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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

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    ‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker

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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

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    Through a reader’s eyes: Bloomsday celebrations in James Joyce’s city, Dublin

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    What Iranians in India think about the war and Tehran

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    Justice is not a startup: AI and technology can’t be a quick-fix for meaningful reform

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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

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    The unravelling of Byju’s billion-dollar empire

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Watch: Why were flashes of light seen in the sky as a powerful earthquake hit parts of Mexico?

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale struck near Acapulco in Mexico, causing transient ‘earthquake lights’ in the sky.

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Sep 08, 2021 · 02:06 pm
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JUST IN 🚨 Power flashes seen in Mexico as powerful earthquake hits the city. pic.twitter.com/9CmURK3tzm

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 8, 2021

#Mexico City's skyline, showing the Earthquake Lights phenomenon from a 7.1 quake with an epicenter in Acapulco that was felt in many parts of the country. Curious sidenote: people were making memes wondering if this September would bring any earthquakes. It did.#Sismo #Temblor pic.twitter.com/2py9610bUF

— Antonio Video (@AntonioVideoTJ) September 8, 2021

This is how #earthquakes look in the sky from an 11th floor ⚡

What you hear is the building crashing against the one next to it 🤯#earthquakeinthesky #Mexico #surreal pic.twitter.com/XNJESUdOew

— elian huesca 🌋⚡ (@elianhuesca) September 8, 2021

🚨🇲🇽#earthquake in #Mexico:

Building footage near Acapulco, Mexico after the 7.4M earthquake. pic.twitter.com/z6bOeR26r1

— Terror Alarm (@terror_alarm) September 8, 2021

A powerful #earthquake struck southwestern #Mexico near the beach resort of #Acapulco on Tuesday night. #sismo #Terremoto #Temblor #mexicoearthquake pic.twitter.com/7DlyqP0vp6

— DailyNews/BreakingNews (@DailyNe25683877) September 8, 2021
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