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He’s 93, he’s run 52 marathons and he’s in the gym six days a week: can this man teach us how to age well?
Sun, 05 May 2024 13:00:11 GMT

Known to his friends as the Legend, John Starbrook is living, breathing proof of the power of exercise and enthusiasm. I tried to keep up with him – and barely survived

I like to think of myself as a strong swimmer. I’m not fast, I can’t dive or tumble turn, but when I get a lane to myself I’ll happily bash out 50 or 60 lengths. Give me a nice big lake, and my idea of heaven is to backstroke into the middle and watch the swallows overhead. I don’t worry that I’ll cramp up or suddenly forget how to float.

But I’ve never fancied water polo. If you’ve not watched it, it’s a sort of cross between swimming, basketball and wrestling, usually played in a pool that’s so deep you have to tread water or drown. There are two teams, two goals, a large ball and an ungodly amount of throwing, catching and flat-out sprinting. Aquatics GB, the governing body, says players can swim two miles in a single game, and need “remarkable stamina” to cope with all the holding and pushing.

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I was a running addict – but pushing myself to the limit led to two knee replacements | Rod Gilchrist
Sun, 05 May 2024 12:15:20 GMT

Beware what the fitness gurus tell you: the body has its limits. Perhaps that’s why orthopaedic waiting lists are so long

I am preparing for an anaesthetist to sink a hypodermic needle into my back at a busy London hospital ahead of a scheduled surgery to replace my knee. Knowing this might be painful, I ask a fellow patient how he got his mind around the jab. “Two spliffs of good dope worked for me,” he confessed. I’m yet to try that, but this is my second left knee replacement in less than 15 years – an increasingly common story as our population ages and obesity levels cause growing strain on our joints.

More than 2m hip and knee replacements have been performed in the UK since the early 2000s and waiting lists continue to grow. By 2060, demand for hip and knee joint replacement (based on data for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man) is estimated to increase by almost 40%.

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How to Track Your Sleep Using Your Fitbit
Sat, 04 May 2024 12:30:00 +0000
Use any of Fitbit’s trackers or smartwatches to get a better idea of how you’re sleeping and how to improve your slumber.
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Crave Tease Review: Not Jewelry, Barely a Vibrator
Fri, 03 May 2024 12:30:00 +0000
By trying to be both jewelry and a sex toy, Crave’s vibrator—which goes on your finger—fails to be either one.
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Le Wand Die Cast Massager Review: A Wand for Wand Connoisseurs
Thu, 02 May 2024 13:30:00 +0000
Le Wand's vibrator is an elegant reimagining of a sex-tech classic that can vibrate your jeans right off.
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Why the Sports Movie Always Wins
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Films like Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and last year’s “The Iron Claw” offer Zeitgeisty takes on masculinity. Do they signal a shift in the storied genre?
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
2024-04-26T00:00:00Z
The former star athlete known for flash uses unglamorous command-and-control methods to get results as a college football coach. Business leaders can learn 10 key lessons from the way 'Coach Prime' builds a culture of respect and discipline without micromanaging, says Hise Gibson.
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How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:05:59 +0000
The public loves jock taxes; baseball players do not
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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.

The post From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack appeared first on The Intercept.

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Europe live: China’s Xi arrives in Paris with trade and Ukraine on agenda
Mon, 06 May 2024 08:37:27 GMT

Chinese premier to meet Macron and Von der Leyen who will urge him to reduce trade imbalances and use his influence with Russia

As the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, begins his visit to France, Reports Without Borders has protested in Paris over the imprisonment of journalists in China.

Ahead of his visit to France, Xi Jinping wrote:

One thing that has made China’s development possible is our firm commitment to opening up. We welcome more quality French farm products and cosmetics to the Chinese market to meet the ever-growing needs of the Chinese people for a better life. We welcome investment by companies from France and other countries to China.

To this end, we have fully opened up China’s manufacturing sector, and will move faster to expand market access to telecom, medical and other services. We also have a 15-day visa-exemption policy for visitors from many countries including France, and we have taken further measures to facilitate travel and payment by foreigners in China.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin orders nuclear weapons drills
Mon, 06 May 2024 08:24:48 GMT

Russia has said it would hold a military exercise that will include practice for the use of tactical nuclear weapons

Russia has said it would hold a military exercise that will include practice for the use of tactical nuclear weapons, Reuters reports. It comes after what the defence ministry said were provocative threats from western officials.

