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Perhaps it was the late-night flight from Orlando, but the New York Knicks admitted they were a step slow Saturday night before Jalen Brunson engineered an overtime victory over the host Washington Wizards. With a day of rest in between, the Knicks attempt to get off to a better start and stretch their winning streak to a season-high eight Monday night when they take on the Wizards again in the nation's capital. New York has five victories by single digits in its best run since winning nine straight Jan. 17-Feb. 1, 2024. The Knicks have scored at least 130 three times during this run while playing three games against teams under .500. After pulling away for a 23-point win over the Orlando Magic on Friday, the most difficult of those games against losing teams occurred Saturday when the Knicks needed overtime to earn a 136-132 win over Washington. Brunson scored 55 points for his second-highest point total, with 42 coming after halftime when the Knicks erased an 11-point deficit and tied the game in the final seconds. "We needed it," New York's Josh Hart said. "This one was a tough one for us. Back-to-back. I felt a little old today. So a lot of us felt the same way. We were a little slow. But he made big shots. That's why he's the captain. Find a way to win." Brunson (right calf tightness) is listed as questionable for Monday's game. The Knicks are hoping their defense is improved from Saturday when it matched a season high in points allowed. Brunson's big night helped compensate for the defensive woes as the Knicks shot 52.6 percent. Brunson has led the Knicks in scoring four times during their winning streak, while others have made massive contributions. Mikal Bridges scored 41 Wednesday against the San Antonio Spurs while Karl-Anthony Towns has three 30-point games in the streak, including 30 and 14 rebounds Saturday. The Wizards are 3-6 since their 16-game losing streak and are coming off their closest margin of defeat. Washington scored its second-most points of the season and shot at least 50 percent from the field for the third time (51.6 percent). Julian Champagnie scored 31 after totaling 14 in his previous three games. Malcolm Brogdon added 22 for his third-highest point total this season in a game when the Wizards hit 17 3s but could not stop Brunson and allowed 78 points in the paint. "This team is actually just getting better every day," Brogdon said. "We won that one game -- maybe that was Denver, or whatever game that was -- and we've seen ourselves, even with the losses after that game, get better every day, every practice, every game." Washington is hoping to get Kyle Kuzma back from a rib injury that has cost him 12 games. He has not played since Nov. 27 but could return Monday. This article first appeared on Field Level Media and was syndicated with permission.Victims and families react as Biden spares the lives of 37 federal death row inmates

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded the power of 'Nari Shakti' in shaping the Constitution and made a strong pitch for 'united Bharat' in realising the country's dreams in the twenty-first century. Joining the two-day debate on the Constitution, commemorating the 75th year of its adoption, PM Modi said that today, the country is being recognised and celebrated across the world as the 'Mother of Democracy'. "Nari Shakti played a crucial role in shaping and empowering the Constitution. There were 15 women members in the Constituent Assembly, who left their stamp on the sacred book. This is a matter of pride for us," PM Modi said. He further said that his government has focused heavily on women empowerment. "We have shifted focus from women-centric to women-led development. We cleared the Naari Shakti Adhiniyam Vandan to ensure active participation of women in the democracy. Today, women are breaking social barriers and making forays into every sector," PM Modi said in the concluding address in Lok Sabha. Making a strong pitch for 'unity', PM Modi called upon everyone including the Opposition parties to come together and contribute in achieving the shared dreams of the twenty-first century. "It's time for everyone to celebrate the unity in diversity and not get divided by some political motives," the Prime Minister said in the Lower House. The Prime Minister then counted several initiatives of his government and how this was focused on achieving one unified approach in making policies. "Article 370 was a major obstacle in India's unity and hence it was buried under the earth. Goods and Services Tax (GST) played a vital role in ensuring economic unity - one nation, one tax is taking this idea forward," he stated. PM Modi further said that his government strongly pushed for 'One nation, one ration card' to facilitate equitable treatment of every citizen across the country. "Under One nation- one health card i.e. Ayushman Bharat card, any Indian living in any part of the country can avail the same medical benefits under the scheme. One nation, one grid initiative has driven out darkness from urban centres as well as villages," PM Modi said. Laying emphasis on the government's focus on the digital economy, PM Modi said that democratising technology has ensured that the benefits of government schemes percolate down to remote locations without any discrimination. