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Police officers move past Ikshana, a mobile surveillance van, parked at the ongoing protest site, days after thousands of the supporters of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) marched towards parliament demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over National Eligibility. The surveillance controversy erupted during [the] student protest over exam paper leaks, when demonstrators posted pictures on social media of a mobile police surveillance van equipped with cameras on...

In this article, we continue our study of three major monetary conditions that the Bible indicates will typify the world order at the very end of the last days. At the end of Part 1, we were pursuing the question of whether government debt plays a prophetic role. We had been drawn to this question, given the unprecedented rise of government debt around the world in past decades. To date, we have reviewed one of these a priori conditions—a worldwide wealth skew. 2. Indebtedness is a necessary...

San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model’s launch. Their popularity has frustrated some U.S. tech giants, but short of an outright ban, they’re likely to continue to appeal to independent software developers in the U.S. and elsewhere. The rapid rise of cutting-edge Chinese AI models this year shows...

The annual ranking assesses 173 cities worldwide across stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure to identify those offering the highest quality of life. Vienna, Melbourne, Sydney and Zurich rounded out this year’s top five, reflecting both Europe’s enduring dominance and Australia’s continued strong showing. Taking the top spot for the second year in a row, the Danish capital [Copenhagen] earned perfect scores in stability, education and infrastructure,...

Maryam Aminu was hardly surprised when the last of her six children was diagnosed with malnutrition in April for a second time. She was barely feeding the 18-month-old regularly, let alone with nutritious foods. Northern Nigeria, one of the world’s poorest regions, is already under pressure from an insurgency crisis. Now, the conflict in the Middle East has worsened food security for millions of people living in poverty, especially children. If the war in the Middle East continues, up to 23.4...

Picture this: A gas station customer pulls out a wad of bills to pay for a fill-up. The cashier refuses the money, explaining that the station’s bank has stopped accepting notes and coins as deposits because it already is drowning in cash. In most places, cash is king. But in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, having too much is gumming up the machinery of daily life. The Palestinian banking system has more Israeli shekels than it can manage. As a result, paper money has gotten harder for...