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The military strike avoided by Trump resulted in a huge gamble
A federal appeals court in California has ruled that US President Donald Trump can maintain control over 4,000 California National Guard troops in Los Angeles. This comes after the US-Iran war, during which Israel carried out airstrikes on Iranian military sites. The US didn’t participate in the airstrikes, according to a statement by the Trump…
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Only a few dozen children from Gaza have been treated at a cancer center in Jordan
Israel’s military has permitted food into Gaza for the first time in more than nine weeks amid the ongoing conflict between the enclave’s Hamas rulers and the country. The food was delivered to about 200 people last week, a UN official said. Over 55,000 people, many of them women and children, have died during the…
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Talks with Iran fail to reach a breakthrough as the war enters its ninth day
Iran’s Health Ministry said that 430 civilians have been killed and over 3,000 injured since the Israeli airstrikes on the country began on June 13, state media reported. Israel has said that missiles from Iran hit Haifa. “We do not want to negotiate with anyone while…Zionist regime’s aggression continues,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
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Israel has to wait for Donald Trump to react to the strategic dilemma in Iran
Israel’s military on Monday said that over 400 missiles and hundreds of drones were fired by Iran in the last few days as the ongoing hostilities between the two countries entered the second week. This comes after US President Donald Trump said that he would make a decision on US’ involvement in the war with…
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Take precautions to protect yourself from the hot weather
The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised people to take precautions to stay healthy and safe amid summer heat. People who’re active outside, such as working, exercising or playing sports, are at higher risk of heat-related illnesses, WHO said. They should stop producing heat and cool down in the shade or an air-conditioned room, it…
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Israel is forced to wait for Trump, and is facing a strategic dilemma
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that his country would attack Iran even if US President Donald Trump doesn’t take part. “We’ll achieve all our objectives…If the US doesn’t participate, we will,” he added. Iran has killed 24 people in Israel, the country’s military said in a statement on Thursday.
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The Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits gender-affirming care for children
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a case challenging a ban on the use of medical treatments for gender dysphoria in children. It ruled that the state had “entitled” to ban treatment and that it was not a violation of federal law. This comes after the Arkansas Supreme Court had last year made it…
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The case of the U.S. v. Skrmetti looks at how the trans rights movement gambled on the Supreme Court
A lawyer’s advocate has said that she and her husband had asked in the lawsuit against Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare to do their job as parents. “Don’t allow politics to affect our child’s existence. Being a teenager can be hard. Being a parent of a teenager is not easy. He wants to bar trans…
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Israel’s president is calling for the world to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites
After Israel launched airstrikes on Iranian targets, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “We’re all afraid of the nuclear attack.” He added that Iran was not seeking to use its nuclear programme for military purposes but for civilian purposes. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu also said that his country had set back Iran’s nuclear program by a…
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What happens when there is no feed at all?
American Psychologist David Broad has revealed that generative adversarial networks (GANs) are used to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. GANs are used to mimic the data being trained on, Broad said. In his doctoral thesis, Broad wrote, “I kind of had to find other ways of framing the question…A generative model is just a statistical…
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A flight simulation shows moths navigate by starlight
A team of researchers in Australia captured moths and placed them in a flight simulator, which projected the night sky at 250 times brighter than one used at night. The results showed the brain of the moths is processing the visual images of the Milky Way and circadian-rhythm-induced light-induced state of the moths.
