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Time traveller: one Senegalese man’s journey to the past – in pictures
Wed, 15 May 2024 06:00:35 GMT
Whether it’s in segregated America or the glory days of postwar France, Omar Victor Diop appears in photographs of worlds he was previously shut out from
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A festival of music, film and spectacle: the best of Belfast 2024
Wed, 15 May 2024 06:00:35 GMT
A year-long celebration aims to start a new chapter for Belfast, forging better connections and conversations within communities through creativity and culture
Belfast did not have the best of starts to 2024. Never mind the mass public sector strikes, the not-unrelated fact of Northern Ireland being without a functioning government (the government returned, the strikes were settled, or suspended … for now), at the end of January, one of the city’s most respected – revered – publicans, Pedro Donald, who over the years had brought us the John Hewitt, La Boca, the Sunflower and the American Bar, announced that he was leaving for Amsterdam. There may not be bombs and bullets any more, he said, but Belfast was “a dump and derelict”. Indeed, apart from a few good years between the Good Friday agreement and the financial crash, the city was in many ways no further on than when he started in the trade in 1984.
Some bridled at the broadside. But walking towards the Sunflower along Royal Avenue, historically the main shopping street, after 6pm sometimes, you would have been hard-pressed to say Pedro had called it wrong. Hard-pressed, too, to say that the people in whose gift was the title of “city of this” or “capital of that” were being entirely unreasonable when they overlooked bids from Belfast in the not-too-distant past.
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Putin and Xi’s ‘no-limits’ friendship will be put to the test on state visit to China
Wed, 15 May 2024 02:00:29 GMT
Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the west
Having secured a mandate to extend his rule of Russia to three decades, Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Beijing on Thursday on a state visit to meet Xi Jinping intended to shore up his most important international relationship.
The two men toasted their “no-limits” friendship in February 2022 – meant as a counterweight to the global influence of the US. That partnership has increasingly come under pressure as the Biden administration sought to isolate Russia from its Chinese lifeline after the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, which began later the same month.
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China and Russia to shore up ‘no limits’ partnership with Thursday meetup
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:19:24 +0000
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Beijing for meetings with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as Moscow’s war against Ukraine drags on — with Beijing’s support.
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Chicken rice, chickpea bake and wheat salad: Ella Mittas’ easy autumn recipes for a Mediterranean feast
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:25 GMT
The Melbourne-based chef has looked to her Greek heritage and travels to Turkey to spin a trio of comfort recipes
My father’s side of the family is Greek. They live next door to each other in Melbourne. There are holes cut in fences, so everyone can be together easily. It seems separate from the rest of Australia, but it’s a version of Greece abstracted from the real thing; its traditions are built on distant memories.
These recipes are a mix of things I saw, ate and was taught while working in a village in the mountains of Crete and the hot, loud streets of Istanbul, as well as my own Greek heritage. Years of cooking them have turned them into something more my own.
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Pentagon Compensated Zero Civilian Victims in 2022 — Despite Evidence That the U.S. Killed a Mom and Child in Somalia
Mon, 13 May 2024 21:30:00 +0000
The 22-year-old woman and her child were civilian casualties of a U.S. drone strike, but the Pentagon won't return the family's messages.
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American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:54:57 +0000
“We’re continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel and with the government of Egypt to work on this issue,” the State Department said.
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Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process
Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A new anti-terrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets.
The post Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process appeared first on The Intercept.
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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.
You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.
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South China Sea: huge civilian Filipino flotilla heads to disputed shoal to ‘assert sovereign rights’
Wed, 15 May 2024 05:55:00 GMT
Philippines coast guard and navy watch as wooden boats head to Scarborough shoal to place buoys and hand food packs to local fishers
A flotilla of about 100 mostly small fishing boats led by Filipino activists has set sail for a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s coast guard and suspected militia ships have used powerful water cannon to ward off what they regard as intruders.
The Philippine coast guard and navy deployed one patrol ship each to keep watch from a distance on the activists and fishers, who set off on wooden boats with bamboo outriggers on Wednesday to assert Manila’s sovereignty over the Scarborough shoal. Dozens of journalists joined the three-day voyage.
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‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find
Tue, 14 May 2024 21:00:21 GMT
Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila
The record-breaking heatwave that scorched the Philippines in April would have been impossible without the climate crisis, scientists have found. Searing heat above 40C (104F) struck across Asia in April, causing deaths, water shortages, crop losses and widespread school closures.
The extreme heat was made 45 times more likely in India and five times more likely in Israel and Palestine, the study found. The scientists said the high temperatures compounded the already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where displaced people are living in overcrowded shelters with little access to water.
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Japan, famously polite, struggles to cope with influx of tourists
Wed, 15 May 2024 07:00:03 +0000
Huge numbers of tourists are causing chaos at popular spots like Mount Fuji and Kyoto, leading to some extreme measures to tamp down the crowds.
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Gordon Corera: The West has struggled to keep up with China’s spy threat
Wed, 15 May 2024 06:21:58 GMT
For years, Western spy agencies have talked of a need to pivot to focus on China, but senior officials say the threat has been taken seriously enough.
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Putin and Xi’s ‘no-limits’ friendship will be put to the test on state visit to China
Wed, 15 May 2024 02:00:29 GMT
Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the west
Having secured a mandate to extend his rule of Russia to three decades, Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Beijing on Thursday on a state visit to meet Xi Jinping intended to shore up his most important international relationship.
