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Russian President Vladimir Putin says sanctions could have ‘negative’ impact on Russia

  President Vladimir Putin conceded Wednesday that sanctions imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine could bring about “negative” consequences for the country, after insisting Moscow was adapting to the penalties. “The sanctions imposed against the Russian economy in the medium term could really have a negative impact,” Putin said in a televised meeting with the government. Western capitals have imposed unprecedented sanctions on Moscow after Putin launched his operation in Ukraine over a […]

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Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi party

  by Ross ADKIN Myanmar’s junta-stacked election commission on Tuesday announced Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law, state media said. The military justified its February 2021 coup with unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in 2020 elections won by the NLD, ending a 10-year democratic experiment and plunging the country into turmoil. In January, it gave political parties two […]

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Israel launches new spy satellite: defence ministry

Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP) Israel launched a new spy satellite with advanced imaging capabilities early on Wednesday, the defence ministry said. The Ofek-13 military satellite was launched into orbit at 02:10 am (2310 GMT) from a site in central Israel, the ministry said. “We will continue to prove that even the sky isn’t the limit for the Israeli defence establishment and that we continue to enhance its capabilities in every dimension in the face of various […]

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MMDA personnel to get 30-minute ‘heat stroke break’ starting April 1

(Eagle News) — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority announced it would give its field personnel a 30-minute “heat stroke break” to cope with the summer heat. The policy will be in effect starting April 1 to May 31. MMDA Acting Chairman Atty. Don Artes signed the memorandum circular re-implementing the policy to “protect field personnel from heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and heat cramps due to severe heat waves,” the MMDA said. Under the policy, on-duty […]

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Curry scores 39 to lead Warriors rally over Pelicans

  LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Golden State erased a 20-point deficit to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 120-109 on Tuesday, with Stephen Curry scoring 39 points as the Warriors edged ahead of Minnesota into sixth place in the Western Conference. Curry drained five of his eight three-pointers in the second half as the reigning NBA champion Warriors came alive, surging past the Pelicans to win a sometimes sloppy, often scrappy contest and boost […]

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China vows to ‘fight back’ if Taiwan leader meets US speaker

by Amber WANG Agence France-Presse TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — China vowed on Wednesday to “fight back” should Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meet the US House speaker during a trip to the United States. Tsai left on Wednesday for the United States, from where she will head to Guatemala and Belize to shore up ties with diplomatic allies before heading to California, where US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had said he would meet her. China claims […]

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Car battery recycling market gears up for future boom

by Léa PERNELLE Freiberg, Germany (AFP) Researcher Anna Vanderbruggen peers into a vat of dark bubbling liquid, the result of a process she has developed to recover graphite from old lithium-ion batteries. Although graphite represents up to a quarter of the weight of the batteries, no one has yet come up with a viable plan to recycle it, according to Vanderbruggen. The 29-year-old researcher is still fine-tuning her method but has already received an award […]

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Taiwan president heads to US, Central America to shore up ties

by Amber WANG Agence France-Presse TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen left for the United States on Wednesday, a stop on her way to firm up ties with Guatemala and Belize after China snapped up another of the self-ruled island’s few diplomatic allies last week. “External pressure will not hinder our determination to go global,” Tsai told reporters at the airport before departing. “We are calm and confident. We will not succumb and […]

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Vietnam’s robusta: the go-to coffee bean in a warmer world?

by Tran Minh Thi Ha, and Alice Philipson in Hanoi Agence France-Presse GIA LAI, Vietnam (AFP) — Bitter and earthy. Fit for instant brews only. Robusta coffee has a dire reputation, but a small group of farmers in Vietnam is trying to turn the bean’s fortunes around as a warming world threatens the industry. As an interior designer in trendy Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, 42, largely stayed clear of Vietnamese coffee, […]

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Meatball from extinct mammoth unveiled by food tech firm

by Jan HENNOP Agence France Presse Amsterdam, Netherlands (AFP) Food scientists on Tuesday unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods. The glistening meatball was displayed under a glass bell jar by Australian-based cultivated meat firm Vow at the NEMO science museum in the Dutch capital Amsterdam. But it is not ready to be eaten just yet, with […]

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The flying hospital bringing Ukraine’s wounded west

by Pierre-Henry DESHAYES and Viken KANTARCI Agence France-Presse ON BOARD A BOEING 737 MEDEVAC PLANE, Poland (AFP)  — You can see the pain held just in check in the faces of Ukraine’s war wounded as they are evacuated in a flying hospital. “It’s the first time I’ve taken a plane,” says 22-year-old Mykola Fedirko, who was hit by a shell holding off Russian troops in a trench in the Donetsk region. “I would have loved […]

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Messi scores 100th Argentina goal in Curacao romp

SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, Argentina (AFP) — Argentina captain Lionel Messi on Tuesday scored his 100th international goal for the reigning world champions in a low-key friendly against Curacao. Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi opened the scoring in the friendly against the Caribbean island minnows on 20 minutes in Santiago del Estero. The 35-year-old soon added another just after the half-hour mark to make it 3-0, and then completed his hat-trick on 37 minutes with the […]

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