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All blown up What was the Chinese 'spy balloon' actually for?
A Chinese balloon was brought down in a puff of smoke and debris by an air-launched missile, after perplexing Washington with its three-day odyssey over the continental US. The question is: what was it all for?
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February 10, 2023
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Is TikTok spying for China?
Western fears that the video platform harvests user data and promotes Beijing’s worldview could lead to a n overhaul of global privacy laws
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February 10, 2023
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Police revolt as gang warfare goes unchecked
Masked men raced around Port-au-Prince on motorbikes, firing their guns into the air, blocking roads with burning tyres and bringing the Haitian capital to a standstill.
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February 10, 2023
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EU tube Immersive show aims to demystify Eurozone
‘People are looking for someone to blame and itis usually the EU’
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February 10, 2023
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Vermeers gathered for blockbuster 'party'- but is it the last?
For once, say its curators, “the chance of a lifetime” may be right: never before have so many works by Johannes Vermeer, the luminous 17th-century Dutch master, been assembled in the same place – and it is highly unlikely they will be again.
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February 10, 2023
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Deforestation piles pressure on elusive Chacoan peccary
With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, acommunity conservation effort is fighting for its future
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February 10, 2023
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Back to life Could gene editing revive the dodo?
The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company are successful.
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February 10, 2023
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Two years on from coup, junta's airstrikes intensify
It was early evening, and people had gathered at a pandal in Moe Dar Lay village, in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, to prepare for a Buddhist novice ordination ceremony the following day.
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February 10, 2023
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Peshawar at the heart of a deadly Taliban resurgence
The bomber struck shortly before afternoon prayers, when the mosque in Pesha-war’s bustling Police Lines district would be at its busiest.
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February 10, 2023
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Buildings reduced to rubble as cities sleep
Thousands of people died when an earthquake struck central Turkey and north-west Syria, in one of the most powerful quakes in the region in at least a century.
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February 10, 2023
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Supreme leader to pardon some detainees
A limited amnesty is to be offered to many of those detained in the recent Iranian protests, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has agreed.
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February 10, 2023
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Protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police
Human rights organisations report an escalation in the brutal treatment of detainees at the hands of security forces
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February 10, 2023
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Putin's plans to blackmail Europe over gas supply fail to ignite
The worst-case scenarios piled up over the summer months. Germany’s economic minister warned of “catastrophic” industrial shutdowns, fraying supply chains and mass unemployment.
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February 10, 2023
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Behind enemy lines Saboteurs take the fight into Russia
Taras, Vladyslav, and their commander, Olexiy, understand that, if the worst were to happen, the Ukrainian government will deny any knowledge of them. In western capitals, there is a collective shudder at the very thought of them.
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February 10, 2023
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Broken Britain Fissures ran deep in the country long before Brexit delivered its blow
There is no joy in it for those who always knew Brexit was a con, but it is finally dawning on more people that leaving the EU was a colossal mistake.
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February 10, 2023
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BREXIT
With the vaunted benefits of leaving the European Union still hard to discern, polls now suggest that about one in five leave voters have changed their minds. But could Britain ever go back, ask Michael Savage and Toby Helm The great Brexit deficit
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February 10, 2023
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February 10, 2023
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The free way Should US foreign policy demand liberal policy outcomes as well as elections, or is it hiding behind its 'democratic dilemma'?
Whatever else he leaves behind, Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto-whiz charged with multiple counts of fraud, has bequeathed a lasting gift to the publishing business.
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February 03, 2023
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The sound of the underground
New Zealand's short-lived counterculture scene threw off conservative constraints and laid foundations for the nation's modern identity
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February 03, 2023
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How Colon becamea hub for contraband and cocaine
In the Colón Free Trade Zone, near the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, the dated and glass buildings are with brand names for I Perspex emblazoned electronics, perfumes and textiles.
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February 03, 2023
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Trump says he’s angry but can the trick worka second time?
Donald Trump, US president, the former tried to get D his spluttering White House bid off the launchpad last Saturday, declaring himself \"more angry\" than ever as he became the first candidate to hit the 2024 election campaign trail.
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February 03, 2023
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Electric shock US car culture must change, warns report
The US's transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs and ecosystem destruction, new research finds.
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February 03, 2023
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Lithium sparks a battle for power
The state wants to exploit its lucrative reserves, a key component in producing car batteries but at what price?
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February 03, 2023
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Beware the Crocodile, opposition leader urges
Nelson Chamisa urges world to keep eyes on’ President Mnangagwaamid fears of repression in run-up to poll
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February 03, 2023
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Third man Young voters swell hope for Obi's shock bid
At a recent campaign stop, Peter Obi responded to regular criticism. Bola Tinubu, a rival candidate in next month's presidential elections in Nigeria, had called him stingy.
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February 03, 2023
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'A reckoning' Debate over colonisation dominates national day
'We need to stop the lying,\" Prof Marcia Langton, a Yiman and Bidjara woman, said last Thursday, as tens of thousands of people attended protest rallies in cities across the country, amid a rising political and social reckoning with the country's colonial history.
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February 03, 2023
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Baby blues PM's answer to birthrate crisis is stuck in the same old loop
Fumio Kishida is not a politician given to dramatic pronouncements.
3 min |
February 03, 2023
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Swift punitive steps pledged against Palestinians
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced a series of punitive steps against Palestinians in the wake of the deadly synagogue attack in Jerusalem.
2 min |
February 03, 2023
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Grief and anger at site of deadly synagogue attack
Calls for reprisals after worst attack by a Palestinian against Israelis since 2008, during spiralling week of bloodshed
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February 03, 2023
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Sunak's deficit Tax scandal stops PM from changing the conversation
Rishi Sunak was in his sprawling constituency home in North Yorkshire when just after 7am on Sunday he received the report by Sir Laurie Magnus, his new ethics adviser, on whether Nadhim Zahawi had broken the ministerial code over his tax affairs.
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