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Poverty, unemployment skyrocket in the Gaza Strip after Israel’s war | Gaza News
Gaza City- Crammed in a tiny tent at a United Nations-run school in central Gaza City, Alaa Alzanin, along with his wife, five children, his 71-year-old mother and younger sister, are taking shelter after they lost their home in Beit Hanoon during Israel’s war. They have been displaced eight times, and this tent is where they now protect themselves from…
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Executive Order 07 – NYC Mayor’s Office
Download Executive Order 07 OFFICE OF MASS ENGAGEMENT WHEREAS, New Yorkers exercise their agency when they build community with their neighbors, communicate their concerns, priorities, and solutions, and together engage with local government; and WHEREAS, when New Yorkers exercise their agency in civic life, their participation shapes meaningful outcomes, building a City that works for everyone; and WHEREAS, currently it…
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2025 was a terrible year for the ‘Four Families’ accused of running global cyber scam operations
People traded as commodities, iron cages used for punishment, severed fingers and even human sacrifice. These grisly details, revealed during interrogations of some of Asia’s most notorious criminal magnates, expose the horror of life in the many scam factories that dot Myanmar’s rugged and lawless border with China. The suspects were alleged members of powerful crime families whose political connections,…
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Uncertainty in Venezuela as Trump says he contacted Maduro’s deputy
Caracas: Venezuelans on Saturday scrambled to understand who was in charge of their country after the US military captured President Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman who had outlasted a botched coup attempt, several army mutinies, mass protests and economic sanctions in the vast nation of 29 million. “What will happen tomorrow?” asked Juan Pablo Petrone, a resident of Venezuela’s capital…
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10 Greatest Movies That Are Completely Misunderstood
The allure of any form of art is its subjectivity, the way in which it can mean completely different things to different people. This quality has ensured that many of the best and most impressionable movies throughout cinematic history have endured through fan discussion and thematic dissection. However, there have been some occasions where public discourse, or at least certain…
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EV penetration in luxury car segment dips in GST 2.0 era
New Delhi: Electric vehicle (EV) penetration in the luxury car segment has seen a drop by nearly 3 percentage points in the GST 2.0 era with the internal combustion engine versions offering better total cost of ownership, according to industry players. While the trend is also visible in the mass market segment, it is the entry luxury segment that is…
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If AI goes rogue, there are ways to fight back. None of them are good.
It’s advice as old as tech support. If your computer is doing something you don’t like, try turning it off and then on again. When it comes to the growing concerns that a highly advanced artificial intelligence system could go so catastrophically rogue that it could cause a risk to society, or even humanity, it’s tempting to fall back on…
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STAR strategy lowers anaemia prevalence by 29.6% in Telangana: ICMR-NIN study
Hyderabad: The prevalence of anaemia reduced in the ‘Screen and Treat for Anaemia Reduction’ (STAR) strategy (29.6 per cent) compared to the control group (32.5 per cent) according to a recent study by ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in Telangana. The STAR strategy group had 6,131 participants, and the control group had 5,255 participants. Fourteen villages in Telangana were the…
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Measles case reported in Gaston County, health experts say
Measles case reported in Gaston County, health experts say AND WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE. THAT BREAKING news TAKES US TO VENEZUELA, WHERE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS THE UNITED STATES SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED OUT A LARGE SCALE STRIKE EARLY THIS MORNING. TRUMP SAYS THE U.S. CAPTURED VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO AND HIS WIFE AS A PART OF THE OPERATION,…
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Mississippi Quiver: Reminiscences on the 2025 Movie Year
In 2025, I saw the finest movie I’d seen since I was but a sprout in his early 40s. I saw great films by personal heroes Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Bong Joon Ho. I was treated to a new Ari Aster and a Yorgos Lanthimos and – like clockwork, every three years – a Rian Johnson Knives Out,…
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