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Joeri van Leeuwen

Dutch radio astronomer and rower

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    Webb telescope traces record-distant fast radio burst to a young, faint galaxy 10 billion years away

    The burst, dubbed FRB 20240304B, was detected by MeerKAT in South Africa on 4 March 2024, but its source galaxy was too faint for ground telescopes and only the James Webb Space Telescope could identify it.

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Oslo honours Navi Pillay

Pillay wins as Trump punishes the ICC and Gulf strikes rattle oil markets

The past half-day offered a tidy contrast: Oslo rewarded a jurist who spent her career building courts, while Washington tried to squeeze one. Governments also faced harder, less symbolic problems, from missiles over Riyadh to smoky skies over Southeast Asia and anxious bond traders in Paris.

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    Strengthens to Category 3 as emergency declarations take effect and coastal airports close across southern states ahead of landfall.

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  • White House inquiry into Fed Governor Cook

    Imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court, marking a significant shift in US foreign policy toward the judicial body.

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Culture, media and the new divides

Commission issued AI Act compliance information requests to over 30 companies; Poland confirmed its TVN takeover review. Both are procedural steps, not structural shifts.

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