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Japan: Sinkhole widens as rescuers try to save truck driver – BBC.com

Shaimaa Khalil and Koh Ewe Reporting from Tokyo and Singapore Reporting from Tokyo Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the capital Tokyo, swallowing a truck. Rescue efforts have

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Fear hits east Jerusalem as Israel moves to close UN Palestinian refugee agency – The Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a concrete wall, cars inched their way toward an Israeli checkpoint. Intense security makes venturing out of the camp exasperating. But 42-year-old Areej Taha didn’t need to leave for medical treatment Monday. She had her toothache treated and picked

‘Powerless and angry’: Venezuelans react to roll-back of deportation protections – Miami Herald

‘Powerless and angry’: Venezuelans react to roll-back of deportation protections  Miami Herald ‘We stopped that’: Noem cancels Biden admin’s 11th hour deportation shield for Venezuelan migrants  Fox News Trump opens door to earlier deportation of many Venezuelans from U.S.  Reuters Canada Trump Officials Revoke Biden’s Extension of Protections for Venezuelans  The New York Times

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Germany: Bundestag supports stricter migration policies – DW (English)

Skip next section CDU’s Merz calls for fresh talks with SPD, Greens January 29, 2025 CDU’s Merz calls for fresh talks with SPD, Greens Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said he regretted that his non-binding motion to restrict immigration passed with the support of the far-right AfD party — a

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The cyberpunk immersive sim I’ve been itching to play finally has a release date

(Image credit: Ninth Exodus) Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim where you’re an out-of-work cyborg mercenary living in a dilapidated post-Soviet city full of homeless people, gas-mask thugs, and talkative bartenders. “It’s Deus Ex except you’re Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, retired, in Poland.” That’s how I summed up the demo for

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Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement. “The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so,” Musk wrote. “Terrible that the

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Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A sudden pause in federal assistance is sowing disarray and outrage across the country, throwing into doubt a wide range of programs that help protect Americans from disasters, provide access to clean drinking water and affordable energy and help

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Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI

U.S. markets panicked on Monday over speculation that DeepSeek’s AI models would crush demand for GPUs, with Nvidia’s stock dropping almost 20%. But Meta isn’t backing off, with its CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledging that the tech giant would invest “very heavily” in AI — even “hundreds of billions of dollars” — over the long term