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Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close : A baby bust is starting to work its way through the system
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Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close 
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Israel should not rush to strike back at Iran: Instead it should try a novel response to Iran’s missile attack: restraint
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Israel should not rush to strike back at Iran
Quick Glance: Israel artist calls for Gaza ceasefire
  • The representative of Israel at the international art fair is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.

  • Ruth Patir’s video installation called (M)otherland was scheduled to open on Saturday at Israel’s national pavilion at the international art show but will remain closed for now.

  • Patir stated on her website that the artist and curators are showing solidarity with the families of the hostages and the large community in Israel calling for change, rather than canceling themselves or the exhibition.

  • It is believed that there are still individuals in Gaza, including 129 captives taken during the attacks led by Hamas on Israel on October 7, with 34 of them presumed dead.
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As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support: An interview with the country’s new national security chief
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As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support
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What to read to understand Chechnya: Four books and a film that unpack an influential region of Russia
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What to read to understand Chechnya
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Russian, Iranian foreign ministers warn against further escalation in Middle East
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Russian, Iranian foreign ministers warn against further escalation in ...
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich: Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
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A short history of India in eight maps: Understanding the breathtaking diversity of India and Indians
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A short history of India in eight maps
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What happens if Ukraine loses?: Russian victory would be debilitating for the West, and especially for Europe
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What happens if Ukraine loses?
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Iran and Israel’s shadow war explodes into the open: But the Islamic Republic may have miscalculated
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Iran and Israel’s shadow war explodes into the open
Quick Glance: The Night Iran's Missile Show Rattled Israel
  • In Tehran, 'Operation True Promise' launched an unprecedented aerial assault on Israel.

  • The direct clash between powerful militaries showcased Israel's defense and Iran's display of power.

  • Despite minor damages and injuries, the question remains whether this attack signifies further escalation or the start of a war.

  • The missile and drone strikes resulted in minimal damage, with Israel and allies successfully intercepting most projectiles.
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry: The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
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The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza: Its generals botched the strategy, and discipline among troops has broken down
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The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza
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How to locate the global south: How a fuzzy, scorned term reflects geopolitical shifts
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How to locate the global south
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?: The Economist is tracking the contest to be America’s next president
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?
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Minister puts pressure on reform: Wissing continues to see driving bans as a more adequate emergency solution
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Quick Glance: Dispute over Climate Protection Measures in Traffic Sector
  • The Environment Agency opposes drastic measures in the transport sector.

  • Reform of the Climate Protection Act and potential driving bans spark controversy.

  • Ampel parties argue over climate goals and blame games.

  • DUH feels vindicated in lawsuit against Transport Minister and calls for new measures.
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Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export: They are even better than Vegemite
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Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export
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New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships: Collisions kill 20,000 every year
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New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
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Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?: The wonder-technology faces accusations of copyright infringement
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Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
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A story of Scottish wildcats : For some cats this is the best of times. For others, arguably a bit less good
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A story of Scottish wildcats
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Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny: Do the humans in Israel’s army have sufficient control over its technology?
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Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
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Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court: The court has become the de facto regulator of social media in the country
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Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court
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Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions: Different colonies build in competing architectural styles
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Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common: Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
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What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang: Our columnist visits a harshly controlled region
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What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
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Austin speaks with Chinese counterpart in first at-length conversation since 2022
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Austin speaks with Chinese counterpart in first at-length conversation ...
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Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump: He’s a tree-hugging conspiracy theorist – and he’s running for president
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Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump
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Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals: A fleet of electric-car startups is struggling to stay in business
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Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals
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Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers: As many as 25,000 could be MIA
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Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers
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In praise of Peter Higgs : The particle named after him became a selling point. For the man, it was a bit of a pain
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In praise of Peter Higgs
Quick Glance: Physicist Peter Higgs Passes Away at 94
  • Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science, has died at 94, according to the University of Edinburgh.

  • The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research center was a significant advancement in understanding the cosmos, steering physics towards once-fantastical ideas.

  • Higgs, initially 'incompetent' in the physics lab, later specialized in theoretical physics, inspired by quantum physicist Paul Dirac from his school.

  • The Higgs boson's completion of the Standard Model opened doors to explore unexplained aspects of the universe and abstract concepts like parallel universes, despite Higgs disliking the 'God particle' nickname.
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A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones: It is like stepping back into the 19th century, says David Nott
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A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones
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Welcome to an artificial-intelligence Utopia: What will humans do if technology solves everything?
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Welcome to an artificial-intelligence Utopia
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay: Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
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Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?: Some Israelis are rethinking the country that refuses to call Hamas a terrorist group
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Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
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China’s state is eating the private property market: Pity those soon to buy a home
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China’s state is eating the private property market
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America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed: What are the consequences?
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America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed
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Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job: The Republican House speaker is trapped by hardliners on his own side
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Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job
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The short-sighted Israeli army: Force alone cannot bring security
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The short-sighted Israeli army
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China joins Russia in recognizing Iran's claim of attack as 'self-defense': Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks to his Iranian and Saudi counterparts ...
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China joins Russia in recognizing Iran's claim of attack as 'self-defense'
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After one year of war, Sudan is a failing state : Half a million may starve without urgent help
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After one year of war, Sudan is a failing state 
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“Never underestimate the extent to which Bibi can make a bad situation worse.”: Also on the daily podcast: Trump’s first criminal trial gets underway and ...
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“Never underestimate the extent to which Bibi can make a bad situation ...
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Pakistan seeking 'larger and longer' IMF bailout programme: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, without specifying how much the nation is trying to ...
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Pakistan seeking 'larger and longer' IMF bailout programme
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Where are all the British robots?: Firms’ small size is the biggest barrier to automation
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Where are all the British robots?
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Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign: For now, Ukraine has no answer to it
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Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign
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Salman Rushdie’s gripping take on being stabbed: “Knife” is a memoir about the attack in 2022 but also a love story
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Salman Rushdie’s gripping take on being stabbed
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Denmark's "Notre Dame moment": historic stock exchange in flames: One of Copenhagen's most famous buildings is on fire: the historic stock exchange ...
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Quick Glance: Devastating Fire Strikes Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange
  • A blaze engulfed Copenhagen’s historic former stock exchange in Denmark’s capital on Tuesday, with the spire being consumed by flames and collapsing.

