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Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ like China, Russia, at campaign event
Thu, 02 May 2024 18:49:11 +0000
President Biden’s remarks have not elicited a formal response from the countries he named. But experts said they were likely to have offended, particularly in Japan.
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qualifiers: 40.00 japan, 40.00 china, 35.00 india
Rocket Report: Astroscale chases down dead rocket; Ariane 6 on the pad
Fri, 03 May 2024 11:00:32 +0000
Rocket Factory Augsburg, a German launch startup, nears a test-firing of its booster.
Match ID: 1 Score: 80.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan, 40.00 china
Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings reveal a drop in iPhone, iPad sales
Thu, 02 May 2024 22:32:43 +0000
Services growth looked rosy as Apple's hardware revenue in China slowed.
Match ID: 2 Score: 80.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china, 20.00 taiwan, 20.00 singapore
US allies India and Japan 'xenophobic', says Biden
Fri, 03 May 2024 01:57:31 GMT
The White House has downplayed the comments, saying the president 'values' India and Japan's friendship.
Match ID: 3 Score: 75.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan, 35.00 india
U.S. officials wary of Chinese plans for floating nuclear plants
Thu, 02 May 2024 15:53:43 +0000
Officials fear reactors will be used to power military bases on artificial islands in the South China Sea.
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qualifiers: 40.00 china, 35.00 south china sea
From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack
Thu, 02 May 2024 21:15:55 +0000
University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.
The post From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack appeared first on The Intercept.
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Indonesia volcano eruption spreads ash to Malaysia and shuts airports
Wed, 01 May 2024 05:51:41 GMT
Ships evacuating 12,000 islanders over fears that side of Mount Ruang might slide into sea and cause tsunami
Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears.
Mount Ruang erupted three times on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash more than 5km (three miles) into the sky and forcing authorities to issue evacuation orders for 12,000 people.
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Match ID: 6 Score: 50.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 indonesia, 20.00 malaysia
China launches ambitious mission to far side of the moon
Fri, 03 May 2024 10:27:34 GMT
The launch of the uncrewed Chang’e-6 is part of China’s effort to put a human on the lunar surface by 2030
China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon - in a world first - as part of its goal to land a human on the lunar surface by 2030.
A rocket carrying the Chang’e-6 lunar probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China’s Hainan province just before 5.30 pm (0930 GMT).
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China launches world-first mission to retrieve samples from far side of moon
Fri, 03 May 2024 09:38:38 +0000
The Chang’e 6 mission will advance Beijing’s ambitions to become a space power and scientific force, but its steady progress has caused concern at NASA and in Congress.
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qualifiers: 40.00 china
Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study
Fri, 03 May 2024 09:35:26 GMT
Researchers find many countries unprepared for influx of new species and will be vulnerable to bites
Climate breakdown is likely to lead to the large-scale migration of venomous snake species into new regions and unprepared countries, according to a study.
The researchers forecast that Nepal, Niger, Namibia, China, and Myanmar will gain the most venomous snake species from neighbouring countries under a heating climate.
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Match ID: 9 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Chinese rocket blasts off on mission to 'dark side' of the Moon
Fri, 03 May 2024 09:33:41 GMT
A rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 probe will collect lunar soil and rock samples during its 53-day mission.
Match ID: 10 Score: 40.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
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A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion? | Timothy Garton Ash
Fri, 03 May 2024 06:00:30 GMT
In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future
In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the world beginning to resemble the late 19th-century Europe of competing empires and great powers writ large?
Another way of trying to put our travails into historically comprehensible shape is to label them as an “age of …”, with the words that follow suggesting either a parallel with or a sharp contrast to an earlier age. So the CNN foreign affairs guru Fareed Zakaria suggests in his latest book that we are in a new Age of Revolutions, meaning that we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. Or is it rather The Age of the Strongman, as proposed by the Financial Times foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman? No, it’s The Age of Unpeace, says Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, since “connectivity causes conflict”.
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‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk
Fri, 03 May 2024 04:00:28 GMT
Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But for many the intimidation did not stop when they left
Illustrations by Joe McKendry
Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International
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Match ID: 12 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Apple CEO calls China 'the most competitive market in the world' as iPhone sales drop
2024-05-02T22:35:00+00:00
Match ID: 13 Score: 40.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-Comfort Movie
Thu, 02 May 2024 20:38:15 +0000
“The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.