The two men toasted their “no-limits” friendship in February 2022 – meant as a counterweight to the global influence of the US. That partnership has increasingly come under pressure as the Biden administration sought to isolate Russia from its Chinese lifeline after the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, which began later the same month.
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The China-linked EV battery mega factory dividing a US township
Wed, 15 May 2024 00:53:54 GMT
Plans for a sprawling factory in rural Michigan making batteries for electric cars offer an economic lifeline, but for some residents there is a big problem: the parent company is in China
Set among green rolling hills and tall pines, Lori Brock’s storybook farm encapsulates northern Michigan. A five-day-old mare bucks around a pen, while small black pigs roam through a barn and donkeys graze in fields bordered by white fences.
It is a bucolic way of life in Green Township, but one that Brock and many of her neighbours believe could be threatened by an unlikely adversary – China’s Communist party.
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How AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian
Tue, 14 May 2024 23:33:08 GMT
A YouTuber falls victim to generative AI on Chinese social media, but the ramifications stretch beyond China.
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Sauron’s dark rise is front and center in The Rings of Power S2 teaser
Tue, 14 May 2024 22:09:56 +0000
Plus a bonus behind-the-scenes featurette catching us up on all the characters.
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Biden Is Trying to Buy EVs Time With New Tariffs on China. It Might Not Work
Tue, 14 May 2024 20:11:43 +0000
America now has 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, but with US automakers struggling to compete and its reliance on China’s materials, will this help? Mercedes, BMW and VW think not.
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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China and Russia to shore up ‘no limits’ partnership with Thursday meetup
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:19:24 +0000
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Beijing for meetings with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as Moscow’s war against Ukraine drags on — with Beijing’s support.
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So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose | Marina Hyde
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:21:03 GMT
His journey to Christianity was very moving, and infinitely more spiritual than his trip to the police station to deny criminal allegations
A hazmat dredger, please, to the stretch of the River Thames in which Russell Brand was recently baptised, in an event apparently conducted by TV adventurer and chief scout Bear Grylls. I know, it’s incredible: Thames Water is no longer responsible for the biggest piece of shit in the river.
In his mystical biography of the Thames, Peter Ackroyd observed: “There are some parts of the river that create or harbour distinct properties that are not susceptible to rational analysis.” And I think we might be dealing with one of those properties right here. Rational analysis deserts me as I survey a recently released photo of a topless Brand, a topless Bear, and the unidentified owner of what appears to be an S-reg Japanese hannya mask back tattoo embracing in the waist-deep current. Then again, it’s possible the third figure is actually identified. The Brand-penned caption on this Insta-trocity runs: “Me, Bear Grylls, The River Thames and of course, The Holy Spirit.” Sorry, but does the Holy Spirit now have a back tattoo? Game’s gone.
Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist
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No matter how you make it, chicken teriyaki is savory, sweet and sublime
Tue, 14 May 2024 14:00:34 +0000
Teriyaki sauce in America has Japanese roots with Hawaiian influences that cooks today can customize to their liking.
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Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:00:10 GMT
White House levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to inflame trade tensions
The US president, Joe Biden, has announced a 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles as part of a package of measures designed to protect US manufacturers from cheap imports.
In a move that is likely to inflame trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies, the White House said it was imposing more stringent curbs on Chinese goods worth $18bn.
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U.S.-China talks on AI risks set to begin in Geneva
Mon, 13 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The talks are aimed at preventing disastrous accidents and unintended war amid an AI arms race.
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Indian spices face heat over global safety concerns
Tue, 14 May 2024 23:42:44 GMT
India is a global powerhouse of spices. But recent quality concerns have cast a cloud on its position.
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India, gangs … or both? Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:30:16 GMT
Arrests in killing of Canadian Sikh activist offer glimpse of the nexus of underworld crime and alleged Indian hit squads
Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack.
“Make no mistake: this is a political assassination,” Singh told the agitated crowd in June 2023. “And it’s been carried out by India.”
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‘Pressured to withdraw’: BJP accused of intimidation tactics in India polls
Tue, 14 May 2024 02:00:22 GMT
Opposition say ruling party undermining democracy by using police to harass candidates into not contesting in elections
When the people of Gujarat cast their votes last week in India’s six-week-long election, there was one constituency in the state that stood silent. There were no polling stations or impatient queues of people, and no one with the tell-tale inky finger. In Surat, no voting was necessary – the outcome was already decided.
Mukesh Dalal, from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), won the seat by default after every other candidate was either disqualified or dropped out of the race. It was the first time in 73 years that Surat’s candidate was appointed, not elected.
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American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:54:57 +0000
“We’re continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel and with the government of Egypt to work on this issue,” the State Department said.
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Microsoft Deploys Generative AI for US Spies
Sat, 11 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China is suspected in a hack targeting the UK’s military, the US Marines are testing gun-toting robotic dogs, and Dell suffers a data breach impacting 49 million customers.
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They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either.
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:06:07 +0000
On campus, inside the Capitol, and in court, there’s an all-out assault on American democracy in the name of Israel.
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Eleasa Kim: Pioneering CLDP Payload Operations and Cultural Integration
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:20:51 +0000
Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at Johnson Space Center, with 18 years of mission support under her belt. Her roles have included biomedical engineer flight controller, payload safety engineer for Artemis I, planning and analysis branch operations discipline lead, and […]
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In photos: The scene in Indonesia after flash floods and cold lava killed at least 44 people
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:40:29 +0000
Rescuers have recovered more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island left dozens dead.
