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Recovery work begins at Gaza’s war-damaged heritage sites
Reuters Gaza City’s medieval Great Omari Mosque was targeted by Israel’s military during the past two years of war With pickaxes and wheelbarrows, dozens of Palestinian workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests are clearing rubble from the ruins of the Gaza Strip’s oldest and largest mosque. The broken stump of the distinctive octagonal minaret of the medieval Great Omari…
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Pennsylvania farmers face rising health care costs as ACA subsidies expire
By Rebekah Alvey for Civil Eats. Farming is a profession full of risks. It is physically strenuous and often involves dangerous heavy machinery. Accident reports include farmers falling into grain bins, trapped by farm machinery, shocked by equipment, and more. Farmworkers are also more exposed to chemicals, dust, and gases. Then there’s the mental toll as farmers navigate challenges outside their…
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Five Horror Movies Based On Video Games That Are Actually Good
Video game adaptations typically aren’t among the best of the best, and it’s especially true when they have a horror element attached. That being said, with Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 coming out this weekend, it seemed like the right time to highlight some that mostly get things right. They may not be perfect, but they’re serviceable, and sometimes they’re…
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CBIC, Russian customs agree to exchange pre-arrival info on goods & vehicles
Vivek Chaturvedi, Special Secretary, GoI & Chairman and Tatiana Merkushova, Deputy Head of FCS of Russian Federation- X New Delhi: Customs authorities of India and Russia on Thursday signed a protocol for cooperation on pre-arrival information exchange in respect of goods and vehicles moved between the two nations, the CBIC said. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Chairman…
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New entries and risks revealed
The 108 medicines are considered to pose risks that outweigh the benefits Most of the drugs on the ‘avoid’ list have alternatives that are considered safer and/or more effectiveQuality Stock Arts/Shutterstock The annual list of medicines to avoid in France – because the benefit they offer is less than the risks posed – has been published, with four new entries.…
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Body of Sudthisak Rinthalak, Thai farmer and family breadwinner, returned to Israel
Israeli officials confirmed Thursday that the body returned from the Gaza Strip a day earlier was Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai agricultural worker who came to Israel to financially support his family back home. Military and Foreign Ministry representatives said they had notified Rinthalak’s family that his body was returned to Israel by Palestinian terror groups, after forensic experts completed identification…
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US team likely to visit India next week for trade talks: Sources
New Delhi: A team of officials from the US is expected to visit India next week for talks on the proposed bilateral trade agreement, sources said on Thursday. The visit is crucial as India and the US are working to finalise the first tranche of the pact. “The team is likely to come next week. Dates are being finalised, and…
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‘It’s absolute anarchy’: Oxygen therapy chambers have led to horrific deaths. Why are Maha elite raving about them? | US news
It was the kind of cold, damp morning that makes it hard to get out of bed, much less get a child out the door. The sun had not even risen when five-year-old Thomas Cooper and his mother, Annie Cooper, arrived for an appointment on 31 January at the Oxford Center in Troy, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Thomas…
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Directorial Debut ‘Chronology of Water’
Kristen Stewart loves to cook, but on this Thanksgiving eve, the last thing she wants to serve up is, well, a turkey. Which is why she’s been spending much of the day hovering over a desktop rather than a stovetop, reviewing footage from her long-in-the-making directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, a sexy, occasionally bloody, often elliptical drama adapted from…
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Putin visits India amid Ukraine peace push: What’s on the agenda? | Vladimir Putin News
New Delhi, India – Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India on Thursday for the first time since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, even as a renewed push by the United States to end the conflict appears to have stalled. Putin’s 30-hour speed trip also coincides with a tense turn in relations between Washington…
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