A Xiaomi SU7 electric vehicle on display at the Xiaomi Electric Vehicle Flagship Store. Fri 26 April 2024: Western car makers, already bruised by the scramble among themselves for a share of the electric vehicle (EV) market, are facing a much more fearsome foe – China and its aggressive investment into the sector. Tesla, perhaps […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and “widespread death” from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Out of 160 long-finned pilot whales that became stranded over a wide area in Western Australia, at least 26 of them have perished; however, several more have been saved. At Toby Inlet in Geographe Bay, close to Dunsborough, dozens of whales got stuck in shallow water on Thursday morning, stretching a […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: A French castle situated outside of Paris, once owned by the Rothschild banking family and later Morocco’s King Hassan II, is being sold for $452 million, making it the world’s most expensive private residences. According to Mansion Global, the Chateau d’Armainvilliers is a timber-framed, 100-room mansion standing on 2,500 acres with a […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: The European Parliament has approved rules to give consumers the right to have certain worn-out products repaired by producers, to cut waste and make goods last longer. The law – which still needs final approval from European Union member states – would require manufacturers to repair goods out of warranty wherever […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: People have been complaining about how quickly the battery is draining on Apple iPhones, which are notorious for having short battery lives. This is especially the case with the latest iOS upgrade, according to the New York Post. An iPhone hack published by a tech enthusiast on TikTok with the user […]
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Image is for illustration purpose only Wed 24 April 2024: Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. This stellar giant was discovered by data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory because it gives the companion star that orbits it a unique “wobbling” motion, according to […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Tesla has announced a recall of 3,878 Cybertruck electric vehicles due to a factory defect, as reported by The Verge. Report from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stated that all pickup trucks produced from November 13, 2023, to April 4, 2024, are subject to return. The reason for the […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: In this episode of Centre Stage, the former president of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, explains how being a medical doctor has helped shape his political career, and why the Arab Spring has been a failure — “everywhere”. Moncef Marzouki was Tunisia’s first president after the Arab Spring uprisings. But less than a […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: The UN on Tuesday highlighted the alarming surge in conflict-related sexual violence globally, shedding light on the devastating effect on women and children caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts. “It records 3,688 UN-verified cases of conflict-related sexual violence committed in the course of 2023, reflecting a dramatic increase of 50% […]
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