The defence ministry said the exercise was ordered by President Vladimir Putin and would test the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to perform combat missions.

A Russian overnight drone attack cut power to over 400,000 consumers in Ukraine’s northeast region of Sumy on Monday, Ukraine‘s energy ministry said in a statement via the Telegram messaging app.

A Ukrainian drone attack hit vehicles carrying workers in Russia’s frontier Belgorod region, killing six people and injuring 35, the governor said Monday. Belgorod has come under an increasing number of fatal Ukrainian attacks in recent months and Monday’s bombardment is the deadliest in weeks.

Ukraine will be one of the main items on the agenda as China’s premier, Xi Jinping, visits France. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, are expected to urge him to use his influence with Russia.

Italy’s defence minister said on Monday economic sanctions against Russia had failed and called on the West to try harder to negotiate a diplomatic solution with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Guido Crosetto told daily Il Messaggero that the West had wrongly believed its sanctions could stop Russia’s aggression, but it had overestimated its economic influence in the world. “Instead ... the only way to resolve this crisis is to involve everyone, first (to obtain) a truce and then peace,” Crosetto said.

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Sport and the climate emergency: collating injustice with an action plan
Mon, 06 May 2024 07:00:31 GMT

‘I’m very alarmed by everybody’s lack of alarm, that’s the scariest thing for me,’ says Warming Up author Madeleine Orr

If Madeleine Orr had been searching for a launch pad for her book, Warming up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport, last week provided the perfect rocket boosters. Only two years after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, brandished a “green card for the planet” in a video message, football’s world governing body signed a four-year sponsorship deal with the Saudi oil and gas conglomerate Aramco, the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitter, the third biggest carbon emitter since the industrial revolution (behind China’s state coal company and the former Soviet Union) and one with plans, alongside other fossil fuel companies, to expand production in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.

“A comedian couldn’t write that,” says Orr over the phone from North Carolina. “It is textbook greenwashing. I’m kind of sad that I didn’t put it in the book as case study No 1. But it is a practice that has been going on for 100 years.”

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Xi Jinping arrives in France with Ukraine and EU trade row at top of agenda
Mon, 06 May 2024 06:22:10 GMT

On his first visit to Europe since 2019, Xi is set to meet with Emmanuel Macron before heading to Serbia and Hungary

Xi Jinping has lauded China’s ties with France as a model for the international community as he arrived in Paris amid threats of a trade war over Chinese electric cars and French cognac.

On his first visit to the EU in five years, China’s president will meet his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, who will urge him to reduce trade imbalances and use his influence with Russia over the war in Ukraine.

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Monday briefing: Local election catastrophe for the Conservatives
Mon, 06 May 2024 05:45:43 GMT

In today’s newsletter: Rishi Sunak’s party were expecting a difficult contest – but the results were even more dire than predicted, as political correspondent Kiran Stacey explains

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A fraught situation is intensifying in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than a million displaced people have been sheltering. Israel’s armed forces have this morning called for those in the “eastern neighbourhoods of Rafah” to “temporarily” evacuate to an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi. It comes after months of warnings that there would be a ground invasion of the beleaguered city as Israeli forces pursue Hamas militants. To keep a close eye on further developments, follow the Guardian’s live blog.

China | Xi Jinping has arrived in Paris for a rare visit against a backdrop of mounting trade disputes with the EU. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is set to urge his Chinese counterpart to reduce trade imbalances and to use his influence with Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Israel-Gaza war | Israel used a US weapon in a March airstrike that killed seven volunteer paramedics in southern Lebanon, according to a Guardian analysis of shrapnel found at the site of the attack, which was described by Human Rights Watch as a violation of international law. In Jersualem, authorities shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera on Sunday, using newly approved laws. Critics called the move – which came amid faltering indirect ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas – a “dark day for the media”.

Immigration and asylum | Rwanda has admitted it cannot guarantee how many people it will take from the UK under Rishi Sunak’s deportation scheme. It did not give assurances that the estimated 52,000 asylum seekers eligible to be sent to Kigali would be accepted, instead saying it would be “thousands”.

Agriculture | The National Farmers’ Union warned that farmers’ confidence has hit its lowest level in at least 14 years, with extreme weather and the post-Brexit phasing-out of EU subsidies blamed for the drop. Most farms are expecting to reduce food production next year, with arable farming particularly badly hit.

