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Democratic Hopes Rise on Senate Control as Two States Count Votes

  
NYTimes.com - 11.11.2022 Original article ›
Blake Hounshell
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Mail in ballots in the vote for the US Senate in Nevada will pay a crucial role for Democrats to control the Senate. Some reports say Democrats who are running at about 61% in mail in ballots could make it through if they get 55% to give Ms. Cortez Masto the Democrat a seat in the Senate. With Arizona leaning Democrat this would give the Democrats control of the Senate even before the runoff election in the third undecided state of Georgia in December. So close has been the struggle for the US Senate.

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Opinion: Biden-Xi G20 meeting a big stride forward – DW – 11/14/2022

  
dw.com - 11.17.2022 Original article ›
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A path forward set for peaceful cooperation and competition by Joe Biden as he meets Xi Jinping again after his many meetings with Xi during the early years of the Obama administration. The meetings take place at the G20 meeting in Indonesia and mark a return to normalcy following the volatile rhetoric of the Trump administration. During the conflict in Ukraine both leaders express their intention to cooperate fully and seek peaceful solutions to world problems. A positive note emerges then from the G20 in Indonesia- a welcome relief after the disaster to global health from the pandemic.

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How to Help Prevent Flu and RSV? You Might Not Like the Answer.

  
WSJ - 12.08.2022 Original article ›
Alex Janin
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High levels of covid and RSV in the US are leading to health authorites saying wearing masks is needed to prevent it from spreading. Los Angles is likely to introduce a mask requirement for indoors by the end of December 2022. Carrying hand sanitizer and keeping wipes with you is a good idea because RSV spreads through touching infected surfaces. Vaccination for flu and covid is also a key prevention action. As most people are no longer wearing masks in the US the practice of wearing masks is becoming a good idea once again.

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NATO: New challenges for the alliance as Finland and Sweden inch closer to membership? | DW | 12.05.2022

  
DW.COM - 05.12.2022 Original article ›
Priyanka Shankar
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Finland makes the decision to join NATO on May 12, 2022. NATO's land. border will increase from 1215 kilometres or 745 miles to 2600 kilometres. Sweden is expected to join NATO in a paradigm shift as it has been neutral for 200 years. Once Finland joins Sweden would be alone in the Baltic if it did not join NATO. Both Finland and Sweden have integrated their defenses and built up defenses at a time when other European states had not invested in the military. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has welcomed FInland and Sweden joining NATO.

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The $45 Billion Desert City Hosting the World Cup Final

  
WSJ - 12.17.2022 Original article ›
Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
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Qatar has the world's third largest reserves of natural gas, more than the US or Saudi Arabia. WSJ looks at Lusail, a city built out of the desert sand in 15 years at a cost of $45 billion. With a population of 250,000, it is about 14 miles outside Doha, the capital of Qatar. The World Cup soccer cost Qatar an estimated $220 billion including the cost of building Lusail and the 89,000 spectator stadium in Lusail, a new Metro transportation system, and wide pendestrian walkways, office and residential towers, expressways.

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Green Mountain Grandma - Zero Waste Life | NHK WORLD-JAPAN On Demand

  
NHK WORLD - 12.27.2022 Original article ›
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Since ancient times the Japanese have believed a life force exists in all creations. Nakahara learned to value all things from an early age, says this NHK Japan video of a woman who settled in a mountain region of Japan thirty years ago after living in the city. In her weaving of cloth, dyeing, and making clothing she practices a zero waste lifestyle that inspires all around her. She uses pampas grass in her backyard for making dyes and makes the cloth using traditional handicraft weaving equipment. Click on Original Article for the NHK video.

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Brazil’s Lula Makes Remarkable Return to Power After 12 Years

  
WSJ - 01.01.2023 Original article ›
Samantha Pearson, Luciana Magalhaes
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Mr. Lula Da Silva returns as president after 12 years after a closely contested win securing 51% of the vote.  It is a crucial time for saving the Amazon rain forest to tackle climate change, and for economic revival. About 33 million went hungry in Brazil in 2022 compared to 19 million in 2020 showing the difficulties Brazil faces. About 700,000 people died during the pandemic. The Worker's party pushed through a constitutional amendment last month to lift a spending cap so that about $28 billion in extra spending  can help alleviate these problems. 

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U.S. Inflation Slowed for Sixth Straight Month in December

  
WSJ - 01.12.2023 Original article ›
Gwynn Guilford
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Marking the sixth straight month of declines the US consumer price index rose by 6.5% over a year earlier in Dec. 2023. This is down from 7.1% in November and 9.1% in June. The US central bank chairman Jay Powell is resolutely pursuing anti inflation policy. Retail sales, manufacturing output and home sales declined in November. Exports and imports also declined. Prices fell for products such as autos and computers. Job and wage growth slowed. Tackling service inflation is the next challenge for the US Fed and Jay Powell says the WSJ.

