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In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow “a man carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city”. Global war breaks out, leading to an atomic apocalypse. It takes the “establishment of a world government” to bring about peace.What concerned Wells was not simply the perils of a new…

New details of Ford Motor Company planning thousands of job cuts in Europe continue to emerge following a report from media last week. The layoffs will mostly affect those Ford employees working in vehicle development, especially in Germany and the UK, although job cuts to other Ford facilities are apparently in the works as well. The layoffs come as Ford looks to shift its production strategy to larger vehicles and EVs, but news of the cuts is already triggering unions in Europe to threaten to step in.…

The decision of the House Jan. 6 committee to recommend that the Justice Department pursue potential criminal charges against Donald J. Trump is not binding on the department, which in any case is already investigating “whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election” under the leadership of a special counsel.Still, the panel’s recommendation Monday that the department pursue four potential charges against Trump — including inciting, aiding or giving…

Elon Musk has suspended Ye, aka Kayne West, from Twitter for “inciting violence”. The Twitter CEO announced the suspension after the rapper posted a series of erratic tweets, including an antisemitic image combining a swastika with the Star of David, i. e. Jewish star.Ye’s Twitter suspension comes less than two months after Musk tweeted “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” on October 8. He was welcoming the rapper after a ban for similar antisemitic tweets. Musk said he expressed his concerns about the tweet to Ye and…

Renowned Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has been given a suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of inciting violence by staging a peaceful protest calling for political reform.Dangarembga and co-accused Julie Barnes were convicted of participating in a public gathering with intent to incite public violence at Harare magistrates court on Thursday. The pair were also each fined 70,000 Zimbabwe dollars (£200).A six-month jail term was suspended for the next five years on condition that the two do not commit…