Summary Qantas has resumed nonstop flights between Sydney and Shanghai, completing its pre-COVID international route map.
The airline will initially operate the route five times weekly, adding over 2,500 weekly seats between Australia and China.……

In 1989 many of us thought it was all over, bar the shouting.
The Cold War was over. The Berlin Wall fell.
That summer, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published his celebrated essay The End Of History?…
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We are entering the last two months of the year two days from now and war and violence are everywhere. While the Israel-Hamas conflict has the attention of the world, the war in Ukraine has been raging on for more than 600 days.…
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Nikki Haley criticized Donald Trump on Saturday for praising foreign strongmen and warned that his style of “chaos, vendettas and drama” would be dangerous, making her sharpest critiques of the former president as the two GOP presidential candidates an…

But the deals have largely been signed by the major Western LNG players that have invested in Qatar’s huge North Field expansion, such as Shell, Eni and TotalEnergies, rather than with end-users, notes Fereidun Fesharaki, chairman of FACTS Global Energ…

It is true that by the end of 2021 Beijing had recognised that its campaign of trade disruption was hurting its economy more than it was shifting Canberra’s foreign policy positions.…
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as they meet at the State Department in Washington, U.S., October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
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BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Beijing Xiangshan Forum, China's biggest annual show of military diplomacy, started on Sunday although the Asian power is still missing a defence minister, who typically hosts this event.…
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The prime minister says he discussed the case of Julian Assange with the US president during their Oval Office meeting this week – but he isn't demanding Joe Biden intervene in the Justice Department process.…
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Stepping into the new month, investors will eye a host of stock market triggers in November's first week including the ongoing second quarter results of current fiscal (Q2FY24), domestic and global macroeconomic data, foreign capital inflow, and …

VR news of the week As part of a weekly series, Android Central Senior Editors Michael Hicks and Nick Sutrich are rounding up all of the news on hardware, game announcements, leaks, and cool updates related to the Meta Quest 3, Oculus Quest 2, and othe…

Serena Williams will receive the Fashion Icon award at the high-profile CFDA awards in New York next monthin November. As a sharp dresser with her own clothing line, an honour from the fashion industry makes sense.…
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While unprecedented in scale and horror, the Hamas terrorist attacks on 7 October that killed more than 1,400 people were tactically and geographically limited. They did not pose a strategic, let alone an existential threat.…
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File photo: KIOXIA gadgets can be seen at COMPUTEX Taipei, one of the world's largest computer and technology trade shows in Taipei, Taiwan, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Ann/File photo Acquire Licensing Rights
TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Merger talk…

The iotty E1 single gang and E2 dual gang are stylish and capable Wi-Fi Smart light switches with a good range of features to drive your automations, all configured and controlled via the phone app.…
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A response to Julián Herbert’s “Void.”
On Tuesday, 33 states filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, “has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare …

The smartphone market is one of the most dynamic and competitive industries in the world. With new technologies and features emerging all the time, it is important for smartphone vendors to stay ahead of the curve in order to remain competitive.……

In the winter of 1958, a 30-year-old psychologist named Frank Rosenblatt was en route from Cornell University to the Office of Naval Research in Washington DC when he stopped for coffee with a journalist.…
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Money makes the world go round but who in the world has the most of it?
Back in 2021, there was a change at the top: The US was stripped of its title as the richest country in the world (by net worth), and China became the world’s wealthiest nation.&#8…

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to head to the front line in a Bradley fighting vehicle near Ocheretyne, northwest of Avdiivka, Ukraine, on October 24th. Photograph: Nicole Tung/The New York Times
A third round of Ukrainian-backed peace talks opens in Malta…