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Without Le Pen and Zemmour, the French right will rally round the conservative Pecresse, which is a major problem for Macron Marine Le Pen has suspended her presidential campaign. At present, the National Rally leader has been unable to obtain the 500 signatures required to make it onto the ballot paper for the first round […]
What passes for expertise on Russia in the US today is corrupted by partisan politics, which distorts fact-based analysis The US used to produce experts on Soviet and Russian affairs like Jack Matlock. Today we get the likes of Michael McFaul. The decline of popular interest in Russian-area studies, combined with intellectual laziness on the […]
Of 18 fish, 17 responded to the visual cue of a mark on their body when presented with a mirror during a study A new study has suggested that fish might be self-aware and able to recognize themselves in mirrors, in a similar way to humans and apes. Researchers at the Graduate School of Science […]
An amendment to a Florida bill sets a strict time frame within which teachers must tell on their LGBTQ students A Florida bill barring educators from discussing topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity has gained an amendment that would require school staff like teachers or counselors to inform parents within six weeks of […]
The US agency is declining to release troves of pandemic information it has gathered to date, according to the New York Times The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has kept reams of its Covid-19 data under wraps for more than a year, the New York Times reports, holding back figures at least […]
US President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China showed how one meeting can change the course of history This week marks the 50th anniversary of a meeting that culminated in one of the biggest, and perhaps most consequential, ‘political earthquakes’ of the 20th century. Despite the United States and China being fierce Cold War political […]
Edinburgh court rejects 2018 law that attempted to include trans women under the legal definition for women The Scottish government has lost a legal battle over a gender representation law that “expanded the definition of women” to include transgender people. Women’s rights activists had argued that the legislation violated “protected characteristics” related to sex in […]
They will drive high-speed trains between Islam’s two holiest cities More than 28,000 candidates have replied to an ad looking for 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia after women were allowed into the profession. Spanish state-owned rail company Renfe said on Wednesday that thousands of Saudi women have applied to drive bullet trains between […]
Pro-war hawks in the West have resorted to overt hostility toward those who argue against conflict in Ukraine On Tuesday, after weeks of international uncertainty and fears of conflict, Russia announced it would be pulling its troops back from the border with Ukraine. This news came after repeated assurances from President Vladimir Putin and officials […]
The CIA essentially sets its own rules over what data it collects, and politicians know it. Here’s how it is allowed to do so The recent efforts by two US Senators to get more transparency over intelligence harvesting by the Central Intelligence Agency, which involves the “incidental” collection of US citizens’ personal information, opens the […]
Other experts are skeptical, accusing the OpenAI researcher of “trolling” The co-founder of a San Francisco-based AI research laboratory claimed in a Twitter post this week that “today’s largest neural networks” could already be “slightly conscious.” Ilya Sutskever from OpenAI did not clarify what system or systems he was referring to, or how exactly he […]
UK health officials are investigating cases of the previously dismissed hybrid strain of Delta and Omicron variants, but said they are “not concerned” Health authorities in the UK have officially begun monitoring the so-called ‘Deltacron’ variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus that is thought to be a hybrid of the Omicron and Delta strains. The move […]
The officer will reportedly serve as a liaison to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain Bahrain confirmed on Saturday that an Israeli officer will be posted to the country in the coming weeks – the first time that an Israeli officer has ever been stationed in an Arab country with that country’s support. The officer […]
The singer’s speech while accepting the Brit Awards newly-minted gender-neutral ‘Artist of the Year’ award has enraged online LGBTQ activists In a cultural landscape where merely using the wrong pronouns can garner you the ire of outrage mobs, singer and songwriter Adele has angered activists by proclaiming that she is proud to be a woman […]
Surveillance and testing issues have led to an underestimation of cases in Africa, where only 11% of the population is fully vaccinated Covid-19 infections in Africa could be seven times higher than officially reported, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated, while deaths could be two to three times higher than previously believed. Speaking during […]