Members of the indigenous guard of the native community of Puerto Nuevo, of the Amazonian Kakataibo people, located in the central-eastern jungle of Peru. Credit: Courtesy of Marcelo Odicio by Mariela Jara (lima) Friday, July 26, 2024 Inter Press Service LIMA, Jul 26 (IPS) – The invasion of lands inhabited by Amazon indigenous communities is growing in Peru, due to drug …
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In Gaza, the Israeli military continues on the offensive, and in the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past week courting more support for Israel’s assault on the Palestinian enclave. But that apparently shared purpose does not reflect the reality: a growing divide between the generals and the government. And analysts say it means that the initial …
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Getty Images Kamala Harris and Barack Obama have known each other for 20 years Barack Obama has endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee, ending days of speculation over whether he would support her. Former President Obama and ex-First Lady Michelle Obama said in a joint statement that they believe Ms Harris has the “vision, the character, …
Read More »The city’s expanded low-emissions zone, which was politically fraught, has cut emissions that contribute to health problems like asthma, new numbers show.
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Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 5.6, an update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant that disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthiness. The TypeScript 5.6 beta, which follows last month’s production release of TypeScript 5.5, was announced July 26. TypeScript 5.6 can be accessed through NuGet or through NPM by running …
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A wildfire that has tripled in size in a day was started by a burning car, authorities said as they arrested a man who was seen pushing the vehicle into a gully. The man was spotted in Bidwell Park in northern California’s Butte County, and it burned completely, spreading flames that caused the Park Fire, county prosecutor Mike Ramsey said …
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A view of the Eiffel Tower with the Olympic Rings from the Arc de Triomphe ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on 21 July 2024 in Paris, France. (David Ramos/Getty Images). Paris 2024 aims to be the greenest olympics yet, pledging to reduce emissions by half compared to the average emitted during the London …
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TIME’s senior sports correspondent Sean Gregory tries his hand at several Olympic sports while learning from Olympians.
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“There is no evidence” that the former US president was hit by anything other than a bullet, his physician has stated The New York Times and Donald Trump’s personal physician have both concluded that the former president was struck by a bullet, and not “shrapnel” as FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested. In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, …
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A message projected onto the United Nations headquarters in New York in 2022 calls on North Korea to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Credit: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday, July 26, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) – When Russian President Vladimir Putin and …
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