Category: World
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Rye, New Hampshire passed one measure barring barn swallows from a town barn and another forbidding anyone to disturb them. The contradiction is only apparent — and it captures a real conflict about wildlife that is playing out in barns everywhere.
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The Lancet Countdown’s Europe report finds higher heat mortality, drought, West Nile virus and tick risk in southern, eastern and western Europe — and a nearly 11-point gap in food insecurity between low-income and median-income respondents.
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Russia and North Korea have opened their first road bridge, across a seventeen-kilometre border that until now had only a Soviet-era railway. Road traffic is flexible and hard to count from orbit — and bridges are not built for arrangements anyone expects to end.
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Japan has eased pressure on companies to keep monthly overtime under 45 hours, citing labour shortages. It reverses a decade of policy built after the karoshi scandals — and it is the fastest of the options a shrinking workforce leaves open.
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Ten days after Nepal’s floods, searches continue for hydropower workers feared trapped in tunnels, and rebuilding is estimated at $5 billion. Coverage peaks in the first days and falls away; need runs the other way.
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Northern Mozambique has been at war since 2017, in a province holding one of the century’s largest gas discoveries. People there have been displaced repeatedly rather than once, which erodes households in a way a single flight does not.
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Australia will require platforms to notify users and offer them a choice over their default feed. It sounds procedural. Defaults are among the most powerful levers in policy design, and this one regulates the ranking mechanism rather than the speech.
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Kenya’s president has ordered a crackdown on foreign nationals running small businesses, drawing accusations of xenophobia. The arguments for and against measures like this are consistent across countries — and the people affected are often refugees with no other permitted livelihood.
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John E. Sununu won the Republican Senate nomination in New Hampshire and Chris Pappas the Democratic one, setting up an open contest in November after Jeanne Shaheen declined a fourth term. Why a state of 1.5 million draws national attention.
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ASML is working on larger photomasks for its most advanced machines. Higher-resolution optics print finer features across a smaller area, which limits how big an AI chip can be — and the standard being changed has held for decades.