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The AI boom is not a bubble

Valuations may be spectacular and a bust could come — but while there’s exuberance there is no mania or irrationality

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With Critical Decisions Ahead, Netanyahu Faces Mounting Pressure

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has a series of vexing choices to make in the year ahead on issues including Gaza, conscription and a judicial overhaul, with elections looming.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem in October.
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China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan

Taipei condemns exercise that Chinese army calls ‘a stern warning against “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and external interference forces’

China has launched live-fire military drills around Taiwan, in what it calls a warning to “separatist” forces in Taiwan and “external interference” by foreign parties.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – the military wing of the ruling Communist party in China – said it had sent naval, air force and rocket forces to surround Taiwan on Monday morning.

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© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

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Passengers on cruise ship that ran aground off PNG to be flown home after refloat efforts fail

Coral Adventurer, being investigated for allegedly leaving behind passenger who died, ran aground with 124 people on board on Saturday

An Australian cruise ship remains stuck on a reef off Papua New Guinea despite efforts to free it, with passengers set to be flown home early.

The Coral Adventurer, which ran aground on Saturday morning, was already under investigation as a result of an unrelated incident in October, in which a passenger died after being allegedly left behind on an island. It was on its first voyage since the passenger’s death when it ran aground.

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© Photograph: imageBROKER.com/Alamy

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