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    Exploding pagers join long history of killer communications devices

    Israel, blamed by Hizbollah for Tuesday’s attack, has long used telephones and their successors to track and kill enemies

    CCTV footage of a man’s bag exploding in a Beirut supermarket on Tuesday, left
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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia dials up pressure on Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

    Moscow claims it is retaking territory occupied by Kyiv, but Putin has not shifted forces away from Donetsk

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Apollo Global Management LLC
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    Led by a onetime dealer in death benefit settlements, the leveraged buyout pioneer evolves into a bulge-bracket lender

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    Roche data shows stomach-churning side effects of weight-loss drugs

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Overseas voters could swing US election result in battleground states

    Parties target Americans abroad in effort to gain advantage in race for the White House

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
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    Wildfires sweep Amazon as Brazil suffers worst drought on record

    Destruction of forest combined with low rainfall exacerbate effects of climate change

    A drone view shows a fire in Amazonas state, Brazil.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    Why Kyiv wants to use Storm Shadow missiles in Russia

    UK long-range missiles and French Scalps can destroy Russian air power in minutes but some in the US fear escalation

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Adrian Cheng
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    New World Development chief confronts prolonged real estate slump and succession speculation

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    German politics
    The woes of Olaf Scholz

    Polls find centre-left politician is least popular chancellor since German reunification

    Olaf Scholz
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Indian society
    Rise of the Indian tourist: travel industry pivots to next big market

    Higher incomes encourage more people to travel, echoing similar trend in China

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
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    Pharma groups to tackle greenhouse gases from asthma inhalers

    GSK and AstraZeneca plan final trials to upgrade propellants that cause much of the sector’s carbon footprint

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK manufacturing
    Is there a future for steelmaking in the UK?

    Tata Steel plans to replace its Port Talbot blast furnaces with a less-polluting electric arc furnace

    Port Talbot steel works
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