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Why the US is going back to the Moon
If everything goes to plan (pretty big ‘if’ these days), NASA’s Artemis II mission will take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre aboard a 98m (322ft) rocket during a two-hour window later today (Wednesday), from 18:24 ET. Destination? The Moon. It’s a fly-by rather than landing, but still significant for a couple of reasons: But […]
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Is Cuba next?
When you’ve got a human headline in the White House, it’s hard to know where to look: take Friday, when the entire press corps almost stroked out over President Trump’s claims that the Saudi crown prince is kissing his cheeks (not the facial ones), while we quietly double-clicked on this bit: “Cuba’s next, by the […]
Anything but French, s’il te plaît
Many Intriguers will have experienced stumbling through a sentence, botching the word order, conjugating a weird ending, picking the wrong declension, then bringing it all home by accidentally switching to the informal register. And that’s just in English! In many parts, simply giving the local lingo a try earns instant brownie points, and there’s now […]
One Strait, a thousand disruptions
As the Houthis now join the fray, and crude pushes back above $110, we’ll see more headlines capturing the ripples across every part of our day, starting with that… Some workers might now smash the snooze button, with Pakistan and the Philippines moving to a four-day week for bureaucrats — Sri Lanka has gone a […]
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