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- Writers, Artists Demand Iran Release Cartoonist Arrested For Trying To Hang Pictureon April 23, 2024 at 5:59 pm
PEN America, along with a group of organizations that support cartoonists and artists, has condemned the violent arrest of Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for attempting to hang one of her drawings on a wall near the presidential palace.
- José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, a chef on the front lineon April 23, 2024
Spanish-American chef José Andrés is the founder of the NGO that, since 2010, has been providing millions of meals to disaster-stricken populations. On April 1, seven of his employees were killed by Israeli missile fire in Gaza. A philanthropist who wields great influence in the US, his methods sometimes raise questions.
- IHT receipts hit record high – is it set to rise further?on April 23, 2024
HMRC is set to collect a historic number of IHT receipts between April 2023 and March 2024. We look at how you can stop […]
- Sanders to Push Amendment Removing Military Funding for Israel in Aid Packageby Jake Johnson on April 23, 2024 at 3:09 pm
Sanders’s amendment would restore US funding to UNRWA, the most important aid agency working in Gaza.
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Investors cut the amount in risk-parity funds to about $90 billion by the end of 2023, from a peak of about $160 billion in 2021. [...]
Kenneth “Kenny” Wilson, will serve a paid leave while the investigation continues. [...]
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Investors have pulled a net $2.2 billion from ARK’s active funds this year, topping outflows from all of 2023. [...]
The music streamer’s market value has surged on the belief that its money-losing days are in the past. [...]
Investors breathed a sigh of relief as Treasurys and oil prices stabilized. [...]
The takeover could value HashiCorp at a premium to its market value of $4.9 billion. [...]
New rules will govern advice on moving nest eggs into individual retirement accounts. [...]
Two years into the war, Citigroup is the only U.S. bank around, navigating a sometimes treacherous landscape. [...]
China’s finance ministry has said it is in favor of the central bank resuming trading Treasury bonds, a move that would see the monetary authority dust off a rarely used tool in its policy kit. [...]
The Magnificent Seven stocks lost nearly $1 trillion in combined market value last week, increasing pressure on the group to deliver. [...]
After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure projects. The International Monetary Fund and Wall Street banks estimate China’s total outstanding off-balance-sheet government [...]
Hu Chenfeng, a Chinese content creator who first rose to fame making videos about poverty, has been suspended from Bilibili and Weibo after a livestream viewer asked him: “Do you think Xi Jinping is a dictator?” CDT a published a video of the incident: After [...]
This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz completed a three-day visit to China. It was his second trip since becoming chancellor and his first since the German government produced its China strategy last July. His previous trip to China in November 2022, only weeks after Xi’s [...]
Researchers sequence the bella moth genome, which they used to pinpoint specific genes that may confer immunity to noxious alkaloids. [...]
Researchers have developed a method to use an image generation AI model to create realistic images of single cells, which are then used as 'synthetic data' to train an AI model to better carry out single-cell segmentation. [...]
Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and anthropogenic activities threaten oases' fragile existence. New research shows how the world's oases have [...]
Normally, a person's pupils naturally widen (or dilate) in low-light environments to allow more light into the eye. However, in a new study, researchers reported that a person's pupils also dilate when they are concentrating on tasks. In particular, they found that the more a [...]
New research has shown that cells regulate cAMP/PKA signaling by forming liquid droplets that segregate excess PKA catalytic subunits where they can do no harm. Some cancers may block the formation of liquid droplets, leading to hyperactive signaling and tumor formation. [...]
Though life goals change over time, a study of teen goals indicates that goals of education and high prestige can drive success. [...]
Researchers have uncovered a remarkable metal alloy that won t crack at extreme temperatures due to kinking, or bending, of crystals in the alloy at the atomic level. Unlike most materials, the new alloy keeps its shape and resists cracking at both high and low [...]
Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other planets, a new paper argues. [...]
Palestinian officials say more than 300 bodies have been found at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals. [...]
The prison service did not directly address reports 13 prisoners had died since last October. [...]
Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia. [...]
Demonstrators at NYU and Yale are arrested while Columbia cancels in-person classes for safety. [...]
Indian nurse Nimisha Priya will be executed unless the victim's family accepts "blood money" to pardon her. [...]
The report adds Israel has not provided "supporting evidence" that many UNRWA staff are members of terror groups. [...]
Palestinian girl Sabreen is alive following her incredible birth in the wake of an Israeli strike. [...]
Maj Gen Aharon Haliva is the first leader to quit for failing to prevent the 7 October attack. [...]
New reporting implicates Beijing and anti-doping officials in covering up Chinese Olympic swimmers’ positive tests in 2021. [...]
A recent ruling on campaign finance reflected a judicial independence that will be key to checking Modi’s power if he wins a third term. [...]
The Department of Energy’s “temporary pause” opens the door. [...]
A new book lays claim to interpreting the former president’s global legacy—and has a plan for what a second term could accomplish. [...]
New measures to punish Iran, Venezuela, and Russia could raise crude prices and hurt Biden in an election year. [...]
The world must come together to address the full life cycle of this ubiquitous material. [...]
Historical falsification, youth indoctrination, and the plunder of artifacts reveal the Kremlin’s true objectives. [...]
Beijing’s bullying tactics have pushed Wellington into Washington’s welcoming arms. [...]
[VOA] Nairobi -- Kenya has issued flood warnings as heavy rains pound the region. [...]
[Dabanga] New York -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has objected to what it calls "baseless allegations" made by the Permanent Representative for Sudan, El Haris Idris, to the 9,611th meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on April 19, in which he accused Abu [...]
[HRW] In an interview on the BBC's Today Program this week, Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell sang the praises of Rwanda's "remarkable regime." But as the debate over the government's Safety of Rwanda bill came to a close, he left out some important facts about [...]
[WHO] Ahead of World Malaria Day, the WHO Global Malaria Programme published a new operational strategy outlining its priorities and key activities up to 2030 to help change the trajectory of malaria trends, with a view to achieving the global malaria targets. The strategy outlines [...]
[Foroyaa] The Gambia's Minister for Justice, Dawda A Jallow, on Monday, 21st April 2024, tabled a bill entitled Special Prosecutor's Office Bill 2024. [...]
[New Republic] Amid escalating tensions, a group of 300 armed dismissed presidential officers has issued a stern ultimatum to the Boakai government, demanding payment for their unjust termination within one week or face dire consequences. [...]
[Independent (Kampala)] Juba -- South Sudanese health officials on Monday declared an outbreak of conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, along the border between Uganda. [...]