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  • McLaren dominate Bahrain practice as Verstappen struggles

    McLaren dominate Bahrain practice as Verstappen struggles

    Oscar Piastri topped the times as McLaren dominated second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday with Max Verstappen struggling to make an impact in his Red Bull.

    Piastri posted a quickest lap of 1min 30.505s with his teammate Lando Norris only a tenth of a second adrift.

    The chasing pack was led by the Mercedes of George Russell albeit over five tenths of a second back in an ominous display of force by McLaren at a track where the Bahraini-backed team have yet to win in 21…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Hamas Files Legal Appeal for Removal from UK’s Banned List 

    Hamas Files Legal Appeal for Removal from UK’s Banned List 

    Hamas announced that it had submitted a legal filing to the British Home Office requesting the cancellation of its continued designation as a “banned organization.” (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    “The British government, through its biased policies, still bears legal and moral responsibility for what our people are suffering from in terms of daily massacres, a stifling siege, and systematic starvation.”

    The Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Sorry, America, tariffs won’t bring jobs back | Donald Trump

    Sorry, America, tariffs won’t bring jobs back | Donald Trump

    At a White House dinner back in 2011, Steve Jobs was asked by President Obama what it would take to build iPhones in the United States. Jobs knew where this was going. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he replied. Supply chains and ecosystems that sustain manufacturing of hi-tech products like the iPhone take years to get going. The skills, capabilities and relationships that are involved take even longer to develop. Factories cannot simply be picked up from one place and transplanted…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • McLarens dominate Bahrain practice, Verstappen rues ‘too slow’ Red Bull

    McLarens dominate Bahrain practice, Verstappen rues ‘too slow’ Red Bull

    McLaren were streets ahead of the pack in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday leaving Max Verstappen lamenting his “too slow” Red Bull.

    Oscar Piastri posted a quickest lap of 1min 30.505s with his teammate Lando Norris only a tenth of a second adrift.

    Mercedes’ George Russell took third, albeit over five tenths of a second back in an ominous display of force by McLaren at a track where the Bahraini-backed team have yet to win in 21 visits.

    Verstappen, who moved to within one…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Syria’s Kurds to demand federalism in tactical push for decentralization

    Syria’s Kurds to demand federalism in tactical push for decentralization

    Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the highest levels, as well as by media, thought and business leaders and academia.


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  • Erdogan accuses Israel of seeking to ‘dynamite’ Syria ‘revolution’

    Erdogan accuses Israel of seeking to ‘dynamite’ Syria ‘revolution’

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Israel of sowing divisions in Syria in a bid to “dynamite” the “revolution” that toppled strongman Bashar al-Assad.

    Turkey is a key backer of Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa whose Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led the rebel coalition which ousted Assad in December.

    “Israel is trying to dynamite the December 8 revolution by stirring up ethnic and religious affiliations and turning minorities in Syria against the…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Scientists Turn Paper Into Plastic

    Scientists Turn Paper Into Plastic

    In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a biodegradable plastic made from trees, a $3 million prize for scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider, why we’re one step closer to a holodeck and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

    Only 9.5% of plastics manufactured in 2022 were made from recycled materials, according to a new study published this week. Meanwhile, plastic continues to pile up in landfills–and ecosystems–around the…

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    News Source: www.forbes.com

  • Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake

    Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake

    Slither
    Stephen S. Hall
    Grand Central Publishing, $30

    Snakes don’t often get to be the protagonists. From the biblical tempter in the Garden of Eden to the eponymous snakes on a plane, your stereotypical serpent often gets cast as a villain — cunning, treacherous, cruel, deadly. But human views of snakes are full of contradictions. In mythology, snakes whispered secrets about the healing arts to the Greeks and established the concept of linear time in Mesoamerica. In the…

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    News Source: www.sciencenews.org

  • Sudan’s Burhan arrives in Turkey on heels of Eritrea visit, key victories

    Sudan’s Burhan arrives in Turkey on heels of Eritrea visit, key victories

    Sudan’s de facto leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrived Friday morning in the Turkish city of Antalya as the Sudanese army gains the upper hand in the country’s brutal civil war.

    What happened: Burhan and Foreign Minister Ali Youssif are attending Turkey’s fourth Antalya Diplomacy Forum, hosted by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, alongside other leaders, including Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan.

    While in Turkey,…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Turkey accuses Israel of seeking to ‘dynamite’ Syria ‘revolution’

    Turkey accuses Israel of seeking to ‘dynamite’ Syria ‘revolution’

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Friday of sowing divisions in Syria in a bid to “dynamite” the “revolution” that toppled strongman Bashar al-Assad.

    Turkey is a key backer of Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led the rebel coalition that ousted Assad in December.

    “Israel is trying to dynamite the December 8 revolution by stirring up ethnic and religious affiliations and turning minorities in Syria against the…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com