Patrick Cockburn – was Henry’s Demons: Living With Schizophrenia. It catalogued what happened in the years after February 2002, when, as a 20-year-old “urged on by brambles, trees and wild animals”, Cockburn plunged fully clothed into a freezing estuary outside Brighton.
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In Photos: Russians mark 79th Victory Day with military parade
Thu, 09 May 2024 11:11:37 +0000
Russians celebrate Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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Judges with machine guns: the part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv
Thu, 09 May 2024 04:00:42 GMT
The ‘Mriya’ unit made up of members of the legal profession patrols the capital region’s skies with antique weapons
In a small wood in the Kyiv region Anatoliy Shyshak stared at the night sky. Dusk was falling. The only sounds came from a thrush nightingale and a faraway yapping dog. Shyshak – a sergeant in Ukraine’s territorial army – was listening for something else: an enemy drone. “It sounds like a moped. Not a classy Italian one, but something cheap and horrible,” he said. “They fly between 100 and 300 metres above the ground. You hear a rattling.”
For the past year Shyshak’s brigade, the 241st, has scoured the heavens for Russian flying objects. Its task is to shoot them down before they can reach the capital. He and his territorial defence colleagues are based about 100km east of Kyiv, along one of several drone flight paths. “I like my job. We are pretty successful. We stop death here. Our families are in Kyiv so we are protecting our wives and children,” he said.
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Congress hears testimony on Russia’s sonic attacks on US officials in Havana
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:57:01 GMT
Panel heard from expert witnesses how Russia had ‘means, motive and opportunity’ for covert targeting of intelligence officers
Russia has “targeted and neutralized” dozens of US intelligence agents in recent years in a covert worldwide operation using sonic weapons, a House committee heard on Wednesday as it looked into the mystery phenomenon known as Havana syndrome.
The panel heard from expert witnesses that Russia had “the motive, the means and the opportunity” to enact the attacks on US diplomats and other government employees at embassies and other government outposts that left many with debilitating or career-ending brain injuries and hearing loss.
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A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:08:53 +0000
A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation.
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Fact Checker: RFK Jr.’s ‘history lesson’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test
Wed, 08 May 2024 12:59:43 +0000
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A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience.
Match ID: 75 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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RFK Jr’s ‘history lesson’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test
Wed, 08 May 2024 09:00:57 +0000
The independent presidential candidate’s claims are not backed up by the historical record.
Match ID: 76 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Kim Ki-nam, North Korean propaganda chief who shaped dynasty’s personality cult, dies aged 94
Wed, 08 May 2024 05:26:32 GMT
Kim Ki-nam was known as ‘the North Korean Goebbels’ in the South due to his role as head of propaganda department
Kim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and cemented their political legitimacy, has died, official media have said.
Kim Ki-nam died on Tuesday aged 94 from multiple organ failure, official KCNA news agency reported.
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Match ID: 77 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Ukraine arrests two colonels in protective service in plot to kill Zelensky
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:49:52 +0000
Ukrainian authorities said Russia planned to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky and top Ukrainian security officials as a gift for Vladimir Putin on the occasion of his inauguration.
Match ID: 78 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Triumphal Putin is inaugurated for fifth term as Russian president
Tue, 07 May 2024 17:01:59 +0000
Vladimir Putin was inaugurated on Tuesday for a fifth term as president in a ceremony that highlighted his quarter-century grip on power in Russia.
Match ID: 79 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?
Sat, 04 May 2024 19:14:12 +0000
During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying.
Match ID: 80 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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NASA’s Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting
Thu, 09 May 2024 14:08:50 +0000
These images show evidence for an exhaust vent attached to a chimney releasing hot gas from a region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, as reported in our latest press release. In the main image of this graphic, X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) have been combined with radio data from the MeerKAT telescope (red). Previously, astronomers had […]
Match ID: 81 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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‘Our children’s schools were bombed’: the Eurovision stars fighting to rebuild Ukraine
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:27:36 GMT
Former teacher alyona alyona and singing partner Jerry Heil are favourites at this year’s contest – and they’re using their rousing song Teresa & Maria to help children who have lost their childhood
‘When you know how a country sounds,” says Jerry Heil, talking of representing Ukraine at Eurovision, “you can feel more empathy for them”. Alongside rapper alyona alyona, she is speaking from Malmö. It is the morning after the first semi-final, where they safely secured a slot in Saturday’s grand final, but they have not had time to celebrate. “We are like old people,” says alyona alyona. “No party, no drink, no nothing.”
No partying and no nerves before performing either. “When we first rehearsed with the audience here in Sweden, I immediately got the feeling that they’re so supportive and so warm – in all senses!” says Heil. “I’m freezing all the time, but on stage at Eurovision, it’s like a sauna. The audience really give you the power and the energy, and you give it back, so it’s like the energy is circulating.”
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Match ID: 82 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Anthony Albanese faces internal revolt from inner-city Labor MPs over gas strategy
Thu, 09 May 2024 10:12:53 GMT
Resource minister Madeleine King released party’s future gas strategy, which says new sources will be needed ‘to 2050 and beyond’
Anthony Albanese is facing an internal revolt with Labor backbenchers pushing back against the government’s support for new gas production.
Five inner-city MPs have criticised the government’s gas strategy, arguing it will overshadow progress on clean energy.
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Match ID: 83 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:44 GMT
The discovery of these underwater hot springs in 1977 solved the mystery of how life first began on Earth, but it was locating the world’s most famous shipwreck that made me a celebrity
The mid-ocean ridge is where the Earth creates its outer skin. It’s called the boundary of creation. We knew there was life on the bottom of the ocean but not entire ecosystems supporting large animals until our expedition went down there in 1977.
First, we sent down an unmanned vehicle called Angus, which was essentially a camera system and strobe lights within a two-tonne steel cage. It was going down in the eternal darkness, slaloming back and forth like a skier down a mountain.
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Match ID: 84 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
Wed, 08 May 2024 23:22:45 +0000
While the planet is too hot to be habitable, detecting its atmosphere could provide insights into the early conditions of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date […]
Match ID: 85 Score: 15.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:10:45 +0000
Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany has temporarily paused production as protests ramp up.
Match ID: 86 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Who Should Be More Worried about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—Biden or Trump?
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“He’s not a serious threat in terms of being able to win,” Jane Mayer says, “but he is potentially a serious threat in being able to spoil this election for one side or the other.”
Match ID: 87 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps
Mon, 06 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000
It’s not the technology itself. It’s that we don’t yet have enough trained workers to install heat pumps for full-tilt decarbonization.
Match ID: 88 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 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: 89 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
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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
Match ID: 90 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 7 days
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Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry
Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
Match ID: 91 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
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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
Match ID: 92 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
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Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
Match ID: 93 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 12 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: 94 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 15 days
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
Match ID: 95 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 20 days
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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
Match ID: 96 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
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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?
Match ID: 97 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 43 days
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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
Match ID: 98 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 63 days
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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
Match ID: 99 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
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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
Match ID: 100 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
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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?
Match ID: 101 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 91 days
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The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:16:03 +0000
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more.
Match ID: 102 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
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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
Match ID: 103 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
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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
Match ID: 104 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
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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
Match ID: 105 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 51 days
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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
Match ID: 106 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 60 days
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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
Match ID: 107 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
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What can I do if I can't pay my energy bill?
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:03:18 GMT
If you're struggling to afford your gas and electricity bills, what options are available?
Match ID: 108 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 36 days
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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
Match ID: 109 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 84 days
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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: 110 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 113 days
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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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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
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