US President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting funding for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and five other federal agencies, effectively shutting down America’s international broadcasting networks after decades of operation.
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Frontline report: 50% of Moscow’s fuel supply at risk after Ukrainian drone strike on its largest oil refinery
Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from the Russian Federation.
Ukrainian drones penetrated deep into Russian territory, and explosions lit up the skies over Moscow and several key cities. While strikes on oil refineries and military targets were significant, one attack stood…
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Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win the A.M. Turing Award, asserted that among hash tables with a specific set of properties, the best way to find an individual element or an empty spot is to just go through potential spots randomly—an approach known as…
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How we’re about to solve the world’s greatest archaeological puzzle
For more than a century, giant patterns and pictures sketched into the plains south of Lima, Peru, have mystified archaeologists. Named for their makers, the Nazca people who lived between 200 BC and 650 AD, the ‘Nazca lines’ remain one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries.
With the arid…
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‘Sooner or later’ Russia must yield to peace
Britain’s leader encouraged his global counterparts to continue pushing for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine at the start of a virtual meeting Saturday intended to end the fighting between the two countries.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a virtual meeting of mostly European…
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A Tanker Collision Threatens One of the UK’s Most Important Coastlines
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles off the east coast of England. This set off a series of large explosions and a huge plume of black smoke, while a still…
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Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies
Dozens of other fires broke out in Georgia and western North Carolina, which were both hard-hit by Hurricane Helene. In some areas, the fallen trees can act as fuel and promote fire spread in the short and long term, according to Virginia Iglesias, who studies the effects of climate variability…
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Putin tries to punt decision on Ukraine back to Trump
After U.S. President Donald Trump urged Moscow to accept the ceasefire deal agreed to by the U.S. and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that “the ball is in Russia’s court,” experts polled by VOA Russian said Vladimir Putin’s first reaction was…
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Frontline report: American HMMWV survives three Russian drone strikes, keeps moving, and saves Ukrainians in Kursk
Today, there is interesting news from the Kursk direction. As the situation in the northern part of the Kursk salient became increasingly dangerous, the Ukrainians launched several operations to ensure their controlled withdrawal, targeting Russian defensive and offensive capabilities and…
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We finally know whether people see colours differently, scientists say
They’re the questions we’ve asked since we were children: Are the colours that I see different from the colours that you see? Is my red your red, my yellow your yellow, and my slightly off-teal the same shade you’re seeing?
You’ve probably ended up concluding that we’ll just never know. After…
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