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Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday.

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Testing NASA&s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)Testing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF), which simulates the harsh conditions of space.

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton/Ed Whitman

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Sculpted by Luminous StarsSculpted by Luminous Stars

This new image showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this image includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths into an intricately detailed...

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High Court case against Andrew Tate believed to be legal first, judge told

The case of multiple women taking High Court legal action against social media influencer Andrew Tate is believed to be a legal first, a judge has been told.

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Journalists accused of working for Putin opponent Navalny convicted of extremism

A Russian court has convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to five-and-a-half years in prison each.

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Max Boot: Risk of sleep-walking from a trade war to a shooting war is real

In 2014, eminent political scientist Graham Allison wrote an influential book called &Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides&s Trap?&. The subtitle referred to a famous passage in Thucydides&s &History of the Peloponnesian War&: &It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this inspired in Sparta, that made war inevitable.&

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