There's fresh chaos on college campuses, Russian troops enter a base housing the US military in Niger, and Britain's Labour claim a big win over the ruling Conservatives.
Plus, dozens of researchers have signed a declaration stating it is possible that animals may be sentient. Jeff Sebo, a philosopy lecturer at New York University, joins the Reuters World News podcast to explain the implications.
By Linda Noakes |
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Law enforcement officers detain a protester at the University of California Los Angeles. REUTERS/Mike Blake |
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- Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several US colleges, including taking down an encampment at UCLA in a jarring scene that underscored the heightened chaos that has erupted at universities this week.
- Quebec Premier Francois Legault said the encampment at Montreal's McGill University should be dismantled as more students erected pro-Palestinian camps across some of Canada's largest universities.
- Hundreds of people rallied at one of Australia's top universities demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel, while police in Paris entered France's prestigious Sciences Po university and removed student activists who had occupied its buildings.
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- Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting US troops, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel US forces.
- Britain's opposition Labour Party won a parliamentary seat in northern England and control of several councils, inflicting heavy losses on the governing Conservatives to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
- Donald Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen was upset not to be offered a top job in Trump's administration after the Republican businessman-turned-politician won the 2016 presidential election, according to testimony at Trump's criminal hush money trial.
- China launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.
- Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare spectacle and an extra source of income in a region dependent on rice-growing.
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- Apple's quarterly results and forecast beat modest expectations, as the iPhone maker unveiled a record share buyback program, sending its stock up 6% in extended trade.
- Commodities group Glencore is studying an approach for Anglo American, a development that could spark a bidding war for the 107-year old mining company. Anglo has rejected a $39 billion all-stock proposal from the world's No. 1 miner BHP Group.
- US regulators gave the go-ahead to Exxon Mobil's $60 billion purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources, but barred Pioneer's former CEO from Exxon's board on allegations he attempted to collude with OPEC to raise oil prices.
- Airbus has called for financial compensation to take on money-losing operations from Spirit AeroSystems, a demand that has emerged as one obstacle to a tie-up deal between the supplier and its main customer Boeing.
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- Central banks in Australia, Britain and Sweden will meet next week, as markets assess how much leeway the US Federal Reserve has to cut rates this year.
- Traders are on alert for Japanese currency intervention, while weighing up the effects of US market turbulence. Here's what's in store for global markets in the week ahead.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Europe for the first time in five years in a visit that may lay bare European divisions over trade with Beijing and how the continent positions itself as a pole between the United States and China.
- Panamanians will elect a new president on Sunday, with eight candidates set to appear on the ballot, and polls showing mixed rankings among the five frontrunners.
- Chad will hold presidential elections on Monday, making it the first in a string of coup-hit states across Central and West Africa to use the ballot box to try to emerge from years of military rule.
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Missile defense successes fuel global urgency to acquire systems |
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A Patriot air defense system is seen during Polish military training in Warsaw in this file photo. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel |
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The success of ballistic missile defenses facing their first complex, high-stakes combat scenarios in Israel, the Red Sea and Ukraine will encourage militaries globally to invest in the pricey systems, experts say - and intensify missile arms races.
It's a potential windfall for companies such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. |
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Sumatran orangutan Rakus is seen in the Suaq Balimbing research site in Indonesia. Armas/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior/Handout via REUTERS |
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In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing research site, a protected rainforest area in Indonesia.
What Rakus did three days later really caught the attention of scientists. |
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