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Dozens killed in cold lava mudslides on Indonesian island of Sumatra
Mon, 13 May 2024 01:19:53 GMT
Nearly 20 missing after monsoon rains trigger flash floods, sending torrents of volcanic material and mud down slopes of Mount Marapi volcano
Heavy rains triggered flash floods and caused torrents of cold lava and mud to flow down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 41 people and leaving more than a dozen others missing, officials have said.
Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight on Saturday. The floods swept away people and submerged more than 100 houses and buildings, national disaster management agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said on Sunday.
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The United States Passed a Ban on TikTok. Why?
Fri, 10 May 2024 19:29:49 +0000
Is TikTok the killer app of social media—or a Trojan horse sent by the enemy? Two views on the recent ban. Plus, salmon in the dishwasher, and more highlights of culinary TikTok.
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Jailed Indian opposition leader granted bail to take part in election campaign
Fri, 10 May 2024 14:52:34 GMT
Supreme court judges order Arvind Kejriwal’s release until 1 June and question timing of his arrest on corruption charges
One of India’s best-known opposition leaders, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, has been granted bail by the country’s supreme court to allow him to take part in general election campaigningafter being kept behind bars for almost two months.
Kejriwal, who heads the Aam Aadmi party (AAP), has been held in jail since March when he was arrested on money-laundering charges. He has maintained that his arrest and detention was politically motivated to prevent him taking part in the election, which began in April and will continue until June.
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Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
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What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
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What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
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Singapore to get guitar-playing new PM in first transfer of power for 20 years
Wed, 15 May 2024 03:42:09 GMT
Lee Hsien Loong will stand down and hand power to his deputy Lawrence Wong at a challenging time for the city state
Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, will stand down on Wednesday and hand power to his deputy Lawrence Wong, the first change of power in the city state in two decades.
Wong, 51, a US-trained economist credited with managing the country’s response to the pandemic, will be the fourth prime minister to lead Singapore, and is the first leader to have been born after the country’s independence in 1965. He is also only the second leader who is not a member of the founding Lee family. He will be inaugurated in a ceremony on Wednesday night.
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Political activist held in Thai jail dies after 65 days on hunger strike
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:49:03 GMT
Netiporn Sanae-sangkhom, 28, faced seven court cases including two for criticising Thailand’s monarchy
A political activist charged with insulting the king of Thailand has died in pre-trial detention after spending 65 days on hunger strike calling for an end to the imprisonment of political dissidents.
Netiporn Sanae-sangkhom, 28, had been detained since 26 January and maintained a hunger strike until the end of April, refusing food and water, according to her lawyers. The corrections department said she had experienced cardiac arrest on Tuesday morning and was unresponsive to treatment.
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Meet NASA Women Behind World’s Largest Flying Laboratory
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:30:48 +0000
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then, has flown in service of the science community over places like Antarctica, Greenland, and Thailand. Aircraft like the DC-8 have enabled scientists to ask questions about life on Earth and explore them in a way […]
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NASA Licenses 3D-Printable Superalloy to Benefit US Economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:14:04 +0000
NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on the threshold of paying commercial dividends. The agency is licensing its invention, dubbed “GRX-810,” to four American companies, a practice that benefits the United States economy as a return on investment of taxpayer dollars. GRX-810 […]
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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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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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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
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
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China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
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Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
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China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:35:54 +0000
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:10:43 +0000
The government is not used to being bullied
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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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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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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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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October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:44:33 +0000
Four lawsuits alleging Hamas ties against Students for Justice in Palestine, the AP, UNRWA, and a cryptocurrency exchange share many of the same plaintiffs.
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Some Universities Chose Violence. Others Responded to Protests by Considering Student Demands.
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:42:05 +0000
At least seven schools have reached an agreement with students around investment transparency and exploring divestment from Israel.
The post Some Universities Chose Violence. Others Responded to Protests by Considering Student Demands. appeared first on The Intercept.
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They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either.
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:06:07 +0000
On campus, inside the Capitol, and in court, there’s an all-out assault on American democracy in the name of Israel.
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“A New Sense of World-Building”: Inside the Student Movement for Gaza
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The movement to divest from Israel and the defense industry is gaining momentum on college campuses.
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How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.
Tue, 07 May 2024 21:10:55 +0000
The last big protests cost $150 million in NYPD overtime — with tens of millions more in lawsuit settlements.
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After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
Mon, 06 May 2024 20:36:52 +0000
Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement, according to Columbia professors who worked in real time to support jailed students.
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Andrei Belousov: Putin picks trusted technocrat to run defence ministry
Tue, 14 May 2024 06:00:27 GMT
Loyalist economist who ‘thinks years ahead’ inherits Kremlin’s biggest challenge as it prepares for the long haul in Ukraine
In 2014, Russia’s bloc of economic strategists was panicked by Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex Crimea and foment a war in east Ukraine, a move that led to western condemnation and sanctions against Russia that were seen as potentially ruinous.
But his adviser Andrei Belousov was a rare economist who publicly stood by his side, calling the damage manageable and western sanctions “insignificant” in terms of the Russian economy.
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine troops pull back in Lukyantsi and Vovchansk as Zelenskiy warns of ‘difficult’ situation
Wed, 15 May 2024 08:48:25 GMT
Ukrainian military says its troops have moved to ‘more advantageous positions’ in response to enemy fire and assaults from Russian forces
Deborah Cole is a Berlin correspondent for the Guardian.
