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  • People fleeing al-Fashir in Sudan are in a ‘disturbing’ condition, aid group says

    People fleeing al-Fashir in Sudan are in a ‘disturbing’ condition, aid group says

    GENEVA (Reuters) – Some children fleeing the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are arriving at a humanitarian camp in north Darfur so severely malnourished that treatment may not be able to save them, an international…

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  • US threatens to pull support for UN peace mission in Abyei

    US threatens to pull support for UN peace mission in Abyei

    The United States on Wednesday threatened to oppose the renewal of a UN peacekeeping mission to Abyei, a disputed region between war-torn Sudan and South Sudan, unless both sides uphold a 2011 peace deal.

    At a UN Security Council meeting, the US…

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  • US military ‘to establish presence’ at Damascus airbase

    US military ‘to establish presence’ at Damascus airbase

    AMMAN/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six sources…

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  • US military ‘to establish presence’ at Damascus airbase

    US military ‘to establish presence’ at Damascus airbase

    AMMAN/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six sources…

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  • Hamas thanks Türkiye for role in Gaza ceasefire

    Hamas thanks Türkiye for role in Gaza ceasefire

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    Hamas militants and Egyptian workers search for the bodies of Israeli hostages in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025.

    A Hamas delegation met with Turkish…

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  • Longevity gene offers clues to extending life without restrictive diets

    Longevity gene offers clues to extending life without restrictive diets

    The pursuit of a longer life may currently be trending for tech bros, but the notion of a fountain of youth, or even immortality, has intrigued people for millennia.

    Yet, some of the more evidence-based methods to increase…

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  • Opium farming in Afghanistan shrank by a fifth in 2025, UN survey finds – Reuters

    1. Opium farming in Afghanistan shrank by a fifth in 2025, UN survey finds  Reuters
    2. Afghanistan opium crop falls sharply after Taliban ban – UN report  BBC
    3. Afghanistan’s opium crop falls 20 percent as synthetic drugs surge  Al Jazeera
    4. Afghanistan…

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  • China borrows as cheaply as US in dollar bond market

    China borrows as cheaply as US in dollar bond market

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    China has issued dollar bonds at rates equivalent to US Treasury yields, in what bankers on the deal said was the first time Beijing’s borrowing costs have matched Washington’s.

    The bond offering is the latest example of countries taking advantage of being able to issue international debt cheaply, as their borrowing costs in relation to US Treasuries fall to some of the lowest levels on record.

    China’s issuance follows a de-escalation in trade tensions between Beijing and Washington after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year trade truce last week.

    China’s Ministry of Finance issued $4bn of dollar bonds in Hong Kong, pricing the three-year bond on par with US Treasury equivalents, with a coupon of 3.625 per cent. The five-year bond was priced 0.02 percentage points above equivalent US Treasuries.

    “Markets are flush with liquidity and geopolitical tensions have eased,” said David Yim, head of capital markets, Greater China and North Asia, at Standard Chartered, which was one of the bookrunners for the deal.

    Another person noted that investors were interested in Chinese sovereign dollar debt to diversify their portfolios and that the relatively limited issuance had led to the oversubscription.

    Order books showed that the five-year bond was 30 times subscribed, with more than half of the offers coming from central banks, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies.

    In September, Abu Dhabi sold $2bn in 10-year bonds at a spread to US Treasuries of 0.18 percentage points. South Korea’s finance ministry issued $1bn of dollar bonds with a maturity of five years at a spread of 0.17 percentage points in October.

    China last issued dollar bonds in 2024, when it sold $2bn of debt in Saudi Arabia.

    A syndicate of Chinese, US and other foreign banks managed Thursday’s deal. The proceeds will be used for “general government purposes”, according to the bond term sheet. The deal will be settled next Thursday.

    While Chinese dollar-denominated debt has previously traded at a negative spread to US equivalents, bonds have always been priced at a premium, although the spread has narrowed.

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  • [Research Press Release] Artificial Intelligence: Towards fairer human image datasets (Nature)








    [Research Press Release] Artificial Intelligence: Towards fairer human image datasets (Nature) | Nature Portfolio


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  • Richard, Moody, Kuminga Combine for 82 Points in Close Loss to Kings – NBA

    Richard, Moody, Kuminga Combine for 82 Points in Close Loss to Kings – NBA

    1. Richard, Moody, Kuminga Combine for 82 Points in Close Loss to Kings  NBA
    2. Game 9 wrap: (no spoiler title)  Dub Nation HQ
    3. NBA Fans React To Russell Westbrook’s Performance In Warriors-Kings Game  PFSN
    4. Kings’ Russell Westbrook: Vintage outing in…

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