Match ID: 14 Score: 40.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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“The Contestant” Is More Than a Cautionary Tale
Thu, 02 May 2024 19:46:07 +0000
The new Hulu documentary charts the rise of one of the earliest reality-TV stars and the ethically queasy production choices that cemented his fame—but it’s elevated by its interest in what came afterward.
Match ID: 15 Score: 40.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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Wear OS’s big comeback continues; might hit half of Apple Watch sales
Thu, 02 May 2024 18:06:13 +0000
Counterpoint Research projects 27 percent market share this year to Apple's 49.
Match ID: 16 Score: 40.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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First look at the Sony Honda EV: More than a PlayStation on wheels
Thu, 02 May 2024 15:04:45 +0000
The AFEELA concept previews an EV from the joint venture, due in 2026.
Match ID: 17 Score: 40.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan
Chinese EVs are good for the world. Biden says they’re bad for America.
Thu, 02 May 2024 04:00:08 +0000
President Biden finds himself in a predicament: electrify America’s roads faster with cheap Chinese EVs, or safeguard the nation’s auto industry?
Match ID: 18 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china
Bob Carr accuses Winston Peters of defamation after NZ deputy PM calls him a ‘Chinese puppet’
Thu, 02 May 2024 03:28:55 GMT
Former NSW premier’s threat to sue comes amid debate about whether New Zealand should join pillar two of Aukus pact
Australia’s former foreign minister and New South Wales premier, Bob Carr, says he intends to sue New Zealand’s deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, for allegations made about Carr’s closeness to China as debate about Aukus ramps up.
Peters called Carr “nothing more than a Chinese puppet” on the national broadcaster RNZ on Thursday morning.
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Match ID: 19 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Solomon Islands chooses China-friendly ex-diplomat Jeremiah Manele as new prime minister
Thu, 02 May 2024 02:49:20 GMT
Move seen as continuation of Pacific country’s policy of growing closer to Beijing
Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected as their new prime minister Jeremiah Manele, a former foreign minister who has pledged to continue the Pacific country’s policy of embracing China.
Manele said outside parliament on Thursday “the people have spoken” and called for calm.
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Match ID: 20 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Why the Solomon Islands election matters to China and the U.S.
Thu, 02 May 2024 01:53:03 +0000
Jeremiah Manele, who was foreign minister when the Solomon Islands forged a controversial security deal with China, is the Pacific nation’s next prime minister.
Match ID: 21 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Report: China’s propaganda units harvest data from overseas tech firms
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:07:18 +0000
Beijing’s propaganda engine is pulling data from Chinese tech firms, including popular shopping and gaming apps with hundreds of millions of U.S. users, researchers say.
Match ID: 22 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:55 GMT
Freedom to Write index says there are 107 people in prison for published content in China, with many accused of ‘picking quarrels’
The number of writers jailed in China has surpassed 100, with nearly half imprisoned for online expression.
The grim milestone is revealed in the 2023 Freedom to Write index, a report compiled by Pen America, published on Wednesday.
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Match ID: 23 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.
The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.
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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: 25 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china
Cool solution: how ice-cream saved drought-hit farmers in India
Fri, 03 May 2024 05:00:29 GMT
As the climate crisis forces people to abandon their land in Rajasthan, a new industry has sprung up in the desert state, with thousands of gaily decorated vans setting off to sell ice-cream across the country
The parched villages of Gangapur in the desert state of Rajasthan have a new season in their calendar. Between November and February, car workshops along the town’s dusty mile-long market open before sunrise, cylindrical stainless-steel food containers are put on display, and traders stock up on chocolate and strawberry syrups.
Come March, the villagers start preparing to migrate. In the workshops, thousands of vehicles are converted into vans for selling a variety of ice-cream, from plain condensed milk flavoured with cardamom to chocolate, vanilla and pistachio, while local farmers turned dessert makers have their old mini-trucks serviced in readiness for the drive to distant towns and cities, where they will sell the sweet treat for the next nine months.
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Match ID: 26 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Who is the quiet, feared strategist behind Modi’s rise?
Fri, 03 May 2024 00:12:05 GMT
India’s PM is eyeing a record third term - his home minister is the brains behind his election wins.
