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Annalena Baerbock: Germany's first female foreign minister flourishes in a crisis | DW | 07.03.2022

  
DW.COM - 03.07.2022 Original article ›
Elizabeth Schumacher
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Annalena Baerbock is emerging as one of Germany's most popular leaders, winning overwhelming praise from all quarters in Germany including opposition CDU conservatives, says DW.com. She wins praise for her clarity and steadiness in a time of upheaval. After Olaf Scholz she is easily the most popular leader in Germany. As co-leader of the Greens with Habeck, she is Foreign Minister. Olaf Scholz also commended Baerbock for her work during the crisis in helping Germany rethink old policies under Merkel, in his speech to the German parliament.

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Did Modi matter more?

  
The Hindu - 03.11.2022 Original article ›
Manjesh Rana & Mirza Asmer Beg
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This analysis by The Hindu says Mr. Modi mattered more to the electorate in Uttar Pradesh than the chief minister Mr. Adityanath. A sense that the development agenda is the way forward for the state and for India appears to have been on the minds of people in the state, says The Hindu, based on its analysis of sentiment in the state. About two fifths of the people in the state who participated in the recent election had positive views of the development work of the Modi government at the national level.

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Britons urged to measure waist and height in battle against obesity

  
The Times - 04.08.2022 Original article ›
Eleanor Hayward, Health Correspondent
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The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence in the UK is urging adults to use a tape measure to check that their waist circumference does not exceed half their height. Other BMI guidelines do not provide an accurate measure of body fat and other ways are needed. Waist and height measure are "simple and effective" way to know if someone is overweight, says NICE. Today a majority of people in UK between 45 and 74 years are overweight. This is true in many parts of the world.

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The mysterious decline of our leisure time

  
The Financial Times - 10.05.2021 Original article ›
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Hard as it is to believe average leisure time in developed nations declined by 10-15% in the 2010's. After achieving the 8 hour day the burdens of childcare and blurring of the boundaris between work and leisure have led to this situation. This has led to the idea of "time poverty." 

For women who bear the greater share and burden of child care in normal times, and heavy burden during the pandemic, this is a situation that brings with it mental health issues.

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Brazil Comes Out of Pandemic and Hits the Next Hardship—Inflation

  
WSJ - 10.08.2021 Original article ›
Samantha Pearson, Jeffrey T. Lewis
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Prices of gas for cooking and electricity are up 30% in Brazil in 2021 adding to the pain after the pandemic. Countries in Europe and Canada to Indonesia face much higher prices in 2021. Energy prices have jumped and supply bottlenecks have increased inflation. As more people are vaccinated the return to normal activity is also putting pressure on prices. About 72% of Brazilians have at least one dose of vaccine, higher than in the US. There is less vaccine hesitancy in Latin America and Asia.

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PM Modi calls on Pope Francis in Vatican, invites him to visit India

  
The Hindu - 10.30.2021 Original article ›
Kallol Bhattacherjee
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Modi's meeting with Pope Francis planned for half an hour lasts for an hour. Both leaders discussed climate change, inequality, upward mobility, and recovery from the coronavirus. Mr. Modi gave Pope Francis a silver candelabra and a book, The Climate Climb: India's strategy, action, and achievements. The Pope gave Mr. Modi a collection of his main teaching documents and a bronze medallion featuring a tree and the words in Italian "The desert will become a garden."  Modi invited Pope Francis to visit India.

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Ruling party of Fumio Kishida wins comfortable victory in Japanese election

  
The Guardian - 11.19.2021 Original article ›
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Fumio Kishida leads the LDP party in Japan to an absolute majority in parliament in the recent election. The LDP with its partner Komeito won 293 seats in the 465 member parliament. He called for reducing inequality, following a similar effort by president Biden in the US. A supplement to the budget will provide aid to families with children and small businesses suffering from the effects of the pandemic. Kishida will double defense spending to 2% of GDP following tensions in the Asia-Pacific region. 

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France, Italy Sign Pact Seeking More Influence in Europe

  
WSJ - 11.26.2021 Original article ›
Giovanni Legorano
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The cooperation between France and Italy helped persuade Germany to move forward with massive aid to the EU countries during the pandemic. Scholz, the new SPD chancellor of Germany sees the European Union with more voices from southern Europe, from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece as a good thing. Northern European countries are also moving in a different direction with Social Democrats governments elected in Denmark and Sweden, working on policies to reduce inequality, bring together different sections of society in a shared future, and the dignity of human beings.

