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UK should back tough Trump sanctions on Iran, report says
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:30:44 GMT
Former top UK official believes intensifying economic pressure on Tehran would erode internal support for regime
The UK should back Donald Trump’s expected maximum economic sanctions against Iran as part of an effort to encourage nationals to end their support for the current regime in Tehran, Mark Sedwill, the former cabinet secretary, argues in a report published on Monday.
He writes: “It is not for the west, let alone the UK, to determine who rules Iran. That is for the Iranian people. But we can make clear that the right choice will bring benefits just as the wrong one will bring more of the same.”
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Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv ready to swap North Korean soldiers for Ukrainian PoWs, Zelenskyy says
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:06:38 GMT
Ukrainian president says there ‘should be no doubt left’ that Russia is dependent on military assistance from North Korea. What we know on day 1,055
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday he was ready to hand over captured North Korean soldiers to Pyongyang in exchange for the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war held in Russia. Zelenskyy’s offer came hours after South Korea’s National Intelligence Service confirmed Ukraine’s announcement from the previous day that it had captured two North Korean soldiers.
In a post on X Sunday, Zelenskyy said: “Ukraine is ready to hand over Kim Jong-un’s soldiers to him if he can organise their exchange for our warriors who are being held captive in Russia.” There would “undoubtedly be more” North Korean soldiers captured by Kyiv, he added. “There should be no doubt left in the world that the Russian army is dependent on military assistance from North Korea.”
One of the men said he wanted to return to North Korea while the other said he wanted to remain in Ukraine, according to translated comments from a video of the two men’s interrogations posted by Zelenskyy. “For those North Korean soldiers who do not wish to return, there may be other options available,” said Zelenskyy. “In particular, those who express a desire to bring peace closer by spreading the truth about this war in Korean will be given that opportunity.”
The soldiers are the first captive North Koreans to survive. They represent a PR opportunity for Kyiv, during a precarious moment for Ukraine as Donald Trump returns to the White House. Zelenskyy is keen to emphasise that Ukraine is fighting an unprecedented coalition of malign autocratic states. One is North Korea, which has supplied Moscow with short-range ballistic missiles, artillery shells and – since last November – about 10,000 elite troops.
Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson said that his country was neither at war nor at peace as he announced that Sweden would be sending armed forces into the Baltic Sea for the first time as part of increased surveillance efforts amid a spate of suspected sabotage of undersea cables. The country announced it will contribute up to three warships and a surveillance aircraft to a Nato effort to monitor critical infrastructure and Russia’s “shadow fleet” as the alliance tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure.
Russia on Sunday claimed the capture of two villages in eastern Ukraine where its forces have been steadily advancing for months. The defence ministry said forces had captured the village of Yantarne in the eastern Donetsk region, around 10km (six miles) southwest of Kurakhove, a key logistics hub that Moscow claimed to have seized last week. On Saturday, Russia’s army said it had also taken new territory northwest of Kurakhove. The defence ministry said Sunday that Russian troops had also captured the village of Kalinove in the northeastern Kharkiv region. The village is on the western bank of the Oskil River, which for a long time formed the front line between the two armies in the region.
An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first detected, officials said. The task force, which includes emergency situations minister Alexander Kurenkov, was set up after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on authorities to ramp up the response to the spill, calling it “one of the most serious environmental challenges we have faced in recent years.”
A local woman died on Sunday in the Ukraine-controlled part of Russia’s Kursk region after Russian strikes damaged a state boarding school where local people were sheltering, a Ukrainian official said. On Saturday evening, “Russian aviation carried out two air strikes on the area of the boarding school in Sudzha, as a result of which one woman suffered a laceration wound to her arm, and died in the morning,” Ukrainian army spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said on television news.
In Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, drone attacks injured eight people Sunday in the main city of Kherson and a nearby village, regional authorities said. In the Russian-controlled section of the Kherson region, a Ukrainian drone killed a 76-year-old woman, Russian-installed Governor Vladimir Saldo said on Telegram.
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qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 20.00 russia, 20.00 korea
Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:49:57 GMT
Ex-Trump adviser denounces tech CEO’s embrace of some forms of immigration and vows to ‘take this guy down’
In an escalation of discontent among the highest-profile far-right followers of Donald Trump, his former adviser Steve Bannon has called Trump’s newest favorite, Elon Musk, “racist” and a “truly evil guy”, pledging to “take this guy down” and kick him out of the Maga movement.
In an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper in Italy, excerpts of which were published this weekend by Breitbart, Bannon criticised Musk’s embrace of some forms of immigration and vowed to ensure that Musk does not have top-level access to the White House.
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Elon Musk and Giorgia Meloni’s power friendship stirs controversy in Italy
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000
The relationship between Musk and the Italian prime minister could be a harbinger for Americans, as Musk assumes a role in the Trump administration.
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Ahead of Trump’s return to office, Ukraine and Russia battle for Kursk
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 07:00:09 +0000
Ukraine’s continued focus on Kursk shows how important Kyiv believes it is to hold on to Russian land, especially if Trump pushes both sides to the negotiating table.
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Ukraine’s capture of North Koreans offers rare insight into Russian alliance, says Zelenskyy
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:11:45 GMT
Kyiv keen to emphasise that Ukraine is fighting an unprecedented coalition of malign autocratic states
Ukraine’s capture of two North Korean soldiers on the battlefield has provided a rare glimpse into their role and Pyongyang’s participation in the Russian invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
The two soldiers were taken prisoner in Kursk oblast, the scene of intense fighting since Ukraine launched a cross-border raid five months ago. Video showed special forces soldiers carrying one of the wounded North Koreans across a snowy forest.