Transport | Train drivers in the Aslef union are embarking on another round of industrial action, despite tentative attempts by the industry to restart talks. Drivers will strike for 24 hours at each of England’s national train operators from Tuesday until Thursday, while an overtime ban will apply nationwide from today until Saturday.

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Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks kill three during Orthodox Easter
Mon, 06 May 2024 00:29:40 GMT

Volodymyr Zelenskiy urges prayers for soldiers on frontline amid attacks in Kharkiv and Sumy regions; Xi Jinping arrives in Paris under pressure to harden stance on Russia. What we know on day 803

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Russian attacks on Orthodox Easter Sunday killed a woman, burying her under rubble, and injured 24 in Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Kharkiv and surrounds, regional officials said. Public broadcaster Suspilne reported power cuts in parts of Kharkiv region and in the adjacent Sumy region after reports of drone attacks and explosions. Vadim Filashkin, head of the military administration in Donetsk region, said two people were killed by shelling in the town of Pokrovsk and two injured in Chasiv Yar, west of the Russian-held town of Bakhmut.

In his Easter address, Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukrainians to be “united in one common prayer”. Standing in front of Kyiv’s Saint Sophia cathedral, Zelenskiy called on Ukrainians to pray for each other and the soldiers on the frontline. “And we believe: God has a chevron with the Ukrainian flag on his shoulder,” said the president, dressed in a traditional embroidered Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirt and khaki trousers. “So with such an ally, life will definitely win over death.” A majority of Ukrainians identify as Orthodox Christians, though the church is divided. Many belong to the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church was loyal to the patriarch in Moscow until it split from Russia after the 2022 invasion and is viewed with suspicion by many Ukrainians.

In his Easter message, Vladimir Putin did not explicitly mention the war as he attended a Moscow Easter service led by the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. Instead he thanked Kirill for “fruitful cooperation in the current difficult period, when it is so important for us to unite our efforts for the steady development and strengthening of the fatherland”.

Russian forces have taken control of the ruined village of Ocheretyne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the Russian defence ministry has said. It is north-west of Avdiivka, which Russia captured in February only after huge losses of personnel and equipment. There was no comment from Ukrainian officials or the military, but unofficial Ukrainian war bloggers indicated Russia was in control of Ocheretyne, said the Reuters news agency.

In Sumy, Russian drone attacks left critical infrastructure including water supply and hospitals running on backup power, officials said on Sunday. On Monday morning, Ukraine’s air force said 13 more drones were launched by Russia over the Sumy region and air defence systems destroyed 12 of them.

Officials in Kyiv urged residents to follow Orthodox Easter services online due to safety concerns. Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city administration, warned that “even on such bright days of celebration, we can expect evil deeds from the aggressor”.

Ukraine’s Eurovision 2016 winner, Jamala, has said her country cannot afford to boycott the song contest because it needs the opportunity to remind Europe of Russia’s invasion. There have been calls for artists to refuse to participate over Israel’s inclusion while the war in Gaza continues. The opening round begins on Tuesday in Malmö, Sweden.

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has arrived in Paris, where his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, will urge Xi to use his influence with Russia over the war in Ukraine. Xi has done little apart from call Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, for the first time shortly after Macron visited Beijing in 2023. “If the Chinese seek to deepen the relationship with European partners, it is really important that they hear our point of view and start taking it seriously,” a French diplomatic source said. Xi is due on Monday to meet Macron and the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen.

In an article for Le Figaro, Xi said he wanted to work with the international community to find ways to solve the conflict sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while claiming that China was “neither a party nor a participant” in the conflict. “We hope that peace and stability will return quickly to Europe and intend to work with France and the entire international community to find good paths to resolve the crisis.”

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Calls grow for urgent talks to protect future of Grangemouth oil refinery
Sun, 05 May 2024 23:01:22 GMT

Governments in Westminster and Edinburgh urged to engage with Petroineos to save Scotland’s sole remaining oil refinery

The UK and Scottish governments have been asked to arrange urgent talks to protect the future of Scotland’s only remaining oil refinery at Grangemouth.

Daniel Johnson, Scottish Labour’s economy spokesperson, has written to PetroChina, part of the joint venture that owns the site, seeking to discuss the future of the complex where oil refining is due to cease next year.

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‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’: TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US
Sun, 05 May 2024 12:00:10 GMT

I used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used to

TikTok is facing its most credible existential threat yet. Last week, the US Congress passed a bill that bans the short-form video app if it does not sell to an American company by this time next year. But as a former avid user whose time on the app has dropped sharply in recent months, I am left wondering – will I even be using the app a year from now?

