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Six Flags shuts down X2 rollercoaster after more than 100 allege brain injuries
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Three takeaways from Trump's 'Super Intelligence' summit
The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.
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Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses
Figure cited by minister highlights trade-offs Kyiv faces as it tries to keep normal life moving amid Russian strikes Missile alerts are costing Ukraine an estimated $45m (£34m) for every hour they bring business to a halt, according to the country’s economy minister, as Kyiv searches for ways to keep the economy running under an intensifying Russian bombardment. Russia has increasingly targeted the infrastructure underpinning Ukraine’s economy, striking industrial sites, warehouses, logistics hubs and datacentres in what Oleksandr Kravchenko, the minister for economy and the environment, described as an effort to “destroy pretty much the entire economy”. Continue reading...
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Australia news live: Chalmers blames inflation on fuel costs and end of energy rebates; Faruqi ‘disappointed’ by ballot
Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Who is potential Greens deputy leader candidate Steph Hodgins-May? So who is the first-term senator expected to announce a leadership ticket tilt with David Shoebridge ? Get your dirty hands off our kids, that is our message to the fossil fuel industry, who have no place in early-learning centres, in schools, or in our cultural institutions in this country. Children should go to school to get evidence-based education, not to be brainwashed by fossil fuel corporations seeking to build social licence. Continue reading...
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String of rapes in Delhi triggers social campaign for women’s safety
Women in India’s capital are protesting after a string of rape cases, using bold slogans to demand safer public spaces.
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Public workers in France strike over pay as student protests turn violent
More than 400 detained as police and students clash over class sizes, exhausting timetables and staff shortages More than 400 people, most of them children, have been detained in France on Tuesday after teenagers across the country blockaded their schools in protest at class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables. Interior minister Laurent Nunez told BFM TV: “440 were detained across national territory. We don’t have the final tally yet, but I’m told two-thirds led to police custody.” Continue reading...
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Concern over Sydney airport as near misses and runway incursions at 20% above national average
Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigating staffing gaps as key factor in four incidents in July and August Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Modelling by Sydney airport’s air traffic control operators predicted elevated fatigue risks for staff at the time of a series of major safety incidents, with a review identifying runway incursions and near misses at 20% above national averages. Staffing gaps at Sydney airport are being investigated as a key factor in four incidents in July and August this year, according to the investigating authority, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau [ATSB]. Continue reading...