Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, allies such as China have struggled to reconcile their deep strategic ties with Moscow with their apparently conflicting objective of promoting state sovereignty. China, which has refrained from criticizing Russia's aggression, abstained from voting on a resolution denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations Security Council.
Though not completely completed, the Ping An International Finance Centre was completed in April 2015, making it China's second biggest tower and the world's fourth largest structure. Originally intended to exceed the Shanghai Tower and become China's tallest structure, the financial center's 60-meter antenna was shelved in early 2015 due to the danger of disrupting flight pathways. The 115-story structure is situated in Shenzhen's Central Business District and will house Ping An Insurance's headquarters, as well as hotel rooms, offices, retail spaces, a high-end shopping mall, and an observation deck at the top. | C Foulger / Flickr | Ping An Finance Centre
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On Wednesday, March 16, before dawn, in the lower southeastern sky, exceptionally brilliant Venus and considerably fainter Mars will achieve their lowest separation of 3.9 degrees, providing an excellent picture opportunity. That is sufficiently near for them to share the field of vision while using binoculars (green circle). Mars will be several finger widths below Venus's lower right (celestial south) limb. On adjacent mornings, the two planets will be almost as close. After Wednesday, Venus' motion toward the sun will gradually increase the distance between it and Mars.
Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos in the lead roles. It is a loose adaptation of the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968). The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which the Tyrell Corporation bioengineers synthetic people known as replicants to labor in off-world colonies. When a squad of fugitive replicants commanded by Roy Batty (Hauer) returns to Earth, burned-out officer Rick Deckard (Ford) grudgingly agrees to track them down. Trilogy of sprawl [adjust]
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