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Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent, has replicated the landslide victory that delivered him to the governor's office in 2022.
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This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Maxwell Maduka, the co-founder and chief engineer of Terra Industries, an African defense technology company building autonomous drone and counter-drone systems designed for the continent’s operating conditions. As cheap imported airframes flood African markets and non-state actors employ drones across the Sahel, we asked Max why Terra is betting on Africa building its own defense industrial base.Cheap Turkish and Chinese drones and sensor systems have proliferated across Africa for years. Where do those systems fall short, and what capabilities do you hope to add to the crowded unmanned market?Imported Turkish and Chinese The post Designing Drones for Africa appeared first on War on the Rocks .
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Hydration tracking gadgets are flooding the market but is it too much information?
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In areas devastated by the twin earthquakes, people are using crowbars, pickaxes and their bare hands to try to reach survivors.
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Over 100 firefighters are working to extinguish a fire near Thessaloniki which has claimed a life.
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The US military has established a robust footprint of US forces in and around Venezuela to support relief operations, with more than 900 personnel inside the country and another roughly 800 in Caribbean hubs Puerto Rico and Curacao, according to the top US general for Latin America. General Francis Donovan, the commander of US Southern Command, said US forces had participated in search-and-rescue operations, helped get the airport up and running and mobilised air and naval assets to allow for...
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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s weather forecaster will issue the No 1 typhoon signal on Thursday, potentially marking the city’s first storm of the year, as a tropical depression approaches. The Hong Kong Observatory said the storm was expected to enter within 800km (497 miles) of the city later on Wednesday, before moving towards the vicinity of Hainan Island and Beibu Wan,...
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Socialist government faces pressure as death count from twin earthquakes climbs
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The dictator, eager to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop, has been exalting a “shock brigade” of 300,000 teens and 20-somethings drafted into flood reconstruction.
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Oil steadied after the biggest quarterly drop since the pandemic as traders monitored peace talks between the US and Iran and the return of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Spanish and international rescue teams pulled a survivor from the rubble four days after deadly earthquakes struck Venezuela. Search operations continue as crews race to find more survivors, with the death toll rising to more than 1,400.
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Experts say the first 72 hours after natural disasters define the narrow window for rescuing the living. After that the search usually becomes one of recovering bodies.
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Four days after twin quakes hit Venezuela, rescues continue at Los Cocos beach, with 1,500 dead, 189 buildings down and a father and son pulled alive.
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Venezuelan authorities now put the death toll from the twin 24 June quakes at more than 1,700, with 5,034 injured and up to 68,000 missing as UN-backed rescue efforts continue in La Guaira.
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La Guaira port in Venezuela is turned into a makeshift morgue after twin earthquakes, with forensic teams processing victims and families waiting for news.
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UNICEF has estimated that around 1.8 million people, including 680,000 children, require humanitarian assistance following the quakes.
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Fans in San Diego erupt in celebration as Mexico beat Ecuador 2-0 in a World Cup knockout match, ending a 40-year drought in the competition.
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Mexico ended a 40-year wait for a World Cup knockout-stage victory on Tuesday, beating Ecuador 2-0 to reach the last 16. Goals from Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez secured El Tri's first win beyond the group stage since the 1986 tournament they hosted.
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As the death toll in Venezuela nears 2000 following back-to-back earthquakes, the aftershocks of the disaster are beginning to make themselves felt. Almost 60,000 buildings are thought to have been damaged or destroyed, while more than 10,000 have been injured leaving hospitals at breaking point. As food shortages become more widespread and diseases proliferate, NGOs are calling for a scaling up of aid efforts to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
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Venezuelans in the port city of La Guaira were still searching for their missing loved ones a week after massive earthquakes killed nearly 2,000 and left thousands unaccounted for. FRANCE 24's Maxime Pluvinet reports from the epicentre of the quakes.
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After the earthquakes, almost 2,000 people are confirmed dead, and about 43,000 remain missing. Aid agencies warn of worsening hunger and disease amid an overwhelmed healthcare system.
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Two people were killed and transportation systems and businesses severely disrupted as Typhoon Lan lashed central Japan's Pacific coast after making landfall early Monday.
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The firefighters have been fighting the fire for over a day, with their work being complicated by difficult mountainous terrain, repeated attacks and new fire outbreaks, Mikhail Razvozhayev added
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In response to a request from the Turkish authorities, two Be-200 aircraft will soon be deployed to support efforts in extinguishing seasonal wildfires
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A Jordanian rescue team pulled the boy from the debris, Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez
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According to Reuters, 10,571 others have been injured
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Chairman of the National Assembly Jorge Rodrigue said that 80,870 families were helped
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Approximately 6,500 people have been rescued from the rubble, while another 51,000 are still missing
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Low-budget film-maker Uwe Boll sets Hammer up for a further fall from grace by cannibalising all manner of tired tropes in this incoherent schlocker Oh, Armie Hammer! Has it come to this? It doesn’t seem that long since you were in the Oscar-winning film Call Me By Your Name giving a sensitive liberal performance opposite Timothée Chalamet. Now here you are, striding around the streets and public parks of Zagreb, shooting Muslims, tasering teens and topping complicit deep-state judges to protest against what your character robustly describes as an “unfriendly takeover by Islamist extremists and the blind-sided woke left”. Much has happened to this once garlanded actor and great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer. His reputation plummeted after allegations of sexual assault by former partners in 2021 , relationships that Hammer has maintained were consensual. Criminal charges were since dropped for lack of evidence, Hammer has now returned to the silver screen – and here he is in a very cheap, incoherent and embarrassingly badly acted schlocker, written, produced and directed by Germany’s low-budget exploitation maestro Uwe Boll, which cannibalises all manner of revenge tropes. More importantly, the film has been promoted and publicised globally online with monumental hypocrisy by Elon Musk who like JD Vance is very keen to divert America’s attention from its own issues to the fiercely imagined lawless migrant-caliphate of Europe-stan. It’s another piece of shit to flood the zone. Continue reading...
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A devastating account of living through the war in Ukraine won this year’s prestigious prize – with the longlist spanning everything from hurricanes to hauntology Continue reading...