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Japan restarts first nuclear reactor since Fukushima under close scrutiny
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) on Wednesday restarted its first nuclear reactor since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, with the utility’s safety measures set to be closely watched as it seeks to turn around its business amid ongoing clean-up efforts from the accident. Tepco brought back online the No 6 reactor at the seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa complex in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo – the world’s…
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At Davos, Singapore’s Tharman calls for US-China rivalry to ‘benefit’ world
Competition between the United States and China could help drive global progress, but only if both powers exercise restraint in sensitive areas such as nuclear technology and artificial intelligence, Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam has said. Speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Tharman stressed that broad innovation benefits could come from rivalry between the…
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Chips, soybeans, tariffs: what’s on tap for US-China talks before Trump’s next visit?
Chinese and US negotiators are expected to discuss stepping up trade in AI chips and farm products, as well as what to do later this year when their hard-fought 2025 truce expires – all before President Donald Trump visits China for the first time in his current term, analysts said on Wednesday. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested on Tuesday that the pieces were in place for an April summit in Beijing…
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Probe into Spain train crash turns to missing ‘bogie’ found in stream
A large piece of metal found near the site of a high-speed train crash in Spain may be the missing chunk of undercarriage that investigators have been searching for to find the cause of the accident, a source and experts said on Wednesday. The crash, one of Europe’s biggest, happened on Sunday night near the southern town of Adamuz in a remote hilly area, killing at least 42 people. Inaki Barron, the head of…
Sidestepping Greenland row, Nato chief urges Arctic unity to counter China and Russia
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Sidestepping Greenland row, Nato chief urges Arctic unity to counter China and Russia
Nato members must collectively protect the Arctic from growing Chinese and Russian influence, the chief of the security alliance said on Wednesday, while sidestepping the issue of Washington’s controversial bid to acquire Greenland. Speaking at an event during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said the transatlantic security alliance was crucial not only for the defence of Europe, but also for the US, which required a “safe Arctic, a...
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Indian Kashmir police pressure journalists to sign ‘peace’ pledges, sparking censorship fears
Police in Indian Kashmir have asked at least three journalists working in the region to sign a pledge vowing not to “disturb peace” in the region, two of them told Reuters on Wednesday. A third journalist, an assistant editor with the Indian Express newspaper, was summoned to a police station in Srinagar, the capital of the federal territory, but did not sign the pledge, the newspaper said in a report published on…
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Donald Trump addresses World Economic Forum in Davos – as it happened
This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by downloading our app. US President Donald Trump tackled a slew of hot geopolitical topics at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday in a sometimes rambling speech that overran by almost 30 minutes. Trump, who complained that he…
US losing ground to China with ‘onslaught’ on cutting-edge research: Nobel laureate
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US losing ground to China with ‘onslaught’ on cutting-edge research: Nobel laureate
The United States could be at risk of falling behind China in the technology race unless it halts the “wholesale onslaught” on scientific research programmes taking place under US President Donald Trump, according to the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joel Mokyr. The American-Israeli scholar, who shared the 2025 prize for economics, said “all areas that are at the cutting edge of science” in the US were “suffering” under the current administration, which appeared to be “against any kind of...
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Principality Building Society in £600,000 of charitable funding
The funding supports communities, young people and environmental sustainability across Wales.
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Manchesterism: Andy Burnham unveils massive plan to ‘reindustrialise birthplace of industrial revolution’
Mayor singles out five ‘growth clusters’ in Greater Manchester
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Ils n’attendaient pas les douaniers à cet endroit et prennent tous les risques pour leur échapper, les sacs de voyage étaient remplis de cigarettes
Nouveau coup dur, en Occitanie, pour la contrebande de cigarettes. En Ariège, les douaniers ont intercepté 2 050 paquets destinés à alimenter Toulouse et sa proche région.
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Mathématiques : les filles sont les bienvenues au lycée Monteil de Rodez
Sensibiliser les jeunes filles aux filières scientifiques, casser les stéréotypes et valoriser les parcours féminins : c’est l’objectif de la journée nationale "filles et mathématiques- informatique", déclinée, ce...