Like many Americans of my demographic (aging millennial), I first started using TikTok regularly when the Covid-19 pandemic began and lockdowns gave many of us more time than we knew how to fill.

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World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024
2024-05-05T03:15:15+00:00

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In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests
Sat, 04 May 2024 20:11:18 +0000

The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban.

The post In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests appeared first on The Intercept.

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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.
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Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations
Fri, 03 May 2024 21:58:50 +0000
"One of the largest counterfeit-trafficking operations ever."
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Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:25:53 +0000
Microsoft has been criticized for "preventable" failures and poor communication.
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NASA hasn’t landed on the Moon in decades—China just sent its third in six years
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:16:03 +0000
China is going. NASA is talking about going. What gives?
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Inside Shōgun: How visual effects brought 17th-century feudal Japan to vivid life
Fri, 03 May 2024 14:00:06 +0000
VFX supervisor Michael Cliett on the importance of historical accuracy in the show's VFX.
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How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast
Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:28 GMT

Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away. By Romita Saluja

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I agree that Britain is a work in progress. But let’s be wary of distorting the past | Letter
Sun, 05 May 2024 15:57:03 GMT

Shyamol Banerji responds to an article by Mihir Bose on the country coming to terms with its colonial past

Mihir Bose’s experiences in the UK resonate somewhat with my own (I came to Britain from India, fulfilled a dream, and I say this: we’re a great country, but a work in progress, 30 April). In 1966, as a 14-year-old, I arrived at Tilbury Docks on a cold foggy morning aboard the SS Himalaya. My father, on temporary assignment in the UK, was able to get me admission to Westminster City grammar, a five-minute walk from Buckingham Palace. I was the only Indian; the racism I faced was not vicious but muted, often manifested through jokes and accent mimicry.

There is a certain advantage to being a minority of one versus a group. People are more accommodating. However, I still remember the first joke from school: “Did you hear about the Indian who lived with a cow?”

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From a forgotten Indian cookbook, a deeply flavored chickpea curry
Sun, 05 May 2024 14:00:33 +0000
“Lord Krishna’s Cuisine” by Yamuna Devi, 800 pages and a decade in the making, won awards in 1987. Why isn’t her work still talked about?
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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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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.
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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.
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Floods and landslide kill more than a dozen people in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
Sat, 04 May 2024 06:29:32 GMT

Officials say a landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday after torrential rain pounded the area

A flood and a landslide have hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people, according to officials.

The landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday just after 1am local time, Abdul Muhari, spokesperson of Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), said in a statement.

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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
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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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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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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.
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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.

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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
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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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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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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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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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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: 8 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: 8 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: 11 days
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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: 39 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.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: 40 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 12 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: 41 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Match ID: 42 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 17 days
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 19 days
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 24 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: 45 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 24 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: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 35 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
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 39 days
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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: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 47 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: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 48 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: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 52 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: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 52 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: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 68 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: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 74 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: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 74 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: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 88 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: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 94 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: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 97 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: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 101 days
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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
Match ID: 59 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 104 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: 60 Score: 5.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 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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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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Match ID: 62 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.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: 63 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 24 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: 64 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 31 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: 65 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 39 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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Europe live: China’s Xi arrives in Paris with trade and Ukraine on agenda
Mon, 06 May 2024 08:37:27 GMT

Chinese premier to meet Macron and Von der Leyen who will urge him to reduce trade imbalances and use his influence with Russia

As the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, begins his visit to France, Reports Without Borders has protested in Paris over the imprisonment of journalists in China.

Ahead of his visit to France, Xi Jinping wrote:

One thing that has made China’s development possible is our firm commitment to opening up. We welcome more quality French farm products and cosmetics to the Chinese market to meet the ever-growing needs of the Chinese people for a better life. We welcome investment by companies from France and other countries to China.

To this end, we have fully opened up China’s manufacturing sector, and will move faster to expand market access to telecom, medical and other services. We also have a 15-day visa-exemption policy for visitors from many countries including France, and we have taken further measures to facilitate travel and payment by foreigners in China.

