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Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO warns of cross-border risk
A rare and deadly haemorrhagic fever with no approved vaccine has surfaced in southern Ethiopia, prompting an urgent containment effort.
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Cognizant starts tracking employees’ laptop and website activity on select projects
A new monitoring tool is raising questions on productivity, privacy and how far IT firms can go in watching staff on screen.
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Trump’s meeting with Syrian leader sparks fresh attention on old US terror post
A 2017 social-media post by a US-based individual who travelled to Syria has resurfaced online and gone viral after the man met the Syrian president during a recent visit to Washington, raising fresh scrutiny.
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Epstein email offering ‘photos of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen’ adds to scrutiny of Trump ties
A 2015 email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and a New York Times reporter has resurfaced in newly released Congressional documents, drawing fresh scrutiny to claims Epstein made privately about Donald Trump and his inner circle.
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Asian applicant claims US firms ignored his résumé until he changed name
A Chinese-American professional claims that only after swapping his ethnic name for a neutral American alias did employers begin contacting him, a discovery that has intensified long-running debates about subtle discrimination and unconscious bias in the US tech recruitment ecosystem.
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Little boy’s “What’s your name?” moment with Trump takes over the internet
A light-hearted Oval Office interaction between US President Donald Trump and a group of young children has captured widespread online attention, with a brief and charming question from a little boy turning into one of the week’s most shared political clips.
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Lost medieval city discovered beneath a Kyrgyzstan lake stuns archaeologists
A newly excavated underwater settlement beneath Lake Issyk-Kul may significantly reshape historians’ understanding of Central Asia’s ancient trade networks, revealing evidence of a large, organised Silk Road city that once connected merchants, cultures and religions across vast distances before a catastrophic earthquake sent it underwater.
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How a Chinese AI firm tapped Nvidia’s top chips via Indonesia
A Jakarta data centre deal shows how export rules still let Chinese companies tap US hardware, even as Washington tries to choke access.
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How three AI megadeals are rewriting Wall Street’s playbook
A fresh wave of AI infrastructure spending is forcing financiers to invent new ways to move colossal sums.
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How the world’s biggest mining project became China’s global win
A $23 billion iron ore mine in Guinea marks Beijing’s new dominance in global resources.
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Renowned Korean Japanese surgeon accused of defacing sacred sites in Japan
A celebrated endometriosis specialist faces extradition to Japan over oil “anointing” at sacred sites.
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As US government shuts down, private aviation takes off
Private jet travel booms as the US shutdown triggers flight cuts and delays for commercial passengers.
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US shutdown deal explained: How Democrats’ apparent defeat could still shape 2026
A short-term retreat could become a longer-term win by spotlighting Republicans on health subsidies, SNAP and affordability.
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Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS baffles scientists after passing the Sun
A mysterious visitor from beyond the Solar System has emerged from its solar flyby without the cometary tail astronomers expected to see. The absence of debris has reopened debate about what this object truly is and why it is behaving so strangely.
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Why Everest isn’t Earth’s closest point to space
Earth’s highest peak isn’t the point that reaches closest to outer space, and the reason has nothing to do with Everest at all. Because our planet bulges at the equator, a mountain thousands of miles away quietly steals that title.
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Can Congress deport Zohran Mamdani? Here’s what US law really says
Republican lawmakers are pushing to strip Mamdani of his US citizenship and deport him after his mayoral-race success in New York City. The question is whether the law permits removal of a natural-born or naturalised citizen without solid grounds. And the answer is almost always no.
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Inside the cave with the world’s biggest spider web
A vast black-silk lattice in a Balkan cave may be the biggest spider web ever recorded, and it hosts two species that usually do not tolerate each other.
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One-year-old pepper-sprayed during US federal immigration operation in Chicago suburb
A Chicago-area father says federal agents pepper-sprayed him and his one-year-old while they were leaving a store parking lot. US Homeland Security disputes the account as community leaders demand an investigation.
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Chinese worker fired after taking sick leave for foot pain but logging 16,000 steps
A workplace dispute in China has ignited fresh debate over digital surveillance and trust at work after a company dismissed an employee who had called in sick with foot pain, only to later find his phone’s step counter showed 16,000 steps that day. The firm cited dishonesty and policy violation; critics argue step data alone can be misleading and context was ignored.
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Bangladesh protests: Why a former Hasina aide is blaming the US and the Clintons
A former minister in Sheikh Hasina’s government has alleged that Bangladesh’s 2024 student-led protests were not organic but the product of a carefully planned foreign operation.
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How two managers approved the same leave, and what it reveals about Indian vs Japanese work culture
A Reddit post, now widely circulated, ignites discussion on culture and empathy in the workplace and has sparked a nuanced debate about how tone, trust and cultural norms shape our day-to-day experience of work.
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Key to success: Insta360 gifts gold keyboard keys worth nearly Rs 40 lakh to employees
The China-based camera maker’s unusual Programmer’s Day reward has gone viral, with staff joking they will “finish the whole keyboard” if the tradition continues.
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Lawyer storms stage to serve subpoena to Sam Altman during live talk
A packed San Francisco audience gathered for what was meant to be an easy, free-flowing conversation on tech and leadership, until an unexpected interruption jolted the room, briefly derailing the evening and leaving everyone wondering what had just unfolded.
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What America’s longest-tenured workers reveal about how jobs really changed
A handful of corporate lifers trace the quiet revolutions in speed, tech and purpose at work.
