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Operation Blue Skies, a NATS-led trial over the North Atlantic, will test if small altitude shifts to avoid persistent contrails can halve aviation's climate impact for less than…
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Washington's "Economic D-Day" targets about 60 Iranian entities but withholds full secondary sanctions. The damp squib looks designed to allow a quiet retreat before November's midterms.
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Israel's formidable security forces are failing in the West Bank, where violent settlers act with impunity under a government that enables them. As Palestinians face eviction, the risk…
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As AI companions feel more human, demands to treat them as conscious will intensify. Granting AIs rights would hand superintelligent systems legal power to eclipse humanity.
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Cambridge professor Jason Arday died amid a plagiarism scandal. Both his champions and his critics reduced a flawed man to a symbol.
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Five months into the Iran war, China's managed halving of imports to 5.5m b/d has kept Brent $40 below its April peak and blunted the Strait of Hormuz…
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American pressure has created a genuine opening for democracy in Venezuela. Whether it lasts depends on a fast, credible transition — and on whether Donald Trump lets Marco…
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Citizens armed with AI are filing objections and appeals at unprecedented scale. Without radical reform, agentic flooding could overwhelm Britain's bureaucracy.
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China's AI models are converging with America's, but rapid diffusion through lorries, studios and factories will test whether its autocratic system can handle mass job disruption.
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A powerful quantum computer could break today's encryption in minutes. Data harvested now is already at risk, a fix exists in post-quantum cryptography, but migration remains dangerously incomplete.