Match ID: 27 Score: 35.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
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NASA Technology Grants to Advance Moon to Mars Space Exploration
Thu, 02 May 2024 16:21:18 +0000
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role in the agency’s return to the Moon under Artemis, as well as future missions to Mars. Twenty-four projects from 21 organizations have been awarded under NASA’s Dual-Use Technology Development Cooperative Agreement Notices, or […]
Match ID: 28 Score: 35.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
Match ID: 29 Score: 35.00 source: www.economist.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 35.00 india
Chagos Islanders fear loss of identity as birth certificates altered to remove disputed homeland
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:06 GMT
Birthplace and parents’ names are being removed from passports and birth certificates as Mauritius stakes claim to the island
Exiled islanders from the disputed British-owned Chagos Islands are finding their heritage has been removed from new identity documents in an apparent move by Mauritius to stake its claim to the territory.
British ownership of the Chagos Islands has long been challenged by Mauritius, where most islanders were shipped in the 1960s after being evicted from their Indian Ocean homeland to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
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Match ID: 30 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:40:18 GMT
Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak
The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, staged a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory over the weekend.
Zhang Yongzhen, a virologist, said in an online post on Monday that he and his team had been given a sudden eviction notice from their lab, and guards had barred him from entering it over the weekend. The post, published on Weibo, was later deleted, Associated Press (AP) reported.
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Match ID: 31 Score: 34.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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Tensions grow as China ramps up mining for green tech
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:17:17 GMT
China has taken big stakes in mines across the world extracting minerals vital to the green economy.
Match ID: 32 Score: 34.29 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 3 days
qualifiers: 34.29 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: 33 Score: 34.29 source: www.economist.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 34.29 japan
Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:54:57 +0000
Like countless other hostilities, the stealthy Israeli missile and drone strike on Iran doesn’t risk war. It is war.
The post Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 34 Score: 32.86 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan, 5.71 china, 5.00 south china sea, 5.00 india, 4.29 south korea, 2.86 taiwan, 2.14 sri lanka, 2.14 philippines
Middle East crisis live: Rafah operation could result in ‘slaughter’, UN official says
Fri, 03 May 2024 11:49:02 GMT
UN humanitarian office spokesman says hundreds of thousands of lives could be at risk and there would be a huge impact on aid operations
Daniel Hurst is Guardian Australia’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent.
The Australian government faces a decision next week on whether to support admitting Palestine as a full member of the UN and is swapping notes with allies including South Korea and Germany.
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Match ID: 35 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Australian government weighs supporting Palestine to become full UN member as draft resolution revealed
Fri, 03 May 2024 08:24:52 GMT
Exclusive: Intense negotiations under way as Penny Wong backs two-state solution after meeting Germany’s Annalena Baerbock
The Australian government faces a decision next week on whether to support admitting Palestine as a full member of the UN and is swapping notes with allies including South Korea and Germany.
A copy of the draft resolution, seen by Guardian Australia, expresses “deep regret and concern” that the US used its veto power to block the proposal at the UN security council last month.
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Match ID: 36 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 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: 37 Score: 30.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 3 days
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NASA Is Helping Protect Tigers, Jaguars, and Elephants. Here’s How.
Thu, 02 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000
As human populations grow, habitat loss threatens many creatures. Mapping wildlife habitat using satellites is a rapidly expanding area of ecology, and NASA satellites play a crucial role in these efforts. Tigers, jaguars, and elephants are a few of the vulnerable animals whose habitats NASA is helping track from space. “Satellites observe vast areas of […]
Match ID: 38 Score: 25.00 source: science.nasa.gov 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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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: 40 Score: 17.14 source: www.wired.com age: 6 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: 41 Score: 17.14 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
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First Thing: More than 2,000 arrests on US campuses amid police crackdown
Fri, 03 May 2024 11:42:37 GMT
Senator Bernie Sanders said this could be ‘Biden’s Vietnam’. Plus, trial over US torture in Iraq collapses after jurors fail to return verdict
Good morning.
More than 2,000 people have now been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests across dozens of college campuses in recent weeks.
Where have the arrests happened? As well as at Columbia and UCLA, authorities have made arrests and cleared protest encampments at institutions including City College, Fordham University and Stony Brook College in New York; Portland State University in Oregon; Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff; Tulane University in New Orleans; and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Have any US colleges not called police in? In one rare example of authorities de-escalating protests, Brown University in Rhode Island agreed to a divestment vote in October – apparently the first US college to agree to such a demand.