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qualifiers: 20.00 russia, 20.00 korea
Mexico, Canada send firefighters to help battle Los Angeles blazes
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:06:16 +0000
The deployments come days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened the United States’ largest trade partners with tariffs.
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Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia, Zelensky says
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:38:52 +0000
The wounded fighters were taken for questioning to Kyiv, authorities said, where they could reveal details of Pyongyang’s cooperation with Moscow.
Match ID: 7 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 20.00 russia, 20.00 korea
Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:30:59 +0000
As he prepares to leave the White House, Ali Zaidi is sober about what’s coming—but says too much has already been built and invested for Donald Trump to undo it.
Match ID: 8 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 15.00 energy
Ontario leader warns of ‘pain’ for US if Trump imposes tariffs on Canada
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:00:34 GMT
Premier of most populous province says rhetoric clouds trade relationship worth hundreds of billions of dollars
The United States will “feel pain” if Donald Trump doesn’t back down from his threat to impose steep tariffs on its northern neighbour, the leader of Canada’s most populous province has warned.
After a tumultuous week that left Canadian leaders flailing for a coherent national response to Trump’s provocations – including the suggestion that the US would annex its closest ally – the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, told the Guardian: “We will never be for sale.”
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Congress Loves Crypto. So Why Do So Few Members Buy It?
Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000
And why those that do aren’t just trading in meme coins for the lulz.
The post Congress Loves Crypto. So Why Do So Few Members Buy It? appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 10 Score: 39.29 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 17.86 trump, 10.71 trump, 10.71 energy
Searching for Justice and the Missing in the New Syria
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0000
The prisons are open, the secret files are unlocked. Now Syrians are trying to figure out how to hold war criminals accountable.
The post Searching for Justice and the Missing in the New Syria appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 11 Score: 38.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 21.43 trump, 17.14 russia
Ministers from 17 countries meet for Saudi talks on speeding aid to Damascus
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:57:11 GMT
Riyadh meeting also discussed keeping pressure on Syria’s new leadership to meet commitment to inclusive transition
Ministers from 17 Middle East and western countries have met in Riyadh to discuss how to speed aid to the new Syrian government while keeping pressure on the caretaker leadership to meet its commitment to run an administration representative of all religions and ethnic groups.
The meeting on Sunday came as protesters in Syria called on the west to move faster on lifting economic sanctions, and so persuade more refugees to return from Europe and the states surrounding the country.
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Match ID: 12 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better.
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:23:02 +0000
Billionaires gonna billionaire — and lick the boots of whoever will bring them more riches and impunity.
The post Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 13 Score: 34.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 14.29 trump, 11.43 korea, 8.57 trump
My Ban From X Is About One Simple Thing: Elon Musk Controlling the Flow of Information
Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:26:14 +0000
Whether it’s banning articles on X or killing fact checks on Meta, the only constant is that it benefits the powerful.
The post My Ban From X Is About One Simple Thing: Elon Musk Controlling the Flow of Information appeared first on The Intercept.
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qualifiers: 17.86 trump, 14.29 russia
LA fires live updates: California death toll rises to 24 as Los Angeles fire chief says ready for strong winds
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:27:48 GMT
Eight of the dead found in Palisades fire zone and 16 in Eaton fire zone, medical examiner says, as forestry department warns of ‘critical fire weather’
A video shows a fire tornado spotted in the Palisades blaze:
As is noted in our news report on the California wildfires, at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades.
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Match ID: 15 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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LA wildfires: death toll rises to 24 as winds threaten further destruction
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:03:54 GMT
More than 1,800 structures destroyed as Eaton and Palisades fires still less than 30% contained
The death toll from the Eaton and Palisades fires that have consumed large swathes of Los Angeles county – and are still less than 30% contained – has risen to 24, according to medical examiners.
The county of Los Angeles medical examiner published a list of fatalities without giving details of any identities. Eight of the dead were found in the Palisades fire zone, and 16 in the Eaton fire zone, the document said.
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Zelenskyy offers Ukraine’s help to fight California wildfires after Trump Jr post
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:25:49 GMT
Ukrainian president says 150 firefighters are ready to be deployed, days after Donald Trump Jr accused LA’s fire department of donating supplies to Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is ready to assist those affected by the devastating wildfires in California, with 150 Ukrainian firefighters ready to go.
The offer by the Ukrainian president comes three days after Donald Trump Jr, son of US president-elect Donald Trump, responded to the Los Angeles wildfires by appearing to blame Ukraine on social media. “Oh look of course the LA fire department donated a bunch of their supplies to Ukraine,” Trump Jr said in a post on X on 8 January.
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Match ID: 17 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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L.A.’s wildfires have leaders fighting on two fronts: Nature and politics
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:51:54 +0000
As weather forecasts predict the resumption of dangerous winds this week, the governor, L.A. mayor and others find California under attack from Trump, conservatives and advisers.
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney blasts big tech leaders for cozying up to Trump | "After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans"
2025-01-12T21:49:13+00:00
Match ID: 19 Score: 25.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s treasury pick, Scott Bessent, to divest from assets
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:34:15 +0000
Ahead of his confirmation hearing for Treasury, billionaire hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent outlined holdings that could pose a conflict of interest and said he would divest.
Match ID: 20 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Steve Bannon derides Elon Musk, vowing to limit influence over Trump
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:28:02 +0000
Bannon’s comments reflect the intensifying battle over Musk’s role in the second Trump administration.
Match ID: 21 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Tech titans are falling over themselves to help Trump
2025-01-12T19:06:09+00:00
Match ID: 22 Score: 25.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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The Guardian view on capital punishment: an upsurge in executions should concern us all | Editorial
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:30:39 GMT
The vast majority of countries have outlawed the death penalty. Yet the annual toll is growing – and Donald Trump wants to increase its use
The good news: Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to be declared, the decision is another welcome step in the global journey towards abolition: 113 states have now banned executions.
