Mon 11 May 2026: Imagine never again forgetting where you parked your car, or that last item you had on your grocery list, or why you walked into this room anyway. If you trust media stories about research currently under way at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build an implantable device to restore memory, you might not […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: The combined market value of the world’s 10 largest firms jumped 16.69%, adding $4.18T to reach $29.24T since late February, when hostilities between Iran, the US, and Israel began. The gain comes after values had been volatile ahead of the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28. As of the […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump will have “in depth exchanges (and) views” on “major issues concerning China-US relations, world peace, and development,” Beijing said Monday amid the ongoing conflict between the US and Iran. Trump is set to pay a state visit to China on May […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: ‘We refuse to be silenced and censored,’ journalist and presenter Ramita Navai says while accepting the award. The makers of the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was dropped by the BBC, have won the Bafta TV Awards in the current affairs category. The makers of the film slammed the BBC […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: One French passenger and one from the US test positive after being evacuated from the vessel in the Canary Islands. A French woman and an American man have tested positive for hantavirus infections as countries around the world repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak. French Health […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Thousands of German students walked out of class Friday to protest a new military service law, arguing it reflects a wider shift toward militarization. The demonstrations, organized by the “School Strike Against Conscription Initiative,” were held in nearly 130 cities nationwide, including Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, and Munich. “We remember the historic […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: The South African Weather Service (SAWS) says that very cold, wet and windy conditions are expected over the southern parts of the Namakwa District in the Northern Cape and the western interior of the Western Cape, as well as the Chris Hani and Joe Gqabi district municipalities of the Eastern Cape, […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Israel’s Justice Minister Yariv Levin has presented a bill to impose the death penalty and conduct public trials for Palestinians involved in the October 7, 2023, attacks on southern Israel, according to Israeli media. The bill, which will be voted on in the Knesset today, is supported by both the governing […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Rising cancer cases are linked to toxic waste left behind during oil exploration in the 1980s. A group of 298 petitioners from remote villages of Marsabit County in northern Kenya is suing BP and the Kenyan government over oil exploration waste from the 1980s that it says is causing a cancer […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: The UK prime minister is set to give a speech in a bid to convince the public of his leadership. United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to for his political survival amid calls from parliamentarians for him to step down following the Labour Party’s stunning loss in local elections. […]
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