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The Baltic Express: Central Europe’s new hop-on hop-off train

5 mn readThe Baltic Express bursts out of the Czech capital on a crisp winter morning. As the sky lightens, medieval Prague is streamed through the train’s windows like a Netflix trailer. From armchair seats in private compartments, a city of Rococo castles and wide boulevards appears: the “Paris of the East”, mostly unscathed by Nazi occupation […]

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Experts weigh in on Delta flight flip-over in Toronto

3 mn readThe drill is familiar for most airline passengers: how to buckle up your seat belt, put on the oxygen masks and use the seat cushion as a flotation device. What they don’t tell you is what to do if you suddenly find yourself in an upside-down aircraft. For the passengers of a Delta flight on […]

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A glimpse at Picasso and Pollock masterpieces kept in Tehran vault

2 mn readIt has been dubbed one of the world’s rarest treasure troves of art but few people outside its host country know about it. For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock have been kept in the basement of a museum in Iran’s capital Tehran, shrouded in […]

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Meta plans globe-spanning sub-sea internet cable

3 mn readMeta has announced plans to build a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable across the world. The tech giant said Project Waterworth – connecting the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions – will be the world’s longest underwater cable project when completed. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has sought to extend its […]

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China anger as US amends wording on Taiwan independence

2 mn readThe US State Department has dropped a statement from its website which stated that Washington does not support Taiwan’s independence – a move which has sparked anger in China. China said the revision “sends a wrong… signal to separatist forces advocating for Taiwan independence”, and asked the US to “correct its mistakes”. The department’s fact […]

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More cable car controversy surfaces in Nepal’s western mountains

4 mn readA brewing controversy over private cable car projects in Nepal’s hills has taken a new turn after the country’s planning commission quietly gave “national priority” status to a venture in the Annapurnas, despite pending legal verdicts and environmental concerns. The decision, criticized for lacking a legal basis, comes amid escalating tensions between protesters and the […]

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