The bad news is that fewer countries have been killing more people in the last few years. Last May, Amnesty International recorded 1,153 executions in 2023, a 31% increase from the previous year and the highest level for almost a decade. (The figure is an underestimate since countries including China, believed to be the world’s largest executioner, do not publish data on the death penalty.) There was no letup in 2024. Iran reportedly executed more than 900 people. Saudi Arabia is believed to have killed another 330, compared with 172 in 2023.
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Match ID: 23 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The Guardian view on Argentina’s austerity year: painful cuts, rising poverty and a geopolitical gamble | Editorial
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:25:39 GMT
In his first 12 months Javier Milei has imposed drastic economic measures – sparking protests while banking on an IMF bailout
The first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump after his victory last November was Argentina’s president, Javier Milei. The affinity is obvious: both are political outsiders united by extreme-right rhetoric and a penchant for anarchic capitalism. Mr Milei promised a war on bureaucrats, brutal public spending cuts and sweeping deregulation of Latin America’s second-largest economy. Predictably, the outcome has been devastating: a recession plunged more than half the country into poverty within the first six months of 2024.
Mr Milei did not so much win the last election as the previous government lost it. When voters went to the polls in October 2023, monthly inflation stood at around 8%, fuelling frustration with the established parties and anxiety about the future – sentiments Mr Milei skilfully exploited. After his victory, monthly inflation soared to 25% before dropping back to under 3% in November. As a devotee of Milton Friedman, Mr Milei might claim his public sector cuts were painful but necessary. This is far from the truth. The reality, as the economist Matías Vernengo notes, is that Mr Milei devalued the peso, triggering a spike in domestic prices while using currency controls to keep a lid on further inflationary pressures.
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Tracking the Trump criminal cases and where they stand
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:03:50 +0000
The latest on the criminal cases against Donald Trump.
Match ID: 25 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Why will the Washington Post be different during Trump’s second term?
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:00:38 GMT
As Trump’s inauguration looms, the paper, owned by Jeff Bezos, is in shambles – largely of its own making
As Donald Trump prepares to take office on 20 January, the ascension of a man who has repeatedly said he will persecute the media surely calls for the journalistic muscle of a newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal and has for decades been a mainstay of American political reporting.
But as Trump’s second term looms, the Washington Post, owned by the billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, is in shambles – mired in chaos and disarray largely of its own making.
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Canada’s election is about to have an Elon Musk problem with Trudeau’s exit
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:00:34 GMT
The world’s richest man looks to move Canada to the right as the beleaguered prime minister prepares to depart
The decision by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, this week to resign as head of the Liberal party has set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election, which will be held amid political turmoil triggered by Donald Trump’s “America first” economic nationalism. It has also given Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, an opportunity to inject himself into yet another country’s political turmoil.
Since Trudeau’s resignation on Monday, Musk has posted repeatedly about Canadian politics on X – the platform formerly known as Twitter he bought in 2022 for $44bn. He has praised clips of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative party, while relishing in Trudeau’s downfall and engaging with rightwing Canadian influencers.
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Trump’s expansionist designs prompt worried responses from foreign leaders
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:00:43 +0000
Donald Trump’s fixation on expanding the nation’s territory has foreign leaders weighing a familiar question: Should they take him seriously? Many are trying.
Match ID: 28 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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The Trump DOJ Loved Leaking, as Long as It Was to Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The Trump administration spied on reporters to catch leakers. At the same time, it was leaking to right-wing media.
The post The Trump DOJ Loved Leaking, as Long as It Was to Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers appeared first on The Intercept.
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The Inauguration of Trump’s Oligarchy
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Certain business titans have made Mar-a-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.
Match ID: 30 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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Biden’s agenda had a big impact. Will history give him credit?
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
As construction cranes rise above Trump-friendly towns, the trillions injected into the economy by Biden’s policies did little to boost his party’s fortunes
Match ID: 31 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Israel moves to make heavy bombs, but U.S. reliance hard to shake, experts say
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Israel said last week it would move to produce heavy bombs and raw materials for defense domestically, after learning “a central lesson from the war” in Gaza.
Match ID: 32 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Britain is a weak link in Donald Trump’s new world order, so it needs to find friends… fast | Will Hutton
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:00:30 GMT
Amid deepening debt and an onslaught by the president-elect, Labour must calm the markets, then think big economically
It’s certainly not 2008, nor even Truss 2022, but the men and women who move the financial markets are suddenly darkly pessimistic. Some of the private emails and WhatsApp messages circulating last week matched any efforts by Cassandra. The mood has turned against Britain.
It is not one single thing, but a toxic mix. There is the prospect of a long period of stagflation, the consequence, as even the markets recognise, of 14 years of epic misgovernment. The problem now is partly that Labour does not have a plausible growth story, partly that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is painted as having an economic tin ear that douses capitalist animal spirits, and partly because Trump’s arrival has exposed just how dependent an indebted, economically wounded Britain is on the kindness of strangers. It’s not yet a crisis – the stock market has held up – but without some skilful economic and political statecraft, and a measure of luck, it may become one.
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Match ID: 33 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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'Trump is welcome to visit Greenland - but that's it'
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:52:33 GMT
In the isolated settlement of Kapisillit, Greenlanders tell the BBC's Fergal Keane Donald Trump is welcome to visit - "but that's it".
Match ID: 34 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Iran, already on the defensive, braces for second Trump term
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:00:21 +0000
Military exercises intended to show Iran’s strength might instead have revealed its weakness.
