As cities around the world grapple with congestion and seek to lower emissions, one New Zealand-based startup is looking upward for solutions. Next year, Whoosh will begin construction on a gondola-like ride-hailing network in a 370-acre area of tourism hot spot Queenstown—the first of its kind. Whoosh resembles a ski lift, descending for passenger pickup, but operates differently. While gondolas …
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The European bloc’s transparency chief has accused the X CEO of failing to tackle antisemitism X CEO Elon Musk is unable to “recognize good and evil,” said outgoing EU commissioner for values and transparency, Vera Jourova, accusing the tech billionaire of failing to curb antisemitism on his platform. “We started to relativize evil, and he’s helping it proactively. He’s the …
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Based on reported and estimated mortality, it appears clear that the Palestinian death toll in Gaza is among the highest civilian mortality rates of the 21st century. Credit: WHO Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Thursday, October 17, 2024 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Oct 17 (IPS) – Following the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas-led militants, Israel’s response …
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Snowboarder Ryan Wedding and 15 others are accused of shipping 60 tonnes of cocaine a year to the US and Canada. United States prosecutors in Los Angeles, California, have charged a former Olympic snowboarder with allegedly running a large and violent cocaine smuggling operation out of Mexico. On Thursday, the Department of Justice unveiled a 52-page indictment accusing the 43-year-old …
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Kenyan senators have voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office despite his failure to testify at his impeachment trial after his lawyer said he had been taken to hospital. In one of the most dramatic days in Kenya’s recent political history, Gachagua had been due to appear in the Senate after lunch to defend himself, a day after …
Read More »The killing of Hamas’s leader may allow Israel to claim victory and agree to a cease-fire, and new Hamas leadership could be more open to compromise. But neither side is likely to immediately change course.
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using var tokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource(10_000); var token = tokenSource.Token; await foreach (var data in Task.WhenEach(tasks).WithCancellation(token)) { if (!tokenSource.TryReset()) token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested(); Console.WriteLine(await data); tokenSource.CancelAfter(10_000); } In the preceding code example, CancellationTokenSource is used to create instances of a CancellationToken, which represents a cancellation token to be used for cancellation of a task. The ThrowIfCancellationRquested method is called to throw an OperationCanceledException …
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Joe Biden has said the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops is a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world”. Israel said Mr Sinwar was killed on Wednesday in Gaza, and the US president called it an “opportunity” to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas and end the year-long war in Gaza. …
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The European Central Bank cut interest rates again Thursday, upping the tempo at which it is lowering borrowing costs as inflation in the eurozone cools faster than expected and the economy loses steam.
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LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police fired tear gas and charged at student protesters who ransacked a college building Thursday, as anger spread over an alleged on-campus rape. Tensions have been high on college campuses since reports about the alleged rape in the eastern city of Lahore went viral on social media, and protests have broken out in four cities so …
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