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Putin increases nuclear weapon threat as UK expected to sign off missile strikes Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a revised nuclear doctrine to lower the bar for future nuclear weapon use. The updated doctrine, first announced in September but signed by Putin this week, declares that an attack using conventional weapons by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will now be considered a joint attack on Russia. It does not specify…

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A car drove into a crowd outside Yong’an Primary School in China’s southern Hunan province, leaving several students and adults injured, according to state media. Details on the number of casualties remain unclear, but those injured have been taken to the hospital.  This is the third attack on a public crowd in China within a week, sparking concern over public safety.

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The Lady with the Lamp aka Florence Nightingale is such a British icon that, almost 110 years after her death, the mere mention of her name still conjures an instant image: the intense gaze, austere hair topped by a bonnet. She might have been the first women to stand up to the patriarchal society when she defied expectations to follow a template of female life of the times. Travel broadens the mind Travel broadens the…

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Experts Demonstrate How Solar Farms Can Become Hubs for ‘Biodiversity Enhancement’ at Every Level In the same way that artificial coral reefs can jumpstart marine ecosystems, solar farms, if they’re constructed properly, can create more biodiversity than agricultural fields. That’s the key point a coalition of Australian planners and researchers are trying to get across to land developers in the state of New South Wales (NSW), where a flat, grassy, sometimes riparian ecoregion called the…

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The White House taking pointers from the NYPD with a Good cop, bad cop at the White House, which is designed to allow ‘the next’ to negotiate an opportunity to bring an end to the war.

Sir Keir Starmer in a power play at the G20. Staying with the Ukraine war the British prime minister, will urge G20 leaders to “double down” on their support for Ukraine, he needs this for his political future to be taken seriously on the world stage.

Viktor Orban is defiant to show the EU, he can lift Hungary out of a near recession and will not be a puppet. This is despite the financial sanctions imposed by the EU. Even against the backdrop of his rule of law dispute with Brussels, Orbán has exacerbated tensions with other EU capitals by maintaining strong diplomatic ties with both Beijing and Moscow.

Israel continues to pound Lebanon, killing eight more paramedics as the US envoy arrives to discuss its truce plan.
In Gaza the Red Cross is evacuating its hospital and it fears Israel will flatten the building this week. In a damning report for the Israelis according to a Human Rights Watch report emphatically reports Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza.

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Brazil’s First Lady, Janja Lula da Silva, made headlines after swearing at billionaire Elon Musk during a panel on disinformation at an event preceding the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. While discussing stricter social media regulations, she jokingly linked a loud noise to Musk, saying, “I think it’s Elon Musk,” and followed it with an expletive, declaring, “I’m not afraid of you.”  

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Buses get £1 billion boost – how much cash each area will get to improve services confirmed Bus services will get a cash boost of nearly £1billion in plans to be announced tomorrow. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh is to reveal who gets what as she vows to deliver London-style services to the whole country. The Department for Transport said the cash would mean fewer cuts to at-risk routes and make more buses run on time.…

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The chancellor delivered her first Mansion House speech on Thursday as she urged the City regulators to allow financial service providers to take greater risks, saying that the rules introduced after the 2008 financial crash had “gone too far” and were harming growth.

The speech is an annual address to the City of London by the sitting chancellor. In her first address, she attempted to reassure the City that she had a growth strategy. Much of her speech is highlighted across print media and online this morning.

The Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey also gave a speech yesterday at the event in which said the UK must improve its relationship with Europe saying the “consequences of Brexit” were damaging the economy.

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The story of the spotlight has been told many times with slight variations, but one of the oldest comes from the Islamic Sufi tradition with Mullah Nasruddin. It goes like this. Nasruddin was on the walk one night when he came across his friend on his hands and knees, looking for something. What are you doing? Nasruddin said, Oh, I’ve lost my key. His friend said, I’m looking for it. Nasradin was kind, so he…

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EU fines Meta €797 million over antitrust breaches, that amounts to £663 million in sterling. Which adds to the compounding problem American tech companies are having in Europe. The EU Commission on Thursday fined US tech giant Meta €797.7 million ($840.2 million) for breaches of EU competition law as the EU crackdowns on American social media and tech giants falling foul of EU business practices. Apple facing near-£3bn UK lawsuit over cloud storage ‘monopoly’ The body said that Meta…

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World’s First Wooden Satellite Aims to Tackle Space Debris Problem with Sustainable Solution One might imagine the hostile environment of space as bad news for any organic molecules. However, Japanese engineers just created a wooden satellite called LignoSat, with preparations for a summertime 2025 launch. The mission is meant as a demonstration of the capacities of this humble material to live long and prosper in the vacuum of space. In space, there is no oxygen…

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