Match ID: 35 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Politicians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with Trump
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:19:53 GMT
California governor calls president-elect’s claim that water is being withheld from southern California ‘delusional’
Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, appeared briefly to put his long-running feud with Donald Trump to one side on Friday, when he invited the president-elect to Los Angeles to survey devastation from the wildfires and meet with first responders, firefighters and the “Americans” affected.
“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans – displaced from their homes and fearful for the future – deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”
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Alliance between Meta and Trump is likely to create informational, economic, and geopolitical conflicts around the world
2025-01-12T00:28:49+00:00
Match ID: 37 Score: 25.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 1 day
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Jack Smith, special counsel in Trump cases, resigns
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:37:32 +0000
Smith has spent the last two months winding down the two federal criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump and had indicated he would resign before inauguration.
Match ID: 38 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Trump’s Middle East envoy visits Netanyahu in push for Gaza ceasefire
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:34:54 GMT
Steve Witkoff meets Israeli PM in renewed efforts to secure hostage release deal with Hamas
The US Middle East envoy chosen by the president-elect, Donald Trump, met the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Saturday amid efforts to secure a hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza, an Israeli official said.
On Friday, Steve Witkoff met the Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, to discuss “the latest developments in the region, especially the efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip”, the Qatari foreign ministry said.
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Match ID: 39 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Wall Street looks forward to a bonfire of capital and climate rules under Trump
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:00:04 GMT
Profits are poised to dominate in a new era shorn of years of hard-won regulatory restrictions
When some of the biggest banks on Wall Street reveal their full-year earnings this week, they will have more to celebrate than just rising profits.
Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on 20 January – scheduled the Monday after US bank results week – will raise the curtain on a period of looser regulation, lower corporation tax, and weak climate commitments.
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Match ID: 40 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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She Lost Her Dad to Trump’s Killing Spree. Now She Wants Biden to Clear His Name.
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000
Alfred Bourgeois’s daughter is convinced of his innocence. In the four years since his execution, she has waged a sometimes-lonely battle to prove it.
The post She Lost Her Dad to Trump’s Killing Spree. Now She Wants Biden to Clear His Name. appeared first on The Intercept.
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What the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Meta’s decision to stop fact-checking or moderating content on its platforms signals fealty to Donald Trump.
Match ID: 42 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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Rubio nomination complicated by attack on Musk’s Tesla and China’s ban
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:00:08 +0000
The Florida senator’s criticism of Chinese “genocide” led the country to forbid his entry, and his attack on Elon Musk’s company could rile Trump’s key adviser.
Match ID: 43 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists | Tzeporah Berman
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:00:02 GMT
Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe
Apocalyptic flames and smoke are raging through southern California in the worst fire in Los Angeles county’s history. At least seven people have died. Thousands of structures have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes. The private forecaster AccuWeather estimates initial damage and economic loss at more than $50bn and has the potential to be the costliest wildfire disaster in American history. The impacts of the disruption and loss faced by community members is incalculable.
While some media outlets are discussing the link between the Los Angeles fires and the climate crisis, the president-elect Donald Trump and rightwing media are using this devastating event to foster misinformation including denying the role of climate crisis.
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Match ID: 44 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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A Tale of Two Justice Systems: Only Trump Gets Convicted of 34 Felonies and Receives No Punishment
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:20:37 +0000
Public defenders and legal professionals said they never see the leniency offered to Trump given to other defendants.
The post A Tale of Two Justice Systems: Only Trump Gets Convicted of 34 Felonies and Receives No Punishment appeared first on The Intercept.
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The TikTok Ban Is More Likely Than Ever
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:48:37 +0000
While Supreme Court justices pressed both sides in Friday’s oral arguments, experts say it’s hard to see how TikTok gets enough votes to survive.
Match ID: 46 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:17:53 +0000
Meta claims it will find other ways to hire employees from different backgrounds.
Match ID: 47 Score: 25.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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Biden extends temporary protections for more than 800,000 immigrants
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:03:52 GMT
US president moves to shield roughly 230,000 Salvadorans and 600,000 Venezuelans against Trump administration
The Biden administration on Friday extended temporary humanitarian protections for about 230,000 Salvadorans and 600,000 Venezuelans living in the US, in an effort to shield those groups from an incoming Trump administration that has promised to deport them.
The decision in the dying days of Joe Biden’s presidency came after immigrant advocates and lawmakers urged the Department of Homeland Security to extend temporary protected status (TPS), designed to protect immigrants from being deported to countries that are engulfed in disaster or conflict.
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:25:53 GMT
California wildfires, Donald Trump’s sentencing, hunger in Khan Younis and freezing temperatures in London: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
• Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing
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Match ID: 49 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Mark Zuckerberg sends Trump a friend request
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:30:00 GMT
And the L.A. wildfires have already become political
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TikTok SCOTUS Live Blog: The Court Hears Arguments Over Potential Ban
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:30:00 +0000
We’re tuning in live as the justices consider what could be one of the most consequential First Amendment rulings of the past several decades.
Match ID: 51 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Silicon Valley leaders bend the knee to Trump – podcast
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:00:31 GMT
This week we learned that Meta is dropping third-party fact-checking, the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, spiked a cartoon that made fun of him and other tech leaders kneeling before a statue of Donald Trump, and just about all the big Silicon Valley companies are donating $1m to Trump’s inauguration fund. Jonathan Freedland and Blake Montgomery look at who will hold the power between big tech and the White House over the next four years
Archive: ITV, CBS, PBS Newshour, News Nation, CNN, Fox Business, Bloomberg Television, CNBC, BBC
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Match ID: 52 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:45:48 +0000
Under Meta’s relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post “I’m a proud racist” or “Black people are more violent than whites.”
The post Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 53 Score: 21.43 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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King Donald and the Presidents at the National Cathedral
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:48:23 +0000
A report from Jimmy Carter’s—and Joe Biden’s—long goodbye.
