These Hong Kong bookshops let Chinese readers question their country - now the doors are closing
BBC News (World)by Abel U·4d ago
- Published When Chen Zhu heads to Hong Kong from mainland China every month, there's one place she always goes: Hunter Bookstore.
Gen Z: India's BJP mastered WhatsApp and X. Now it is trying to crack Instagram
BBC News (World)by Nikita Yadav·4d ago
- Published Many among India's Gen Z may not see Narendra Modi as a friend. But the Indian prime minister is trying to talk to them like one.
TikTok agrees to $400m settlement to resolve US children’s privacy litigation
The Guardianby Reuters·4d ago
TikTok and its Chinese former parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400m settlement to resolve the US Department of Justice’s allegations that the short-form video app violated children’s...
CNA Explains: Why is Trump pushing to meet Kim Jong Un again?
Channel News Asiaby Rachel Lim·4d ago
CNA Explains: Why is Trump pushing to meet Kim Jong Un again? US President Donald Trump scaled back joint military exercises with key ally South Korea this week, while signalling plans to meet...
Russia 'clearly threatened' as no navy in the Mediterranean – 'It's a shambles'
Daily Express :by Jon King·4d ago
Russia reportedly has no warships in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time in over a decade with one source describing its fleet a "shambles".
AI-enabled deception threatens future operations, raises chances of large conflict, says Special Operations leader
Defense Oneby Patrick Tucker·4d ago
AI-enabled deception threatens future operations, raises chances of large conflict, says Special Operations leader “The information environment itself is much less transparent” now than in the...
Hidden macOS code reveals new details about AirPods with cameras
Macworldby Jason Cross·4d ago
Thanks to a video accidentally included in the macOS 26.7 beta, we got our first real confirmation that Apple is, as rumored, working on AirPods with cameras in them.
Apple lays off 200 employees to focus on 'new devices' and AI
Macworldby Roman Loyola·4d ago
According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is laying off and “realigning” several employees in multiple departments in order to “focus on new devices and artificial intelligence.” About 200...
After a 1962 storm battered Fire Island, Robert Moses proposed a highway along the New York barrier island; residents fought it and 17 private communities now sit inside a national seashore
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·4d ago
A powerful nor’easter hit the eastern coast of the United States in March 1962. The storm destroyed dunes, swept nearly 100 homes into the Atlantic Ocean, and cut through the narrow barrier island...
Indian-American Silicon Valley investor says people fake degrees, 20-25% of those who come to US on H-1Bs are frauds
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·4d ago
Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa recently said that he's aware that 20-25% of people who come to the US on H-1B are frauds.
Ukraine urges citizens seeking EU temporary protection to get border exit stamp
Kyiv Independentby Olena Goncharova·4d ago
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has advised Ukrainians traveling to EU countries to seek temporary protection to obtain an exit stamp in their international passport, saying it may help prove that they...
Explainer: What does Ukraine's latest corruption scandal tell us about how Zelensky governs?
Kyiv Independentby Oleg Sukhov·4d ago
Explainer: What does Ukraine's latest corruption scandal tell us about how Zelensky governs? Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Downing Street for a meeting with UK Prime Minister...
Dutch regulator fines Uber $966m for automating driver suspensions
World news | The Guardianby Reuters·4d ago
The Dutch data protection authority has fined Uber €825m ($966m) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to a 17 August decision.
Longer-dated Treasury yields rise as Bessent's bond buyback rally fizzles out
International: Top News And Analysisby Sean Conlon; Hugh Leask·4d ago
Longer-dated U.S. government bond yields moved higher on Friday as investor jitters over the Treasury Department's extended debt repurchase program and soaring national debt continued to hover over...
3 Marvel Movies Definitely Missing From Disney's Official 'Avengers: Doomsday' Watchlist
Polygon.comby Brian VanHooker·4d ago
Doomsday will soon be upon us. On December 18, Marvel Studios will release its biggest film since Avengers: Endgame, if not its biggest film ever, with Avengers: Doomsday.
Midway Atoll eradicated invasive rats after Bonin petrels had fallen to fewer than 5,000 nesting pairs; by 2008 the seabird colony had rebounded to more than 135,000 pairs
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·4d ago
The successful removal of invasive black rats from Midway Atoll led to an extraordinary recovery of the local Bonin petrel population, which grew from fewer than 5,000 nesting pairs to more than...
Indian man and woman plead guilty to 'PayPal refund scam' in US: 'Traveled recently, family in India was in danger, was asked to pull off fraud'
Times of Indiaby Poulomi Ghosh·4d ago
Gajera Prashant and Dharaben Bhavadiya, an Indian man and a woman, pleaded guilty to a PayPal refund scam in Arkansas.
How Israel is expanding settlements in drive to reshape West Bank
BBC News (World)by Joe Inwood·4d ago
- Published It was during a ceremony at a settlement in the occupied West Bank last September that Israel's prime minister made his intentions clear.
In 2005, California began eradicating 5,036 feral pigs from Santa Cruz Island as part of a wider fox recovery effort; by 2015 its native fox population had risen from under 70 to about 2,100
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·4d ago
An aggressive campaign to eradicate 5,036 feral pigs from Santa Cruz Island triggered the fastest successful recovery of an endangered mammal in the history of the United States Endangered Species...
German army helps Poland protect itself against Russia
DW Englishby Jacek Lepiarz·4d ago
Poland started to construct a defensive barrier along its border with Russia and Belarus in 2024.
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