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AI has a compute problem, a power problem and increasingly a consent problem.
Piqua, Ohio just banned hyperscale data centers and recalled officials who backed a $1B Meta project.
The next constraint on the AI boom may be voters.
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France says Iran’s Revolutionary Guards hacked refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets in France, Belgium, Finland and elsewhere in October.
Analysts see an escalating Iranian hybrid war on Europe. Tehran denied the claims.
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Ireland’s prime minister, Micheál Martin, announced the first government body to formally study uniting with Northern Ireland.
Most Northern Irish voters still want to stay in the UK, but polls show unity’s appeal has grown since Brexit.
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South Africa’s African National Congress won about 30 percent of the vote in last week’s local elections, its worst result ever and down nearly 15 points from 2021, amid anger over corruption and unemployment.
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What will it take for record turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel to translate into political influence?
In my new piece for World Politics Review, I look at the grassroots organizing behind the surge in turnout and what it means for efforts to form a government. Ra’am and the Joint List won 19 seats between them, even as major Jewish-led parties remain reluctant to rely on their support. Meanwhile, Netanyahu and his allies have used allegations of foreign interference to cast suspicion on Arab voter mobilization, raising the political cost of cooperation.
As Gadi Eisenkot tries to form a government, his approach to Ra’am and the Joint List will help show how much influence those 19 seats can carry. Beyond the coalition talks, the networks that brought voters to the polls could help sustain Palestinian political mobilization in future elections.
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China on Monday dismissed as a smear campaign allegations that it ran a spy operation targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company makes the advanced chips at the center of US export restrictions on China.
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Fijians are set to vote Dec. 9 in their country’s first referendum on a new constitution replacing the 2013 charter, which was imposed under a coup leader. Fiji returned to a democracy in 2014.
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As @DaliaZinaGhanem told me back in June of the war's costs in the Gulf: “An economy built on lifestyle and hypermobility has a much thinner margin for error when the sky is burning.”
How missiles and drones from Iran—and now Yemen—have shattered the Gulf's brand. @WPReview
A projectile hit a tower in the financial district of Saudi Arabia’s capital as Yemen’s Houthi rebels again targeted Riyadh, striking another landmark in an air campaign that is disrupting life in the kingdom on.wsj.com/3WwQSJd
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Polish authorities opened a terrorism investigation after a 24-year-old gunman killed six people and wounded 15 in Kraków’s historic Old Town on Saturday.
Poland’s interior minister said the gunman was “fascinated by far-right ideologies.”
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The Iran war was the decisive factor in the US mid-term Elections. But more fundamentally, the outcome was the result of Trump and the Republicans thinking the 2024 elections gave him a mandate to do whatever he wants.
I explain why in my latest for @WPReview.
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Paraguayan President Santiago Peña tried to resign Thursday over the collapse of Ueno Bank, which froze millions of people’s savings.
A resignation would have let him stay in public office, so lawmakers refused and voted to impeach him instead.
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Cheap electricity, a cold climate and open land have turned China’s Inner Mongolia, a region long known for coal and farming, into a data center hub that is helping China challenge US dominance in AI.
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By refusing to enter the Saudi-Houthi war, Washington can avoid another reckless fight in the Middle East and encourage our Arab partners to take more responsibility for their own security.
@will_walldorf and @DanDePetris in @WPReview:
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After 35 years, the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara has ended, following a clash at the Security Council.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned of “the risk of hostilities escalating” in the disputed territory.
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Economic anger is driving record early turnout in New Zealand’s Nov. 7 general election and pushing voters from Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s National Party and the opposition Labour Party toward smaller rivals.
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Support at the UN General Assembly for ending the US embargo on Cuba fell to its lowest level in more than three decades, with the resolution passing 130-17, down from 165-7 last year, amid increased pressure from Washington.
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My latest op-ed for @WPReview.
Machado’s return has created an opportunity to move Venezuela toward democracy. Whether that opportunity amounts to more than a symbolic victory will depend less on the crowds welcoming her home than on the choices Washington makes next. worldpoliticsreview.com/vene…
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This week’s Classroom Discussion Prompt starts with Suriname’s coming oil boom and rainforests and explores how a country weighs growth against protecting nature.
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Arab-led parties won a combined 19 seats in Israel’s election, a historic result, as neither main bloc reached a majority.
Yet PM Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Gadi Eisenkot have both ruled out governing with them.
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Serbia’s Student List is Europe’s first Gen Z movement to unseat a sitting head of government, and the first anywhere to do it at the ballot box, giving youth-led protests across Europe a boost, Judah Grunstein writes for WPR.
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