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The ban is being extended by Trump
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday extending the deadline for ByteDance and TikTok to spin out from their Chinese parent company to mid-September. This will be the third time that Trump has extended the deadline for ByteDance and TikTok to spin out. Earlier, he had signed an executive order delaying…
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There are stars that these moths use to navigate
Researchers captured and placed moths in a ‘flight simulator’ to create a starry sky projection at 250 times brighter than one used at night (to account for circadian-rhythm-induced light state of the moths). To create randomised starry skies for experiments in autumn 2018 and spring 2018, the positions of all individual pixels of the natural…
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The Fed’s economic forecast could be cloudy with a chance of showers
US President Donald Trump said he’s “absolutely ready” to impose new tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports, if China doesn’t back off. However, he added that he hasn’t yet decided whether to go ahead with the move. Earlier this month, Trump had tweeted that the US will impose tariffs on a total of…
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Iran retaliates after Israel hits more Iranian military targets
Israel on Monday carried out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets, Iranian media reported. This comes after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned of “more forceful,severe, precise and destructive” strikes. The airstrikes are part of the fourth day of the conflict between the two countries which began after Israel carried out an air strike on…
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Tehran is hitting back despite Israel’s claim that it has control of Iran’s skies
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his country has destroyed nearly a third of Iran’s estimated 100 mobile launchers for ballistic missiles. He added that Israel had gained control of many of Iran’s airspace and had taken out its missile capabilities in less than a year. Israel launched an airstrike on Iran last week after the…
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China is capable of becoming abiotech superpower
Rao Yi, a scientist and leader of the Chinese government’s Science Council, has said that China’s growing life-sciences research has led to a fall of its international stature. “The United States is now the largest funding source for medical research in the world,” he added. Yi further said that China’s life-sciences research has also caught…
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A new $7 billion opioid settlement has been reached
A group of states and US territories has agreed to accept a settlement proposal filed by the National Prescription Opiate Litigation Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee after 5 years of litigation and three years of bankruptcy. The proposal will allow people who want to file a lawsuit against the Sackler family for alleged wrong- doing to do…
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North Koreans are fighting for Russia, and they have gotten more skilled at using drones
South Korea’s former intelligence adviser, Cha Du Hyeogn, has said that if the Ukraine war continues and North Korea commits more troops, their battleground knowledge could pose a threat to South Korea. He further said that North Korea has reserves to send up to 150,000 additional troops to fight with the Russians against Ukraine.
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The president is going to leave the G7 to focus on the Middle East
US President Donald Trump, who’ll attend the G7 summit in Canada, said, “We’ve our trade deals. We have our trade deals.” He added, “If he acts out, leaders should ignore him and remain calm like Carney (Canadian PM Sean Carney) did in his recent Oval Office meeting.” Earlier, Trudeau had said that Trump didn’t want…
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Diplomacy with Iran isn’t dead
Israel said that it has crippled its air defenses in response to Iran’s missile attacks, the Associated Press and the Weizmann Institute of Science reported. Iran on Saturday fired missiles into Israel in retaliation for Israel’s air strikes on Iranian targets. “We will continue to target Iran’s military sites,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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Israel and Iran traded more deadly strikes on each other
At least eight people were killed and nearly 100 were wounded after Iran struck Tel Aviv and Haifa with missiles and drones early Monday. The Israeli military said it “precisely struck” command centres belonging to Iran’s Quds Force, an elite military and intelligence arm of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), overnight. Iran’s UN envoy said…
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Donald Trump’s military parade provided something to take away from
US President Donald Trump on Sunday condemned the shooting of two lawmakers in Minnesota, saying, “Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America.” Police on Saturday arrested suspected shooter John Boelter at one of the lawmakers’ residences. Boelter allegedly shot the lawmakers as they protested against his killing of a…
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Iran retaliates against Israel on the fourth day of the conflict
US President Donald Trump has said that “the full strength of US Armed forces” will come down on Iran at levels “never seen before”. He added that he has “nothing to do with” Iran’s missile attack on Tel Aviv and Haifa. This comes a day after an Iranian military official said that Iran fired missiles…
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A split-screen of a divided America shows no Kings protests and a military parade
Several thousand people attended the military parade held to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Army in Washington on Saturday amid protests against US President Donald Trump’s birthday celebrations. “He’s a dictator when he’s acting within the law,” a protester said about Trump. However, the DC Mayor said he supports people’s First Amendment rights…