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China’s ambassador to Denmark Feng Tie was responding to claims by the US envoy. Photo: HandoutFeng Tie says American ambassador was ‘speaking absurdities’ when she criticised China for ‘calling itself an Arctic state’ Carla Sands also accused Beijing of advancing ‘predatory economic interests’ in the region Topic |   US-China relationsPublished: 10:00pm,…

Skip to content Economic decoupling from China speeding up Donald Trump’s administration has taken a number of steps in an attempt to challenge China’s rapid technological advances. The latest proposal is meant to cut US reliance on Chinese rare-earth metals, a group of 17 elements integral to a lot of…

Suzy Hazelwood/Public Domain Parag Khanna is founder and managing partner of FutureMap, and author most recently of The Future is Asian. Kailash K. Prasad is director of research at FutureMap and an editor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The coronavirus is upending our jobs, canceling our pastimes…

About 900 years ago, a skywatcher in England witnessed a total lunar eclipse that must have been baffling, even terrifying. Despite the fact that the night was clear and the stars shone bright, the Moon just...vanished. During the unusually dark ecliptic blackout, the Moon was “so completely extinguished withal, that…

Last Updated: 11th May, 2020 15:06 IST Scientists believe that by the year 2100 if Earth’s surface warms by another 3.5 degrees then sea levels are likely to rise by as much as 1.3 meters. Leading experts believe that by the year 2100 if Earth’s surface warms by another 3.5 degrees then…

Image for representation. About ten percent of the world's population, or 770 million people, today live on land less than five metres above the high tide line. News18.com Last Updated: May 11, 2020, 8:11 AM IST Share this: Oceans are likely to rise as much as 1.3 metres by 2100…

Ísland á filmu (Iceland on Film) is your opportunity to gallivant around Iceland in space and time, via the medium of nearly three hundred old films, of varying age and length, stored and digitized by the Icelandic Film Museum. Many are home movies, but there are also documentaries and newsreel…

Photo: APMost of the buzz around the damage covid-19 pandemic has had done to aviation has centered around passenger travel. That’s not surprising, as fears about transmission through travel and just sitting aboard planes are not unfounded and flights have cratered as a result. But while passengers are staying home,…

Air France and KLM are pressing ahead with retiring their A340s and 747s despite low fuel prices diminishing the need for more efficient aircraft. “We’ve pushed these airplanes pretty much to their limit,” Group CEO Benjamin Smith said. “They can fly longer, but the ability to do so will require…

Paris (AFP) - Oceans are likely to rise as much as 1.3 metres by 2100 if Earth's surface warms another 3.5 degrees Celsius, scientists warned Friday.By 2300, when ice sheets covering West Antarctica and Greenland will have shed trillions of tonnes in mass, sea levels could go up by more…