Israeli settlers desecrate Palestinian cemetery in West Bank: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 42
Israeli settlers desecrate Palestinian cemetery in West Bank
Israeli settlers desecrate Palestinian cemetery in West Bank Israeli settlers have desecrated graves in a Palestinian cemetery during a march near the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?
In furniture design, there's sometimes an aesthetic and conceptual overlap between high-end minimalist luxury designs and an ID student project. This Fagiolo lounge chair is one of those.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The unique geography is of course manmade, the result of peat mining.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch
Australian fabricator Jim Semple was hired to design and build a patio railing and gate.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
It might seem silly to develop a dog robot that can breakdance, as Chinese robotics brand Unitree has done. However, they've put all that agility to practical use.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
Here Japanese stationery manufacturer Sonic rethinks the humble pencil case, which is typically a form-follows-function rectangle.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
S. was the dominant industrial power. We enjoyed conveniences and luxuries not readily available in other parts of the world, from air conditioning to appliances to cutting-edge vehicles.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
As a Partner and Executive Managing Director at IDEO San Francisco , Michelle Lee leads multidisciplinary teams of researchers, designers, and engineers across sectors ranging from healthcare and workplace culture to responsible digital design and the circular economy.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
Building for 131°F: Europe races to protect its infrastructure from a ‘quiet catastrophe’
A summer of weather extremes and severe infrastructure stress has prompted companies and policymakers across Europe to respond.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 39
Iran's overlapping power centers make ending the war more complicated
, from the Supreme Leader to the Revolutionary Guards.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 39
Hungary to shut nuclear plant as heatwave hits central Europe
Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Friday as central Europe slogs through the latest in a series of heat waves.
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Investigative/Global/Signal 38
Rare 'particularly dangerous situation' warning issued as Oregon braces for strong wind - KATU
Rare 'particularly dangerous situation' warning issued as Oregon braces for strong wind KATU NWS Spokane utilizes "Particularly Dangerous Situation" tool for Saturday's elevated fire danger KREM Weather Whiplash: August brings rain and fire to the Pacific Northwest KATU…
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Global Affairs/Oceania/Signal 38
RNZ New Zealand Headlines
The Latest New Zealand headlines from RNZ News
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 38
Turkish national charged by US for funding Hamas using sham humanitarian charity
According to the DOJ, Mohammad Yousef Hasna provided financing and commodities to Hamas and worked closely with Hamas terrorists, including senior Hamas terrorist Ghazi Hamad.
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Global Affairs/Oceania/Signal 37
Four in custody after staff assaulted, haul of perfume taken, at Hamilton store, police say
Radio New Zealand reports on this developing story.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 37
UKMTO says explosion near tanker off Oman reported
UKMTO says explosion near tanker off Oman reported The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said it received a report of an incident 21 nautical miles northeast of Oman's Khasab, where the master of a tanker saw a large splash and an explosion in close proximity to…
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 37
U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries
A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review "provided sufficient data" to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and would be made permanent.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 37
Israeli forces raid dozens of Palestinian homes in Nablus
Israeli forces raid dozens of Palestinian homes in Nablus Israeli forces raided dozens of Palestinian homes in the town of 'Asira ash Shamaliya, north of Nablus, early Saturday morning, Wafa reported.