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Farming can help drive southern Africa’s growth if countries in the region make trade easier
Trade within the Southern African Development Community is an issue holding back agriculture.
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Indictments against a top extremism researcher and the SPLC force a reckoning on research ethics – an extremism scholar reflects on the field’s challenges
Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization raise a crucial question for researchers in the field: What are the ethical limits on research about often-dangerous groups?
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AI is set to boost productivity and will have a ‘profound’ impact on the jobs market: Treasury
An analysis by the Treasury forecasts that AI has the potential to have a bigger impact on high-skilled and cognitive jobs, not just physical and routine roles.
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Federal stimulus money bought new technology for Philly students, but many schools lost track of where items went
A significant amount of Philadelphia public schools’ technology and other equipment goes missing each year due to poor inventory and tracking.
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In Texas, ordinary Muslim religious practices are increasingly being treated as political threats
After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.
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Yiddish’s ‘revival’ points to its resilience as a portable homeland – and a global reach, from Russia to Mexico to the US
Many Americans associate Yiddish strictly with Eastern Europe. But its horizons are much broader than that, especially amid today’s revival.
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Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit
RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after three of his most senior ministers formally quit on Monday. This comes after Wale, 57, who was elected to the top job just over 100 days ago, cut short a
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Sea-level rise, fuel shortages and missile tests top the agenda as Albanese heads to Palau for Pacific talks
Pacific nations will want Albanese to address the world’s key security threat – climate change.
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Why some US Republicans want to punish Australia over new charges for tech giants
Australia is being called a ‘loser country’ over the News Bargaining Incentive. Will we stand our ground?
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AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find
AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.
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Earlier volcano warnings could mean more false alarms – but they could also save lives
AI models could spot volcanic eruptions earlier – and new research says the lives saved make the occasional false alarm worth the price.
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View from The Hill: Fresh from its WA triumph, how will One Nation do in the eastern trenches?
The Secret Harbour win will remove any Labor complacency that One Nation is just a problem for the conservatives.