Why it matters: Global sanctions against Russian companies have worked in at least one respect: Baikal Electronics can no longer supply enough chips to meet the country's needs, and half of the chips it produces are defective.…
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Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin's friend, Viktor Medvedchuk, recently predicted that a nuclear strike will "most likely" be coming.
Putin and senior Russian officials have repeatedly threatened nu…

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(CNN) — Earth’s oceans are teeming with a multitude of life — and mysteries.
To better understand the ocean floor, enterprising marine scientists decided to affix tags equipped with cameras to tiger sharks that patrol the shal…

Class politics, economics and elite admiration for strongman rule are the three factors that explain the popularity of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi among educated voters, a piece in The Economist has said.…
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China had a good run, but it is now over.
You know it’s over when 65 million homes — one-fifth of the nation’s total — lie vacant and real-estate prices have collapsed to 2018 levels.…
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As the Ukraine war rages, China’s power grows and Israel fights for its life against Hamas, America’s intelligence services are focused on . . . woke mumbo-jumbo.
Yep: A recent memo circulated under the auspices of the Office of the Director of Nationa…

The United States said on Friday it will impose new visa restrictions on a number of Hong Kong officials over the crackdown on rights and freedoms in the Chinese-ruled territory.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that in the past year China contin…

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said in an interview that his former boss, former President Trump “doesn’t have the brains” to be a dictator, as questions arise about what a second Trump term would look like.…
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Syngenta calls off $9bn Shanghai listing
Syngenta said on Friday that it was withdrawing its application to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s main board. KEYSTONE/© KEYSTONE / GEORGIOS KEFALAS
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Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem – the first of a popular trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth’s Past – has entertained and challenged readers since first appearing in Chinese in 2006.
The 2014 English translation, by acclaimed American science-fictio…

Glades County is one of Florida’s sparsest locales, a rural expanse with 12,000 residents, two firefighters and no major grocery store.
It’s there that Jeff Akerman is springing to life a religious Jewish community of 1,300 homes — the next Williamsbur…

The European Green Deal is limping to the legislative finish line as elections loom and farmers continue to stage fierce protests across the continent.
The policy package, launched with fanfare by the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen…

In a statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that over the past year, Beijing has ‘continued to take actions against Hong Kong’s promised high degree of autonomy, democratic institutions, and rights and freedoms’
China has pushed for a new…

A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country — including sometimes from vending machines or online.…
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China has said it would continue to support Sri Lanka, as the crisis-hit island nation’s prime minister on Saturday wrapped up a visit to Beijing to try to finalise a debt restructuring deal.…
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India can easily retort by showing the mirror to the US, Germany and others about the problems these countries face at home. But there is nothing to be gained by resorting to polemics with countries we consider as friends and partners
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Keir Starmer swept to the Labour leadership as the man who put rejoining the EU on the party’s agenda in the bleak years after the Brexit vote. But as he prepares for power, the chance of a Starmer government negotiating re-entry was summed up by the L…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif while noting the historic cordial ties between Pakistan and Russia, said that Pakistan wanted to enhance bilateral cooperation with Russia in a number of areas particularly in energy, trade and investme…

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Lucrative education and research partnerships between universities in England and institutions linked to autocratic regimes abroad could be shut down under a new regime to protect free speech on campus.
Arif Ahmed, who was a Cambridge philosophy profes…