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Creature comforts This scholarly look at how badly humans treat animals employs moral principles to shame us into recognising their rights
The physicist Stephen Hawking once hosted a party for time travellers, but only sent out the invitations after the date had already passed. No one came.
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February 10, 2023
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How to buck up buckwheat so you're not stuck with a glucy mush
When Alissa Timoshkina was growing up, buckwheat was something of a staple: “We’d have it for breakfast with milk and sugar, as a side to savoury dishes, or as a stuffing for pies or cabbage rolls,” says the Russian author of Salt & Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen. “It’s not just comforting because it tastes like childhood, but it’s nutritionally good as well.”
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February 10, 2023
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Lightning seeds Completed before he was attacked last year, Salman Rushdie's book about a 15th-century Indian empire has an infectious sense of fun
The Vijayanagara empire covered most of south India in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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February 10, 2023
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Sea change
BBC radio’ shipping forecast holds aspecial place in British culture. Mark Power tried to capture its mystery in his 1996 book, which has been updated with new images
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February 10, 2023
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Next level
The Japanese games maker Nintendo has spent 40 years at the top. What's its secret?
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February 10, 2023
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I went viral for a meme, but Scholz's hesitancy over Ukraine is no joke Timothy Garton Ash
A couple of weeks ago, at a moment of huge frustration over Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s foot-dragging on allowing Leopard tanks to go to Ukraine, a Ukrainian friend sent me a satirical mockup on “Scholzing”.
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February 10, 2023
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Europe needs to copy Biden's green deal - not resort to its old ways Lorenzo Marsili
European governments have for many years basked in a sense of climate superiority over the US. We had the most ambitious climate goals; we were the constructive actor at Cop conferences; we had carbon-pricing mechanisms; and since 1990, we have reduced emissions by 28% against just 2% in the US. The US, by contrast, had climate-denying Republicans.
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February 10, 2023
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Netanyahu can be resisted - but only with Palestinian support Jonathan Freedland
Netanyahu can be resisted - but only with Palestinian support Jonathan Freedland
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February 10, 2023
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Everything in its place
It’s the age of decanting never before have household perfectionists removed so many things from packages, only to put them in other packages. Extreme tidiness is amodern obsession. But is it healthy? By Amelia Tait
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February 10, 2023
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'All we wanted was justice'
In 2021, a security guard in Spain stormed into his workplace and shot four people. He was caught and badly injured after a standoff with police, and a trial was set but his victims would never get to see him punished. Should a mass shooter have been allowed the right to die by euthanasia?
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February 10, 2023
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Bolsonaro 'clears head' in Florida as anger grows in Brazil
Among the most popular traditions at Florida’s Disney World are the daily character appearances that allow the public to get up close to the theme parks’ star attractions.
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February 10, 2023
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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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Global report
Headlines from the last seven days
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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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