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Iran buries late president at shrine in Mashhad

Reuters Ebrahim Raisi was laid to rest inside the Imam Reza Shrine, one of the holiest places in Shia Islam Iran’s late President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been buried in his home city of Mashhad, four days after he was killed in a helicopter crash. The 63-year-old hard-line cleric was laid to rest in the holy […]

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Why technology has not transformed building

20 minutes ago Emma Woollacott,Technology Reporter Getty Images Building is still largely manual work If you took a worker from a 1920s construction site and transported them to a present day project, they would not be that surprised by what they saw, according to Sam O’Gorman. “Overall, across Europe and the US, stuff is still […]

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Hurricane season in Atlantic to be ‘extraordinary’

8 hours ago Mark Poynting,Climate reporter NOAA/Getty Images Hurricane Lee, above, rapidly intensified into a category five hurricane last year The North Atlantic could get as many as seven major hurricanes of category three strength or over this year, which would be more than double the usual number, the US weather agency NOAA has warned. […]

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‘A surgeon left a medical specimen bag inside me after hernia op’

Professor Katie Urch, Chief Medical Officer at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our surgery staff are committed to delivering the best, safest care to our patients, often in challenging situations. “Surgeons do not work as individuals, they work collaboratively in teams. Those teams are highly skilled, performing complex surgery that is never without […]

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A vote for the soul of the Republican Party

A generation ago, community activists were able to bankrupt and push out a white supremacist hate group that took root among the tall pines and crystal lakes of North Idaho. It was a hard-fought triumph — one North Idaho residents took pride in. But today, some of those activists and residents worry that hateful ideologies […]

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Barcelona won’t fear Real Madrid with Mbappé – Lewandowski

Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez May 23, 2024, 05:22 AM ET Robert Lewandowski has said Barcelona aren’t “scared” by the imminent arrival of Kylian Mbappé at Real Madrid this summer. Barça are 12 points behind the LaLiga champions going into this weekend’s final round of fixtures, and Madrid are set to further strengthen by signing Mbappé, […]

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Haiti health system on verge of collapse, UN warns

Haiti’s health system is “on the verge of collapse”, the UN children’s agency, Unicef, has warned, saying six out of 10 hospitals in the country are barely operational. “The combination of violence, mass displacement, dangerous epidemics, and increasing malnutrition has bent Haiti’s health system,” said Bruno Maes, Unicef’s representative in the Caribbean nation. But he […]

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News Corp. signs deal with OpenAI to provide news content

News Corp., the multinational news publisher controlled by the Murdoch family, announced Wednesday it will allow artificial intelligence company OpenAI to show its news content when people ask questions in ChatGPT, adding to the parade of news organizations signing content deals with the fast-growing AI company. News Corp. and OpenAI did not share commercial terms […]

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Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines (Throwback) : Throughline : NPR

Corruption. Wealth. Authoritarianism. Torture. These are the words many people associate with Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator of the Philippines, and his wife, Imelda. But in 1965, on the day of his presidential inauguration, clad in bright white traditional Filipino clothing, Ferdinand and Imelda were the picture of hope and progress: the Camelot of the […]

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