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The tender will support up to seven AI facilities in an effort to build out the bloc’s tech capabilities.
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Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court rulingA new analysis of Black voters in the south indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left.After the supreme court effectively gutted section 2 of the Voting Rights Act protections in late April, Republican legislatures across the south rapidly pushed to disenfranchise Black voters by re
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Plus, we look at new fronts erupting in the Iran war, and a daring mission to recover American POWs from the ocean floor.
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Russian missiles have briefly entered Polish airspace during Russian strikes on western Ukraine in the past, but a missile has never hit Poland itself.
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Greece also worked to contain blazes on Lesbos and in the Peloponnese, where another firefighter died, in the midst of a brutal wildfire season for Europe.
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A six-year-old girl and two boys, aged 11 and 17, were among six killed in a village near the central city of Kryvyi Rih.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that a family of five had been killed at home in the latest in a series of large-scale aerial assaults by Moscow.
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Strong winds have fanned the flames in the Rethymno region as wildfires continue to ravage the Greek island.
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The unidentified object caused a 10m-wide (33ft) crater a short distance from the village of Tarnawa Kolonia, about 100km from the border with Ukraine during a Russian attack on the city of Lviv.
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China’s A.I. rise is creating a new dilemma for Beijing. The open models that win influence abroad may pose risks to the country’s security and geopolitical strategy.
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A top Cuban official says the island won’t negotiate its politics, but it is willing to talk investment, including from President Trump.
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The end of July brings the Alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquarids, both of which will be most active on Thursday night into Friday morning.
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President Trump keeps predicting Cuba will collapse after he cut off its oil. But it’s still standing. Our reporter Jack Nicas visited to see how Cubans are adopting solar to offset the power shortage.
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Bank’s chair pledges to keep up fight against inflation but decision brings fears of a failure to keep paceUS government borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 2007 after the Federal Reserve voted to hold its key interest rate steady, feeding fears that the central bank may not move fast enough to tame a rise in inflation.The yield – or interest rate – on the 30-year US Treasury bond rose 14 basis points to nearly 5.24%, a 19-year high, after the Fed announced its decision to hold it
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Rescue crews were working to find people who might still be trapped in a collapsed shopping mall, as the region faced sweltering heat.
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Boom in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in EuropeHe had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth, a flying insect that migrates to the UK from continental Europe and north Africa.“I was like: ‘Wow!’,” said the software project manager. “I didn’t even know they existed.” Continue reading...
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China’s top leaders signaled little appetite for major stimulus in the second half of the year despite mounting domestic headwinds.
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China’s top leaders signaled little appetite for major stimulus in the second half of the year despite mounting domestic headwinds.
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Green party said it was ‘obvious from the start’ that Polanski had not committed an offence Good morning. Reform UK are holding a press conference this morning. It is going to feature Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesperson, and he wants to talk about Andy Burnham’s speech yesterday about social care reform. But we already know what Jenrick thinks about that, and there are plenty of other stories that reporters might want to ask about.For a start, there is Anna Isaac’s latest Guardian