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An Iranian drone attack on Al Salam Naval Base in Abu Dhabi caused a fire but no casualties, UAE's Defense Ministry said on March 1 as Iran continued to launch attacks across the region for a second day after an initial wave of US-Israeli strikes.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and US-Israeli strikes in Iran are reigniting the specter of a surge in crude oil prices. But the global economy is less vulnerable today than it was during the 1973 oil crisis.
The beauty industry is proving resilient in troubled times, helped by its ability to shape new trends, says Maryam […]
We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.
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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 [...]
This winter, a heating crisis struck rural Hebei after provincial authorities banned domestic coal-burning and then rolled back subsidies for natural gas, leaving many residents facing prohibitively expensive bills. Much of the censored content archived by CDT in January focused on this issue. Deleted commentary [...]
Responses on Chinese social media to state broadcaster CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala last week were less than uniformly rapturous. A deleted post from WeChat public account Selling Apricot Blossoms described the broadcast as a brain-pulverizing ideological blender, and encouraged others to ignore it rather [...]
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 [...]
It’s the year of HORSE., by QuantFoto (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) [...]
The annual Spring Festival Gala aired on China’s state broadcaster CCTV this week, prompting wonder and worry at its display of kung fu-performing robots, and the traditional yearly storm of grumbling on Chinese social media. When CCTV reminded viewers that the show was under copyright, [...]
Investigative journalists Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao were released on bail on Saturday, two weeks after they were detained across provincial borders in apparent connection with their recent report on corruption by local officials in Chengdu. The case against them remains open, however, and Chengdu [...]
Struggling to fall asleep and stopping breathing at night may be a far riskier combo than previously thought. In a study of nearly a million veterans, researchers found that having both insomnia and sleep apnea dramatically raises the risk of hypertension and heart disease. The [...]
Scientists are taking a closer look at the pill forms of Wegovy and Ozempic. In an animal study, the ingredient SNAC, which helps semaglutide survive the stomach and enter the bloodstream, was associated with changes in gut bacteria, inflammation markers, and a brain linked protein. [...]
Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial protein called MurJ, which is essential for building the bacterial cell wall. High-resolution imaging shows these viral proteins [...]
Scientists have built a massive cellular atlas showing how aging reshapes the body across 21 organs. Studying nearly 7 million cells, they found that aging starts earlier than expected and unfolds in a coordinated way throughout the body. About a quarter of cell types change [...]
A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica reveal that meltwater provides far less iron than scientists once believed. Instead, most of [...]
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so violent it reshaped Saturn’s entire moon system and may have indirectly sparked the [...]
Scientists at Texas A&M are turning an everyday pick-me-up into a high-tech medical switch. By combining caffeine with CRISPR gene editing, researchers have created a system that allows cells to be programmed in advance — and then activated simply by consuming a small dose of [...]
Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, dates back about 11.5 billion years and contains a stellar bar, a bright, linear [...]
Iranian state TV confirms the supreme leader has been killed on the first day of massive US and Israeli air strikes on the country. [...]
Iran responds by launching missiles and drones towards Israel and four Gulf Arab countries that host US military bases. [...]
Tehran responded to the strikes with a wave of missiles and drones aimed at Israel and Gulf countries that host US bases. [...]
The killing of the supreme leader will be a huge jolt to the Islamic Republic, which will try hard to show it has a plan in place. [...]
Israel and the US believe Iran's regime is vulnerable, dealing with an economic crisis and the aftermath of protests. [...]
Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is "not aware" of operations in the area. [...]
Iranians talk about what is happening inside the country, despite an almost total internet blackout. [...]
Dozens of well-known groups faced shutdown under a new Israeli law, although the reprieve might be temporary. [...]
Iran has not confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death. [...]
Voters were promised America First, not Bush-era interventions. [...]
The United States and Israel have set a high bar for success in their war on Iran. [...]
Early views fell along ideological lines as the international community waits for damage reports. [...]
The U.S. and Israeli militaries are targeting Iran’s leaders—but that may only strengthen the state. [...]
The worries include strikes against regional oil production as well as crude flows from the Persian Gulf. [...]
“They’ve rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore,” Trump said. [...]
[allAfrica] The latest strikes on Iran and the widening confrontation across the Middle East are not distant geopolitical theatre for Africa. They are economic tremors that travel directly to our fuel pumps, supermarket shelves and national budgets. [...]
[RFI] The Congolese authorities and civil society groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have reported the discovery of mass graves in an area recently vacated by M23 rebels. [...]
[Premium Times] The Nigerian government urged the warring parties to avoid actions that are likely to intensify hostilities. [...]
[African Union] The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf strongly condemns the missile and drone attacks carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the sovereign territories of Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the Saudi Arabia. [...]
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia has generated $288.48 million from the export of more than 160,000 tons of horticultural products during the first seven months of the current Ethiopian fiscal year, the Ministry of Agriculture announced, despite concerns raised by stakeholders over infrastructure gaps, [...]
[RFI] Musical duo Okali - Cameroonian singer Gaëlle Minali-Bella and French multi-instrumentalist Florent Sorin - released their debut EP this month, the result of years of experimentation in blending the sounds of their two countries, as they told RFI. [...]
[Daba Finance] Landlocked Mali could gain direct access to the Atlantic Ocean under an ambitious plan to transform the Senegal River into a major commercial shipping corridor linking Mali to Senegal's coast. [...]
[263Chat] Zimbabwe's tobacco auction floors will officially open to buyers on 4 March 2026, with authorities confirming that all farmers have received payments from last season's sales. [...]