Maxim Timchenko, the CEO of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy producer, described a dire situation on the ground as Russia steps up attacks. He hopes for a massive increase in western aid at a recovery conference in Berlin next month.
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Fatima Payman accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza in significant rupture with Labor party position
Wed, 15 May 2024 07:58:49 GMT
WA senator says ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ – a phrase Anthony Albanese argues is counter to two-state solution
The Labor senator Fatima Payman has accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and has questioned how many deaths will be enough for the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to declare “enough”.
In a significant rupture with the Labor party position, Payman called for sanctions and divestment from Israel and declared “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – a politically charged phrase that Albanese has criticised.
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Alsobrooks wins Democratic Senate primary in Md.; Justice wins GOP in W.Va.
Wed, 15 May 2024 03:03:30 +0000
Get live updates and elections results from the Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia primaries. Plus the latest news on Biden and Trump from the campaign trial.
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Democrat Angela Alsobrooks to face ex-governor Larry Hogan in Maryland Senate race
Wed, 15 May 2024 02:37:46 GMT
Alsobrooks beats Dave Trone and Hogan wins Republican primary, setting up November clash that could determine control of Senate
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks will face off against former Republican governor Larry Hogan in the Maryland Senate race this November, setting up an unexpectedly competitive election in the reliably Democratic state. Republicans have a rare opportunity to flip a Senate seat in Maryland, and the outcome of that race could determine control of the upper chamber in November.
Alsobrooks and Hogan won their parties’ Senate primaries on Tuesday, as Maryland voters cast ballots in the presidential race as well as congressional elections. Joe Biden and Donald Trump easily won the state’s primaries after already securing enough delegates to capture their parties’ nominations.
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Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats
Wed, 15 May 2024 02:23:56 +0000
The donation from Jacob Helberg, a Palantir adviser who helped push the TikTok ban, shows how some in the tech industry are coalescing against Biden.
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Former president Donald Trump is projected to win the Republican primary in Nebraska, according to the...
Wed, 15 May 2024 01:04:25 +0000
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Republican Larry Hogan, an outspoken Trump critic, puts Maryland Senate seat in play in deep-blue state
Wed, 15 May 2024 00:49:20 +0000
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Former president Donald Trump is the projected winner of Maryland’s Republican presidential primary, according to the...
Wed, 15 May 2024 00:28:35 +0000
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How would you narrow Trump’s VP shortlist? Take this quiz.
Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:35 +0000
Take this quiz and see which people you think Donald Trump could pick to be the Republican vice presidential nominee. The Fix’s Aaron Blake offers his analysis.
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This U.S. Attorney Resigned Amid an Ethics Investigation. Yet He Wound Up Overseeing Judges’ Ethics.
Tue, 14 May 2024 23:57:58 +0000
After inquiries from The Intercept, Duane Kees stepped down from his ethics panel position.
The post This U.S. Attorney Resigned Amid an Ethics Investigation. Yet He Wound Up Overseeing Judges’ Ethics. appeared first on The Intercept.
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Former president Donald Trump is the projected winner of the West Virginia Republican presidential primary, according...
Tue, 14 May 2024 23:47:31 +0000
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Michael Cohen: ‘Yes, I would like to see’ Trump convicted
Tue, 14 May 2024 23:07:36 +0000
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifies for a second day in the former president’s New York trial on charges of falsifying business documents.
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Cohen declines to bite at combative questions from Trump’s man Todd
Tue, 14 May 2024 22:41:31 GMT
Todd Blanche seemed to be looking for a ‘gotcha’ – instead there was laughter in the viewing room and one irked judge
“Mr Trump, is Todd doing a good job?”
So shouted a pool reporter outside a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday afternoon shortly after Trump’s lead attorney, Todd Blanche, started cross examining former fixer turned prosecution witness, Michael Cohen, in his criminal hush-money trial.
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Michael Cohen admits he wants to see Trump convicted in hush-money cross-examination – as it happened
Tue, 14 May 2024 21:09:34 GMT
This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest reporting from court here:
Donald Trump is entering the courtroom. He was carrying papers, which he dropped on to the defense table before sitting.
Trump is joined by Florida congressman Cory Mills, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, as well as Eric Trump and Lara Trump.
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Trump attorneys sharply question Michael Cohen in hush money trial
Tue, 14 May 2024 20:51:13 +0000
Michael Cohen returned to the stand Tuesday to continue testifying in Donald Trump’s trial on allegations of business fraud related to a hush money payment.
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Biden’s extremely big bet
Tue, 14 May 2024 20:50:55 +0000
The president thinks that his 2020 voters will come back home. He’s making one of the biggest political bets in U.S. history.
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Jurors hear mention of former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who quit Trump investigation
Tue, 14 May 2024 20:25:00 +0000
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Trump defends Noem as ‘terrific person’ despite puppy killing story
Tue, 14 May 2024 20:18:45 +0000
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Blanche grills Cohen on earlier insults of Trump
Tue, 14 May 2024 20:06:42 +0000
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Rudy Giuliani still hasn’t been served his Arizona indictment
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:23:35 +0000
The former Trump attorney must appear before a judge on May 21 or he could be held in contempt.
