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Sydney Incident: Australia Announces Visa Cancellations for Extremists and Hate Promoters
Posted onDecember 18, 2025 7:52 amDecember 18, 2025 7:52 am

Sydney: The Australian government has announced strict action against individuals involved in promoting extremism, hate speech, and violence, including the cancellation of visas, following the recent violent incident in Sydney. Australian Prime Minister stated that laws targeting hate-driven rhetoric and the incitement of violence will be further strengthened. He emphasized that Australia will not tolerate…

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Asia Focus

Opinion | A complicated new EU-China showdown is quietly taking shape
Posted onDecember 18, 2025 6:20 am

Last month, Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), the world’s largest battery company, started building a massive joint venture plant in Spain. It came weeks after Spain’s King Felipe visited Beijing, seeking a stronger EU-China relationship as US commitments wobble. Except Spain, electrified by the potential job creation, ran into a problem: CATL wants to bring…

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Asia Focus

Musk ally Isaacman confirmed as Nasa chief amid moon race with China
Posted onDecember 18, 2025 2:35 am

The Senate on Wednesday approved US President Donald Trump’s renomination of billionaire Jared Isaacman to head Nasa, following months of backtracking and uncertainty over the space agency’s future. The 42-year-old businessman made his fortune in online payment processing and has a personal passion for space. He will take over as administrator of the US agency…

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Asia Focus

BYD plans giant Brazil factory to scale electric bus and truck production
Posted onDecember 18, 2025 1:02 am

Chinese carmaker BYD plans to build a new factory in Brazil within the next three years after rising demand for electric buses filled its existing production capacity and forced the company to redraw its manufacturing strategy in the country. The project would sharply expand output, create hundreds of jobs and support exports across South America,…

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Technology

The first Dolby FlexConnect soundbar is coming from LG
Posted onDecember 18, 2025 1:00 amDecember 27, 2025 11:05 am

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect technology debuted this year with the TCL Z100 speakers, and now we’re getting our first FlexConnect soundbar thanks to LG. The new H7 soundbar — which runs on the same Alpha 11 Gen 3 chip as LG’s OLEDs and new Micro RGB LED — is a part of the LG Sound Suite,…

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Business

Bank of England expected to cut interest rates
Posted onDecember 18, 2025 12:00 amDecember 18, 2025 1:23 am

Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondent Getty Images Policymakers at the Bank of England are expected to cut interest rates – bringing the Bank rate down to its lowest level since February 2023. Analysts are widely predicting a fall from 4% to 3.75%, although they do not expect a unanimous decision among the nine-member Monetary Policy…

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Technology

Snapchats new Quick Cut stitches a video together for you
Posted onDecember 17, 2025 11:55 pmDecember 23, 2025 1:37 am

Snap just launched a new Quick Cut video editing tool right inside Snapchat that “helps Snapchatters turn their favorite Memories into beat-synced, ready-to-share videos in seconds.” With Quick Cut, you can select multiple photos or clips and then “instantly preview a rendered video,” and the feature is accessible from multiple places in the app, including…

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Business

Should more be done to tackle ghost jobs?
Posted onDecember 17, 2025 11:43 pmDecember 18, 2025 2:43 am

Megan LawtonBusiness reporter AFP via Getty Images One UK study found that 34% of advertised vacancies didn’t really exist The phrase “ghost jobs” might sound like something from Halloween, but it refers to the practice of employers advertising vacancies that don’t exist. In some cases the positions may have already been filled, but in others…

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Technology

Billionaire Jared Isaacman confirmed as new head of NASA
Posted onDecember 17, 2025 11:36 pmDecember 18, 2025 1:23 am

The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman’s appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet again in November, as reported earlier by CNBC. Isaacman, the founder and CEO of a payments platform called Shift4, has flown to space twice through…

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Entertainment & Culture

Hollywood Insiders Unite to Fight for Future of Industry With Launch of Creators Coalition on AI
Posted onDecember 17, 2025 10:31 pmDecember 17, 2025 10:57 pm

As Hollywood continues to grapple with the threat and adoption of AI, a group of 18 industry insiders have banded together to form the Creators Coalition on AI. The effort, a first of its kind, is backed by the signatures of more than 500, a diverse list growing by the hour that includes Oscar winners,…

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