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Lebanon's parliament speaker said there are parties that do not want a new government, a newspaper reported on Monday, highlighting the obstacles that have derailed its formation after an agreement had seemed close. More than seven months since its...
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A NASA spacecraft is hurtling toward a historic New Year's Day flyby of the most distant planetary object ever studied, a frozen relic of the early solar system called Ultima Thule. Four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away, the unmanned spac...
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Asep Sunaria heard a loud "whoosh" just seconds before a wall of water threw him off his motorbike, swallowing his house and the village he called home until Saturday night. As rescuers hunted for survivors of the volcano-triggered tsunami that kill...
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You can’t escape him, working where information theory meets statistical mechanics. Information theory concerns how efficiently we can encode information, compute, evade eavesdroppers, and communicate. Statistical mechanics is the physics of many pa...
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Australia will introduce new surveillance technology for a "crackdown" on drones next year, aviation authorities said Monday, as concerns mount over their increasing prevalence in public areas. Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plan...
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Now Pallete may need to redouble efforts to convince investors his strategy is sound. “The notion of people like Elliott watching, if anything, puts management under more pressure to really focus on deleveraging,” said Jerry Dellis, an analyst at Je...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recovers from lung cancer surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Doctors haven’t said when the 85-year-old might be released.
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Having initially offered A$3.70 per share for the Australian accounting-software maker, the private equity firm cut its bid to A$3.40. KKR’s A$2 billion ($1.4 billion) offer prices MYOB at about 4.5 times sales, compared with the 5.5 times median fo...
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The biggest buyer of electric vehicles is the government itself, dealers say, with hundreds sold in bulk to local authorities over the past few years. The few others spotted speeding up Dubai’s highways tend to be Teslas, which start at 335,730 dirh...
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A Cold War weapon that proved to be obsolete.
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The film won the weekend while still falling short of the $82 million predicted by analysts at Box Office Pro. Key Insights“Aquaman” brings fresh momentum to the DC Comics’ extended universe, which began with “Man of Steel” in 2013. It was positive...
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GEORGETOWN/CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's navy "intercepted" a ship exploring for oil on behalf of Exxon Mobil Corp in Guyanese waters over the weekend, Guyana's foreign ministry said in a statement, while neighboring Venezuela said the incident oc...
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Another tsunami could strike Indonesia, experts warned on Sunday, a day after more than 200 people were killed by a wave triggered by a volcanic eruption. - What caused the tsunami? The tsunami "appears to have been caused by an underwater collapse...
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ROME (AP) — Archaeologists have unearthed the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of an ancient villa in a Pompeii suburb.