Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to resign – reports
Mr Ishiba, who took office in October, has resisted demands from opponents within his own party for more than a month.
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UK police arrest more than 400 at London protest supporting banned Palestine Action group
More than 400 people were arrested in London during Saturday’s tense protest in support of the Palestine Action group, which has been banned under terror laws, police said.
Ukraine Hits Russian Fuel and Military Infrastructure in Coordinated Overnight Assault – Kyiv Post
Ukraine Hits Russian Fuel and Military Infrastructure in Coordinated Overnight Assault Kyiv PostUkraine says it attacked Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk ReutersPutin’s petrostate faces a kamikaze petrol crisis …
Mass mortuaries, forensics and rare cooperation with Russia: The agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s war dead
Bryony Gooch speaks to a forensic specialist about the ongoing work to put names to bodies in Ukraine after Moscow agreed to return thousands of the fallen
Iran says close to new cooperation framework with IAEA, talks with US taking ‘new shape’
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is close to reaching a new framework of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), following US attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities.
An in-depth look at AWS’ underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)
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An in-depth look at AWS’ underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence — Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cl…
Pope to declare 15-year-old computer whiz, known as ‘God’s influencer’, a saint
Carlo Acutis was being canonised during an open-air mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday.
Video: Protests in US over deployment of national guard troops
Thousands of protesters marched in Washington DC and Chicago in the US, to denounce deployment of National Guard troops.
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I only just realised, as I prepared this accompanying blog post, that I didn’t talk about one of the points in the overview: food. One of my fondest memories as a child living in Singapore and now as an adult visiting there is the food. It’s
Sweden’s plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders
An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.