Last week, quantum computers were added to Australia’s Defence and Strategic Goods List of controlled items facing export restrictions. That’s because quantum technologies – which may soon provide huge advances in computing, communication and sensing…
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Investing.com– Oil prices ended the week in the red despite settling higher Friday, as Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell’s signal that rate cuts were coming boosted sentiment on risk assets. At 14:30 ET (18:30 GMT),…
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For more than a year maize prices in Kenya and Malawi have been much higher compared with other countries in the east and southern Africa (ESA) region. Several factors explain this. In Malawi, high fertiliser…
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Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the…
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By Nelson Acosta and Alien Fernandez CARDENAS, Cuba (Reuters) – Power outages totaling 14 hours or more per day were reported on Thursday across much of crisis-racked Cuba, leaving millions of residents defenseless in the…
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Disney has U-turned on a bid to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit in the US by relying on the terms of service for a simple streaming trial. The suit was filed by a man whose…
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SAN AGUSTIN ACASAGUASTLAN, Guatemala (Reuters) – Drought and crop failure are a pervasive threat in Guatemala where hunger and malnutrition run rampant, particularly in rural areas – a reality that international aid programs are trying…
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Britain has a pension problem. Despite having one of the biggest and most sophisticated financial centres of the world in London, the country’s pension industry does not fall into the same category. The results can…
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In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. The tiny, short-lived objects are composed of exotic antimatter particles. The measurements of…
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s QCoal said on Saturday that workers at its Byerwen coking coal mine in Queensland state had been sent home pending a probe into the death of a worker at the site…
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