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COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply

COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply

Nations reeling from a year of climate devastation gather for COP31 next month but negotiations are not expected to deliver major progress in cutting the fossil fuels driving the crisis.

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Asian stocks mixed despite tech-led Wall St record

Asian stocks mixed despite tech-led Wall St record

Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday as a tech-led record on Wall Street was tempered by ongoing worries about a spike in government borrowing costs.

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American Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain

American Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain

Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.

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Tens of thousands expected in Paris for high school protests

Tens of thousands expected in Paris for high school protests

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected on the streets of Paris on Tuesday as France's powerful trade unions join high school students rallying for better conditions in a wave of protests marked by clashes with police.

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Trump approves firing squad for convicted US military base shooter

Trump approves firing squad for convicted US military base shooter

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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AI borrowing binge rattles US markets

AI borrowing binge rattles US markets

The world's richest companies can no longer rely on their massive cash piles alone to stay in the artificial intelligence race and have suddenly started borrowing massively in a shift that is sending repercussions across the world.

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Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors

Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors

Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments. But like many US universities, his institution is shunning AI detection software.

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Young Canadians sue government over alleged climate failures

Young Canadians sue government over alleged climate failures

When a wildfire threatened her northern Canada home three years ago, Kira Young packed what she could and fled.

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Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM

Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM

Separatists won provincial elections in Quebec Monday, with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after US President Donald Trump leaves office, testing Prime Minister Mark Carney's message of national unity.

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White Sox down Guardians to take 2-0 series lead

White Sox down Guardians to take 2-0 series lead

The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 to take a commanding 2-0 series lead in Major League Baseball's playoffs on Monday.

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