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Union Membership Rate Hits Record Low Despite Votes at Apple, Amazon, Starbucks

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WSJ - 01.21.2023 Original article ›
David Harrison
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Unions represent 10.1% of wage and salary workers in the US in 2022, down from 10.3% in 2021. Unions added 273,000 workers in 2022, increasing by 1.9% to 14.3 million. Only a small fraction of workers in the private sector are unionized, 6% of 120 million workers or 7.2 million workers. In the public sector 7.1 million or 33% of 21 million workers are represented by unions. Unions won the ability to represent workers in 1041 of 1363 elections held in 2022. In Jan 2023 workers at Microsoft voted to form a union.

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Trade Unions matter in a human-centred recovery from COVID-19

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ILO - 01.21.2023 Original article ›
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The International Labor Organization (ILO) of the United Nations stands for advancing social justice and promoting decent work. It says in this edition of its journal that trade unions have stood their ground to better protect workers rights during the pandemic when workers suffered from its devastating impact and in a difficult environment. In the US 1041 of 1363 elections at companies led to unions getting the right to represent workers. This is the highest number of elections over two decades. It also includes Microsoft and other companies showing wider acceptance of unions to protect workers rights.

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Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight

  
NYTimes.com - 01.21.2023 Original article ›
Nico Grant
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How ChatGPT and Microsoft are seen as upending the search business at Google. ChatGPT's ability to explain complex concepts and come up with new thoughts are seen as creating anew way of doing Search. Microsoft is investing billions of dollars in ChatGPT. Much of Google's efforts in the last five years have gone into preserving its monopoly of the search business without adding much through innovation and new ideas. The monopolistic behaviours have attracted the attention of regulators. Microsoft once a monopolistic behaviour company is now playing the role of a challenger with new ideas and concepts.

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More than 130 grain ships stuck in Black Sea as talks start in Istanbul

  
The Guardian - 07.13.2022 Original article ›
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Opening up of the Bystre and Sulina canals to get Ukraine wheat from the port of Odessa on the Black Sea to Romanian ports and to the Danube. This is one more step in getting grain out of Ukraine. Ukraine taking over Snake Island on the Romanian coast south of Odessa in July was a positive step for creating a route for ships getting to Romania and the Danube. Yet this route only adds about 500,000 tons of grain taken out. About 8 million tons normally leave in June from Ukraine ports only 25% or 2 million made it out.

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Reliance’s $11 Billion Bid Wins Lion’s Share of 5G Spectrum in India Auction

  
WSJ - 08.02.2022 Original article ›
Rajesh Roy
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Reliance Jio makes the highest bid and takes most of the 5G spectrum in India with a bid for $11.4 billion or over half of the 5G spectrum. The government had eased the size of investment by firms by allowing 20 equal instalments in payment and other measures. This prepares India and Jio to build the 5G network in India as it had done earlier for the 4G network and become the dominant low cost provider in the world. The experience gained in building 4G gives Jio the advantage in building the new 5G network in India on its own.

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Island trip lays bare US-China tussle in the Pacific

  
BBC News - 08.06.2022 Original article ›
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This BBC report looks back at the Solomon Islands which were part of the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II and the importance of the Pacific. In 1943 a Japanese destroyer sank an American ship under John Kennedy in these Pacific ocean waters. About  80 years later his daughter Caroline Kennedy, ambassador to Australia in the Biden administration, takes a trip to this Pacific region and islands of Samoa and Tonga, with Wendy Sherman. China is seen as planning a base in the Solomon Islands which is on the southern sea route near Australia.

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Has Russia's carpet bombing of Ukraine been halted? | DW | 06.08.2022

  
DW.COM - 08.06.2022 Original article ›
Frank Hofmann
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This DW.com report on General Cavoli and Headquarters of US Forces Europe, EUCOM command center near Stuttgart, shows how it is changing the war in Ukraine so that there is no more the kind of carpet bombing of Ukraine. That incessant bombing had caused a stream of millions of refugees of women and children across Ukraine and into Poland and Romania. The shelling of Ukraine is down in the east and the south by a factor of six in recent weeks say experts. This may be the biggest change from western aid to Ukraine at this time.

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With Deal in Hand, Democrats Enter the Fall Armed With Something New: Hope

  
NYTimes.com - 08.09.2022 Original article ›
Shane Goldmacher, Katie Glueck
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Democrats are feeling hopeful that they can keep control of the Senate after passing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This gives Democrats something to show Americans that tackles issues of inflation, climate change, fair taxation, healthcare access. In addition the Democrats have passed bills on building America's advanced technology industries with the semiconductor bill, earlier infrastructure bill in 2021, and a bill to help veterans. By not supporting the Inflation Reduction Act with all 50 Republican votes in the Senate voting against it Republicans are now less hopeful of winning the Senate.

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How Alvin Bragg Resurrected the Case Against Donald Trump

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NYTimes.com - 04.01.2023 Original article ›
Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum
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This NYT report shows how Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, decided to first put off any indictment a year ago because he was not convinced about the evidence being strong enough in other areas. It was after hiring a new team, bringing in additional prosecutors and resources, and studying different areas of evidence on different issues that he settled on the one related to the hush money payments to a porn actress. It is at that point that the information for the indictment was put together for the grand jury, a year later. 

