Month: September 2024
- Politics
Major rescue operation under way in English Channel after boat with migrants capsizes – reports
A major rescue operation is under way after a boat with at least 100 migrants onboard capsized in the English…
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More than 40 dead and 180 injured in Russian strike on Ukraine
At least 41 people have been killed in a Russian strike in a central region of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has…
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Putin calls Mongolia friendly country, Russia’s decades-old ally
The Russian president noted that Mongolia “turned out to be a very loyal, reliable ally of the Soviet Union and…
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Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, 37 drones in past day
Units of Battlegroup South continued advancing deeper into enemy defenses, inflicting losses on Ukraine’s 24th, 32nd, 100th, 117th mechanized, 46th…
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Evening Update: Today’s headlines from The Straits Times on Sept 3, 2024
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Mother whose 2 daughters were exposed to porn under her care loses High Court appeal
A district judge ruled that the girls should be sent to a place of safety for 12 months, allowing a…
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Courts to get more power to bar applications that hurt child’s welfare in divorce cases
These changes are part of a shift to reduce conflict in divorce cases and adopt a more “judge-led approach”. Read…
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Hong Kong trip for S’pore family of 14 disrupted as Cathay Pacific axes flights over component fault
Cathay has axed 24 return flights on Sept 3, after finding a “first-of-its-type” component failure on its A350 aircraft. Read…
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Towards the scalable synthesis of two-dimensional heterostructures and superlattices beyond exfoliation and restacking
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01989-8 The practical application of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) requires robust and…
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Origins of enhanced oxygen reduction activity of transition metal nitrides
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01998-7 While transition metal nitrides are promising low-cost electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction…
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