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Where can I find a great spa day for less than £150?
Mon, 06 May 2024 07:00:32 GMT

Got a beauty dilemma? Our expert is here to offer advice. This week, Noor is looking for some serious pampering that won’t break the bank

I often joke that I could live in a spa, but if I did, it would cost me a small fortune – and in my experience it’s hard to find affordable options that deliver to the level they should.

It’s worth signing up to the newsletters of any spas you’d like to visit; they’ll let you know about special offers, discounts and cheap off-peak slots. Deal websites such as Groupon and Wowcher often have cheap spa day deals, but check the places on Tripadvisor before you buy – in my experience the most disappointing spas are those attached to a health club, golf hotel or airport hotel. I am wary of huge spas that offer lots of deals. I once visited a spa where I ended up queueing for all the facilities, and it was so busy it felt like a nightclub. Smaller hammams and spas might be more relaxing.

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As the Channel tunnel turns 30, England needs to grow up and acknowledge its deep bond with France | Jonn Elledge
Mon, 06 May 2024 07:00:33 GMT

The two countries have been been at odds over the centuries. But could there a better symbol of our link than this engineering coup?

The first passenger train from England to France carried Queen Elizabeth II to Calais on 6 May 1994. Trains carrying less exalted passengers would not set off until November of that year, and the more arresting image of English and French engineers shaking hands beneath the sea had come four years earlier. Officially, though, today is the day: the Channel tunnel is 30. It is almost too old to be going to nightclubs, and is starting to worry about its back.

Its existence remains, by any sensible standard, astonishing: a physical link between Europe and its largest island, the first since the drowning of Doggerland around 6500BCE. It wasn’t just an engineering achievement, either, but a political one, the realisation of an idea discussed for nearly two centuries, and the moment that Britain would stop pissing about and accept it was a part of Europe. This feels, nearly eight years after the Brexit vote, both a lot funnier and a lot sadder than it did at the time.

Jonn Elledge’s new book is A History of the World in 47 Borders

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Europe’s best beach holidays: Cadaqués, Spain
Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:31 GMT

Forget what you think about the Costa Brava: this whitewashed town on a horseshoe bay was ‘the best place in the world’ for Dalí – and is still pretty much perfect today
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I have travelled all over Spain for both work and fun in the past two decades, but the Catalan seaside town of Cadaqués had somehow failed to register on my radar. Last year, my husband was working in Catalonia and when he had a few days off between jobs, I proposed an impromptu tryst. The brief: somewhere by the sea.

I’m a map optimist, which can result in disappointment. I’ll spend hours tracing tantalising coastal roads, imagining wild cliffs or pristine sands dotted with charming fishing villages and chiringuitos. But the reality often fails to match my fantasies, and my dream road trip ends up leading me through Spain’s more familiar coastal milieu of endless high-rise concrete and phoney Irish bars. Cadaqués, however, looked promising – a tiny dot on a Mediterranean cove at the end of a tortuous 10-mile mountain road, where the Pyrenees give way to the sea – and surrounded by pretty much nothing. So far, so good.

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Missing surfers died from gunshots after attempted robbery, Mexican officials say
Mon, 06 May 2024 01:35:47 GMT

Families of two Australians and American who went missing in Baja California have identified the bodies, officials say

Mexican authorities have identified the three dead bodies found in a well in Mexico as Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their travelling companion, Jack Carter Rhoad.

The trio, who went missing in the Pacific coast state of Baja California, were killed with gunshots to the head, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

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Eurotunnel says no queues with new travel system
Sun, 05 May 2024 23:41:56 GMT
The firm's boss says extra lanes and technology means changes starting in October will go smoothly.
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Titan submersible likely imploded due to shape, carbon fiber: Scientists
2024-05-05T19:52:29+00:00

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10 UK stays that take tranquillity to the next level
Sun, 05 May 2024 10:00:07 GMT

From a hideaway with star-gazing spectacular enough to keep you off your phone to a ‘burnout’ retreat and a reimagined coastguard lookout

Bordering the Consall Nature Park, a nature reserve featuring 740 acres of woodland, heath and moor, is The Tawny, a “deconstructed hotel”. This means that instead of a single house with rooms there are a collection of boathouses, huts and treehouses scattered around the woodlands and lakes. At the top of the hill is a modern glass building, the Plumicorn restaurant, and a heated outdoor pool looking out over the gardens. Stargazing sessions and night-time meditation are on offer, while spa treatments can be booked in the thatched cottage onsite.
Huts from £240 B&B; thetawny.co.uk

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‘High degree of probability’ bodies found in northern Mexico are missing Perth brothers
Sat, 04 May 2024 23:27:37 GMT

Siblings Callum and Jake Robinson and US citizen Jack Carter Rhoad were travelling on a surfing holiday when they were reported missing

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Three people have been arrested on charges of kidnapping after three bodies were found in an area of northern Mexico where two Australian brothers and an American friend went missing.

