Innholdsfortegnelse for February 24, 2023 i Newsweek International

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISCHINA “ChatGPT provided answers that could have appeared on the worst fringe conspiracy sites.”▸ P.16 THE POSTPONEMENT OF A MEETING BETWEEN senior United States officials and counterparts in Beijing over a surveillance balloon detected over the continental U.S. and then shot down may further dash the hopes of American citizens held for years in China. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to travel to Beijing for sit-down talks with Chinese officials as a follow-up to Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s meeting late last year. He would have been the first top U.S. diplomat to visit the country in five years. But the presence of the spy balloon forced Washington to push back the talks to an unscheduled date—a crushing blow to the families of American…

THERE ARE COUNTLESS CUS-tomer loyalty programs out there and they work in a wide variety of ways, but they all have one purpose: to reward you for regularly buying from a particular brand. Simple enough. But with the huge range of loyalty programs across the entire spectrum of consumer product and service brands, one program can at first glance look very much like all the others. How can you tell which are good deals which aren’t? To try to simplify that question, Newsweek has partnered again with global data research firm Statista to find America’s Best Loyalty Programs 2023. This year, we surveyed more than 4,000 customers who are members of U.S. loyalty programs and asked them several questions, including which programs offered worthwhile rewards, which they were most satisfied…

In FocusTHE NEWS IN PICTURESKAHRAMANMARAŞ, TURKEY Mesut Hancer holds the hand of Irmak, his 15-year-old daughter, who died in the earthquake, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast on February 7. The deadliest seismic event in the world in more than a decade, the disaster in Turkey and Syria has killed more than 33,000 people, injured tens of thousands and flattened thousands of buildings. Frigid weather has further dimmed the chances of finding people alive and, according to the World Health Organization, may bring “a secondary disaster” for survivors who have been left homeless.…

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In the iconic “City of Canals” low tide reached 2.1 feet below mean sea level on February 6, causing navigation issues. In recent years, the city has experienced both a series of exceptionally low tides and also periodic high tides. The extreme swings are a direct result of both climate change and subsidence. The city has built a system of movable walls, called MOSE, to protect it from sinking.…

AT 4:30 A.M. ON DECEMBER 29, the White House lawyer in charge of handling the administration’s response to the slew of investigations planned by the incoming Republican House majority fired off a warning shot in an email to the two GOP representatives expected to head the probes. They were demanding documents related to everything from the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan to the migrant crisis at the border in the weeks after the midterm elections, and the Biden defense team wasn’t having it. The language was lawyerly but firm: Call me after the new Congress is sworn in, when you actually have some authority. At 5 a.m., the story appeared in the press. The message was clear to both Republicans and the public, says Mark Tuohey, a veteran D.C. lawyer…