What are Democrats saying? Biden criticized what he called “violent” protests. Senator Bernie Sanders told CNN on Thursday that “this may be Biden’s Vietnam”.
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Match ID: 42 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Ruined centuries-old town re-emerges as Philippines dam dries up during heatwave
Fri, 03 May 2024 02:40:31 GMT
After a long spell of intense heat and little rain, water levels have fallen to reveal parts of a sunken church, tombstones and foundations at Pantabangan
Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in the northern Philippines.
After a prolonged spell of intense heat and little rain, water levels in the dam have fallen to reveal parts of a sunken church, tombstones and the foundations of structures from the 300-year-old town in Nueva Ecija province.
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Match ID: 43 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000
When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.
The post I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. appeared first on The Intercept.
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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: 45 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
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“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:10:40 +0000
Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.
The post “Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree appeared first on The Intercept.
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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: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:25:12 +0000
The White House brushes off accusations of hypocrisy, courting TikTok while seeking to ban it.
The post As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 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: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 9 days
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AI-Controlled Fighter Jets Are Dogfighting With Human Pilots Now
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: New York’s legislature suffers a cyberattack, police disrupt a global phishing operation, and Apple removes encrypted messaging apps in China.
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 13 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: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Match ID: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 32 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 36 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 44 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
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: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 45 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 59 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 60 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 50 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: 61 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 65 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 62 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
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: 63 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 64 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 85 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 65 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 92 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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: 66 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
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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Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don't Kill Imran Khan in Prison
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:04:01 +0000
Supporters worry Khan’s life is in danger and with good reason: The military has a long history of killing deposed leaders.
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Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:33:49 GMT
Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’
The south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists in the country under Narendra Modi.
Dias, who has been based in Delhi for the ABC since January 2022, said she felt the government had made it “too difficult” for her to continue to do her job, claiming it blocked her from accessing events, issued takedown notices to YouTube for her news stories, and then refused her a standard visa renewal.
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Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:35:16 GMT
Opposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rules
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many children” and claimed they would take people’s hard-earned money.
The opposition accused Modi of “blatantly targeting” India’s 200 million Muslim minority with comments made while addressing voters at a speech in Rajasthan on Sunday.
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How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
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How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
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How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
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From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack
Thu, 02 May 2024 21:15:55 +0000
University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.
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Minouche Shafik: the UK peer facing choppy waters over Gaza protests at Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 04:00:29 GMT
Ex-central banker Lady Shafik, the university’s president, now faces calls to resign due to her handling of campus unrest
Steering Columbia University through the choppy waters of anti-Israel student protests was never going to be easy for Minouche Shafik, a member of the UK House of Lords who took over as president of the university in New York after a period of relative calm running the London School of Economics.
During her tenure as LSE director between 2017 and last year, academics largely refused to join the industrial action that dominated campuses across much of the UK.
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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000
When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.
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Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.
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“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The Department of Education is probing claims that the school discriminated against Palestinian and Arab students amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:13:21 +0000
The blanket suspension of student protesters casts “serious doubt on the University’s respect for the rule-of-law values that we teach,” 54 law professors wrote.
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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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‘Push through the feelings of: I’m worthless, this sucks’: can anyone learn to be a top songwriter?
Fri, 03 May 2024 04:00:29 GMT
Songwriting courses are exploding in popularity, with everyone from Mark Ronson to Alicia Keys as teachers. On a retreat in north Wales, our folk music critic tries to write her first song
Imagine you’ve spent the past 20 years writing about songs but never had the chops to write one. This is my penance: sitting in a room in north Wales, with a tiny keyboard and notebook spidery with attempted lyrics, the only rhythm in my ears my rave-energy heartbeat, the only melody in my mind the lilting panic of my inner critic going: “Argh!”
It’s the final day of a four-day songwriting course at Literature Wales’s 16th-century HQ, Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, led by Brian Briggs of folk band Stornoway and Welsh poet and songwriter Paul Henry. Tonight, I have to perform an original song with two relative strangers, in front of people I didn’t know four days earlier. This particular terror is the climax of a bigger endeavour on my part: to explore the growing popularity of songwriting courses, and to find out if they work.
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