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Cohen: ‘I was knee-deep into the cult of Donald Trump’
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:11:36 +0000
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Trump lawyer grills Cohen about his ceaseless public comments
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:07:28 +0000
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Cohen questioned about the anti-Trump merchandise he sells
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:04:06 +0000
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Analysis: The increasingly embarrassing details at Trump’s trial
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:03:56 +0000
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Cohen: ‘I would like to see’ Trump convicted, ‘sure’
Tue, 14 May 2024 18:58:27 +0000
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Trump defense is to paint Michael Cohen as desperate for attention
Tue, 14 May 2024 18:43:40 +0000
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Bannon should report for prison now, Justice Department tells judge
Tue, 14 May 2024 18:16:53 +0000
The Justice Department asked a federal judge to order the former Trump adviser to immediately start his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.
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Former president Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday panned President Biden’s plan for new tariffs on Chinese...
Tue, 14 May 2024 17:56:40 +0000
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Can You Believe What Michael Cohen Just Said at the Trump Trial?
Tue, 14 May 2024 17:43:06 +0000
The star witness in the former President’s criminal trial is also the most aggrieved and seemingly unreliable one.
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Michael Cohen will be the last prosecution witness in the case against former president Donald Trump,...
Tue, 14 May 2024 17:29:54 +0000
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Cohen regrets ‘lying, bullying’ for Trump, but not working for him
Tue, 14 May 2024 17:28:28 +0000
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Biden, announcing Chinese tariffs, criticizes Trump manufacturing record
Tue, 14 May 2024 17:22:52 +0000
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Michael Cohen tells hush-money jury of phoney invoices to cover up payment
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:52:45 GMT
Trump’s ex-lawyer testifies in Manhattan court that repayments began shortly after February 2017 meeting in Oval Office
Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen testified in Manhattan court on Tuesday that he submitted phoney invoices for legal services to cover up what were, in fact, reimbursements for a $130,000 hush-money payment to the adult film actor Stormy Daniels on his then boss’s behalf.
He repeatedly identified Trump as the driver of the Daniels payoff scheme – and said that he did it to protect Trump from losing the election. Cohen said he got the money to Daniels “to ensure that the story would not come out, would not affect Mr Trump’s chances of becoming president of the United States”.
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 14th
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:37:23 +0000
The three unwise monkeys.
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Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency
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The Historic Trump Court Cases That We Cannot See
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:02:39 +0000
The former President is on trial in a courtroom that has banned cameras. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is deciding whether his other trials should even happen.
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Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The powerful lobbying group is going against a Capitol Police officer who fended off January 6 insurrectionists.
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Georgia ‘returning to the past’ with foreign agents law, says president
Wed, 15 May 2024 08:50:11 GMT
Salome Zurabishvili says protests in Tbilisi prove Georgians ‘will never return to Russian pressure’
Georgia is “returning to the past” through the new foreign agents law, the president of the former Soviet state has said, as EU ministers urged the government to “take a way out”.
Speaking at a press conference with the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Iceland, Salome Zurabishvili said the governing Georgian Dream party had diverted the country down a “very serious” road.
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Death metal, Schubert, nudity: opera about Ukraine dam destruction premieres in Kyiv
Wed, 15 May 2024 08:17:04 GMT
Gaia-24 explores human and environmental disaster caused by Russian attack on Kakhovka dam
Taking a casual glance at the elegant Kyivans queueing outside the lemon-yellow neoclassical theatre perched above Independence Square, an onlooker would have few hints that there was a war on.
But the opera that premiered at the International Centre of Culture and Arts last week is inextricably bound up with the deadly events of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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From $120,000 bananas to gold toilets: art provocateur Maurizio Cattelan is back
Wed, 15 May 2024 08:03:35 GMT
The Italian artist, who has gained fame by poking fun at the art world, opened his first solo gallery show in over two decades, now with a more serious edge
The artist Maurizio Cattelan will be the first to tell you he does not specialize in craft. He’s not a painter or a sculptor, per se. His speciality is imaginative provocation, the art of the conceptual joke. A life-size, hyper-realistic sculpture of Pope John Paul II felled by a meteor in La Nona Ora, for example, his eyes closed in eternal sleep. A child-size model of Hitler knelt in prayer, called Him, or a privately commissioned sculpture of a woman, Betsy, huddled in a full-size refrigerator.
The 63-year-old Italian has scored mainstream headlines in recent years with pieces that take a bit very literally, ribbing wealth, power, cultural debasement and the art world’s hot air, among other targets. In 2016, he installed a functional solid-gold toilet at the Guggenheim and called it America. (The work was later stolen from Blenheim Palace, and presumably melted down.) More infamously, he duct-taped a banana to the wall at Art Basel in Miami and called it art. That piece, titled Comedian, sold for $120,000 (and has been eaten by viewers, then replaced, on multiple occasions) – an easily mocked symbol of the art market’s bullshit, a work of questionable genius or a triumphant, Duchampian performance of the modern artist’s tragicomic existence, depending on who you ask.
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Yes, Rishi Sunak, the world is a scary place. That is why we need a new prime minister | Rafael Behr
Wed, 15 May 2024 05:00:32 GMT
With no domestic legacy to celebrate, the PM has little choice but to focus on global volatility. But that is a problem he can’t solve
On the eve of the last general election, no one was debating what to do in the event of a pandemic, or if Russia invaded Ukraine, or the Middle East exploded. If the recent past contains clues about the near future, Britain’s next prime minister will soon be grappling with some as yet unforeseen global emergency. Plus the already visible crises.
Where most people see dangers amassing on the horizon, Rishi Sunak reads simplistic campaign slogans. For want of a domestic legacy to celebrate, the prime minister has decided to put global volatility at the centre of his pitch for re-election. He rehearsed the line in a speech on Monday. The world is a scary place, he said. Only the Tories can keep you safe.