Match ID: 54 Score: 21.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:46:27 +0000
The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast.
Match ID: 55 Score: 21.43 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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Demystifying the Department of Government Efficiency
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:02:47 +0000
This week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Match ID: 56 Score: 21.43 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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ADL Chief Invokes Pager Attack as Inspiration for Taking on Internet Trolls
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:20:38 +0000
In a speech to Israel’s parliament, Jonathan Greenblatt admits the ADL’s battle against antisemitism is losing — but blows it on what to do.
The post ADL Chief Invokes Pager Attack as Inspiration for Taking on Internet Trolls appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 57 Score: 21.43 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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The TikTok Ban Is Also About Hiding Pro-Palestinian Content. Republicans Said So Themselves.
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:51:59 +0000
Conservatives have been hyperfixated on TikTok content that’s sympathetic with Gaza — and accused the company of algorithmic bias against Israel.
The post The TikTok Ban Is Also About Hiding Pro-Palestinian Content. Republicans Said So Themselves. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 58 Score: 21.43 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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MAGA Is Blaming DEI for the California Wildfires
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:39:54 +0000
Rather than months without rain or the effects of climate change, figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. are pointing to a familiar scapegoat as entire neighborhoods burn.
Match ID: 59 Score: 21.43 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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Kurdish general urges Trump to leave US troops in north-east Syria
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:00:00 GMT
Exclusive: SDF leader says removal of 2,000-strong force would leave door open for Islamic State resurgence
The leader of the Kurdish forces that control north-eastern Syria has called on Donald Trump to maintain a US military presence in the region, warning that a retreat would risk a resurgence of Islamic State in the country.
Gen Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said IS had increased its strength in the desert after seizing arms from the collapsed Assad regime, while the Kurdish forces were coming under increased pressure from Turkey and its Syrian proxies.
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Match ID: 60 Score: 21.43 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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Italy releases Iranian wanted in deadly drone strike on U.S. troops
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:33:24 +0000
The United States says Mohammad Abedini provided technology used by Iran in a drone strike that killed three service members in Jordan last year.
Match ID: 61 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Syrians hope for a future without Russia, but it may not be easy
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:33:57 GMT
With the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Russia lost a key all in the Middle East - but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.
Match ID: 62 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:13:22 GMT
Ukraine's president adds that "for those North Korean soldiers who do not wish to return, there may be other options".
Match ID: 63 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Missing Briton’s belongings found in Dolomites as rescuers continue search
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:42:32 GMT
Italy’s Alpine cliff and cave rescue corps find items belonging to Aziz Ziriat as search continues
Items belonging to a British hiker who has been missing in the Dolomites since New Year’s Day have been found as the search for him continues.
Sam Harris, 35, and Aziz Ziriat, 36, from London, last sent messages home on 1 January and the pair did not check in for their flight home on 6 January. Friends and relatives have travelled to Italy.
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Match ID: 64 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Italy releases Iranian man wanted by US over drone attack in Jordan
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:53:33 GMT
Mohammad Abedini detained on US warrant three days before Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in Iran
Italy has released an Iranian citizen wanted by the US over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago, after the Italian justice minister asked a court to revoke his arrest.
Mohammad Abedini has already returned to Iran, Iranian state TV said on Sunday afternoon.
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Match ID: 65 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Sweden neither at war nor at peace, says PM, as warships sent to Baltic Sea
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:12:37 GMT
Ulf Kristersson says ‘hostile intent cannot be ruled out’ as increased surveillance follows suspected cable sabotage
The Swedish prime minister has said that his country is neither at war nor at peace as he announced that Sweden would be sending armed forces into the Baltic Sea for the first time as part of increased surveillance efforts amid a spate of suspected sabotage of undersea cables.
The country announced it will contribute up to three warships and a surveillance aircraft to a Nato effort to monitor critical infrastructure and Russia’s “shadow fleet” as the alliance tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure.
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Match ID: 66 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Yoon Suk Yeol to miss start of South Korea impeachment trial on safety grounds
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:30:16 GMT
Lawyer for suspended president says concerns about ‘potential incidents’ have arisen following thwarted attempt to arrest him at his residence
South Korea’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial next week because of safety concerns, his lawyer has said.
Yoon has been holed up in the presidential residence and protected by an elite guard force since being suspended and impeached last month following a short-lived declaration of martial law that plunged the country into political chaos.
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Match ID: 67 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Black boxes on crashed South Korean plane cut out before impact, inquiry finds
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:26:40 GMT
Recording of flight data ceased four minutes before Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people, says transport ministry
Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people, stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at Muan airport, the transport ministry said.
Authorities investigating the disaster, the worst plane crash on South Korean soil, plan to analyse what caused the black boxes to stop recording, the ministry said.
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Match ID: 68 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Do Russians Really Support the War in Ukraine?
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to say.
Match ID: 69 Score: 20.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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US Treasury Department Sanctions Chinese Company Over Cyberattacks
2025-01-07T12:00:42Z
From the Washington Post:
The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks which compromised devices including routers and internet-enabled cameras to infiltrate government and industrial targets in the United States, Taiwan, Europe and elsewhere.
Match ID: 70 Score: 20.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 5 days
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Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000
Pierre Poilievre might now attain the country’s highest office. “I was sickened and appalled when I first came upon his rhetoric,” the staff writer Adam Gopnik says, of the Conservative Party leader.
Match ID: 71 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Before Las Vegas, Intel Analysts Warned That Bomb Makers Were Turning to AI
Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:35:00 +0000
Authorities say that before a Green Beret blew up a Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel, he consulted ChatGPT—exactly the scenario police have been warned of for the past year.