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Ukraine Resumes Electricity Exports, as Russian Strikes on Grid Lose Efficacy

  
WSJ - 04.08.2023 Original article ›
Ian Lovett
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Ukraine's electricity grid makes it though a tough winter with frequent Russian missile attacks that led to power cutbacks throughout Ukraine. Kviv residents had only 4 hours of electricity and heat, water were also cut off for hours as the winter progressed. With better more advanced defense systems the attacks are fewer now, and the power grid is being repaired. Large transformers and other spare parts are being sent to Ukraine for the repairs. Ukraine is now able to resume exports of electricity in April 2023 showing that the worst of the electricity grid crisis is over.

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For Some Trump Voters, Legal Drama Is Latest Reason to Move On

  
WSJ - 04.09.2023 Original article ›
John Mc Cormick
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A CNN poll shows 62% of Independents support the indictment of Donald Trump. John McCormick of the WSJ talks to Republicans in different states to understand how they feel about Mr. Trump after the indictment. The party is split -with some Republicans seeing that Trump has too much baggage to win in 2024. They feel the party should try another candidate. Mr. Trump is seen as having some positives but as having an abrasive personality, causing tension, and being too divisive to be a good president. There is a sense that it is time to move on to someone else.

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, J&k LG Manoj Sinha inspect ongoing construction of Zojila tunnel | The Indian Express| Page 1

  
The Indian Express - 04.11.2023 Original article ›
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Asia's longest bidirectional tunnel is between Ganderbal district in Kashmir and Kargil district of Ladakh in India's Himalayan region at a height of 11,500 feet for 14.2 kilometres. Indian Express shows pictures of work on the tunnel which will cut time across the mountains from 3 hours to 20 minutes and connects Leh in Ladakh with Srinagar in J&K providing all weather connectivity. It will be completed months ahead of completion date of 2026. As part of the project 19 tunnels are being constructed at a cost of $3.5 billion.

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Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT

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WSJ - 04.11.2023 Original article ›
Ryan Tracy
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This report in WSJ says fears are growing about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence that includes committing crimes and spreading false information, or information that is likely to be damaging to people. The Biden administration is looking into the possible misuse and inviting comment. The National Telecommunication and Information Administration is as a first step inviting comments. Alan Davidson who heads the agency says we know we have to put some guardrails in place. Asked about AI and new chatbots and risks they pose president Biden says, "it remains to be seen," it could be.

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After She Traded One Patagonia for Another, Tragedy Couldn’t Keep Her Away

  
NYTimes.com - 04.17.2023 Original article ›
Nadav Gavrielov
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Kristine Tompkins donates 1 million acres, the Chilean government donates 9 million acres, together this is being used to create 5 national parks and expand 3 in Chile. Since 1994 she and Mr. Tompkins a founder of North Face, who made $150 million from selling his apparel company Espirit, have accumulated land in Argentina and Chile as part of a passion for conservation. Tompkins died in a kayaking accident and Ms. Tompkins has decided to give it all away in national parks. Their story is part of a new documentary "Wild Life," by Chin and Vasarhelyi.

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PM Modi calls for strengthening BIMSTEC

  
The Hindu - 03.30.2022 Original article ›
Kallol Bhattacherjee
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The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Security, Technical and Economic Cooperation is a big step forward in the Indian Ocean region. It offers the region a new opportunity to focus on rapid development after decades of faltering steps following independence. Challenges Mr. Modi described include, coastal shipping ecosystem, electricity grid interconnectivity, Master Plan for Transport Connectivity. Signing of the Charter provides the institutional architecture for BIMSTEC, said Modi. India provides leadership for the Security pillar in a multi sectoral effort and its experience in accelerated development will now be shared across the region.

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Germany will stop importing Russian gas ‘very soon’, says Olaf Scholz

  
The Guardian - 04.08.2022 Original article ›
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During a meeting with British prime minister Boris Johnson, German chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany will stop importing Russian oil by the end of this year and stop importing Russian gas very soon. Johnson said Germany will stop importing Russian gas by 2024, and that a lot of infrasgtructure had to be put in place. He called the German decision a big one and said that he applauded the German decision which was a seismic one to move away from Russian hydrocarbons. Scholz said this would be permanent and that Germany would be 100% on renewable energy in 20 years.

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The Guardian view on Ukraine: same war, new dilemmas | Editorial

  
The Guardian - 04.08.2022 Original article ›
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Following the visit of German chancellor Scholz to London and the missile attack on Kramatorsk train station evacuation point near Donbas, the Guardian has this to say about the new dilemmas facing western leaders. It says there are differences between Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany, Britain about which weapons to send to Ukraine. As the war take on a new phase in the east near Donbas region and south near Crimea, The Guardian says US and European leaders are faced with new decisions on weapons support for Ukraine and ways to end the war through some form of negotiated settlement.

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