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Intensifying war increasing threat to Ukraine economy, EBRD warns
Wed, 15 May 2024 05:00:33 GMT
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development cuts growth forecasts for regions it operates in, saying war ‘casting long shadow’
Ukraine’s war-torn economy faces a renewed threat as Russia’s intensifying war takes its toll on power plants and forces Kyiv to send key workers to the frontline, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has warned.
In its latest economic update, the EBRD cut its growth forecasts and said more than two years of fighting in Ukraine was affecting not only the warring countries but also their neighbours.
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The 'foreign agents' law that has set off mass protests in Georgia - podcast
Wed, 15 May 2024 02:00:28 GMT
The bill requires any civil society organisation that receives more than 20% of its funds from abroad to register as being under foreign influence. Daniel Boffey reports
On the face of it the bill could sound innocuous: any civil society organisation that receives more than 20% of its funds from abroad must register as an organisation under foreign influence. Yet the new law Georgia’s parliament passed yesterday has sparked outrage and demonstrations in the capital, Tbilisi.
Critics claim the bill is “Kremlin-inspired” as Putin passed a similar law in 2012, which they say has had a chilling effect on civil society. Demonstrators think it is a way to redirect Georgia towards Russia. The Guardian’s chief reporter, Daniel Boffey, has been speaking to young protesters – often schoolchildren – about why they are so incensed.
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Putin and Xi’s ‘no-limits’ friendship will be put to the test on state visit to China
Wed, 15 May 2024 02:00:29 GMT
Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the west
Having secured a mandate to extend his rule of Russia to three decades, Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Beijing on Thursday on a state visit to meet Xi Jinping intended to shore up his most important international relationship.
The two men toasted their “no-limits” friendship in February 2022 – meant as a counterweight to the global influence of the US. That partnership has increasingly come under pressure as the Biden administration sought to isolate Russia from its Chinese lifeline after the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, which began later the same month.
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How AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian
Tue, 14 May 2024 23:33:08 GMT
A YouTuber falls victim to generative AI on Chinese social media, but the ramifications stretch beyond China.
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Second Russian invasion is worse than the first, Kharkiv region evacuees say
Tue, 14 May 2024 21:11:33 +0000
Thousands of Ukrainians have fled border towns and villages in the northeast Kharkiv region as Russian troops advance in a new attack.
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Eleasa Kim: Pioneering CLDP Payload Operations and Cultural Integration
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:20:51 +0000
Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at Johnson Space Center, with 18 years of mission support under her belt. Her roles have included biomedical engineer flight controller, payload safety engineer for Artemis I, planning and analysis branch operations discipline lead, and […]
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In surprise Ukraine visit, Blinken declares vision for Kyiv’s victory
Tue, 14 May 2024 19:04:14 +0000
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Ukraine to offer U.S. support in Kyiv’s fight against Russia after a $61 billion aid package passed Congress.
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The Guardian view on Russia’s new offensive: Ukraine’s allies must renew their focus | Editorial
Tue, 14 May 2024 18:13:25 GMT
Significant advances by Vladimir Putin’s forces in the Kharkiv region must concentrate minds in the west at a critical moment
Antony Blinken’s unannounced visit to Kyiv on Tuesday was a welcome and timely show of support. It was the US secretary of state’s first trip to Ukraine since America belatedly signed off on a $61bn aid package last month, allowing a desperately needed supply of new arms to finally flow to troops in the east. As Mr Blinken met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the capital, events continued to underline how urgently such assistance – and much more of the same – is required.
The ultimate scope of Russia’s significant offensive in the Kharkiv region is yet to become clear. In part it may be intended to create a buffer zone, protecting Russian territory close to the north-east border. But as thousands of residents are once more displaced, and the prospect looms of a huge artillery assault on the city of Kharkiv, the incursions are also diverting threadbare Ukrainian resources from the eastern front. That may facilitate new Russian breakthroughs in the Donbas region.
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Clashes at Georgian parliament as 'foreign agents bill' passes – video
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:56:59 GMT
Georgian protesters opposed to a 'foreign influence' bill picketed the Georgian parliament amid a major police presence during the third, and final reading of the bill. Police attempted to disperse demonstrators and people were seen being detained. The 84-30 vote has cleared the way for the bill to become law. The draft now goes to the president, Salome Zourabichvili, who has said she will veto it, but her decision can be overridden by another vote in parliament, which is controlled by the ruling party and its allies. Government critics and western countries have criticised the new bill as authoritarian and Russian-inspired
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China and Russia to shore up ‘no limits’ partnership with Thursday meetup
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:19:24 +0000
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Beijing for meetings with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as Moscow’s war against Ukraine drags on — with Beijing’s support.
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‘It’s bad behaviour’: Usyk to use Fury incident as motivation for title clash
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:46:44 GMT
Ukrainian told his entourage not to get involved after Tyson Fury’s father butted a team member before Saturday’s fight
Oleksandr Usyk, we were warned, was exhausted and angry. He was in no mood to talk for he had spent all Monday afternoon being shunted from one room to the next and made to suffer the tedium of countless television and YouTube interviews as he was asked the same old questions again and again about his world heavyweight unification title fight against Tyson Fury this Saturday night in Riyadh.
