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CNN reported, citing four sources familiar with the episode, that the U.S. military prepared to intercept a Chinese vessel after an AI-assisted intelligence report misidentified its cargo. According to CNN, the report incorrectly concluded that the ship was carrying components of a nuclear weapons program. Some of CNN’s sources saidContinue Reading

During England’s Industrial Revolution, when the country’s farming-based economy transformed into an industrial one between roughly 176src and 184src, pollution, harsh working conditions, inadequate housing and limited access to sunlight drove disease. Rickets, in which the growing skeleton fails to properly mineralize, was commonplace among children…Continue Reading

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Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors have named Iuliia Mendel, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former press secretary, a treason suspect over her public statements, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) wrote. Mendel, who lives abroad, says the case punishes her for speaking out. The suspicion moves her dispute with Kyiv from a sanctionsContinue Reading

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Russian prosecutors charge perhaps 90% of Ukrainian captives whose cases go to trial, prisoners of war among them, with terrorism-related offenses. Mariana Katzarova, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Russia, said this in an interview with Ukrinform published on 3 November. Russia tortures Ukrainian prisonersContinue Reading