Perth siblings Callum and Jake Robinson, both in their 30s, were travelling in the region on a surfing holiday, with their friend Jack Carter Rhoad, a US citizen. The trio was reported missing when they failed to check into pre-arranged accommodation near the city of Ensenada last weekend.

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It’s Star Wars Day and we have a new trailer for The Acolyte to celebrate
Sat, 04 May 2024 19:45:51 +0000
"The Jedi justify their galactic dominance in the name of peace. But that peace is a lie."
Match ID: 9 Score: 35.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:34:07 +0000

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.

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Match ID: 10 Score: 35.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
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Hubble Hunts Visible Light Sources of X-Rays
Fri, 03 May 2024 11:02:32 +0000
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf galaxy IC 776. This swirling collection of new and old stars is located in the constellation Virgo, in the Virgo galaxy cluster, 100 million light-years from Earth. Although IC 776 is a dwarf galaxy, it’s also classified as a SAB-type or ‘weakly barred’ spiral. This highly […]
Match ID: 11 Score: 35.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“Knife,” “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” “Neighbors and Other Stories,” and “Butter.”
Match ID: 12 Score: 34.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 6 days
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Tell us: have you been affected by disruptions at the Co-op Live arena?
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:05:34 GMT

We would like to hear from people who have been affected by postponements and cancellations at the Co-op Live arena

The Co-op Live arena has postponed or cancelled several of its music and comedy shows in recent weeks due to technical problems at the venue. Olivia Rodrigo, Peter Kay and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie are among the performers whose gigs have been disrupted.

We would like to hear from people who have been affected by the disruptions at the Co-op Live arena. Had you planned to travel to see the show? Will you make it to a rescheduled show?

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‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:42:56 GMT

The far right are on the march in Germany and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has become the most popular party in several states. Immigration and a sense of being economically left behind have been driving factors in the rise in popularity but the Green party and the federal government’s climate policies have also borne the brunt of public anger. The Guardian travelled to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right

• How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks in Germany

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Match ID: 14 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
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QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate.

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House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:18:48 +0000

A measure passed by the House seeks to block Americans from traveling to Iran on U.S. passports.

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The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
2024-04-25T11:02:48Z

The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection.

But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.

To understand why, you must understand publishing. Its core task is to connect writers to an audience. Publishers work as gatekeepers, filtering candidates and then amplifying the chosen ones. Hoping to be selected, writers shape their work in various ways. This article might be written very differently in an academic publication, for example, and publishing it here entailed pitching an editor, revising multiple drafts for style and focus, and so on...

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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.

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NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:40 +0000
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.

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Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices in ‘dark day for the media’
Sun, 05 May 2024 16:53:31 GMT

Foreign Press Association decries move under new law based on claim network is a threat to national security

Israeli authorities shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera on Sunday, hours after a government vote to use new laws to close the satellite news network’s operations in the country.

Critics called the move, which comes as faltering indirect ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue, a “dark day for the media” and raised new concerns about the attitude to free speech of Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government.

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Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats
Fri, 03 May 2024 23:17:57 +0000
Punishing Google for being the best would be “unprecedented,” lawyer argued.
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NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:34:07 +0000

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.

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Would You Still Use Google if It Didn't Pay Apple $20 Billion to Get on Your iPhone?
Fri, 03 May 2024 01:23:46 +0000
A US judge who will decide Google’s fate in a historic antitrust trial suggested it was “odd” for the company to say it has the best search engine but also pay Apple billions to lock out rivals.
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Scaling back Labour’s workers’ rights plan would be disastrous, warns TUC president
Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:31 GMT

Reports say Sir Keir Starmer may risk union support and bow to pressure from business to amend new deal

Watering down Labour’s plan to strengthen workers’ rights would be disastrous for the party’s relations with the unions and could cost votes at the general election, the president of the Trades Union Congress has warned.

Amid reports that Sir Keir Starmer may bow to pressure from business and amend important parts of his “new deal for workers”, Matt Wrack said the Labour leader risked causing “significant anger” among union members.

