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China’s space race has a new problem: finding room for failure

There is something about the speed of consensus on China’s rocket failures that should give us pause. Within hours of Long March-7A rocket’s disintegration over the South China Sea on August 10, trade reports were pointing to an engine as the likely culprit. The China Aerospace Science and Technolog

18 Aug, 05:30 am
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Ecuador’s Noboa courts China on shrimp, copper without threatening US ties

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa arrived in Beijing on Sunday for his first state visit to China, an eight-day trip during which he will seek to lift suspensions on 14 Ecuadorian shrimp processors and secure fresh investment in energy and mining. Noboa will hold talks with President Xi Jinping and

18 Aug, 04:57 am
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Thousands mourn ex-Cambridge professor Jason Arday in London vigil

Thousands of people gathered in central London late on Monday to hold a vigil for black academic Jason Arday, blaming racism and relentless media pressure for his death last week. The vigil in central Trafalgar Square came as the head of Cambridge University on Monday condemned a “racist feeding fre

18 Aug, 04:28 am
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Trump approval rating falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency, poll finds

US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, with an overwhelming majority of Americans ‌concerned the US war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday. Just 33 per cent of respondents in the four-day

18 Aug, 03:35 am
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Long-awaited trial begins in rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Las Vegas killing

Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot dead in an act of gang revenge ordered by a mobster who later boasted of it, jurors heard on Monday, as one of America’s most anticipated trials got under way, 30 years after the murder. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a one-time leader of the South Side Compton Crips, one of a p

18 Aug, 03:07 am
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Mafia link feared in theft of grand master paintings from Sicily museum

The theft ⁠of four paintings by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina may have involved organised crime and raised troubling questions about security at a museum in the Sicilian artist’s hometown, a local official said on Monday. Enzo Caruso, Messina’s councillor for culture, said it was difficult

18 Aug, 01:53 am
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Nvidia to provide up to US$105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre

Nvidia has agreed to provide a ⁠guarantee of up to US$105 billion ⁠to help ⁠OpenAI lease a sprawling data centre in Ohio being developed by SoftBank-backed SB Energy, in one of the chipmaker’s largest infrastructure financing commitments. The Jensen Huang-led firm said on Monday it will also invest

18 Aug, 01:30 am
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Kremlin critic jailed in Russia for 11 years for opposing the war in Ukraine

A Russian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years and one month in prison in the latest crackdown leading up to next month’s parliamentary election. The verdict against Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the

18 Aug, 01:01 am
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UK PM Burnham exchanged messages with Trump aide impostor: reports

New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone posing as Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, it was reported on Monday. According to Politico, which broke the story quoting anonymous sources, the British leader sent a “few messages” via an unspecified communication

18 Aug, 12:22 am
HK Free Press

Taiwan’s leader says government to propose record defence spending for 2027

Taiwan’s government will propose record defence spending for 2027, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, as the island democracy faces growing military pressure from China. Beijing claims Taiwan is part of its territory and has threatened to use force to annex the island of 23 million people.

17 Aug, 03:59 pm
HK Free Press

Subdivided flat residents swelter in heat that feels like 52°C, climate NGO finds

Residents living in “shoebox” flats and other inadequate housing have experienced temperatures that feel like 52 degrees Celsius this summer, a climate NGO has found. The CarbonCare InnoLab said in a press conference on Sunday that it took temperature and humidity readings at 86 househol

17 Aug, 01:01 pm
HK Free Press

Hong Kong police launch internal probe into officer over viral dog-ear dancing clip

The police force has launched an internal investigation into an officer who appeared in a viral video dancing in uniform with a dog-ear filter. The clip gained traction on platforms in mainland China, including Douyin, the mainland’s version of TikTok. It was captioned “It’s too hot. Let

17 Aug, 07:50 am
HK Free Press

Chinese ship sets off for Europe through Arctic, halving travel time

A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that cuts shipment times in half but which environmental groups warn could speed up the melting of polar ice. The “Dubai Tower” left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday ev

16 Aug, 07:06 pm
HK Free Press

Powerful quake off Indonesia kills 20, sparks mass evacuations

By Arnold Welianto and Dessy Sagita in Jakarta Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing. As the full scale of the disaster unfolded, rescue official Fathur

15 Aug, 01:31 pm