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Hunter Biden on family tragedies and the drug addiction that nearly destroyed him

  
The Times - 04.05.2021 Original article ›
Hunter Biden
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The US president's son, Joe Biden's son, talks about his struggles after the loss of his brother to cancer in 2015, in this rare story told in The Times. Things went downhill he says after that and it was the strong support of Joe Biden and the love of his brother even after death that helped him recover. Here he tells of the love of his parents and family that helped him and the family pull together through a difficult period.

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What You Can Do to Avoid the New Coronavirus Variant Right Now

  
NYTimes.com - 04.19.2021 Original article ›
Tara Parker Pope
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Tara Parker Pope of the NYT has this advice about protecting yourself against coronavirus variants after talking to many infectious disease and other experts. Don't let your guard down she says and suggests some of the same precautions that were taken in earlier waves of the coronavirus, from masks to social distancing and prudent decisions about travel and shopping.

Vaccines offer protection against common coronavirus variants such as B.1.1.7  from UK. It is still wise to follow the prudent rules that were followed before.

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How the Definition of an American Family Has Changed

  
WSJ - 12.15.2019 Original article ›
Ellen Byron
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Changes in the American family as the dominant model of two thirds of American families with male breadwinners, and married couples changes to one where a diverse set of arrangements replaces this. Multi generational families, people getting married later, divorced parents, and other arrangements are adding to the traditional household so that there are different and diverse situations. There may also be a sense that culturally it may have moved too fast and requiring an effort to make sense of all the changes in recent years. 

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How a New Rule Could Change the Way Advisers Handle Your Retirement Money

  
NYTimes.com - 03.27.2024 Original article ›
Tara Siegel Bernard
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The US Labor Department will now require not just 401(k) administrators but also advisers for retirement plans called IRA's to follow the higher fiduciary standards of the 1974 ERISA law that aims to protect American retirees. When workers leave a company or retire they rollover their money into IRA's. This retiree money will now be protected with a high fiduciary standard as it should have been all along. In 2020 alone the IRS estimate is that $620 billion was rolled over to to such IRA's.

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How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in Three Years

  
WSJ - 03.28.2024 Original article ›
Alexandra Bruell
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The Atlantic evolving with the times. Not just a shift to revenue making journalism with $100 million in subscription and advertising, in addition coverage in depth dropping breaking news coverage entirely. A digital subscription that cost $50 now costs $80. The depth is indepth-indepth meaning taking it to even more than indepth an whole issue dedicated to one topic. The theme of democracy, the US Constitution and other similar topics are taken on in a new way, and open to different points of view. 

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Jacob Rees-Mogg becomes a figure of fun on Twitter after lying down in Commons

  
The Times - 09.04.2019 Original article ›
Jack Malvern
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This picture of Jacob Rees Moog the head of the no-deal Brexit faction in the Conservative Party is seen widely on Twitter. It gives a sense of Mr. Moog indifferent to all the chaos around him serenely confident that no-deal Brexit is all that counts, down to this stretched out pose in the House of Commons. 

This picture also appears on BBC News and is described as one showing an indifferent elite that cares little for what is happening outside of their world.

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Cost of living crisis: what are the rest of the G7 doing?

  
The Guardian - 09.22.2022 Original article ›
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Action to tackle the cost of living crisis taken by G-7 countries France, Germany, Italy, Canada, US, is shown here in The Guardian. France and Germany have taken the strongest action to protect lower income people, the US with the Inflation Reduction Act has taken broad steps to limit healthcare costs and invest in the economy. The UK appears to be the weakest in taking action and the new budget of Mr. Kwarteng is seen in this way as failing to protect vulnerable parts of the population.

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Energy crisis: EU agrees funding to reduce dependency on Russia | DW | 04.10.2022

  
DW.COM - 10.04.2022 Original article ›
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The first 20 billion euros in a 300 billion euros plan of the European Commission for renewable energy transition in EU countries is approved. 15 billion euros will come from the innovation fund. And 5 billion euros from selling carbon dioxide emission licenses to industries sooner than planned from the Eu carbon market "market stability reserve." Of the 300 billion euros plan for energy transition to renewable 225 billion euros will come from unclaimed money in the European Union Covid 19 recovery fund.

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Ukraine's Crimean fightback having 'psychological impact' on Russia

  
BBC News - 08.19.2022 Original article ›
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This BBC report says the Russian Black Sea fleet is reduced to little more than a coastal flotilla and the fleet is now adopting a defensive posture after heavy losses. This also makes an attack on Odessa unlikely. Odessa and other Black sea ports are where grain shipments leave Ukraine for Africa and other parts of Europe. This means shipments using Turkey and UN sponsored deal can now safely be routed from Odessa. 

