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Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré

German-Burkinabe architect based in Berlin, Germany since 1985 (born 1965)

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    Cooling the concrete jungle: How Paris, Singapore, Barcelona, and Dakar are redesigning their cities to survive extreme heat

    As a blistering heatwave engulfs Germany, cities around the world showcase innovative strategies from vertical gardens to underground cooling pipes to keep urban life livable.

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Iran tests diplomacy as Russia pounds Kyiv and AI agents strain American guardrails

The day’s hardest news came from the choke points, both maritime and digital. Iran dangled a seven-day reopening of Hormuz, Russia hit Kyiv again, and American courts and companies kept discovering that rules written for slower systems now look thin.

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China and the West: decoupling

A $30 billion reciprocal tariff-reduction arrangement follows expected summit diplomacy without altering core export-control dynamics.

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