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) 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Other options like electric propulsion and solar sailing are efficient but offer measly amounts of force, albeit for a long time. So scientists have long dreamed of a third method of propulsion – one that could provide enough force over a long enough time to power a crewed mission to another star in a single human lifetime. And that could theoretically happen using one of the rarest substances in the universe – antimatter. A new paper from Sawsan Ammar Omira and Abdel Hamid I. Mourad at the United Arab Emirates University looks at the possibilities of developing a space drive using antimatter and what makes it so hard to create. Antimatter was initially discovered in 1932 when physicist Carl David Anderson observed positrons – the antimatter form of an electron – in cosmic rays by passing them through a cloud chamber. He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1936 for his discovery. It took 20 years to create it artificially for the first time. Since then, antimatter has been poked and prodded in as many ways as scientists could think of – including literally, but that causes the thing that antimatter is most famous for – self-annihilation. When an antimatter proton comes into contact with protons or neutrons of normal matter, they annihilate one another and release a combination of energy (typically in the form of gamma rays) and also high-energy short-lived particles, known as pion and kaon, which happen to be traveling at relativistic speeds. So, in theory, a ship could contain enough antimatter to intentionally create this annihilation explosion, using the relativistic particles as a form of thrust and potentially using the gamma rays as a source of power. The overall amount of energy released from a gram of antiprotons being annihilated is 1.8×1014, 11 orders of magnitude more energy than rocket fuel and even 100 times greater energy density than a nuclear fission or fusion reactor. As the paper puts it, “one gram of antihydrogen could ideally power 23 space shuttles.” All this begs the question – why don’t we have these awesome propulsions systems yet? The simple answer is that antimatter is tricky to work with. Since it will self-annihilate with anything it touches, it must be suspended in an advanced electromagnetic containment field. The longest scientists have been able to do that was for about 16 minutes at CERN in 2016, and even that was only on the order of a few atoms – not the grams or kilograms needed to support an interstellar propulsion system. Additionally, it takes absurd amounts of energy to create antimatter, which makes it expensive. The Antiproton Decelerator, a massive particle accelerator at CERN, makes about ten nanograms of antiprotons a year at a cost of several million dollars. Extrapolating that out, producing one gram of antimatter would require something like 25 million kWh of energy—enough to power a small city for a year. It would also cost over $4M at average electricity rates, making it one of the most expensive substances on Earth. Given this expense and the massive scale of the infrastructure needed to do it, antimatter research is relatively limited. Around 100-125 papers per year are produced on the subject, dramatically increasing from around 25 in 2000. However, that compares to around 1000 papers per year on large language models, one of the more popular forms of algorithms powering the current AI boom. In other words, the overall expense and relative long-term horizon over any payout limit the amount of funding and, therefore, advancements in antimatter creation and storage. That means it will probably be quite some time before we end up with an antimatter ship drive. We might even need to create some preliminary energy-producing technologies like fusion that could significantly lower the cost of energy and even enable the research that would eventually get us there. However, the possibility of traveling at near-relativistic speeds and potentially getting actual humans to another star within a single lifetime is an ambitious goal that space and exploration enthusiasts everywhere will continue to pursue, no matter how long it takes. Learn More: Sawsan Ammar Omira & Abdel Hamid I. Mourad – Future of Antimatter Production, Storage, Control, and Annihilation Applications in Propulsion Technologies UT – It’s Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up UT – Are There Antimatter Galaxies? UT – Spectrum of Antimatter Observed for First Time Lead Image: Artist’s conception of an antimatter rocket system. Credit – NASA/MFSC

Over the course of 2024, China’s foreign trade development has maintained a good momentum, with overall quality and structure improvement and stable growth. The achievements have not come easily considering the current slowing global economic recovery, intensifying trade protectionism and intertwined geopolitical conflicts. China’s foreign goods trade increased by 4.9 percent year-on-year to reach 39.79 trillion yuan ($5.45 trillion) in the first 11 months of 2024, demonstrating stable growth and ongoing structural improvements, data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC) showed. “With the concerted efforts of both stock and incremental policies in the field, China is expected to end the year with a smooth performance in foreign trade and achieve the goal of stable quality and quantity,” Lü Daliang, spokesperson of the GAC, said at a press conference on December 10. While maintaining a stable growth in foreign trade, China also vowed to share its vast market with the world by boosting the expansion of imports, including policy support, platform construction and transport facilitation. In the first 11 months, China’s imports from all the least developed countries (LDCs) that have established diplomatic relations with China increased by 12.4 percent, nearly 10 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China’s imports, according to GAC data. Honey from Rwanda, wild aquatic products from Uganda, peanuts and sesame from Chad, fresh pine nuts from Afghanistan ... In 2024, more and more agricultural products have been exported to China, opening its market to more and more countries through major trade events and e-commerce. The 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE), held in November in Shanghai, featured 37 LDCs, with the event organizers providing more than 120 free exhibition booths specifically for businesses from these countries. “This is the second time that we have participated in the CIIE ... We have 30 companies coming to the expo this year compared with about 20 in 2023,” Kassim Kone, a delegate from the Mali Export Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Mali, told the Global Times, an indication of how Mali values this event. Bangladesh also showcased a variety of products at the 7th CIIE, ranging from leather to food. Some of these products are already being exported to China, Md Ziaur Rahman, the commercial counselor of the Embassy of Bangladesh in China, told the Global Times. “Since its launch, the CIIE has been providing facilitation