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Seoul remains low-key on China’s forced repatriation of NK defectors in...
The South Korean government's response to China's forced repatriation of North Korean escapees has seemed somewhat subdued, amid desperate efforts to maintain the cautious improvement of bilateral ties between Seoul and Beijing and eventually pave the way for a long-delayed three-way summit including Japan, anticipated later this month.
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Health
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble
Proteins are the molecular machines that sustain every cell and organism, and knowing what they look like will be critical to untangling how they function normally and malfunction in disease. Now researchers have taken a huge stride toward that goal with the development of new machine learning algorithms that can predict the folded shapes of not only proteins but other biomolecules with unprecedented accuracy.
sport
Torchbearers in Marseille kick off the Olympic flame’s journey across France
Torchbearers carried the Olympic flame through the streets of France’s southern port city of Marseille on Thursday, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for a welcoming ceremony.
economic
Taxing pensions
DESPITE the state of the economy, the IMF’s demand that the cash-strapped Shehbaz Sharif administration start taxing civil and military pensions exceeding Rs1.2m a year, as well as revoke income tax exemptions for various pension schemes and funds in the next budget, appears unfair.
Prices Are Not the Problem
If there’s one view that unites large swaths of the American body politic today, that articulates common ground between the traditional left and the emerging social democratic right, it’s that market prices are a source of much unnecessary misfortune and even wickedness, and that a—perhaps the—chief end of policy should be to protect favored industries, classes and interest groups from the predations of price.
Military
Japan, Germany may hold 1st joint land force exercise next year
The German Army is expected to join an exercise with Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force as early as next year, according to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, against a backdrop of China's military buildup in the Indo-Pacific region and territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Russia announces nuclear weapon drills after ‘provocative’ Western threats
Military exercises involving tactical nuclear weapons to be held after top European leaders indicated deepening backing for Ukraine.
