Paris, France | Xinhua | “This week,” France will begin withdrawing its soldiers deployed in Niger, the French Joint Defense Staff said on Thursday. “We will begin our disengagement operation this week, in good order, safely and in coordination with the Nigeriens,” the French military headquarters was quoted by the …
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Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | Norwegian author Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced here on Thursday. Fosse’s immense oeuvre, written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres, consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations, …
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Chicago, US | Xinhua | The United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers has cost General Motors Co. (GM) 200 million U.S. dollars as of late September, reported local media. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, GM said it has established …
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This year’s laureates “have succeeded in producing particles so small that their properties are determined by quantum phenomena. The particles, which are called quantum dots, are now of great importance in nanotechnology,” said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | Three scientists, Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis …
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Kiev, Ukraine | XINHUA | Some foreign ministers of the EU members on Monday met in Kiev for their first meeting outside the bloc, said the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. “I am convinced that this meeting will speed up the European integration of Ukraine,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, while opening …
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What the Global South must do and the concept of active non-alignment ANALYSIS | MONICA HEZ & GIANCARLO SUMMA | The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 to 26 in New York, …
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About 48 percent of the New Orleans water system was installed before 1940, making many pipes more than 80 years old, according to a report from the local news website NOLA. Lead was a common pipe material until the U.S. banned it in 1986. Houston, US | Xinhua | Salt …
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United Nations, US | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Friday’s two separate terrorist attacks in Pakistan. “We very much condemn the terrorist attacks that took place in Pakistan, killing more than 50 people. The people responsible need to be held to account,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN …
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Washington, US | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday night signed a 45-day stopgap funding bill, just a few minutes before federal government funding for this fiscal year is set to expire. In a last-minute effort to avert a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released the new bill …
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London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | For the second home match running, Tottenham Hotspur secured a dramatic stoppage-time victory, this time beating nine-man Liverpool to go second in the table, a point behind Manchester City. Two weeks after a goal in the 10th minute of stoppage time secured a 2-1 win over Sheffield United, an own …
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