Category: World News
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China is losing its place as the center of the world’s supply chains. Here are 5 places supply chains are going instead.
India is trying to unseat China in higher-end manufacturing, with the iPhone maker Apple and chipmakers eyeing its vast land and young population. China has been the factory of the world for the past four decades. The pandemic triggered a reckoning of this status. China’s rise as the world’s factory spanned four decades and ushered…
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The UN has said nuclear war is ‘back within the realm of possibility.’ Here are the places in the US most likely to be hit in a nuclear attack.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said this year that nuclear war is “back within the realm of possibility.” The UN secretary-general said that nuclear war is “back within the realm of possibility” following Russia’s warning earlier this year it was putting its nuclear forces on alert amid its war in Ukraine, which threatens to draw NATO into direct…
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Fears of extremist campaign after attack on US power station
Vandalism at four power stations in the western US state of Washington over the weekend added to concerns of a possible nationwide campaign by right-wing extremists to stir fears and spark civil conflict. Local police on Tuesday gave no information on who they suspected was behind the vandalism, which knocked out power on Christmas Day…
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The Middle East’s journey to 50 billion trees
Announced at Cop27, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambition to plant the equivalent of six-and-a-half trees for every person on earth Trees, with their natural ability to sequester carbon — to draw it from the atmosphere and lock it up as wood — are an easy-to-understand way of tackling the climate emergency. Opening…
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Russian chess legend says war in Ukraine is a ‘battle between freedom and tyranny’
hess is a cerebral game, but legendary Soviet grand master Garry Kasparov could make it seem like a contact sport. When he was at the height of his powers in the mid-1980s, he approached the chessboard with the buzzing physical intensity of a wrestler consigned to the wrong contest. Today, his relentless energies are directed entirely against…
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