It was agreed that we would leave the IBF, WBA and WBO champion in peace for his only break from the monotony had been when Stanislav Stepchuk, one of the younger members of his entourage, was head-butted in the face by John Fury, the 59-year-old father of the WBC champion. It had been a bloody moment which looked so tawdry compared to the mighty challenge awaiting Usyk against Fury – and especially when set against the reality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a war which is never far from the champion’s mind.
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NASA Names Deputy Station Manager, Operations Integration Manager
Tue, 14 May 2024 14:18:28 +0000
NASA selected Dina Contella as the deputy program manager and Bill Spetch as the operations integration manager for the agency’s International Space Station Program, effective Sunday, June 2. “Dina’s depth of experience with the complex and dynamic aspects of the space station mission will be instrumental for leading through future challenges,” said Dana Weigel, program […]
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Georgia protests: Is 'Russia law' a threat to democracy?
Tue, 14 May 2024 08:50:00 GMT
Moscow and the EU compete for influence in Tbilisi
Match ID: 55 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 1 day
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Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:58:27 +0000
Raw milk fans called warnings "fear mongering," despite 52% fatality rate in humans.
Match ID: 56 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:41:54 +0000
US military seeks an "independent review" to determine if Vulcan can scale.
Match ID: 57 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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Russia’s new defense minister shows economy is firmly on war footing
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:47:08 +0000
President Vladimir Putin’s choice of an economist for the job suggests he views managing budgets and curbing corruption to be key components to military victory in Ukraine.
Match ID: 58 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Georgian Parliament set to adopt controversial foreign agent law Tuesday
Mon, 13 May 2024 13:42:36 +0000
The governing Georgia Dream party said it would speed up a final vote, defying protesters who denounced the law as a Russian-style effort to squash free speech.
Match ID: 59 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Stormy Daniels’s American Dream
Fri, 10 May 2024 22:18:45 +0000
Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to portray the scrappy adult-film actress as a lying profiteer. Instead, she emerged as an intelligent, credible witness who is also very good at making money.
Match ID: 60 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:44:33 +0000
Four lawsuits alleging Hamas ties against Students for Justice in Palestine, the AP, UNRWA, and a cryptocurrency exchange share many of the same plaintiffs.
The post October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division” appeared first on The Intercept.
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Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process
Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A new anti-terrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets.
The post Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process appeared first on The Intercept.
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Microsoft Deploys Generative AI for US Spies
Sat, 11 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China is suspected in a hack targeting the UK’s military, the US Marines are testing gun-toting robotic dogs, and Dell suffers a data breach impacting 49 million customers.
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Senator breaks ranks on Gaza – as it happened
Wed, 15 May 2024 07:55:32 GMT
This blog is now closed.
Jim Chalmers said the government didn’t create a new system for the energy payments (so everyone gets it) because it is done through the energy retailers, who don’t have people’s income data.
It’s not a cash payment paid directly to you – instead, it is paid through the energy sector, which takes money off your bill. In this case, $75 a quarter.
I don’t see it in political terms. I think primarily the motivation of this budget is to help people who are doing it tough. More help is on the way for people who are doing it tough via the tax system, via their energy bills and with rent assistance and cheaper medicines and in other ways as well. That’s our primary motivation.
Once you go beyond providing this to people on pensions and payments, you have to design a whole new system in order to create a new distinction. We are providing this energy bill relief to every household. We think that’s a good way to help things make things easier. Some of the other measures are more targeted.
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Is the 2024 budget inflationary? Warwick McKibbin and other economists say ‘yes’
Wed, 15 May 2024 07:16:04 GMT
Former RBA board member among experts who say Albanese government’s third budget is likely to at least delay next interest rate cut
The Albanese government has “rolled the dice” on the economy and its third budget is likely to at least delay the next interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank, if not provoke another increase, ex-RBA board member Warwick McKibbin and other economists say.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, unveiled a second consecutive budget surplus on Tuesday although future years are projected to report sizeable deficits. Westpac estimates the government will pump into the budget an extra $20bn in spending in 2024-25 and 2025-26.
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MPs and peers urge Sunak to U-turn on oil and gas extraction plans
Wed, 15 May 2024 05:00:33 GMT
Cross-party group of 50 calls on prime minister to appoint climate envoy and back Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
A cross-party group of MPs and peers has urged Rishi Sunak to make a U-turn on his oil and gas extraction plans as part of a broader plea to increase efforts to address the climate crisis.
The 50 politicians, including three Conservatives, wrote to the prime minister calling for the UK to regain its international leadership on the crisis by ending the licensing of new oil and gas fields, appointing a climate envoy, and backing the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance.
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The shocking stupidity of the smart meter system | Letters
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:00:30 GMT
Jim Fleming notes that the European Space Agency can wake up a satellite but his power supplier cannot wake up his smart meters. Plus letters from Andrew Warren and David Redshaw
Re your article (British Gas boss says all UK households should be forced to fit smart meters, 8 May), after being harassed by email, text, telephone, letters and finally doorstepping, and being told that we had to get smart meters for safety reasons, we relented and spent a fun day at home with the fitter. The smart meters don’t work; they never worked. Apparently they don’t work in our type of house.
The European Space Agency might be able to wake up the satellite Rosetta 673m kilometres away, but our power supplier cannot wake up our smart meters. Sorry, I have to rush, they want another meter reading. You see, they are experiencing a high level of calls so no one can answer the phone.
Jim Fleming
Edinburgh
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Match ID: 67 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
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‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:00:16 GMT
IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster
Hopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and support for these alternatives could even worsen the climate crisis, a new report has warned.
