Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
97EconPol
Imran Khan Family Says Health Access Denied as Sisters Held
A phone is a rectangle of glass and metal, and most days it is furniture. In one household in London it is the only medical record the family has. Sulaiman Khan and Kasim Khan, the London based sons of Pakistan's jailed...
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98EconPol
NASA X-59 Supersonic Jet Designed to Quiet Sonic Booms
4,520 miles per hour. That was the X 15, a rocket plane a cylinder with tiny wings, dropped from a B 52 bomber that flew at 6.7 times the speed of sound, all the way to the edge of space. The heat resistant materials it...
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99EconPol
Ancient Wall Under Paris Hospital Tests Lutetia Origins
Before Paris there was Lutetia a name without a firm address. Lutetia is the ancient name this city carries, and for a very long time nobody could say with confidence where the settlement behind that name actually...
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100EconPol
OpenAI Agent Breached Australian Medicare Portal
Anthony Albanese chose the United Nations summit in New York as the place to disclose it. The prime minister of Australia stood before reporters and described a break in at the heart of his own government's online...
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101EconPol
Germany Sets 2045 Fossil Fuel Phaseout Date
Next to the Bill For centuries, the first cold evening of the year has been met the same way in a German home: someone lights a fire in a metal box, and the room slowly stops being cold. The fuel has changed many times...
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102EconPol
Syria Fuel Price Hike Exposes Broken Social Contract
In mid September 2026, the Syrian government raised the price of all kinds of fuel, petrol and diesel alike. Diesel saw the biggest hike, rising 40 %. The energy ministry said the increase was necessary because of...
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103EconPol
Trump AI Force Czar Race and Two Definitions of Regulation
In the 1960s, Washington and Moscow counted rockets against each other, and the count organized everything from school curricula to federal budgets. That frame is back, now applied to artificial intelligence, with the...
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104EconPol
DoorDash pays 131.5m as median worker gets just 48
Fits in a Wallet Fits in a Wallet A company settles the largest labor enforcement action in New York City's history, and the middle worker's share comes to about $48. That is the arithmetic of DoorDash's $131.5m...
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105EconPol
F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong Remain Missing
Sees in the Container Terminal District of Hong Kong That reflex is exactly what allows a consignment to vanish for months while every party involved reports that the system worked. The question of whose box it is and...
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106EconPol
UK Charges First Suspect Over Rwanda Genocide After Seven Years
The man charged is 65 years old, has lived in London for many years, and answers to a name that was not always his. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, is the first person charged in the UK with offences...
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107EconPol
Trump 5000 Checks Tied To Republican Win Bribe Or Dividend
Donald Trump has floated the idea of sending $5,000 checks to Americans if Republicans win the next election. The proposal ties a direct payment to an electoral outcome, and it borrows a word from investing — a dividend...
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108EconPol
Reusing Datacentre Heat to Warm Homes and Water
The silence in Giles Gibson's kitchen lasts only as long as it takes the water to run hot. What that silence contains is a small computer server, attached to the hot water cylinder in his London home, working without a...
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