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 Amnesty International rebuked the EU for strict new asylum policies that can arbitrarily send a
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‘Censorship pure and simple’: critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors’ social media
Some warn proposal will decimate US tourism industry as free speech advocates say it will lead to people self-censoring
 The persecutor plans to impose fear and self-censorship on visitors from many countries (the ones whose citizens don't need visas to visit the US) by demanding almost full cooperation with monitoring of their past and future communications. The one thing not demanded is your GPG keys. There will surely be no stated criterion for what things it is forbidden to say, so no one could be sure
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Myanmar is going to the polls. But it’s not the people who hold the power – it’s China
As the military pushes ahead with a widely condemned election, Beijing’s priorities are proving decisive
 China's support is helping the Burmese military rulers recover from a very weak situation.
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The Guardian view on gene editing: breakthroughs need a new social contract | Editorial
Editorial: Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collectiv...
 * Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive products.* This conclusion goes for every country. We should replace the patent system, which systematically makes new medicine too expensive for most people, with a different way of funding medical
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Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024
Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency
 *Only a third of world's river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024.*
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Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’
Interior department move affects five projects under construction in latest blow to industry targeted by Trump
Glossary
 The bullshitter has presented a new excuse to cancel offshore wind generator projects - claiming that they might interfere with military radar coverage. The military studied this question before but concluded it was not a real problem. I suspect that the bullshitter's henchmen made this up as an excuse to cancel wind
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The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?
On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to decline
 Feral honeybees establish themselves in wild areas and are so successful that they leave insufficient food for all the other bee species.