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Whole of the moon: Tim Easley's lunar photography - in pictures

  
The Guardian - 02.14.2021 Original article ›
Kadish Morris
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Wonderful monochrome pictures of the moon from London photographer and designer Tim Easley in The Guardian. They are collected in a book "The Moon" available on his website. Easley says "the moon invokes so much wonder and awe and I wanted to reflect that." For city people this is the only celestial object they see, he says. As a city person he loves it.

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England rout Ukraine 4-0 to surge into Euro 2020 semi-final with Denmark

  
The Guardian - 07.03.2021 Original article ›
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Harvey Kane scores in the fifth minute to put England ahead early in the soccer game with Ukraine for Euro soccer 2021. Kane scored again, with Maguire and Henderson, putting England 4-0 against Ukraine in the quarter finals. England meet Denmark in the semi finals, Spain meets Italy in the other semi final. France and Germany never made it to the final four. 

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PM Modi, Macron vow to act jointly in the Indo-Pacific, after fallout with Australia

  
Hindustan Times - 09.22.2021 Original article ›
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French president Macron assures PM Modi of "France's commitment to building India's strategic autonomy, including its technology and industry base, as part of a close relationship based on mutual respect and trust." This follows the French fallout with Australia following the cancellation of a $26 billion submarine deal that was shifted to the US for the purpose of advanced nuclear technologies.

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U.S. Economy Added 263,000 Jobs in September, Labor Market Shows Signs of Cooling

  
WSJ - 10.07.2022 Original article ›
Gabriel T. Rubin
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With continued job growth the US Fed is planning to continue its sequential interest rate increases. The Fed raised interest rates 0.75% at each of the last 3 Fed meetings and a fourth 0.75 rate increase is expected when it meets on November 1-2, 2022. This is the most rapid rate of increases since the 1980's and it is designed to bring inflation under control.

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U.S. and Saudi Arabia Trade Barbs on Oil-Production Cut, Russia

  
WSJ - 10.13.2022 Original article ›
Stephen Kalin
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The Biden administration had asked the Saudis to hold off till the next meeting of OPEC+ before making production cuts, or at least wait for 1 month. The Saudis went ahead with the production cuts even though the UAE,Kuwait and Iraq agreed with the US, and only supported the Saudi decision for unanimity within OPEC+. It comes only months after president Biden visited Riyadh.

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João Cancelo’s journey from hating defending to gamechanging full-back

  
The Guardian - 10.15.2022 Original article ›
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Christovao, the coach at Benefica who mentored Joao Cancelo, says he has worked with many players including Ruben Diaz but who impressed him most was Joao Cancelo. Cancelo has excelled in defense at Manchester City, and also played further up in the midfield. Here Christovao describes his experience coaching Cancelo to where he is with Kevin De Bruyne and Haaland ,a key player for Manchester City.

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Germany Sees Tidal Shift in Sentiment Toward Atomic Energy - DER SPIEGEL

  
SPIEGEL ONLINE - 08.12.2022 Original article ›
Steffen Winter, Severin Weiland, Christian Teevs, Ansgar Siemens, Jonas Schaible, Ralf Neukirch, Benedikt Müller Arnold, Guido Mingels, Cordula Meyer, Philipp Kollenbroich, Christine Keck, Johanna Jürgens, Kevin Hagen, Hubert Gude, Tobias Großekemper, Marco Evers, Vicky Isabelle Bargel, Melanie Amann, Der Spiegel
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A recent survey by Der Spiegel shows three quarters of Germans want to continue operating the 3 remaining nuclear plants. 78% support keeping them running to 2023, and 67% support keeping them for 5 more years. The idea is that they can be used in this emergency. Even a majority of Green party support keeping them running to 2023. This is a profound change in German opinion.

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Germany in Talks to Nationalize Uniper After Russian Natural-Gas Halts

  
WSJ - 09.20.2022 Original article ›
Georgi Kantchev, Bojan Pancevski
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The German government plans to give $8 billion to Uniper in exchange for  a majority stake in Germany's energy company Uniper. Uniper was hit hard when Russia turned off natural gas supplies. It reported a net loss of $12.6 billion for the first half of 2022. The German government will also take a stake in the Finnish company that owns Uniper, Fortum Oyj.

