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V ladimir Putin dispatched two nuclear bombers to patrol Belarusian airspace on Wednesday in a show of support for its close ally, as tensions flared over the migrant crisis at the Polish border. It came as the European Union accused Belarus of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across…

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The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for widened sanctions against Minsk in a crisis that threatens to draw in Russia and NATO.  Russia took the rare step of dispatching two nuclear-capable strategic bombers…

Bosnia-Herzegovina has faced new secession threats which could turn into a global crisis for the EU and the US and an opportunity for Russia and China, recent reports have revealed. Separated into two regions (the Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation) which share a joined army, top judiciary and tax…

Michelle Bachelet urges de-escalation; German chancellor Angela Merkel asks Putin to press Belarus on ‘inhumane instrumentalisation of migrants’ Thousands of people trapped in freezing weather at the border, where presence of troops from both sides has raised fears of a confrontation Topic |   Belarus E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 7:32am, 10 Nov, 2021 Updated:…

E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it facilitates scientific advances—in DNA, biofuels, and Pfizer’s covid vaccine, to name but a few. Now this multitalented bacterium has a new trick: it can solve a classic computational maze problem using distributed computing—dividing up the necessary calculations among…

November 8, 2021 4:35 PM Santa Clara, California-based company, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), says its “Milan-X” AMD EPYC processors with 3D V-Cache, to launch in early 2022, will deliver a “50% average uplift” to technical computing workloads. It also said its Instinct MI200 GPUs, to also launch in early 2022,…

As cloud strategies become increasingly vital and complex, cloud architects can help organizations avoid risk and ensure a successful, cost-effective transition to the cloud. Thinkstock What is a cloud architect?Cloud architects are responsible for managing the cloud computing architecture in an organization, especially as cloud technologies grow increasingly complex. Cloud…

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed in an assassination attempt by armed drone in Baghdad, officials said on Sunday, in an incident that dramatically raises tension in the country weeks after a general election disputed by Iran-backed militia groups. Kadhimi appeared in video footage published by his office on…