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From Jenna Orkin UK may try to send small boat arrivals to Ascension Island, minister confirms Humans can detect deepfake speech only 73% of the time, study finds Philippines summons Chinese ambassador over water cannon incident in disputed South China Sea Iran Launches Surprise Drills in Persian Gulf Niger’s junta isn’t backing down, and a regional force prepares to intervene. Here’s what to expect Critics Rip Private Equity Firm's Deal to Buy Simon & Schuster as 'Dark Day for Publishing' What to know about EG.5, the most prevalent covid subvariant in the U.S. The beach town that could help decide the future of wind power on the East Coast Paramount Agrees to Sell Simon & Schuster to KKR, a Private Equity Firm Russia accuses Ukraine of orchestrating a phone scam scheme to trick elderly Russians into setting military recruitment offices on fire amid string of arson attacks

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From Jenna Orkin He used to be China's Jeff Bezos. 3 years after provoking the wrath of Beijing, Jack Ma has turned to farming. He said that the "hypothetical withdrawal" of Russian tactical nuclear weapons from Belarus would "only be possible if the United States and NATO abandon their destructive course of purposefully undermining the security of Russia and Belarus." "This implies the complete withdrawal of all U.S. nuclear weapons to US territory and the elimination of the corresponding infrastructure in Europe," added Polischuk, director of the foreign ministry's department of CIS (ex-Soviet) countries. Desertification: An Existential Crisis For Iran Poland says two Belarusian helicopters violated its airspace, adding to tensions Exxon Mobil in talks with Tesla, Ford to supply lithium, Bloomberg Law reports In annual surveys over the last three years, roughly one-quarter of high school seniors self-identified as conservative or “very conservative” on the Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly endeavor that dates to the 1970s. Only 13 percent of boys identified as liberal or very liberal in those years. Niger junta accuses ousted government of authorising French military attack Phoenix just posted the hottest month ever observed in a U.S. city Dolphins learn the ‘names' of their friends to form teams—a first in animal kingdom China Export Controls Highlight Importance of Western Rare Earth Projects

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