It also means Ukraine is in a better position in the south in and around Crimea.

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Algeria bans French military from airspace in colonial row

  
The Times - 08.24.2022 Original article ›
Adam Sage, Paris
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Macron says all of Algeria's problems are blamed on France and Algeria's rulers are in a tough system. He says Turkey's ability to wipe away the period before 1830 when Algeria was under the Ottoman Empire does not impress him. His point is that France was not the only colonizer when it took over Algeria in 1830. Macron also says French rule created the Algerian nation as an entity, that Algeria we know today did not exist before the French.

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Exclusive: IAEA's Grossi hoping for inspection of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant within 'days' - The Interview

  
France 24 - 08.25.2022 Original article ›
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 Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, says he hopes the IAEA visit to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine can take place within days. Both Mr. Macron and Mr. Putin have agreed that the inspection visit by IAEA should take place. This nuclear plant is under Russian control but run by Ukrainians and connected to the Ukrainian grid. The fears were that Russia would somehow disconnect it from the Ukrainian grid leading to issues of safety and potential of an accident from lack of cooling systems.

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Georgia Governor Race Is a Test for Trump. It Isn’t Going Well.

  
WSJ - 05.22.2022 Original article ›
Cameron Mc Whirter, Joshua Jamerson
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The Senate election in Georgia with Governor Kemp running for the Republican party will show how much support there is for Mr. Trump's idea that the 2022 presidential election was stolen by Democrats. Mr. Kemp has avoided getting into Mr. Trump's contention that the election was stolen, preferring to focus on good governance for the state and local issues relating to the economy. Kemp is likely to be the Republican nominee for the election to the US Senate and is well positioned to win the Senate seat.

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Working Vacations Have Never Felt This Good

  
WSJ - 12.10.2021 Original article ›
Katherine Bindley
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The new trend of work and wellness hotels is becoming popular so that busy workers in office jobs can get a chance to relax, do yoga and exercize, eat healthy, and get renergized for work. Employees working on projects who are getting burned out with endless hours get a break with a week continuing work but also having a few hours to devote to mental and physical health each day. Hotels are adapting to meet this demand with mindfulness and yoga-pilates classes, and healthy food. 

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Russia-Ukraine war: unclear if Russian forces have ‘reserves or morale’ to defend Luhansk, says UK – live

  
The Guardian - 09.17.2022 Original article ›
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Mexico's foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard is to present a peace plan for Ukraine at the UN General Assembly. The proposal is for Pope Francis, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and prime minister Narendra Modi of India, to form a dialogue and peace committee. Mexico is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Narendra Modi talked to Mr. Putin at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Council and is said to have told Putin that "this is no time for war."

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Indian army on the march to erase its colonial past

  
- 09.21.2022 Original article ›
Amrit Dhillon, New Delhi
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That the Indian Navy had not replaced the St George's Cross on its flag till 2022 would come as a surprise to most Indians. In the B. Gita it is written in chapter 10 on the glimpses of divine glory- "of words I am the one syllable Om, of immovable things I am the Himalaya, of bodies of water I am the ocean, of water beings I am Varuna." It is Varuna that is revered in the symbols of the Indian Navy today.

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Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism

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The Atlantic - 12.01.2023 Original article ›
Robert D. Kaplan
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Henry Kissinger's first book is on the Napoleonic Wars and how the Austrian chancellor Metternich negotiated a peace that after 1815 kept a fragile peace in Europe till the war in 1914. Sometimes it is said that Kissinger as NSA and Secretary of State to US president Richard Nixon modeled his role from that of Metternich who with Kissinger shared a German background. This was based on realism and was based on offsetting the tyranny of Napoleon in Europe with a balance of power between Britain and Austria-Hungary. 

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Advice | Are induction stoves that much safer than gas? We tested them.

  
Washington Post - 01.17.2024 Original article ›
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A study done to observe readings for nitrogen dioxide NO2 and particulates in kitchens with gas stoves. Forty million Americans use gas stoves. For these homes the best way to reduce harmful effects is to ventilate with fresh air by opening a window or door a little bit. Particulates come from the food itself that is being cooked and this happens for both gas and induction electric stoves. Only half of American gas stove kitchens turn on the vented hood that takes the air outside, these need to be turned on.

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