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War-Inflicted Slowdown Ends Robust Year for Tourism in Middle East

  
NYTimes.com - 12.01.2023 Original article ›
Christine Chung
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The economies of Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt dependent on 12-26% of earnings from abroad on tourism are hit by the war in Gaza. Israeli tourism is also affected with only half of the flights going in. Egypt was a bright spot after the pandemic faded with a strong recovery above that of pre pandemic levels. In 2023 Egypt expected to see 15 million tourists.

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Rift Over Fossil Fuels to Dominate COP28

  
WSJ - 12.01.2023 Original article ›
Stacy Meichtry, Matthew Dalton
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The UAE is putting $30 billion into a new fund called Alterra to invest in clean energy in the developing world. The goal is to get $250 billion into the fund by 20230 from other investors. Alterra is investing $6.5 billion along with BlackRock, Brookfield, TPG, in climate investment vehicles. This includes investment to build 6000 megawatts of clean energy in India, including 1200 megawatts of wind energy.

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Analysis: Japan's Cabinet reshuffle is aimed at stability | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

  
NHK WORLD - 12.14.2023 Original article ›
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Facing low approval ratings the new cabinet of prime minister Kishida is aiming for stability. New ministers can get to work immediately. New Cabinet secretary Yoshimasa was previously defense minister and foreign minister, and is No.2 in the Kishida faction of the LDP. It is a difficult road ahead as members of the Abe faction resigned from a fund raising tickets probe by prosecutors. 

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She Was the World’s Best Player. Now She Won’t Play Soccer Again.

  
WSJ - 01.19.2024 Original article ›
Rachel Bachman
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Rachel Bachman tells the story of Kristie Mewis, one of the best soccer players in the world who is retiring because of an injury suffered in a game in 2017. Even after the injury she made an effort to continue her game winning championships in women's soccer till she decided to switch to covering the game as a broadcaster using skills she had developed.

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Jannik Sinner's strong and improved baseline game helps him stun Novak Djokovic to reach Australian Open final

  
The Indian Express - 01.26.2024 Original article ›
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Jannick Sinner of Italy wins in 4 sets over Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open in a decisive manner 6-1,6-2, 6-7, 6-3. Novak Djokovic had an unbeaten 20-0 record at the Austrlain Open. Sinner is the rising 22 year old from Italy who has emerged in the way Spain's Alcaraz has in world tennis over the last 2 years.

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The secret meaning behind the World Tree Hugging Championships

  
BBC News - 02.07.2024 Original article ›
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Tree hugging brings out the best in people. People from as far away as Germany visit this forest in the north of Finland for this tree hugging contest, part of a way to connect with nature. 70% of Finland is forest yet the trees have no sunlight for 6 weeks in the Nordic winters. This BBC report shows the resilience of the Finnish people and the love of nature.

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Canada To Reimpose Visa Requirement on Mexican Visitors

  
WSJ - 02.28.2024 Original article ›
Vipal Monga, Paul Vieira
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Canada makes the decision to reinstate the visa requirement for Mexican citizens effective February 29th 2024. This was lifted by Trudeau in 2016 without a careful understanding of its implications. Since then Quebec insisted it was at the breaking point and pushed for reinstating the visa requirement. The Biden administration also pushed for the visa requirement as more people were illegally entering the US from Canada.

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The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped

  
NYTimes.com - 12.13.2022 Original article ›
Nadja Popovich, Mira Rojanasakul, Brad Plumer
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A consumption based carbon footprint mapping that was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, is shown in the NYT. It shows different city centers and suburbs in America including New York city and how their consumption based footprints differ. Some places including suburbs and wealthier households drivemore, buy more goods and are responsible for higher emissions than places with better public transportation, that use energy practicing conservation.

