Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Friday afternoon in northwestern Australia, bringing intense rain and destructive winds to a sparsely populated region of the country that is home to ports and mines critical to the global economy. The authorities ordered residents to stay indoors. Australian meteorologists said the storm had made landfall at 12:30 p.m. local time 34 miles northeast …
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JetBrains’ Ktor 3.1.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side applications, is now available, featuring a command-line tool for simpler creation of projects. The update also brings new features to server-sent events (SSE), which allow a server to continuously push events to a client over HTTP. The 3.1.0 version, described by JetBrains as a minor release, …
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President Donald Trump has met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has heaped praise on him in the hope of avoiding the additional tariffs that the new administration has slapped on other countries. The pair greeted each with a hug in the lobby of the West Wing before meeting on Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office. Mr Trump called Mr …
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A US Navy aircraft carrier collided with a merchant vessel near Egypt, the US military said on Thursday, though the nuclear-powered carrier was stable and there were no injuries.
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U.S. access to Ukraine’s vast and largely untapped rare earths and other critical minerals in exchange for a “security shield” is the latest twist in the potential peace plan for the war in Ukraine. And it is picking up steam with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Kyiv and President Donald Trump stunning Europe by revealing he has already begun …
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President Donald Trump has announced that “high-level” US representatives will meet their Russian counterparts at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to discuss a resolution to the Ukraine conflict. President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart spoke for nearly 90 minutes by phone on Wednesday, marking the first known direct interaction between the Russian and US heads of state since …
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Tourism makes up about 10% of the global economy, but sustainable practices are key to protecting destinations and communities and boosting resilience. Credit: UNDP Maldives | Ashwa Faheem Opinion by Francine Pickup (united nations) Thursday, February 13, 2025 Inter Press Service The UN commemorates Global World Tourism Day on Feb 17 But in a world facing climate shocks, resource depletion, and …
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A United States general has announced there are currently about 5,000 active-duty soldiers along the country’s southern border with Mexico, as part of President Donald Trump’s overall push to crack down on immigration. General Gregory Guillot, the head of US Northern Command, told lawmakers on Thursday he expects that number could increase further. He also revealed that the military has …
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Frank Gardner Security Correspondent Reuters JD Vance has arrived in Munich for the conference and is expected to lay out the US plan for Ukraine The US Vice President, JD Vance, Ukraine’s President Zelensky and up to 60 other world leaders and decision-makers are due to convene in Munich over the next three days for the annual Munich Security Conference …
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was already facing a daunting week as foreign officials gathered in Europe for talks about his country’s future. The Trump administration was demanding $500 billion in Ukrainian mineral rights, it canceled Ukraine’s exemption from U.S. tariffs on steel and a leading American skeptic of military assistance for Kyiv, Vice President JD Vance, was on his …
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