At least 71,424 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the Gaza genocide began in October 2023, and at least 171,324 have been injured, according to health officials in the enclave.
Category: 13 January 2026
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
Global sales of electric passenger vehicles (EVs) this year will total about 13 million units, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has forecast, barely half of the 22 million sold in 2025.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI ‘RIGHTS’, AND HUMAN REPLACISM
Should “conscious” AI have rights as an evolved, perhaps superior intelligence to humans?
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LUXURY FIRMS FORCED TO DISCOUNT WIDELY IN 2025
Purveyors of luxury goods, for whom high prices have always been part of the cachet, had to discount 35 to 40 percent of their products to move merchandise in 2025, 5 percent more than a decade earlier, according to research and consulting firms Altagamma and Bain & Co.
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DIGITAL EURO CRUCIAL TO AVOIDING U.S. DEPENDENCY, ECONOMISTS WARN
In an open letter to the European parliament, a band of 68 well-respected European economists argue that “a digital euro is not a nice-to-have. It is an essential safeguard of European sovereignty, stability, and resilience.”
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CHINA’S PRESIDENT AGAIN PROMISES GREATER STIMULUS MEASURES
Declaring 2025 to have been an “extraordinary year” in which China reached its 5-percent economic growth target and grew its GDP to $20 trillion, President Xi Jinping pledged to implement more policies intended to jump-start the country’s ailing domestic economy.
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BYD CONTINUES TO DOMINATE EUROPEAN EV SALES
BYD, the world’s best-selling brand of electric vehicles (EVs), more than tripled its November sales across the Eurozone in 2025, year over year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).
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CHINA’S EV EXPORTS WILL RISE BY 50 PERCENT THIS YEAR, ANALYSTS SAY
China will export 3.7 million electric vehicles this year, a better than 50-percent gain over 2025’s total, UBS analysts are forecasting. BYD, the country’s leading privately owned electric vehicle (EV) maker, will be the chief beneficiary, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).
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AN ASSAULT ON THE REPUBLIC
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law.
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ASIA’S FACTORIES PICKED UP THEIR PACE IN DECEMBER
December marked a turnaround in the manufacturing economies of China, South Korea, and Taiwan following several months of decline.