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Watch: Is there an AI stock market bubble, and is it ready to burst?
Despite the Iran war, rising inflation and worries about rising government debt, US stock markets continue to hit all-time highs this year. That’s largely driven by the huge boom in investment in Artificial Intelligence. The apparent mismatch between sky high stock market valuations and the real economy is beginning to set off some alarm bells…
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Hezbollah rejects US-backed Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim militia, political party and social movement, is Lebanon’s most powerful group and, with support from Iran, has built an armed force more formidable than the Lebanese army and has fought a series of conflicts with Israel. It is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel and many other countries, including the…
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Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction
This imagery came from the Landsat satellite “which is highly sensitive to canopy changes, and provides globally consistent observations that previous assessments may have missed,” said Prof Elizabeth Robinson, director of the Grantham Research Institute, who was not involved with the study.
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Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis Director, Dies at 56
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature Persepolis earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of…
