If there’s anything buzzy in the tech world, chances are Xavier Niel has caught wind of it. The hacker turned entrepreneur owns a sprawling telecom empire, sits on TikTok parent ByteDance’s five-member board, and is a major startup…
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Ukraine fires US-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia, Moscow says
White Sands Missile RangeArmy Tactical Missile Systems (Atacms) can reach up to 300km (186 miles) and are tough to intercept due to their high speed Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory for the first time, the…
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Roundup: Ukraine, Local Politics, Sports …
The Sunrise Rotary and Westport Rotary Clubs have pledged $2,500 each, to Ukraine Aid International.
Rotarian Ken Bernhard is seeking more funds, which the national club will match. The goal of $15,000 would purchase water filtration…
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Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War
This article is the first in a series based on…
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Sweden, Finland and Norway Update Crisis Advice as Ukraine-Russia War Grinds On
The last time that Sweden updated the crisis preparedness advice it distributes nationwide, Russia had not yet launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Sweden had not joined NATO in response.
Six years later, Ukraine is locked in a grinding…
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1000 days of invincibility: how war changed Ukraine’s sports infrastructure – photos
Today, 19 November 2024, marks 1,000 days since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This date is a testament not only just to Ukrainian people’s invincibility, but also the tremendous losses that…
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How humans evolved to be ‘energetically unique’ — Harvard Gazette
Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and chimpanzees, finds a new Harvard study. Having both high resting and active metabolism, researchers say, enabled our hunter-gatherer ancestors to get all the food they needed…
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1,000 days of the full-scale war: Ukrainian women drive humanitarian response and recovery amid growing security threats
The war continues to have devastating consequences for civilians and families, profoundly disrupting their lives, livelihoods, and communities, and leaving countless individuals in urgent need of protection and humanitarian assistance. Over the…
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Global: Africans and people of African descent call on Europe to reckon with their colonial legacies
Experts from the African continent and its global diasporas called on European governments to address their colonial past and ongoing impacts at the Dekoloniale Berlin Africa Conference, a decolonial counter-version of the 1884/5 Berlin Africa…
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On Migration, Europe Warms to Ideas Once Seen as Fringe
Europe has been struggling for years to limit the number of unauthorized migrants entering by land and sea, instituting increasingly tough policies. Those moves now appear to be working, with the numbers of migrants crossing into European Union…
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