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[ad_1] The Russian invasion of Ukraine evoked a future-oriented Cold War enthusiasm in culture as well as politics. So, as 80 writers from around the world applied to the glorious Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations on Friday, some may have gone back to the golden age of high-stakes cultural diplomacy, or at least …
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[ad_1] As a continuation of the summit a Mr. Biden met in September; He will use the meeting to ask wealthy nations to increase their financial contributions for vaccines, testing and treatments. It will specifically call on developed countries to donate $2 billion to purchase Covid treatments and $1 billion to purchase oxygen supplies for …
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[ad_1] ACHARNES, Greece — Here is Dominik Defoe. Ten years old and slightly taller than the net. Golden brown, shoulder-length curls bounce around as they chase and smash tennis balls, better than any kid his age. Defoe loves to play with GPS in his mother’s car, so when they get to school in the morning, …
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[ad_1] An ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has revealed that far more people have died than previously believed – nearly 15 million at the end of 2021, more than double the official total of six million. reported by countries separately. However, the publication …
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[ad_1] Harold George, a young dancer from Sierra Leone, was studying in Belgium in 1992 when Nancy Henderek, a friendly immigrant from Texas, invited him to a performance at the international school his children attend. He named the concert Dance Salad because of its bite-size sampling of styles and artists, including some of the city’s …
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[ad_1] Some have more than 50 billion tiny transistors, 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. It was made on huge, ultra-clean factory room floors that could be seven stories high and four football fields long. Microchips are in many ways the lifeblood of the modern economy. They power computers, smartphones, cars, …
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[ad_1] Last fall, after the public backlash from Louis CK and others like Marilyn Manson, who is facing investigation into multiple sexual assault allegations, the Recording Academy’s CEO, Harvey Mason Jr., defended his right to nominate anyone. as long as they comply with the organization’s eligibility rules. “We will not look at people’s backgrounds, we …
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[ad_1] According to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of researchers brought together by the United Nations, countries today are not doing nearly enough to prevent global warming from rising to dangerous levels in the lifetimes of most people on Earth. According to the report, limiting the destruction will …
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[ad_1] Dive into the recesses of YouTube and get a video A live performance of the Yankee in his late teens, wearing a silver zipper windbreaker and a creeping caterpillar mustache. It was 1996 and the future global reggaeton ambassador performed freestyle a cappella to a crowd of hundreds. A signature of the time when …
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[ad_1] Many apps that Americans use are also popular around the world, at least outside of China. Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and YouTube, TikTok, Uber and Netflix are shared global experiences. But shopping online or in stores remained mostly local. People around the world aren’t buying teapots and t-shirts from a common major retailer like Amazon …
[ad_1] They grew up in a pandemic. They have matured in the age of strongman leaders. The climate crisis is engulfing their lives. Generation Z, cohort born after 1996inherited a number of compound uncertainties. To some extent it explains the mood of the youth climate movement. It focuses more and more on the decentralized and …
[ad_1] Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer The current generation of reggaeton superstars – J Balvin, Rauw Alejandro, Farruko and more – find themselves in constant dialogue with pop, EDM and hip-hop and have become ambitious ambassadors for cultural exchange. As the genre’s global popularity grows, it’s breaking up into subsets, some leaning …
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