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The case for persisting with foreign aid
IT IS disgusting to read the boast of the world’s richest man that “we spent the weekend feeding USAid into the woodchipper”.
Astronomy5d
Oberwerk’s binoculars is really a pair of 5-inch refractors
The BT-127XL-SD allows you to take a journey through star clouds and galaxies. Indeed, you can see galaxies in these — just as well and just as many as you would with any high-quality 5-inch ...
The Straits Times5d
Russian TV falls for fake report on DeepSeek's 'Soviet code'
MOSCOW - A spoof Russian news report that China's DeepSeek AI app was based on a secret Soviet code has found its way onto state TV, reflecting nostalgia in Russian society for a lost age of ...
Shropshire Star4d
Baltic states disconnect from Soviet-era grid to merge with European system
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid’s transmission lines ...
The Hamilton Spectator4d
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
This came more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Baltics’ final ties to oil- and gas-rich Russia. For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe ...
The Washington Post3d
Part of Russia's island of Sakhalin on high alert after Chinese cargo ship runs aground
the subject of a decades-long territorial dispute between Russia and Japan that has prevented them from signing a peace treaty at the end of World War II. Soviet troops captured the islands ...
Daily Mail5d
Villagers at war with BT over their last working phone-box: Locals launch campaign to stop iconic red K6 being disconnected - despite it only making NINE calls last year
BT has told them it wants to cut the line to the booth in the Norfolk hamlet of Sharrington, after just nine calls were made from it last year. The telecoms giant has offered to sell the phone ...
Star Tribune3d
Chinese cargo ship runs aground on Russia's Pacific region of Sakhalin but no spill reported
the subject of a decades-long territorial dispute between Russia and Japan that has prevented them from signing a peace treaty at the end of World War II. Soviet troops captured the islands ...