The world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday in southern France, with the first ultra-hot plasma expected to be generated in late 2025. The € 20 billion (£ 18.2 billion) Iter project will replicate the reactions that feed the sun and is intended to demonstrate …
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, in an exercise aimed at threatening the United States amid tensions between Tehran and Washington. The drill, on a waterway through which 20% of all traded oil passes, underscores …
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A Hong Kong real estate magnate wants to build a city in Ireland to house 50,000 emigrants from the semi-autonomous region in a plan he compares to the Puritans arriving in America. Ivan Ko, founder of Victoria Harbor Group (VHG), an international charter city investment company, hopes to find a …
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Zimbabwe’s ruling party threatened the expulsion of the United States ambassador, amid an intensification of repression against opposition and union activists ahead of anti-corruption protests planned on Friday. Zanu-PF officials called Ambassador Brian Nichols “a bully” who fomented the unrest by funding the protest organizers. The accusation came when the …
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Ecuador sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels about 200 miles from the Galapagos Islands, the archipelago that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. About 260 ships are currently in international waters outside a 188-mile-wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but …
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