Posts by Amelia Frost
Is Waymo Friend or Foe to Uber?
In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: The company had made an expensive bet on robot taxis, but the project was laden with legal problems and burning through cash. So Uber gave it away to another start-up. But five years later, Uber’s future seems as tied to autonomous vehicles as ever. The company is now…
Read MoreNigeria’s Lithium Mining Eldorado Sparks Concerns
At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with the pieces which break off the walls. In the course of a day’s work he manages to fill three 50-kilo bags which will net him 150,000 nairas ($100), or around double the monthly minimum…
Read MoreJanuary Sets ‘Surprising’ Heat Record: EU Monitor
Last month was the hottest January on record, Europe’s climate monitor said Thursday, despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of record-breaking global temperatures. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said January was 1.75C hotter than pre-industrial times, extending a persistent run of history-making highs over 2023 and 2024, as human-caused greenhouse…
Read MoreTurkey Marks Second Anniversary Of Quake Disaster
Turkey on Thursday commemorates the second anniversary of the February 6, 2023 earthquake, which claimed nearly 60,000 lives including in neighbouring Syria and turned entire cities into ruins. Thousands of residential buildings in southeastern Turkey collapsed in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude quake that hit at 4:17 am, killing many in their sleep. Two…
Read MoreAsian Markets Advance After Wall St Gains, US Postal Service U-turn
Asian markets rose Thursday, tracking gains on Wall Street and following the US Postal Service’s U-turn on a ban on parcels from China and Hong Kong, though trade war fears continue to keep sentiment at bay. Global equites and currencies have been hit by volatility this week after US President Donald Trump announced hefty tariffs…
Read MoreFive Ways In Which Argentina’s Milei Has Mirrored Trump
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as the saying goes, and Argentina’s President Javier Milei has made clear his admiration for Donald Trump by liberally borrowing from the US president’s playbook. On Wednesday, Argentina announced it would follow the United States out of the World Health Organization, echoing Trump’s repeated complaints about what he…
Read MoreFox News Adds Lara Trump as a Host
President Trump persuaded several Fox News hosts to leave the network and take up major roles in his administration. Now a Trump is joining the network. Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law and a former co-chair of the Republican Party, will begin hosting a new weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22, the network announced…
Read MoreWhat to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East
As President Trump pushes a new plan to take control of Gaza and clear out an area that once was home to an estimated two million residents, he is advocating bringing the United States much more deeply into a region where his family has a growing collection of real-estate and business interests. There is no…
Read MoreTrump’s Plan to Send Migrants to Guantanamo Bay is ‘Frankly Insane,’ Former State Department Official Says
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump sent an initial group of migrants to Guantanamo Bay after announcing plans to begin detaining migrants at the base. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A senior State Department official now working at Yale University as a law professor has weighed in on President Donald Trump‘s plan to send up to 30,000 migrants…
Read MoreCows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu
Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday. The finding indicates that the virus, known as H5N1, has spilled from birds into cows at least…
Read MoreUN Chief Warns Against Gaza ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ After Trump Comments
The UN chief warned Wednesday against ethnic cleansing in Gaza as he rejected US President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal for the United States to take control of the Palestinian territory and displace all its people. Trump, in a White House news conference on Tuesday alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stunningly proposed “long-term ownership” of…
Read MoreF.C.C. Releases CBS ’60 Minutes’ Interview With Kamala Harris
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday released the transcript of a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that has been at the center of a lawsuit between CBS and President Trump. The transcript of the interview shows that Ms. Harris gave a lengthy answer to a question about Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister.…
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