Match ID: 72 Score: 17.86 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
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To Ban TikTok, Supreme Court Would Rank “National Security” Before First Amendment
Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:30:00 +0000
Critics worry that a sweeping ban based on predictions rather than more concrete proof of TikTok’s security risks sets a precedent in line with repressive regimes.
The post To Ban TikTok, Supreme Court Would Rank “National Security” Before First Amendment appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 73 Score: 17.86 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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One in six UK workers skipping meals to make ends meet, says TUC
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:08 GMT
Trade unions body finds 17% have skipped meal in past three months, and as many as 10% do so most days
As many as one in six workers in Britain are skipping meals to make ends meet as households remain under pressure from the higher cost of groceries, energy and other essentials.
Highlighting the impact of the cost of living crisis on working households, figures from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) showed 17% of full- or part-time workers had skipped a meal to reduce their spending in the past three months.
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The US clean energy manufacturing revolution is real
2025-01-12T21:14:29+00:00
Match ID: 75 Score: 15.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown review – a daughter’s journey to the heart of the climate crisis
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:00:37 GMT
An environmental writer returns to her father’s home for his funeral in a family memoir that becomes an examination of Shetland’s crucial role in the energy landscape
As with many nature-centric memoirs of recent years, Marianne Brown’s debut, The Shetland Way, begins with personal loss. It opens at the funeral of her father, Bill, on his home island of Shetland, a place she knows only in glimpses; her parents separated when she was two, and her relationship with her father was characterised by absence, “always promising something it would never deliver”. But her connection with the islands and her late father is forced into an accelerated intimacy; the funeral takes place in February 2020 as the pandemic spreads, and Brown finds herself unexpectedly spending the months of lockdown with her partner and young daughter in Shetland: “Confinement in a land that claimed half my genealogy, a history and culture of which I knew next to nothing about.”
They stay in the house that Bill, a potter, had built alongside the ruins of his grandparents’ croft, an immediate and constant reminder of the complex layers of history written into the islands’ very landscape. In the 1970s, oil wealth changed the fortunes of Shetland, but it’s impossible to forget that Brown’s own family, like most of their neighbours, are only a few generations away from the precarious life of crofters, at the mercy of unpredictable weather, crop blight and unscrupulous lairds, a relatively recent history of emigration and starvation. There is an awareness among the islanders that, despite the presence of Sullom Voe, one of Europe’s largest oil terminals, the “black gold” is a finite resource; the more forward-thinking have accordingly turned their attention to the one thing Shetland is unlikely to run out of: wind.
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Match ID: 76 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The big menopause swizz: do hormone supplements really work?
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:00:30 GMT
The global market for menopause products is worth £16.93bn, the majority of that spent on dietary supplements – but is there any evidence they do anything?
I had just turned 40 when it started. Suddenly, the ads on my social-media feeds changed. The algorithms decided I was now officially middle-aged and crumbling – by their metrics – and it was time for me to start buying hormone-supporting supplement blends, collagen powder, bum-sculpting leggings and anti- wrinkle creams.
In truth, the hormone supplements piqued my interest. I was sleeping badly, more anxious than ever, and low on energy after IVF and two pregnancies.
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Match ID: 77 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Bring North Sea oil and gas under greater public control, report urges
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:36:23 GMT
Common Wealth thinktank warns that communities and taxpayer may have to pick up pieces when production ends
North Sea oil and gas must be brought under greater public control to avoid a cliff-edge collapse of the industry and secure a sustainable future for workers and communities, according to a report.
Under the current private ownership model the inevitable end of North Sea oil and gas production – whether through government action or the lack of viable oilfields – will lead to private companies abruptly abandoning the basin, leaving frontline communities and the state to deal with the social and economic consequences, the authors predict.
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Match ID: 78 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Beholding Black Hole Power with the Accretion Explorer Interferometer
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:37:16 +0000
Kimberly WeaverNASA Goddard Space Flight Center Some of the most enigmatic objects in the Universe are giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). Yet after 30 years of study, we don’t know precisely how these objects produce their power. This requires observations at X-ray wavelengths. The state-of-the-art for X-ray images is Chandra (~0.5-1 arcsecond resolution) but this […]
Match ID: 79 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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Thermo-Photo-Catalysis of Water for Crewed Mars Transit Spacecraft Oxygen Supply
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:36:45 +0000
Saurabh VilekarPrecision Combustion Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes to develop a uniquely compact, lightweight, low-power, and durable Microlith® Thermo-Photo-Catalytic (TPC) Reactor for crewed Mars transit spacecraft O2 supply. As crewed space exploration mission destinations move from low Earth orbit to sustained lunar surface habitation toward Mars exploration, the need becomes more intense to supplant heritage […]
Match ID: 80 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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One Environmental Journalist Thinks That the U.S. Needs More Mining
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000
Mining for rare-earth metals has severe environmental consequences. Speaking with Elizabeth Kolbert, the journalist Vince Beiser says that the U.S. needs more of it.
Match ID: 81 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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The best heated clothes airers to save time and money when drying your laundry, tested
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:00:50 GMT
Heated airers claim to dry your clothes whatever the weather, without costing the earth in energy. From covered options to mini drying racks, we put 13 to the test to reveal the best
An energy crisis and perma-drizzle have conspired to keep the nation’s laundry damp, not least by making it such a turn-off to turn on the heating. No wonder heated clothes airers are having a moment. These modish appliances sell out within hours of reaching shops and inspire evangelistic fervour among owners, who call them “life-savers” and “gamechangers”.
Can a hot clothes horse really change your life, let alone dry your washing as fast as a tumble dryer for a fraction of the cost and with none of the noise? I needed to be convinced, so I put 13 bestsellers through their paces with my soggy washing to find out whether they’re the best thing in laundry since the clothes peg – or destined for the loft.
