From day one, tech platforms like Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo made the deliberate strategic decision to ignore regulations all over the world with the explicit intention of establishing sector-dominating monopolies, all the while claiming they were disrupting them.
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The USA has left the WHO, the Trump administration has announced billions of cuts to medical research programmes, and the Secretary of Health is a notorious anti-vaxxer. Right now, it’s best not to get sick in America. Particularly as the healthcare system there is already largely failing.
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The sanctions have failed. A Russian “ghost fleet” is now sailing the world’s oceans. According to several studies, these ships account for nearly 10% of the global fleet. Invisible, constantly changing their identities, and operating on the fringes of international law, these tankers circumvent sanctions and secretly fuel the Kremlin’s war economy.
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In the past five years, over two trillion dollars have been invested in AI with roughly 75% going into US companies like Anthropic or OpenAI. But to date, there is still no viable business model for all this investment. Is the AI bubble about to burst?
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Going for a swim at a public pool. Rinsing off in the shower before getting dressed in a locker room stall. And then realising you’re being watched. Worse yet, filmed without your knowledge.
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In a ravaged Palestine, power is fragmented among three opposing forces: a weakened Hamas in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and a “technocratic committee” appointed by Donald Trump, which is meant to oversee post-war governance, security, and reconstruction in the Gaza Strip. Stuck at the gates of the enclave and contested by all, this new player reveals a global battle to decide who will govern the Palestinians.
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China is facing a crisis that is as much about relationships as it is about demographics: marriages are on the decline, the birth rate is plummeting, and nearly 30 million men may never find a wife.
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Adaptation: the process of changing to suit different conditions. In today’s climate crisis, it means changing our way of life to survive its consequences.
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Long hailed as the European champion of multiculturalism, the United Kingdom is now undergoing an unprecedented identity crisis. Many Britons believe that immigration has become uncontrollable and that the authorities have lost control of their borders.
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