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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

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

  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

  • Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain
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    Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • ‘A puzzle-solving activity’: NS Gundur on translating DR Nagaraj’s seminal work on Allama Prabhu
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    ‘A puzzle-solving activity’: NS Gundur on translating DR Nagaraj’s seminal work on Allama Prabhu

  • ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy
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    ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

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Watch: Massive Shenzen skyscraper starts to shake for unknown reasons, causing panic

Shenzhen’s SEG Plaza, one of China’s tallest at over 1000 feet tall, began to wobble on Tuesday, leading to an emergency evacuation and official investigation.

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May 19, 2021 · 09:40 am
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剛剛中午時分,位於深圳華強北,樓高73層的賽格電子大廈突然搖晃,原因不明也沒地震!樓宇內人群和樓下人群紛紛逃命! pic.twitter.com/aoixkH6OeY

— 風再起時【香港挺郭后援會3】 (@dZnJUCdo4FlZqgd) May 18, 2021

UPDATE: People running away from SEG Building in Shenzhen, China as it starts shaking. pic.twitter.com/t0lKd4oqtR

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) May 18, 2021

Huaqiangbei SEG Building in Shenzhen, China's largest mining machine distribution center, was shaking. The funny thing is that there are rumors that people are digging Chia. This also illustrates the current popularity of Chia mining in China. pic.twitter.com/LWrvEfPsk1

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