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Match ID: 82 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
Match ID: 83 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 66 days
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Why the MAGA Fight Over H-1B Visas Is Crossing Party Lines
Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:58:16 +0000
Critics from the left and the right say Big Tech companies are exploiting the visa system for high-skilled workers to reduce labor costs and boost profits.
Match ID: 84 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 6 days
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NASA Research To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:20:06 +0000
From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA missions will be highlighted at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The meeting will take place Jan. 12-16 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Press conferences highlighting […]
Match ID: 85 Score: 10.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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Origami Black Hole
Match ID: 86 Score: 10.00 source: xkcd.com
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Investigators receive black box data from plane that crashed in Kazakhstan
Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:15:15 GMT
Authorities now have access to cockpit dialogue from Azerbaijan Airlines plane that went down on Christmas Day
Brazil’s air force has extracted the data from two black box recorders belonging to a crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku claims was downed by Russia on Christmas Day, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.
The Brazilian-made Embraer 190 crash-landed in Kazakhstan after being diverted from a scheduled landing in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in southern Russia. Azerbaijan believes the plane was shot down by Russian air defences, which Moscow says were operational in the area at the time.
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Match ID: 87 Score: 8.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to state-sponsored hackers and crypto scammers, this was the year the online agents of chaos gained ground.
Match ID: 88 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
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Trump’s Tariffs Will Create a Hunger Games Landscape Where the Little Guy Is Guaranteed to Lose
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:57:49 +0000
A banner 2024 whet the appetites of banks and crypto bros. Now the largest companies are salivating over Trump’s economic policies.
The post Trump’s Tariffs Will Create a Hunger Games Landscape Where the Little Guy Is Guaranteed to Lose appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 89 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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How much oil can Trump pump?
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:44:21 +0000
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
Match ID: 90 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 34 days
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:24:15 +0000
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
Match ID: 91 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 47 days
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 92 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
Match ID: 93 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 67 days
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Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
Match ID: 94 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Match ID: 95 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 215 days
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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
Match ID: 96 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 150 days
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
Match ID: 97 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 277 days
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Media’s Biggest Failures
Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
As he prepares to retire from journalism, James Risen warns of press missteps in the Trump era.
The post Media’s Biggest Failures appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 98 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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Steve Scalise Knows Exactly What Led to the Bourbon Street Attack: DEI Initiatives
Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:24:53 +0000
The Louisiana Republican blamed “wokeness” in part for police’s failure to stop the New Orleans attack that left 15 dead.
The post Steve Scalise Knows Exactly What Led to the Bourbon Street Attack: DEI Initiatives appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 99 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:24:32 +0000
The mass murder in New Orleans and Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas fit a troubling pattern among U.S. vets, research says.
The post U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 100 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:49:34 +0000
He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers
Match ID: 101 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 10 days
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What investors expect from President Trump
Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:25:47 +0000
Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand
Match ID: 102 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 11 days
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Trump asks Supreme Court to pause TikTok ban
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:32:00 GMT
Match ID: 103 Score: 3.57 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 16 days
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Stephen Miran is Trump's pick to lead Council of Economic Advisers
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:48:07 EST
Miran has called for a sweeping overhaul of the Fed to ensure greater political control over the central bank, including giving the president the power to fire board members at will.
Match ID: 104 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 21 days
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Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:31:00 +0000
The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.
Match ID: 105 Score: 3.57 source: www.wired.com age: 25 days
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The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:12:20 +0000
Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon
Match ID: 106 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 31 days
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Biden: Trump’s tax and tariffs plans are a ‘major mistake’
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:20:21 EST
Five weeks after the election, the president took his sharpest swing at Trump’s policy plans.
Match ID: 107 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 33 days
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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
Match ID: 108 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 42 days
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
Match ID: 109 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 45 days
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Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:47:39 EST
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
Match ID: 110 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 46 days
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How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:25:06 +0000
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
Match ID: 111 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
Match ID: 112 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
Match ID: 113 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 52 days
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
Match ID: 114 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 52 days
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Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:32 +0000
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
Match ID: 115 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 61 days
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:53:02 +0000
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
Match ID: 116 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 63 days
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:50:03 +0000
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
Match ID: 117 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 66 days
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:07 +0000
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:59:12 +0000
His zany promises would blow up the deficit
Match ID: 119 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 87 days
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:41:16 +0000
All come with their own drawbacks
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
Match ID: 123 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 185 days
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
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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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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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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
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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?
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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
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The Worst Hacks of 2024
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000
From Chinese cyberspies breaching US telecoms to ruthless ransomware gangs disrupting health care for millions of people, 2024 saw some of the worst hacks, breaches, and data leaks ever.
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The Invisible Russia-Ukraine Battlefield
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict.
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2024: NASA Armstrong Prepares for Future Innovative Research Efforts
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:01:00 +0000
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, and the next innovation are just some of the topics our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams focused on in 2024. NASA Armstrong began 2024 with the […]
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The ART of training
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:38:00 +0100
For the first group of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve, two intensive months of Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) have come to a close. During this initial training phase, members of the ESA Astronaut Reserve Sara García Alonso from Spain, Andrea Patassa from Italy, Arnaud Prost from France, Amelie Schoenenwald from Germany, and Aleš Svoboda from Czechia were introduced to essential skills required for future space exploration and scientific research.
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This VPN Lets Anyone Use Your Internet Connection. What Could Go Wrong?
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
A free VPN app called Big Mama is selling access to people’s home internet networks. Kids are using it to cheat in a VR game while researchers warn of bigger security risks.
