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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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Rebel troops capture large city in Congo

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This Week's lesson:

Phone-free schools: Los Angeles is the latest to ban student cell use

The second-largest U.S. education district, serving over 540,000 Los Angeles students in 1,300 schools, this month joins a growing number of systems that prohibit phone use during school time. The aim is to reduce texting, social media use, cybe...

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What is the impact of DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence?

Chines startup DeepSeek's launch of its latest artificial intelligence models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order. After...

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