There is currently “no realistic or scalable alternative” to standard kerosene-based jet fuels, and touted “sustainable aviation fuels” are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change, despite public subsidies, the report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive thinktank, found.
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Match ID: 69 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun
Sun, 12 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. NASA sent a probe to find out why—by getting closer to the star than ever before.
Match ID: 70 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard.
Wed, 08 May 2024 13:23:26 +0000
A former facility psychologist is suing the Bureau of Prisons over an Instagram account that joked about suicide at FCC Lompoc.
The post Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard. appeared first on The Intercept.
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Grant Shapps, the lighthearted defence secretary with a gag for every warhead | John Crace
Tue, 14 May 2024 17:43:02 GMT
The minister did the media rounds, reassuring the public with his infinite levitas that we were safe from our foes
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. On Monday, Rishi Sunak had laid out his terrifying vision of the future. The collapse of western civilisation. A world of plague and pestilence. Where nuclear war had become a recreational hazard. The British government reduced to infants. Mewling and puking in their mothers’ arms.
Enter the Shappster. Man in tights. Rish!’s very own superhero. A nation can now sleep more easily. Death, where is thy dominion? In times of crisis, great men and women step forward to serve their country. Where would the UK have been in its darkest hour without Winston Churchill? And where would we all be now without Grant Shapps?
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They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either.
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:06:07 +0000
On campus, inside the Capitol, and in court, there’s an all-out assault on American democracy in the name of Israel.
The post They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 73 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience.
Match ID: 74 Score: 8.57 source: www.wired.com age: 6 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: 75 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 83 days
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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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: 77 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
Match ID: 78 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 26 days
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
Match ID: 79 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 80 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
Match ID: 81 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 68 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: 82 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 83 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 82 days
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
Match ID: 84 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 96 days
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
Match ID: 85 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 12 days
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Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry
Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
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The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:16:03 +0000
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more.
Match ID: 87 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 14 days
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
Match ID: 89 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 33 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
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
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Goodbye to gas: how insulation and a heat pump can make you more energy efficient
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:31:09 GMT
When it comes to heating our homes efficiently, the UK is lagging behind our European neighbours, however, there are ways in which we can better insulate and save money
Whether it’s squabbles over the office air conditioning or a family member telling you to put on another jumper, heating has always been a hot topic. However, with rising energy costs and the pressing climate crisis at the front of everyone’s mind, how we keep our homes warm is getting even more attention. While we might crave that satisfying feeling of nearly scalding our hand on a radiator when we crank up our central heating, we need to adopt a new mindset.
The UK is still very much reliant on fossil fuels for heating our homes. At the same time, reduction of fossil fuel usage is the number one priority when it comes to combating climate change, meaning the way we heat our homes is long overdue for an overhaul. In England, 90% of homes (pdf) have a boiler system with radiators as their main form of heating, while across the UK, 25m gas boilers are in use, which accounts to 16% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions. To put it into perspective, for the UK to meet the government’s net zero target by 2050, about 8m buildings will need to switch from gas boilers to cleaner alternatives by 2035.
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From solar panels needing sun to 21C being ideal: five household heating myths are debunked
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:29:53 GMT
When you heat your home efficiently, you can stay cosy and warm without damaging your purse or the environment. However, knowing exactly how to heat your home is key, and here we bust some myths so you can reap the full benefits …
Myth 1: The ideal room temperature is 21C
We often keep our homes warmer than necessary. While a few degrees might not sound like much, it makes a big difference in terms of the overall energy output and cost. We might think we need our home to be set to around 21C, but in reality a little lower is more than sufficient. The World Health Organization suggests 18C is the ideal room temperature for healthy and appropriately dressed people, while The Sleep Charity recommends a bedtime temperature between 16C and 18C for optimum sleep.
Myth 2: Boilers are the most efficient way to heat your home
While in the UK many of us have relied on traditional gas boilers for generations, our European neighbours have been switching to heat pumps. These home heating devices are a modern, low-carbon and economical solution for creating a cosy home. Working much like a fridge or air conditioning unit, they use evaporation and condensation to create heat energy without the need for any fossil fuels.
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Heat pumps: what are they, how do they work, and should you get one?
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:28:57 GMT
They’re often described as fridges in reverse … but what exactly is a heat pump?
We all want to live in a cosy home but, during the cold winter months, keeping our houses warm can be a challenge. This proves even harder in the cost of living crisis, with many of us hit by higher-than-normal heating bills. Simultaneously, lots of us are thinking more about how our homes and lifestyle are affecting the ever-warming climate.
Heat pumps are a clever piece of innovation that can help with both problems – warming our homes while saving money and being better for the environment. An alternative to a traditional boiler, heat pumps keep houses at a comfortable temperature via a process that doesn’t require gas or oil, only electricity, which can be provided by renewable sources. In fact, recent research from the University of Oxford and the Regulatory Assistance Project, an independent, NGO advancing energy policy innovation, found that even at temperatures as cold as -30C, heat pumps outperformed oil and gas heating systems.
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From cold martyr to cosy saver: check your approach to warming the home with our heating quiz
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:27:09 GMT
Do you keep the entire house at a permanent 30C, or are you a Bear Grylls wannabe with an ‘extreme survival’ approach to turning the heating on? There are many ways to heat our homes and lots of us are doing it totally wrong. Take our quiz and find out if you need to adopt a smarter approach to central heating
From heat pumps to insulation, solar panels and more, explore ways the government can support you at gov.uk/energy-efficient-home.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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