Guy Hedgecoe
Business reporter
Reporting fromSegovia, central Spain
Getty ImagesIt’s a chilly mid-winter afternoon in Segovia, in central Spain, and tourists are gathered at…
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How Spain’s economy became the envy of Europe
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How War Has Wreaked Havoc on Ukraine’s Classrooms
The students meet a day a week for lessons in a tiny underground classroom that teachers call the beehive, for the buzzing of all the children packed inside.
Holding classes above ground in this part of Ukraine, in the city of Balakliya near the…
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Looking at Trump, Europe’s far right vows to ‘reconquer’ the continent – POLITICO
“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the most senior of the leaders at the…
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Ukraine launches fresh assault in Russia’s Kursk region
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ADVERTISEMENTUkraine has launched a new assault in Russia’s Kursk region, six months since Kyiv’s surprise incursion into the border area last August.
According to the Institute for the…
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Fyodor Lukyanov on the USA, Current Conflicts and the Future of Europe — Russia in Global Affairs
“Trump Doesn’t Care About Russia”: Fyodor Lukyanov on the New US President, Putin and the Ukraine Conflict
Fyodor A. Lukyanov
In Russia, there are people who see Trump’s ‘resurrection’ as a very important…
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Even Bill Gates thinks AI is a little scary — Harvard Gazette
Bill Gates remembers being “a tough kid.”
“Some teachers wanted to put me ahead in school; some wanted to put me behind,” said the tech pioneer, who has noted in the past that he would likely be diagnosed on the autism spectrum if growing up today. “I exercised my IQ to give my…
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How Daily Mail amplified Russian propaganda and even managed to lie more
Imagine you author an article about a hot topic like the Russo-Ukraine war and US President Donald Trump’s potential peace push that is based on another 10 days-old article that has no author and no source, twist some parts of the already disinformative article, and present it as fact to your…
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Georgia’s ruling party is building a Russian-style dictatorship — and it’s working
Nearly three months into a determined protest movement demanding snap elections, Georgia’s ruling party is resorting to increasingly heavy-handed tactics to quash resistance — and its latest moves have the country on edge as observers warn of a dangerous authoritarian turn.
The outcome will…
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What prompts genetic adaptation? Ask a finch. — Harvard Gazette
Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That’s what the findings of new research on a common backyard bird, the house finch, imply. A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the…
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Interview: How Ukrainian women entrepreneurs are keeping businesses alive amid Russia’s war
“Because of the Russian full-scale invasion, we lost access to high-quality seeds from regions like Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia in the south,” Rosolovska said. “Some of our farming suppliers were displaced, others were killed,…
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