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- Six Teenagers Go On Trial In France Over Teacher's Killing By Chechen Refugee In 2020on November 28, 2023 at 11:24 am
Six teenagers went on trial in Paris on November 27 over the killing of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020 by an 18-year-old refugee from Russia's Chechnya who was shot dead at the crime scene.
- Israel-Hamas war: Fragile truce extended to allow further hostage and prisoner exchangeson November 28, 2023
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a further two-day pause in the fighting. On Monday, 11 hostages, including three French-Israelis, were exchanged for Palestinian detainees.
- Government unveils leasehold reforms - how will it help homeowners?on November 27, 2023
Long-awaited legislation on reforming the leasehold system has been unveiled in Parliament - here is how it could help […]
- Leak Shows UAE Planned to Use COP28 Climate Talks to Strike Fossil Fuel Dealsby Sharon Zhang on November 27, 2023 at 10:14 pm
“[I]t looks ever more like a fox is guarding the hen house,” one climate advocate said.
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Hedge-fund manager George Jarkesy said he didn’t recall over 800 times during SEC questioning, with a judge saying he "generally testified in an evasive manner." [...]

A survey conducted by Bloomberg Intelligence suggests that 4% of Londoners are not allowed to work from home compared to 20% of workers in Paris. [...]

Arrivals into Europe from Russia's key buyer, India, are on course to soar to 305,000 barrels a day — the most since at least January 2017. [...]

The world’s largest owner of commercial real estate is eyeing deals across Europe as interest rates stay high. [...]

Before he became a billionaire by transforming his father’s company into Netflix’s biggest competitor in Japan, Yasuhide Uno wanted nothing to do with the business. [...]

The Ethereum cofounder also says that although he won't be the first human to travel deeper in space, he would "love to actually be a part of that myself at some point." [...]

Jones had been receiving a salary of $520,000 a year, but a court-appointed restructuring officer just tripled that, which the judge rejected. [...]

The founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty to failing to implement anti-money laundering policies and U.S. sanctions violations as part of a broad agreement with the U.S. government. [...]
The fast-fashion firm has filed to go public, in what could be one of the largest U.S. market debuts in years. [...]
Value stocks looked like they were making a comeback—until AI madness happened. [...]
Currencies around the world have weakened against the dollar, but the rupee has held strong, as virtually everything has gone right for India. [...]
The leadership crisis exposed Microsoft’s reliance on the AI startup, showing a need for a greater role. [...]
The China-founded online fashion company was valued at $66 billion earlier this year. [...]
Major U.S. stock indexes inched down as all three remain on track for their best monthly performances in more than a year. [...]
Recent data has fueled bets that cuts could come under a variety of circumstances. [...]
Exxon and other companies have devised ways to squeeze more oil out of U.S. fields as some of the best ones near exhaustion, but it could be costly. [...]
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony have made it virtually impossible for grassroots cadres to perform any meaningful work. Despite Chinese Communist Party [...]
Mao Anying, Mao Zedong’s son, was killed by American bombers on November 25, 1950 while fighting in the Korean War. A persistent, unfounded, rumor (officially tagged as “historically nihilist”) holds that the younger Mao gave away his position by making egg fried rice on the [...]

