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SINGAPORE, July 25 (Reuters) – China’s shadowy, uncrewed reusable spacecraft, which launches atop a rocket booster and lands at a secretive military airfield, is most likely testing technology but could also be used for manipulating or retrieving satellites, experts say. The spacecraft, on its third mission, was in June observed releasing an object, moving several…
Who is Mark Carney, the next prime minister of Canada?
TORONTO (AP) — Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after a Liberal Party leadership vote in a landslide. Carney is 59. He was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, on March 16, 1965, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Credentials Carney ran the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and…
Fitch still considering US credit rating downgrade despite debt ceiling deal
Fitch says it could still downgrade US credit rating amid ‘brinkmanship’ concerns Fitch Ratings said Friday it is holding the United States on watch for a possible credit downgrade, even though Congress passed a bipartisan debt ceiling agreement that will ensure the government can pay its bills on time. The ratings agency said in a…
AI enables phones to detect depression from facial cues, study shows
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (UPI) — A new smartphone application uses artificial intelligence to detect depression from facial cues, opening the door to real-time digital mental health support, a new research paper reports. The researchers published their work Tuesday to the arXiv preprint database in advance of presenting it at the Association of Computing Machinery’s…
Breaking News | China | NewsHong Kong Adopts Sweeping Security Laws, Bowing to Beijing
Hong Kong on Tuesday passed national security laws at the behest of Beijing, thwarting decades of public resistance in a move that critics say will strike a lasting blow to the partial autonomy the city had been promised by China. Hong Kong already had a national security law, one that was imposed directly by China’s…
Breaking News | China | NewsChina halts foreign adoptions, a policy helping families since 1990s. But why is US concerned?
The decade of 1990 saw the launch of the one-child policy in China to address the issue of overpopulation.This led to an increase in the flow of children in state orphanages which eventually opened doors for international adoptions China announced on Thursday that it is ending its international adoption programme, an initiative that saw tens…