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Clyburn hits out at Trump over Gestapo comment: ‘Incredible but not surprising’
Sun, 05 May 2024 19:14:04 GMT

Democrat says country is going off track after Trump compares Biden administration to Germany’s fascist secret police

The senior congressional Democrat James Clyburn has responded to remarks made by Donald Trump at a private event on Saturday in which he compared the Biden administration with the Gestapo secret police in fascist Germany, saying it was “incredible, but it’s not surprising”.

The 83-year-old South Carolina Democrat added that Trump “is given to hyperbole on every subject that he ever approaches … The country got off track after that 1876 election and we are approaching the same kinds of elements today.”

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‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’: TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US
Sun, 05 May 2024 12:00:10 GMT

I used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used to

TikTok is facing its most credible existential threat yet. Last week, the US Congress passed a bill that bans the short-form video app if it does not sell to an American company by this time next year. But as a former avid user whose time on the app has dropped sharply in recent months, I am left wondering – will I even be using the app a year from now?

Like many Americans of my demographic (aging millennial), I first started using TikTok regularly when the Covid-19 pandemic began and lockdowns gave many of us more time than we knew how to fill.

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In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests
Sat, 04 May 2024 20:11:18 +0000

The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban.

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Two women are seeking Mexico’s presidency. But the race is about a man.
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A win by Claudia Sheinbaum, protégée of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, could cement the grip of a party that already controls the presidency, both chambers of Congress and two-thirds of Mexico’s governorships.
Match ID: 8 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

Let’s Check In on AIPAC’s Assault on the Squad
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Israel lobby failed to take down Rep. Summer Lee. They’ve now set their sights on Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.

The post Let’s Check In on AIPAC’s Assault on the Squad appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 9 Score: 10.00 source: theintercept.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

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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Match ID: 10 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland’s Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say
Fri, 03 May 2024 21:11:34 +0000

The pro-Israel group is funneling money through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress.

The post AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland’s Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 11 Score: 10.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

Automakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them
Fri, 03 May 2024 17:35:02 +0000
A popular bill will force car companies to put AM radios in vehicles at no extra charge, despite decreasing interest from drivers and potential electromagnetic interference.
Match ID: 12 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman
Fri, 03 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The Israel lobby is expected to start a $20 million ad blitz backing its handpicked candidate against the incumbent Squad member.

The post AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 13 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 8.57 congress

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.

Match ID: 14 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 8.57 congress

Noem dog shooting sparks Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus
Thu, 02 May 2024 11:27:09 EST
“Given recent dog-related news, it’s evident that both sides of the aisle reject animal cruelty and support protecting man’s best friend," Rep. Jared Moskowitz said.
Match ID: 15 Score: 8.57 source: www.politico.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 8.57 congress

America!: A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?
Match ID: 16 Score: 8.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 8.57 congress

Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?
Thu, 02 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000
Even her opponents within the Republican Party stand to profit from the Georgia congresswoman’s latest outburst.
Match ID: 17 Score: 7.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 7.14 congress

RNC chief implores Greene to stand down
Wed, 01 May 2024 06:08:38 EST
Inside the crash GOP effort to head off a motion to vacate.
Match ID: 18 Score: 7.14 source: www.politico.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 7.14 congress

QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate.

The post QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 19 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 federal judge(|s), 2.14 judge

Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Nigeria has gotten billions in U.S. security assistance, even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll.

The post Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 20 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 4.29 congress

“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.

Match ID: 21 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 2.14 judge, 1.43 congress

UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:19:56 GMT

Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’

The UK has been accused by Amnesty International of “deliberately destabilising” human rights on the global stage for its own political ends.

In its annual global report, released today, the organisation said Britain was weakening human rights protections nationally and globally, amid a near-breakdown of international law.

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Match ID: 22 Score: 2.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 2.14 judge

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 […]
Match ID: 23 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 40 days
qualifiers: 2.14 judge

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: 24 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 97 days
qualifiers: 2.14 judge

House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:18:48 +0000

A measure passed by the House seeks to block Americans from traveling to Iran on U.S. passports.

The post House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 25 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

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: 26 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

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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Match ID: 27 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

Cotton and Hawley: Send in the National Guard to Columbia
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:41:07 EST
Calls for federal action at the university campus come as Monday marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
Match ID: 28 Score: 1.43 source: www.politico.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:38 +0000
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.
Match ID: 29 Score: 1.43 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

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