In the latest installment in our interview series focusing on Tibet, we talk to Tenzin Norgay, a Research Analyst at the International Campaign for Tibet, where he has written reports on surveillance, propaganda, and the political leadership of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. He previously worked [...]
In this poetic essay, first published in Matters, author Lola muses on the various types of walls that restrict our freedom of speech, thought, movement, and association: Article translated by Little Bluegill. Poem translated by Cindy Carter. [...]
COVID-19 caused an alarming surge in premature births, but vaccines were key to returning the early birth rate to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new analysis of California birth records. [...]
Parents who send their children to child care can breathe a little easier. New research shows that children in daycare were not significant spreaders of COVID-19. [...]
Hair products often contain ingredients that easily evaporate, so users may inhale some of these chemicals, potentially posing health repercussions. Now, researchers have studied emissions of these volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including siloxanes, which shine and smooth hair. The scientists report that using these hair [...]
Whether infants at five months of age look mostly at faces or non-social objects such as cars or mobile phones is largely determined by genes. The findings suggest that there is a biological basis for how infants create their unique visual experiences and which things [...]
Scientists have made a surprising discovery that sheds new light on the role that oceanic deoxygenation (anoxia) played in one of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history. Their finding has implications for current day ecosystems -- and serves as a warning that marine [...]
Hospital MRI scanners, using 3 Tesla magnets, provide poor spatial resolution in brain imaging. More recent 7T MRIs are better but used mainly in the rare research lab. Scientists have now supercharged the standard 7T scanner to improve the resolution by nearly a factor of [...]
Carbon capture is essential to reduce the impact of human carbon dioxide emissions on our climate. Researchers have developed a method to confirm whether carbon in concrete originates from the raw materials, or from carbon in the air which has been trapped when it reacts [...]
New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to read. [...]
Ema and Yuly Cunio were let go with their mother on the fourth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas. [...]
It brings the total number of Palestinians released since the first swap on Friday to 150. [...]
The UAE, hosts of the COP28 climate summit, are breaking their own ban on gas flaring, the BBC finds. [...]
The BBC's Adnan Elbursh says he's seen many return to destroyed homes to search for clothing and blankets. [...]
With a bullet lodged in his spine, Hisham Awartani phoned his British-born grandmother after Saturday's shooting. [...]
BBC Arabic and BBC Verify have pieced together how armed groups came together to train for the assault. [...]
It comes after a four-day pause where hostages in Gaza and prisoners in Israel have been released. [...]
Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals. [...]

Negotiators have agreed to add two more days to the fighting pause that has brought temporary relief to civilians in Gaza. [...]

Internal dynamics restrict Cairo’s options for involvement in a post-Hamas Gaza. [...]

Dismissing the summit because its host is an oil producer is hypocritical and dangerous. [...]

Since returning to power, the Taliban have committed crimes of concern to humanity. [...]

The Hamas attack demolished his political standing, but Bibi has a survival strategy. [...]

Mainstream parties are reluctant to enter a coalition with extremist Geert Wilders. [...]

Using Russian money for Ukraine reconstruction seems attractive but has major implications. [...]

Washington wants to get tough on China, and the leaders of the House China Committee are in the driver’s seat. [...]
[allAfrica] Harare -- The military administration of Niger repealed anti-migration legislation that helped in lowering the number of West Africans travelling to Europe, but was despised by residents of the desert whose businesses depended on the traffic, BBC reports. [...]
[allAfrica] The Kenya High Court declared a 1.5% housing levy that was imposed by the government as part of a finance law in July 2023, unconstitutional, reports BBC News. [...]
[allAfrica] Eleven miners died in an incident at the Impala Rustenburg platinum mine in the North West province of South Africa, according to Implats, one of the world's foremost producers of platinum and associated platinum group metals. [...]
[allAfrica] Lusaka, Zambia -- In recognition of his unwavering dedication to advancing global health and his transformative leadership during unprecedented crises, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), was bestowed with the prestigious 2023 CPHIA Lifetime Achievement Award in Public Health. [...]
[allAfrica] Lusaka, Zambia -- Africa is on a mission to strengthen its healthcare systems and become more self-reliant in public health. [...]
[allAfrica] Step into the health clinics, operating theaters, or administrative offices of medical centers worldwide, and you'll likely notice a predominance of female faces. This is because women constitute almost 70% of the health workforce . Take a look at healthcare leadership and the picture [...]
[New Era] Walvis Bay -- Fisheries minister Derek Klazen has expressed deep concern over the magnitude of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing on the country's coastal line. [...]