Match ID: 134 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 24 days
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Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:51:43 +0000
Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
Match ID: 141 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 220 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
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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
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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
Match ID: 146 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 308 days
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
Match ID: 147 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 206 days
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
Match ID: 148 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 207 days
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 149 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 361 days
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NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:12:21 +0000
Package delivery drones are coming to our doorsteps in the future, and NASA wants to make sure that when medication or pizza deliveries take to the skies, they will be safe. In July, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first time authorized multiple U.S. companies to fly commercial drones in the same airspace without […]
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U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:00 GMT
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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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Du Toit stars as Bath keep hopes alive with Champions Cup win over Clermont
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:52:09 GMT
- Pool 2: Bath 40-21 Clermont Auvergne
- Premiership leaders travel to Leinster next Saturday
Bath are not yet certain of qualification for the knockout stages of this year’s Champions Cup but this six-try bonus point victory has given their chances a much-needed boost. While plenty still hinges on the outcome of Saturday’s trip to Leinster, they are still alive in a pool where every point is having to be earned the hard way.
The Premiership pace-setters may still have to rely on Benetton being well beaten at home to La Rochelle but a losing bonus point in Dublin could now narrowly sneak them through. If they do make it through they will be suitably grateful, not for the first time, to their South African prop Thomas du Toit, whose brace of tries added further gloss to a typically strong set-piece performance.
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Missing Briton’s belongings found in Dolomites as rescuers continue search
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:42:32 GMT
Italy’s Alpine cliff and cave rescue corps find items belonging to Aziz Ziriat as search continues
Items belonging to a British hiker who has been missing in the Dolomites since New Year’s Day have been found as the search for him continues.
Sam Harris, 35, and Aziz Ziriat, 36, from London, last sent messages home on 1 January and the pair did not check in for their flight home on 6 January. Friends and relatives have travelled to Italy.
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Deep joy: Wales embraces ‘hwyl’ in tourism campaign to rival Danish ‘hygge’
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:00:36 GMT
‘Hwyl can raise the heartbeat or relax the body; it’s your own particular form of happiness,’ says Welsh psychologist
The Danish word hygge, which summons a feeling of cosy, fire-crackling contentedness, has done its fair share for tourism in Scandinavia as well as sparking a string of self-help guides.
Now Visit Wales is aiming to draw tourists to its hills, valleys, coastlines and cities by harnessing the lovely Welsh word hwyl, which it defines as a “deep state of joy that comes from being totally immersed in the moment”, in its 2025 publicity drive.
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California fires could make this pricey travel insurance add-on more essential
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:31:00 GMT
Insurers have seen a rise in cancel-for-any-reason policies. Here’s what travelers should know before buying in.
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Dream journey: a nostalgic trip aboard the sleeper train from Amsterdam to Berlin
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:00:32 GMT
Taking the overnight train between the capital cities and on to Dresden is all about slow travel and the romance of life on the track
On the evening of our overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Berlin and on to Dresden aboard the European Sleeper, we enjoy a restorative plate of oysters and steak tartare on the decks of Amsterdam’s BrasserieMarie overlooking the Amstel. Then, after a nightcap in the adjoining Freddy’s Bar, a legendary spot in the Hotel De L’Europe, we make the short stroll to Amsterdam Centraal Station for the so-called Good Night Train.
At 22.20 we board the train to Berlin, the bunks are swiftly made up and the blinds part pulled down for sleep. You can open the window for fresh air, brush your teeth in your own basin and there is crisp, clean linen. This slow journey is all about the romance of life on the track – and, for me, a lingering nostalgia.
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Couldn’t put it down: David Hurn’s photographs of people reading – in pictures
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:00:09 GMT
In 1983 David Hurn met one of his photographic heroes, André Kertész , and jokingly suggested that, when he reached Kertész’s age of 89, he would remake his seminal volume, On Reading. True to his word, the Magnum photographer has now done so. Wherever Hurn travelled as a photojournalist, he took images of people reading books, magazines and, lately, on mobile phones. “One of the things that happens in every country in the world is people read,” he says. “It’s lovely to read – the touch of the paper, the ease of being able to check back a few pages. But we’re at a time now where we’re not quite sure whether, in the future, books on paper are going to disappear.”
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She Lost Her Dad to Trump’s Killing Spree. Now She Wants Biden to Clear His Name.
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000
Alfred Bourgeois’s daughter is convinced of his innocence. In the four years since his execution, she has waged a sometimes-lonely battle to prove it.
The post She Lost Her Dad to Trump’s Killing Spree. Now She Wants Biden to Clear His Name. appeared first on The Intercept.
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NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:51:28 +0000
NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concepts to transform future missions for the benefit of all. Chosen from companies and institutions across the United States, the 2025 Phase I awardees represent a wide range of aerospace concepts. The NIAC program nurtures innovation by funding early-stage technology concept studies […]
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LEAP – Legged Exploration Across the Plume
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:38:31 +0000
Justin YimUniversity of Illinois We propose Legged Exploration Across the Plume (LEAP), based on the Salto jumping robot as a novel multi-jet robotic sampling concept for Enceladus to be deployed from Enceladus Orbilander. If successful, LEAP will enable collection of pristine, ocean-derived material directly from Enceladus’s jets and measurement of particle properties across multiple jets […]
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LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning.
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000
“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist.
The post LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning. appeared first on The Intercept.
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 6th
Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:16:44 +0000
“Fine, you travelled for pleasure. I’m asking why you’re coming back.”
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“Aflame,” “Only in America,” “Taiwan Travelogue,” and “Tasmania.”
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Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:46:51 GMT
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
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The Paper Passport Is Dying
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
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Inside Syria’s ‘horror city': Sednaya and a country reborn – video
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:48:20 GMT
A new Syria is emerging from the shadow of the brutal Assad regime. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a traumatic past. The pair travel to the notorious Sednaya prison, where they meet a former prisoner who was liberated by his family just days before
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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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