Chinese coast guard authorities said it took "necessary control measures" and drove away a Japanese fishing vessel that had entered "territorial waters" around Senkaku Islands, state media reported.
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Kosovo MPs began throwing fists after an opposition member threw water on the prime minister during a speech.
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The telescope was launched on Christmas Day in 2021, and sent up to look for interstellar life and signs of the big bang, as well as beam back detailed images from across space.
![Dramatic new image from Webb Space Telescope reveals moment baby stars are born](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/04c31f6a-3d68-4c75-a7a1-3d5831e29da3.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Perseverance touched down on the Red Planet in early 2021 and has been active ever since. The rover was designed to explore the Jezero crater, a 28-mile-wide...
![NASA's Perseverance rover finds diverse organic material in ancient Martian lake basin](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/20bd2e93-b901-4f61-be2a-978f44fe5478.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Perseverance touched down on the Red Planet in early 2021 and has been active ever since. The rover was designed to explore the Jezero crater, a 28-mile-wide...
![NASA's Perseverance rover finds diverse organic material in ancient Martian lake basin](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f914617-769c-426d-b335-05eef746e992.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Radioactivity deep in a planet's crust could keep water liquid and habitable beneath a frozen surface, a recent study suggests.
![New Study Suggests Alien Life May Be Hiding on Freezing Cold Planets](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/5z4WQYUNCh.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study.
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The United Arab Emirates and Qatar are battling for influence in Europe. A data leak has revealed how Abu Dhabi has sought to discredit its rival with the help of a private intelligence company in Switzerland – an effort that extends into Germany.
![Abu Dhabi Secrets: How the UAE Seeks to Leverage Its Influence in Europe](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1fcb438f-c6c9-4741-96ef-a63f75004f3b.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories has given it a special know-how in imposing military control over civilians. Governments around the world admire its example — and are ever keener to import its repressive technologies.
![Israel Has Turned the Occupied Territories Into a Laboratory for State Terror](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3aff82ea-5dd4-4fe0-8930-ef15194c8bda.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Oren Etzioni is an AI researcher, while his father Amitai Etzioni was one of the most important intellectual voices in the U.S. prior to his recent passing. In Amitai Etzioni's final interview, he and his son discuss the dangers of artificial intelligence.
![Competing Views of the ChatGPT Revolution: "Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Truth"](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4996d0b8-ee20-4389-9173-005238c906f4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist government has promoted a record number of housing units in illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank in its first six months, Israeli an...
![Israel advances peak number of West Bank illegal settlement plans in 2023 - watchdog](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7a065fa2-a0a9-49f9-a124-9bdef30fc24e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released 15 Iranians from prison, amid the recent warming of relations between Abu Dhabi and Tehran. According to Iran's state-affiliated Fars News Agency, Emirat...
![UAE releases 15 Iran prisoners](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/91552069-6b0c-4f41-a8b7-9314669a35f4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The failure of journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media. , Chris Hedges, First Amendment, freedom of the press, Julian Assange, Wikileaks,
![Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f6d43952-a514-4c50-b981-645c47435bcb.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
We are repeatedly told Biden is compelled, against his will, to support regimes engaging in ethnic cleansing, bombing civilians, and dictatorship.
![Who exactly is 'forcing' America to support human rights abuses?](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d0bd5140-e757-4f44-8451-46305575deda.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Nearly a decade after thousands of Palestinians were killed in Operation Protective Edge, Israel's incessant violence continues unabated. But a growing international solidarity movement gives hope to Palestinian resistance, writes Shahd Abusalama.
![Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza: 9 years of terror & impunity](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/856f31c5-d5d5-4b47-a303-8a194a71d0bd.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Seeking to double the settler population, Israel's government is expediting infrastructural plans that were, often literally, laid decades ago.
![Smotrich wants one million West Bank settlers. That's not so far-fetched](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/923316bc-9171-4ec0-8378-3180638a325d.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Israel Poisoned Palestinian Land to Build West Bank Settlement in 1970s, Documents Reveal: