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How Germany Is Curing Its Dependence on Russian Energy

  
WSJ - 05.17.2022 Original article ›
Bojan Pancevski
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Deals made with Qatar, Norway, and Poland are helping Germany achieve energy independence. Economy minister Habeck has worked hard to negotiate these deals and bring new leadership to the energy ministry after decades of neglect of Germany's energy independence by chancellor Merkel and Mr. Schroeder who preceded Merkel. This WSJ report shows how Habeck reversed decades of neglect in a few months to establish the foundations of German energy independence.

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General election 2019 live: Boris Johnson says 'let the healing begin' after Tory landslide result - latest news

  
The Telegraph - 12.13.2019 Original article ›
Gordon Rayner, Amy Jones, Tony Diver, Danielle Sheridan
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Boris Johnson says outside 10 Downing Street that it is time now to focus on the task ahead- to bring opportunity to every corner of the country, to do this by investing in the National Health Service, in schools, infrastructure and in public services. He calls for the healing to begin after five weeks of wrangling in the election campaign so that the whole country can come together. 

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Boris Johnson hails biggest social care shake-up in a generation

  
The Times - 09.07.2021 Original article ›
Oliver Wright, Policy Editor | Chris Smyth | Henry Zeffman
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Boris Johnson calls for expanded funding and increased capacity for procedures at the National Health Service. Britain's NHS will carry out a million more procedures in 2022 with the extra funding. A rise in national insurance contributions by one percent will fund the additional 10% increase in capacity at NHS to deal with Covid backlogs. This is in addition to 5.4 billion pounds injected into NHS earlier over the winter.

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Mann Ki Baat| No one should be left out of ‘circle of safety’ of vaccination: PM Modi

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The Hindu - 09.26.2021 Original article ›
Special Correspondent
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In Mann Ki Baat, his monthly radio broadcast, Modi says records are being set by Team India in vaccination which are being discussed globally. He says that it is important to not only get vaccinated with the second shot when it's our turn, it is also important to make sure no one is left out of the circle of safety. After getting vaccinated the necessary protocol has to be followed.

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America Made a Huge Bet on Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here.

  
WSJ - 03.28.2024 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson, Jared Diamond, Robert O'connell
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The 2018 Supreme Court decision allowing sports gambling and betting has serious negative consequences for sports in America by 2024. So much so that the NCAA president Charlie Baker has called for a nationwide ban on the bets on the performance of college athletes. WSJ says a nightmare scenario emerged from the experience of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Shohei Ohtani and the betting scandal related to his interpreter.

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In Rebuke to West, OPEC and Russia Aim to Raise Oil Prices With Big Supply Cut

  
NYTimes.com - 10.06.2022 Original article ›
Stanley Reed
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Oil cuts of 2 million barrels a day or 2% of global oil production by OPEC Plus will lead to oil prices surging back up to levels seen earlier this year.  Weakening of oil demand with a slowdown in China and the EU was leading to a drop in oil prices from the highs reached this year. OPEC Plus which includes Russia is taking this step to keep oil prices high. 

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Himars Transform the Battle for Ukraine—and Modern Warfare

  
WSJ - 10.08.2022 Original article ›
Stephen Kalin, Daniel Michaels | Photographs By Adrienne Surprenant /Myop For The Wall Street Journal
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The high mobility small footprint and precision strike of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or HIMARS is shown here in the WSJ. It was supplies to Ukraine to defend itself and has stalled a Russian invasion in Donbas region, and led to retreat of Russian forces in the east Kharkiv region and in the south Kherson region war fronts. Additional 18 Himars are being given by US to Ukraine.

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Nobel Prize: Svante Paabo wins the 2022 award for medicine for discoveries involving human evolution | DW | 03.10.2022

  
DW.COM - 10.11.2022 Original article ›
Fred Schwaller, Zulfikar Abbany
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A gene variant that has come down from Neanderthals has increased the risk of severe covid is something learned from the research done by Svante Paabo of Sweden at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Paabo received the Nobel Prize for Medicine from his home country Sweden. His work shows the genomic changes that differentiate humans from Neanderthals, and also that Neanderthals contributed genes that still exist in humans.

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Jal Jeevan Mission (Har Ghar Jal) in the village of Ashrafpur, Dist- Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

  
YouTube - 08.26.2022 Original article ›
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The changes Har Ghar Jal Mission for clean safe drinking water for every rural household by 2022 is making a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of people in India. Shown in this video on Har Ghar Jal is its implementation at the local level in India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh with a population of 228 million people near New Delhi.

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Baltic Sea countries rally together against Russia | DW | 25.05.2022

  
DW.COM - 05.25.2022 Original article ›
Richard Walker (Kristiansand)
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The Council of the Baltic Sea States meets in Kristiansand, Norway, with the German delegation led by Annalena Baerbock. Her Norwegian counterpart Anniken Huitfeldt said she wanted to personally thank Annalena Baerbock for taking leadership in Europe, and especially Northern Europe after this war. CBSS is revived as a regional grouping with this meeting, as the Baltic region is changed profoundly with German leadership and the participation of Sweden and Finland.

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China Warns New Zealand Against Squandering Trade Ties

  
WSJ - 06.02.2022 Original article ›
Stephen Wright
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New Zealand faces the need to look for other overseas market following the changing situation for Australia that led to trade friction with China. Australia has diversified its exports to follow policies in the Indo-Pacific with the US, India and Japan as allies. Last weeks meeting of the New Zealand prime minister Ardern with president Biden led to a joint declaration by both countries on Pacific Ocean security.

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Australia v England: Rory Burns’s duck typifies heightened nerves and frozen muscles of Ashes cricket

  
The Times - 12.08.2021 Original article ›
Simon Wilde
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Cummins gets 5 wickets, England's top batsmen out for three ducks, two years of preparation show the tension, the need to throw the "million dollar fast ball" as bowler Harmison did in Brisbane in 2006 sending the ball straight to second slip. This time the first ball by Mitchell Starc dismisses Burns. This is the first day of the Australia England Ashes cricket series.

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What Just Happened at Credit Suisse? - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts

  
WSJ - 03.17.2023 Original article ›
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WSJ looks at Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank that took a $50 billion loan from the Swiss central bank during the current crisis after the collapse of SVB bank.  After a series of scandals and penalties at Credit Suisse, the Saudi National Bank took a 9% stake in the bank. The Saudis say they will not put any additional capital in the Swiss bank, leading to share value dropping by 24%.

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Who Are Trump’s Co-Defendants in the Georgia Case?

  
WSJ - 08.15.2023 Original article ›
Isaac Yu, Byron Tau
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Rudy Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, is one of the defendants in the Georgia indictment of Mr. Trump under RICO racketeer laws. WSJ says in its Editorial Board opinion that the racketeer RICO laws were used by Mr. Giuliani in his days as a New York prosecutor to tackle business cases, and it is an irony that he is now the defendent in such a case.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu obituary

  
The Times - 12.27.2021 Original article ›
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The Times describes key points in the freedom struggle of South Africa and the part played by Desmond Tutu. Tutu as much as Mandela played a critical role in reconciliation between Afrikaaner people and black people in South Africa. He coined the word "rainbow nation," and resolutely pursued racial unity in the face of the most difficult situations and oppression using the methods Gandhi had used in 1900 in South Africa.

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Comeback king Lula gets delayed honeymoon in Brazil

  
France 24 - 08.28.2023 Original article ›
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The Lula government in Brazil gets off to a good start. The economy grows by 1.9% in the last quarter and growth is expected to be 2.5% for 2023. New budget rules passed the conservative Congress providing funding for infrastructure and social programs. Brazilian cooperation makes it possible to add Argentina to the BRICS membership at the recent BRICS meeting in Johannesburg. Brazil also attended the recent G-7 meetings.

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Buildings Are Empty, Now They Have to Go Green

  
WSJ - 09.02.2023 Original article ›
Shane Shifflett
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New laws place fines on buildings that do not meet carbon emissions standards. Buildings in New York such as 277 Park Avenue face $1.3 million in fines. It is leased by JP Morgan Chase and is now at 25% vacancy. Chase Bank is building its own tower with zero carbon emissions and will move to this tower when completed. Other similar buildings in NY and across the country face similar fines.

