- Romanian Village Evacuated After Russian Drone Strikes LPG Ship In Danube
on November 17, 2025 at 12:46 pmRomanian authorities have ordered the evacuation of residents in the village of Plauru on the Danube River that forms the border with Ukraine after a drone reportedly struck an LPG-carrying ship on the Ukrainian side of the river.
- Germany announces end of curbs on arms exports to Israel
on November 17, 2025The German government said Monday it would begin easing restrictions on arms shipments it had placed on Israel in August, when the Israeli government was planning to expand its offensive on Gaza City. New deliveries of weapons could be used in the Gaza Strip.
- Who is Jared Isaacman, SpaceX astronaut and Trump's pick as NASA chief?
on November 17, 2025Jared Isaacman is a close ally of Elon Musk and the first non-professional astronaut to walk in space. Now, he is in […]
- Trump Plan Could Leave Nearly 200,000 People at Risk of Becoming Unhoused
by Jake Johnson on November 15, 2025 at 8:37 pmIt guts long-term housing programs, helps dismantle encampments, and forces mental illness and addiction treatment.
- Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 14th
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U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%. [...]
Gold settled 1.4% lower, down two of the past three sessions, and silver fell 2.5%, down three of the past four sessions. [...]
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown. [...]
Gain insight on Experian, SoFi Technologies and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. [...]
Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia. [...]
The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks. [...]
U.S. natural gas futures fell after weekend updates took some of the chill out of early February weather forecasts. [...]
QXO is taking its offer directly to shareholders after being rebuffed on several occasions. [...]
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, [...]
Last Saturday, November 8, was China’s National Journalists’ Day—often an occasion for mixed feelings among China’s beleaguered independent journalists. The WeChat account 磨稿子 Mó Gǎozi, or “Polishing Manuscripts,” for example, marked the date by interviewing three formerly prominent investigative reporters—including Jian Guangzhou, who broke the [...]
The inaugural IndieChina Film Festival (IndieChina电影节, IndieChina Diànyǐngjié), which was set to run from November 8-15 in New York City, has been forced to close due to what appears to be a coordinated transnational pressure campaign by the Chinese government. Citing intimidation and threats made [...]
Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng Shūdiàn) would soon close, amid an outpouring of tributes from customers and supporters, it appears that the beloved bookstore and events space has been granted a reprieve and will remain [...]
The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun Village) in Beijing on October 25, shortly after the end of the Party’s Fourth Plenum. Another circulating photograph appears to show the confiscated banners being [...]
Taiwanese singer Zheng Zhihua’s complaint about a difficult experience boarding a flight at Shenzhen’s main airport has spurred heated online debate about barrier-free access for disabled people in China. Both Zheng and the airport offered apologies and Zheng, after being attacked online for the way [...]
Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The discovery helps scientists better understand the forces that drive massive stars [...]
The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found thousands of hidden stars linked to the Pleiades, forming a colossal stellar complex. The discovery expands the cluster’s size by a factor of 20 and offers a [...]
Penn State scientists identified a striking rise in melanoma across several Pennsylvania counties dominated by cropland and herbicide use. The elevated risk persisted even after factoring in sunlight, suggesting an environmental influence beyond the usual expectations. Researchers warn that drifting chemicals may expose nearby residents, [...]
GLP-1 drugs like tirzepatide and semaglutide offer powerful weight-loss effects but come with unanswered questions about long-term safety, side effects, and global accessibility. Researchers stress the need for independent studies before these treatments can be fully embraced worldwide. [...]
Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum conditions. Researchers identified how to tune these transitions and even discovered a bizarre “pinball” state where some electrons stay locked in place while others dart around freely. [...]
A Princeton team built a new tantalum-silicon qubit that survives for over a millisecond, far surpassing today’s best devices. The design tackles surface defects and substrate losses that have limited transmon qubits for years. Easy to integrate into existing quantum chips, the approach could make [...]
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers uncovered just how much energy these deep-sea forays require—and how many squid the whales must eat to [...]
Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, removing one of the biggest computational bottlenecks in galactic modeling. The result is a simulation hundreds [...]
The US draft authorises decommissioning Hamas weapons - though the group has not said it will disarm. [...]
New evidence raises doubts about the longest US war crimes investigation of the Iraq war and how US forces are held to account. [...]
Iran’s largest lake has largely dried out and people are resorting to praying for rain in some areas [...]
More than 260 settler attacks in October resulted in Palestinians being injured or having property damaged, according to the UN. [...]
It is not clear who chartered the plane carrying the Palestinians from Kenya to South Africa. [...]
Godard was 73 when he was killed during Hamas's raid on kibbutz Be'eri on 7 October 2023. [...]
Alaa Abdel Fattah was Egypt's best known political prisoner until seven weeks ago, when he was released from jail. [...]
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show. [...]
The movement’s founders echoed the words of Thomas Paine and Abraham Lincoln much more than Karl Marx. [...]
In Sudan and elsewhere, regional powers have used the weapons for leverage. [...]
The White House hopes to lower prices on key food items as well as pharmaceuticals. [...]
The White House hopes to lower prices on key food items as well as pharmaceuticals. [...]
Switzerland cuts a deal—plus the latest global picture on Trump’s tariff regime. [...]
Test yourself on the week of Nov. 8: The U.N. climate conference begins, the U.S. government shutdown ends, and Iraq votes. [...]
Netflix’s “Death by Lightning” is a reminder that heroic individuals can emerge in trying hours. [...]
[Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance] Major push by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and lower-income countries to extend access to the HPV vaccine has reached its target ahead of schedule - helping protect an estimated [1] 86 million girls in the world's highest-risk countries from cervical cancer, [...]
[Nile Post] The M23 rebel movement has rejected a decision by President Félix Tshisekedi's government to prepare for the reopening of Goma International Airport, describing Kinshasa's move as "illusory" and devoid of legitimacy. [...]
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals has warned against what it described as increasing acts of illegal mineral exploration involving both local and foreign individuals and companies. [...]
[Nile Post] On the first anniversary of the abduction and continued detention of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, his spouse and UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, issued a forceful appeal for his immediate release, denouncing what she called "endless injustice" and a justice system "captured" [...]
[New Zimbabwe] United States-based economist and currency expert Steve Hanke has ranked the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency as the seventh worst-performing unit in the world. [...]
[Daily Trust] Nigeria's hope of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup was finally dashed yesterday following the Super Eagles defeat to the Leopards of Democratic Republic of Congo in the final of Africa's playoff in Rabat, Morocco. [...]