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As the U.S.-China standoff sways, President Donald Trump’s administrative stance toward Chinese students has wavered. In the U.S., they’re at times branded as potential spies; in China, coming home can carry the stigma of disloyalty. Caught in the middle, many are weighing life-changing decisions with no safe choice.
👋 Ushé-ushé!* Welcome to Monday, where Israel forces intercept a Gaza-bound aid ship with Greta Thunberg onboard, Donald Trump sends in National Guard troops as clashes escalate in Los Angeles over immigration raids, and today’s quiz question sees two iconic singers together on stage. Meanwhile, Thomas Assheuer in German weekly Die Zeit is wondering whether […]
French researchers have recovered a pair of viruses that were long frozen below the Siberian tundra. In this case, the microorganisms are harmless, but others may not be.
COURMAYEUR — When the alarm sounded last year, it was because the ice on the Mont Blanc, on the border between Italy and France, was moving too quickly. Its front had broken away from the rest of the ice lobe, separated by a huge crack, and descended three meters per day. Experts feared that 250 […]
The chilling stories of migrant children being torn from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border now have their first visual and audio record.
The Antarctic, one of the last, unspoiled parts of the natural world, will, like the Amazon, face man’s destructive onslaught unless states take action quickly.
The Arctic, where Russia has dispatched military resources, is the last disputed area of such massive proportions. It’s a region where the interests of Moscow and Washington collide, an excellent stage for a Cold War parody.
Smuggled in from Burma and North Korea, meth is flooding Chinese mean streets.