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Why Oil Prices Soared—and Why They Are Sinking Now

  
WSJ - 10.06.2023 Original article ›
Bob Henderson
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Bob Henderson shows how the US has expanded production to lower oil prices and the recent cuts by Saudis have increased oil prices to $93 from $60's a barrel. Additional supplies from the US and other countries could ease inventory supplies. combined with the Saudi agreement that is being reached for Saudi moderation in oil price moves and increase in production in 2024- this could moderate oil prices in 2024.

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Adam Neumann Wounded WeWork, an Office Market Bust Finished It Off

  
WSJ - 11.02.2023 Original article ›
Eliot Brown, Konrad Putzier
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The work space company WeWork is valued at $47 billion then 4 years later in 2023 it is filing for bankruptcy. In 4 years FTX a cryptoexchange founded in 2019 collapses and by 2023 its founder is convicted on 7 counts.  Huge amounts of capital continue to be wasted in these schemes when America needs to Build Better Faster and Better to meet infrastructure needs, and in education and healthcare.

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Bastille Day: A brief history of France’s July 14 national holiday

  
France 24 - 07.13.2023 Original article ›
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Indian prime minister Modi is the guest of honor on France's national holiday, the Bastille Day July 14, 2023. On this day French revolutionaries freed prisoners of King Louis XVI at the Bastille in Paris. By October this led to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen the first formal document of rights of the people before the American document on these same rights a few years later.

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Colombia Has Produced Scores of World-Class Cyclists. They Now Have a Tour Winner.

  
WSJ - 07.29.2019 Original article ›
Kejal Vyas | Photographs By Nadège Mazars For The Wall Street Journal
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Egan Bernal's home town of Zipaquira in the Andes mountain range, 80 miles north of Bogota, Colombia, is visited by Vyas and Mazars of the WSJ, to show how cycling in the mountains is popular in the Colombian Andes mountains. The steep climbs and descent helps young bikers train at high altitude. Children train with coaches who helped train Bernal, this years winner of the Tour de France in the Alps.

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Why suffering setbacks could make you more successful

  
BBC News - 08.07.2019 Original article ›
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UK Sport, a British government body for investing in elite sport did 85 interviews with exceptional athletes. It found that exceptional athletic achievers all had some setbacks in life. The setbacks increased their motivation and were used for energizing by these athletes to try again. 

Setbacks were overcome and near miss individuals actually lived longer and won later because they persisted and tried again with enhanced motivation.

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The Oppenheimer story that won't win Oscars

  
BBC News - 03.11.2024 Original article ›
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The effects on the residents near the site of the atomic tests in New Mexico are shown here by BBC News with the title that it doesn't win Oscars. Ben Ray Lujan, Senator from New Mexico, was on the Senate floor this week asking for support for the bill to provide help and compensation to survivors and relatives with cancer that is connected to the atomic test.

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The experts: oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

  
The Guardian - 07.11.2024 Original article ›
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Two suggestions- first increase the amount of fruit and vegetables you eat. Second pay attention to the four forms of mindfulness, that are described by the Buddha in ancient path languages translated into English. Mindfulness of body, feeling, mind and mind objects. In it one does "body contemplation, feeling contemplation, mind contemplation, and mind object contemplation, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, overcoming the grief and covetousness of this world."

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On Russia’s Border, Fear and Defiance: ‘No One Will Chase Us Out of Here’

  
WSJ - 08.15.2024 Original article ›
Matthew Luxmoore, Ann M. Simmons
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Pictures and stories from the war front in the Kursk region of Russia as Ukraine pushes into Russian territory for 20-25 miles. Kursk a city of 500,000 is 70 miles from the border. The neighboring region of Belgorod and Voronezh are also part of the war zone. This was a place where the Red Army pushed back the Germans in 1943 when Ukrainians and Russians fought side by side.

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