for LDCs. For the past seven years, more and more products from LDCs have entered the Chinese market through the CIIE, which contributed to the industrial development and improvement of people’s livelihood in these countries,” Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on November 7 at a regular press conference. Shanghai launched the 2024 Shanghai Silk Road E-commerce Carnival in May 2024, under which Meione (Shanghai) Network Technology Co conducted a special promotion event exclusively for African products, selling raw materials such as cocoa cubes, coffee extracts and tea extracts from African countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, Meione said in a statement shared with the Global Times. China has been facilitating market access for more imports, especially for LDCs. Starting from December 1, 2024, China gave zero-tariff treatment for 100 percent tariff lines to LDCs. China is the first developing country and major global economy to implement this initiative, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said. Regarding China’s zero-tariff treatment policy for LDCs, of which Bangladesh is one, Rahman said that “this policy will significantly promote trade for countries like ours, and we are very grateful for it.” “This demonstrates China’s commitment to forge a global development partnership, under which no country or individual should be left behind,” Zhu Qiucheng, CEO of Ningbo New Oriental Electric Industrial Development, an exporter of home furnishing products, told the Global Times on Friday. China’s foreign trade, while with increasing imports from more countries and keeping a stable growth in 2024, also improved its mix, with exports of high-quality and high-tech products particularly increased. Specifically, mechanical and electrical products accounted for nearly 60 percent of exports in the first 11 months, of which automatic data processing equipment and its parts, integrated circuits and automobiles exports grew by double digits, according to GAC data. Exports of the “new trio,” namely, electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and photovoltaic products, have become China’s new business cards in the world. It means that in the “smile curve” of the global manufacturing industry, Chinese foreign trade enterprises are moving toward the upstream of the global value chain. The curve is called a “smile” because the two ends of the curve (R&D and after-sales service) have higher value, while the middle section (manufacturing) is relatively lower in terms of value creation. According to the latest data from China Automobile Dealers Association, China’s cumulative export volume of new-energy vehicles was 1.72 million units in the first 10 months of 2024, an increase of 15 percent year-on-year. “Compared with labor-intensive goods such as textiles and clothing, the ‘new trio’ represents technology-intensive products, which are transformed and upgraded to high-end, intelligent and green – meaning higher added value,” said Zhu. The transformation and upgrading of China’s economic and trade structure have been demonstrated through China-initiated trade events, such as the CIIE, the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), and the China International Supply Chain Expo. The Canton Fair, for example, used to mainly showcase consumer goods. But in recent years, the proportion of intermediate and capital goods on display has increased to 12 percent, the Global Times learned from the organizer. In the machinery exhibition area where capital goods are concentrated, the number of booths has increased by more than 50 percent in the past five years. With increasingly advanced technologies, together with China’s world-leading manufacturing level and stable supply chains, Chinese enterprises are making high-tech products more affordable for the world, Liu Jinshi, chief engineer of Ston Robotics Changzhou Co, told the Global Times. While China’s position in the global trade market is gradually shifting to the middle and high-end in terms of industrial chains and value chains, the country’s trade partners are also diversifying. In particular, its trade with developing and emerging markets grew at a fast pace. In the first 11 months, China’s trade with countries participating in the Belt and Road cooperation saw a year-on-year increase of 6 percent, while that with ASEAN members rose by 8.6 percent. In this period, China’s foreign trade with Latin America increased by 7.9 percent and that with Africa up 4.8 percent, according to GAC. The foreign trade of goods this year showed a good performance, both from the perspective of trading partners and the structure of traded goods, Wan Zhe, an economist and professor at the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, told the Global Times. “The export growth of products with high technologies is strong, reflecting the increasing quality of China’s industrial development,” said Wan. China’s economy has demonstrated strong resilience, great potential and vitality. The country is building a new economic development pattern of “dual circulation” with the domestic market as the mainstay and the domestic and overseas markets reinforcing each other and China is capable of resisting the impact of external shocks, Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen, said on November 22 at a press conference. The State Council recently issued a package of policy measures aimed at promoting the stable growth of foreign trade, while the MOFCOM, the GAC and other departments launched specific measures to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, further optimize the business environment at ports, and promote the convenience of customs clearance for enterprises, said Lü. The recent Central Economic Work Conference further stressed efforts to promote high-standard opening up while keeping foreign trade and foreign investment stable as being one of the key tasks for 2025, according to the Xinhua News Agency. “Looking ahead, favorable conditions are stronger than unfavorable factors, such as declining global demand and growing trade barriers and protectionism. There is a basis and support for China to achieve steady growth of imports and exports,” said Zhu. Source: Global Times