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Tropical Storm Melissa forecast to become a major hurricane and bring ‘catastrophic flash flooding and landslides.’ See its projected path.
Tropical Storm Melissa continues to be slow-moving in the Caribbean but is expected to turn into a hurricane and bring heavy rain, the threat of catastrophic flooding and landslides to parts of Jamaica and Haiti before rapidly strengthening into…
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Google And IonQ Claimed Quantum Computing Milestones This Week
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at two big quantum computing milestones, the man trying to build the next Tesla, a retinal implant that restores eyesight and more. To get The Prototype in your inbox, sign up here.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai with the company’s quantum computer
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Europeans vow to choke Russian oil sector after Trump sanctions – POLITICO
One person familiar with Friday’s discussion pointed out Surgutneftegas, Putin’s personal company, has not been targeted yet and predicted: “If their [Russia’s] entire oil sphere could be squeezed it would have some chance of bringing Putin to the table.”
A senior U.K. official…
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France to supply Ukraine with additional Aster missiles, Mirage jets – Macron
France will deliver additional Aster missiles and new Mirage aircraft to Ukraine in the coming days, President Emmanuel Macron said.
He made the statement while addressing the Coalition of the Willing meeting in London, which he joined online from Paris, Ukrinform…
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US sanctions threaten major blow to Russian oil groups Rosneft and Lukoil
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Russia’s two biggest oil producers are at risk of a significant financial hit from the US sanctions imposed on the country’s energy sector, with the move set to…
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Woman gets rare whole-life sentence for murder of French schoolgirl Lola Daviet
A woman who raped and murdered 12 year-old Lola Daviet in Paris has been handed a rare whole-life sentence in a case that has shocked France.
Dahbia Benkired, aged 27, must spend at least 30 years in prison after a panel of judges and a jury decided to impose the country’s harshest possible…
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US sending aircraft carrier to South America, Pentagon says in major escalation of military buildup
The US military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to US Southern…
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Senior Russian envoy arrives in US days after oil sanctions imposed
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One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top envoys arrived in the US on Friday for talks with American officials days after Donald Trump imposed wide-ranging…
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