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Lee Jae-yong: Why South Korea just pardoned the Samsung 'prince'

  
BBC News - 08.12.2022 Original article ›
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The BBC presents a different view of the pardon of Samsung's Jay Y Lee. It questions the idea that it will help the Korean economy, and whether it can help ordinary Koreans because trickle down economics won't work. Korea's major companies the chaebol have grown unpopular in the country over the last decade, with major protests over bribery scandals. 

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EU Warns Musk's X Platform Over Content Circulating About Conflict

  
WSJ - 10.11.2023 Original article ›
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Issues of social media spreading misinformation are seen in this report in NYT about Twitter acquired by Elon Musk and now called X.  This only points to the broader negative role played by social media in the last decade, which includes negative effect on young people and its damaging effect on society. As a medium it has added little and shows the corrosive effects of some technologies.

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Moderna Drops Pursuit of U.S. Patent for Key Component of Covid-19 Vaccine

  
WSJ - 12.17.2021 Original article ›
Peter Loftus
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The key role played by National Institutes of Health scientists in the development of the Moderna covid vaccine was not accepted in the application for patents by Moderna, leading to a dispute with the NIH. Moderna has now dropped the patent application saying it is a distraction on work for tackling the Omicron variant. That patent application had not listed scientists of NIH who worked on the invention.

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PM Modi lauds strength of youth at NCC rally, says none can stop a nation whose youth works with spirit of nation first

  
The Economic Times - 01.28.2022 Original article ›
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The prime minister of India asks people who came up through the National Cadet Corps in colleges and universities to preserve the NCC spirit and look out for dropouts from school at this time of the pandemic. The NCC spirit is to meet that person and find ways to get him back in school or college. To let no person's potential and mind go to waste.

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Screens, Lack of Sun Are Causing an Epidemic of Myopia

  
WSJ - 08.26.2023 Original article ›
Julie Jargon
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Children are not getting enough time outdoors. The pandemic has worsened this. The Tech company driven changes in use of screen time have added to this with children spending as little as 10 minutes outdoors. The progression of myopia increased by 35% by one estimate after 3 years of the pandemic. Natural sunlight is needed for the eye not to grow longer which contributes to nearsightedness, say researchers.

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3M Nears Roughly $5.5 Billion Earplugs Settlement

  
WSJ - 08.27.2023 Original article ›
Bob Tita, John Keilman
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3M based in Minnesota makes a $5.5 billion settlement for earplugs over hearing loss complaints. It is the largest mass tort in history with 300,000 claims by veterans who served in the military, says the WSJ. An earlier settlement with municipal water providers by 3M was for PFAS forever chemicals. This settlement waits court approval and the WSJ says could cost it $12.5 billion over 13 years.

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Why Floods Can Turn So Deadly, So Fast

  
NYTimes.com - 09.13.2023 Original article ›
Delger Erdenesanaa
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Alluvial soil near a mountain range, dry soil that does not soak up water, led to the quick flash flooding in Libya from climate change induced sudden rainfall that dumped 15 inches of rain on September 10, 2023, in area around Derna, Libya. Normal rain is about one tenth of an inch during the month of September. Dams burst sweeping Derna and its residents into the sea.

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Opinion | Impeachment Is the New Censure

  
WSJ - 09.12.2023 Original article ›
The Editorial Board
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Impeachment inquiry of president Biden is launched by Mr. McCarthy in the US House of Representatives under pressure from a minority called the Freedom Caucus. The bar should be set high says the WSJ. It says this will likely imperil the 18 Republican seats in the House where Mr. Biden won the popular vote and could turn the House to the Democrats in 2024. 

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Biden Administration to Resume Border Wall Construction in Policy Reversal

  
WSJ - 10.05.2023 Original article ›
Michelle Hackman
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The Biden administration plans to build 20 miles of new border security wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas completing a section of the wall that is seeing extraordinarily high migrant crossing. The Biden administration is looking for ways to restrict flow of migrants that is taxing the resources of cities in the US. About 2 million crossings in each of the last 2 years, says the WSJ.

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