  • The fire spread across multiple floors of the monument, leading to the collapse of its roof, as reported by local fire department chief Jakob Vedsted Andersen.

  • The tower, standing at 184 feet, featured a distinctive design resembling four intertwined dragons’ tails, symbolizing protection against enemies and fire, as indicated by tourism websites.

  • Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen referred to the incident as Denmark’s unique moment akin to Notre Dame, alluding to the 2019 fire in the roof of the Parisian landmark.
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Ukraine’s second city faces a renewed Russian threat: Also on the daily podcast: Mexico’s ‘desaparecidos’ and lotteries
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Ukraine’s second city faces a renewed Russian threat
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UFOs are going mainstream: Crowdsourcing sightings could lead to answers
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UFOs are going mainstream
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Houston, Texas: where asylum cases come to die: Some immigration lawyers relish a challenge
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Houston, Texas: where asylum cases come to die
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True swing voters are extraordinarily rare in America: We have found some
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True swing voters are extraordinarily rare in America
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Why most people regret Brexit: A majority of British voters now believe the split was a mistake
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Why most people regret Brexit
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Israel’s relations with America reach breaking point : Following Israel’s killing of seven aid workers, Joe Biden delivers his sternest warning yet to Binyamin ...
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Israel’s relations with America reach breaking point
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What’s next for behavioural economics?: Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the pandemic was the nascent field’s biggest test yet ...
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What’s next for behavioural economics?
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By 2100 half the world’s children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa: Fertility rates are falling faster everywhere else
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By 2100 half the world’s children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa
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China and Indonesia Call for Immediate and Lasting Ceasefire in Gaza: Indonesia’s foreign minister said the two countries share the same view about the ...
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China and Indonesia Call for Immediate and Lasting Ceasefire in Gaza
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry: The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
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Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions: How a psychologist transformed economics
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Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
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“Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed
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“Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & ...
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Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?: Inventories offer a clue
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Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?
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The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine’s second city unliveable: The race to save Kharkiv from Russian bombs
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The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine’s second city unliveable
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How to protect an endangered language: A new book looks at the threats facing six small languages and the efforts to save them
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How to protect an endangered language
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China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts: The victims are non-Chinese crew members, local fishermen and marine life
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China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts
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Russia, China to maintain fight against terrorism, Lavrov says: Russia and China will continue to cooperate in the fight against terrorism as part of their ...
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Russia, China to maintain fight against terrorism, Lavrov says
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Are Indians right to boo Hardik Pandya, a star cricketer?: Sport is all the better for a bit of abuse and hostility—but there are limits
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Are Indians right to boo Hardik Pandya, a star cricketer?
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The rights and wrongs of assisted dying: Britain’s next great social reform is coming. Here’s how it should work
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The rights and wrongs of assisted dying
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How Vladimir Putin brought Russia’s economy back from the brink: Also on the daily podcast: immigration in Britain and making lorries green
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How Vladimir Putin brought Russia’s economy back from the brink
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What to expect as Donald Trump’s first criminal trial gets under way: And how much the spectacle will matter
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What to expect as Donald Trump’s first criminal trial gets under way
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How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia : From target hunting to catching sanctions-busters, its war is increasingly high-tech
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How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
Quick Glance: Elon Musk predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2026
  • Elon Musk anticipates AI to be smarter than an individual human by the end of next year.

  • The Tesla CEO forecasts that the total amount of sentient compute will surpass all humans in five years.

  • Musk speculates that due to the abundance of talent in AI, AI could surpass human intelligence by 2026.

  • Despite highlighting hardware constraints and data scarcity, Musk remains optimistic about AI advancements in the upcoming years.
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Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker : The heiress and IRA militant died on March 18th, aged 82
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Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker
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The Biden campaign in Michigan has a tremendous ground-game advantage: But does the Democratic Party have a sufficiently unified message?
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The Biden campaign in Michigan has a tremendous ground-game advantage
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Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation: It will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world
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Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation
Quick Glance: China conducts military drills in South China Sea amid US-led exercises
  • China conducted military 'combat patrols' Sunday in the disputed South China Sea, while joint drills by the Philippines, the United States, Japan, and Australia were ongoing.

  • The announcement came one day after defense chiefs from four countries, including the Philippines, stated they would conduct joint drills in the area on Sunday.

  • Beijing's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command mentioned organizing 'joint naval and air combat patrols in the South China Sea'.

  • Further details about the Chinese military activities in the waterway on Sunday were not disclosed.
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What a day at the beach reveals about China: Our weekly podcast on China. This week our correspondent spends a day at Dameisha beach and discovers a microcosm of ...
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What a day at the beach reveals about China
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Americans are turning to stories of civil war, real and imagined: The real risks America faces are more insidious
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Americans are turning to stories of civil war, real and imagined
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Why are the politics of young men and women drifting apart?: Also on the daily podcast: Naples’s mafiosi go white-collar and a sip of Australia’s greatest ...
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Why are the politics of young men and women drifting apart?
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How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America: Are entrepreneurial judges a good or a bad thing?
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How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America