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Iran’s lakes are vanishing: Satellite images show a deepening water crisis

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Al Jazeera 1d ago

Optical Music Recognition for Real-World Manuscripts with Synthetic Data

arXiv:2606.09479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has seen major progress in model design, with end-to-end methods now capable of recognising notation at all levels of complexity. However, the impact of this progress has been limited by the visual domains of available training datasets, which are largely born-digital. Existing large collections of sheet music in libraries and other heritage institutions contain predominantly manuscripts, whose visual domains are...

arXiv CS 1d ago

How the war has made Iran’s water crisis worse

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Al Jazeera 8d ago

Trump defrosts relations with Europe’s last dictator Alexander Lukashenko

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NBC News 11d ago

REBot: From RAG to CatRAG with Semantic Enrichment and Graph Routing

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Academic regulation advising is essential for helping students interpret and comply with institutional policies, yet building effective systems requires domain specific regulatory resources. To address this challenge, we propose REBot, an LLM enhanced advisory chatbot powered by CatRAG, a hybrid retrieval reasoning framework that integrates retrieval augmented generation with graph based reasoning. CatRAG unifies dense retrieval and graph reasoning, supported...

arXiv CS 8d ago

NTUC concerned about employers presenting retrenchments as 'new opportunities' by asking workers to reapply for roles abroad

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Channel News Asia 6d ago

What the US-Israel war on Iran will not change in the Middle East

What the US-Israel war on Iran will not change in the Middle East The war may redraw alliances and shift balances of power, but geography, Palestine and political identity will endure. In every major Middle Eastern war, the same illusion returns: the belief that bombs can rewrite history. The US-Israel war on Iran is rapidly and forcefully redrawing the map of the Middle East in ways previously unseen.

Al Jazeera 6d ago

Germany: growth halves as state drives investment

The energy shock is further slowing economic growth and fuelling prices. The DIW institute has halved its growth forecast. Fiscal expansion may soften inflation but cannot fully offset it.

Euronews 12h ago

Magnesium transporter discovery could improve rice nutrition and taste

Magnesium transporter discovery could improve rice nutrition and taste Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Rice is a staple food for nearly half the global population and an important dietary source of magnesium, a mineral essential for human health, plant growth and energy metabolism. Although magnesium is known to influence grain quality and taste, the biological mechanism controlling how the mineral reaches rice grains has remained largely unknown. Understanding...

Phys.org 1d ago

The Left Needs to Rediscover Its Patriotism

One the eve of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s independence, more Americans on the right than on the left say they feel patriotic. Recent polls show that a majority of Democrats are “proud” of the country only when a president of their party is in the White House. And many progressive activists and historians see the founding of the nation as a tragedy for Native Americans and enslaved people instead of the glorious fight for liberty that conservatives insist it was.

The Atlantic 7d ago