15.12.2024 17:49 Over 60 percent of those significantly impacted by a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1 feel little progress has been made toward recovery and construction, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.
The questionnaire, conducted among 155 residents of six hard-hit municipalities in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Noto Peninsula, underscores the slow pace of rebuilding and growing concerns about declining attention to affected areas as the first anniversary of the quake approaches.
Read full story here15.12.2024 17:49 The 87-year-old pontiff, on his first-ever visit to Corsica, said in an address earlier Sunday that the 'concept of secularity that is not static and fixed, but evolving and dynamic', and urged people to pray for the cylone-hit French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte.15.12.2024 18:00 Google’s chief executive spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit15.12.2024 18:00 A professor of statistics explains that living is about taking risks and not knowing the outcome, and why it’s important to accept and embrace that My father was an enthusiastic traveller, but as he got older he increasingly suffered from what he called “travel fever”, a vivid term for the acute anxiety felt before a journey, essentially due to uncertainty about all the things that could go wrong. Sadly, this eventually stopped him from going on holiday. Then I, too, started to suffer similar apprehension, so I consulted a psychotherapist. She recommended a small piece of cognitive behavioural therapy, which involved acknowledging the mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, but telling myself that these were essentially indistinguishable from feelings of excitement about the prospect of a journey. This reframing of my feelings has been reasonably effective – it’s one way of dealing with uncertainty.It’s not just the uncertainty of travel that we all have to face. None of us knows what is going to happen, or what is currently going on outside our immediate knowledge, or the vast majority of what has happened in the past. Uncertainty has been called the “conscious awareness of ignorance”, and there is a lot we are ignorant about. Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 18:00 Reaction to Brian Thompson’s killing shocked pundits but a polarized US is united in contempt for health systemJust over a week ago no one knew who Luigi Mangione was. After he was revealed as the alleged assassin of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, on 4 December, he quickly became one of the most polarizing figures in American pop culture.To some, he’s an anticapitalist arch villain. To others, he is a Marxist folk hero exacting revenge against the unchecked avarice of American medical insurance companies. To yet more, he’s a damaged young man struggling with a variety of intense health issues, whose family and friends desperately tried to reach out to him after he disappeared in the weeks and months before the killing. Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 18:01 A 15-year-old junior high school student has died after she and a male classmate were stabbed Saturday while waiting in line at a fast-food restaurant in Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, according to local police.
The assailant, described as a man around 40 years old and approximately 170 centimeters tall, remains at large following the incident.
Read full story here15.12.2024 18:05 The extreme conditions are leaving millions without food or clean water.15.12.2024 18:08 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here15.12.2024 18:13 Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murder in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, retained a high-profile attorney as he faces extradition to New York. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports for Sunday TODAY.15.12.2024 18:15 Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.15.12.2024 18:30 The integrity of the country is threatened by Turkey's next steps, which is pushing further into the north, and Israel, which has occupied a new part of the Golan Heights.15.12.2024 18:33 The Palestinian Authority surrounded the camp before launching a raid.15.12.2024 18:35 Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell lifted trophy in ‘highest-scoring final ever’, watched by more than 8 millionIt has been a difficult year for Strictly Come Dancing. Just six months ago, questions were mounting about whether the show should be axed after a string of allegations of bullying during rehearsals, and there were fears controversy would hang over its 22nd season when it launched in September.But as Chris McCausland lifted the glitterball trophy in Saturday night’s final, those fears appeared unfounded. Strong viewing figures and a overwhelmingly positive reaction to this year’s lineup suggest the show has regained its place at the heart of Saturday night family entertainment. Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 18:35 Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the ‘highest dam in the world’ is a recipe for disaster.15.12.2024 18:40 A tornado toppled trees, overturned cars and left damage in Scotts Valley, California, on Saturday, leaving several people with injuries. A tornado warning was issued Saturday morning in San Francisco.15.12.2024 18:4715.12.2024 18:52 Minority Islamic sect associated with overthrown Assad regime waits to see how threats of revenge will play outTo prepare khubeiza, the leaves of the kale-like plant must be roughly chopped and sauteed with onions, garlic and a dash of salt. Folklore says that the recipe originated among the Alawite communities who lived in Syria’s mountainous coastline where the fibrous, wild-growing plant can be found in abundance. So poor were the Alawites during Ottoman times, the story goes, that the only food they could find to eat was khubeiza, which sprouts like a stubborn weed every spring.When Hafez al-Assad, a member of the minority Islamic Alawite sect, seized the reins of power in 1971, he promised to lift the neglected community out of its poverty and end its hunger. Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 18:55 Residents and local officials are growing frustrated and alarmed by a lack of answers from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security over the slew of mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey and other states. NBC’s Sam Brock reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.15.12.2024 19:00 I had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it.15.12.2024 19:00 Our expert rounds up some of the best waterproof jackets and raincoats for everything from a drizzly coffee run to hiking in the wilderness• The best waterproof jackets for men: get outdoors whatever the weather, with help from our expertIn the words of Alfred Wainwright, “there is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing”. When you live in boggy Britain, where it rains more than 150 days a year, waterproofing is a serious business – and a great waterproof jacket is a year-round wardrobe staple.Whether you’re climbing a mountain or heading out on the commute, it’s worth investing in a decent jacket that’s fully waterproof, breathable and fits you properly. I’ve put nine through their paces in rainy hike conditions to find the very best women’s waterproof jackets.Best overall waterproof jacket:
Montane Torren£300 at MontaneBest waterproof jacket for hiking:
Rab Kangri£199 at Ultimate OutdoorsBest casual waterproof jacket:
Patagonia Torrentshell£180 at Cotswold OutdoorBest waterproof jacket for skiers:The North Face Summit Tsirku Gore-Tex Pro£503.30 at Ellis BrighamBest waterproof jacket for the mountains:
Tierra Nevado£222 at Trekitt Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 19:06 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy delivered one of 2024's major job headlines with his five-day office mandate, but there's a bigger tech organizational shakeup at work.15.12.2024 19:06 South Koreans have expressed a range of opinions about the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol.15.12.2024 19:18 DRC presidency says talks had hit deadlock over a Rwandan demand for DRC direct dialogue with M23.15.12.2024 19:25 On October 18, an Israeli bomb killed Palestinian artist Mahasen Al-Khateeb, her art, her dreams and her aspirations.15.12.2024 19:29 School-age children and younger have been attacked and killed as they sheltered in classrooms in Gaza City. 15.12.2024 19:30 During an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he’s leaning toward supporting President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, but calls on those who have leveled anonymous allegations against Hegseth to publicly make their case before the Senate. Graham tells Kristen Welker that Hegseth told him he would release the accuser from her non-disclosure agreement.15.12.2024 19:35 During an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says President Biden should consider preemptive pardons for members of the January 6th Select Committee. President-elect Trump previously told Kristen Welker that members of that committee should “go to jail.”15.12.2024 19:38 In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he wants to work with President-elect Trump and Republicans “in a bipartisan way” to raise the federal minimum wage. Trump previously told Kristen Welker that he was open to the idea.15.12.2024 19:50 Israeli foreign minister says move was prompted by Irish government’s ‘extreme anti-Israeli policies’Israel has announced it will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Dublin’s decision last week to support a petition at the international court of justice accusing Israel of genocide.The move was announced by the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, who said it was prompted by the Irish government’s “extreme anti-Israeli policies”, noting its decision to join the ICJ petition last week. Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 19:56 Residents of Avery County, North Carolina, whose lives were turned upside-down by the flooding of Hurricane Helene three months ago, were visited recently by the anonymous, wealthy businessman who goes by the name Secret Santa, making his annual deliveries of kindness. Correspondent Steve Hartman accompanied him as he spread comfort among those still displaced or affected by the storm.15.12.2024 20:00 Art defines the space in an apartment in an iconic building whose Brutalist architecture once led to protestsSome people buy their dream home for the location, others for the space it affords them; for Italian fashion designer Massimo Giorgetti, it was a love affair with Brutalism.His one-bedroom Milan apartment is housed in the former L’Istituto Mobiliare Italiano residential complex in the city’s Porta Romana district. Externally untouched since it was finished in 1966, this celebrated Brutalist masterpiece came with a few caveats – namely its single-glazed windows set in iron frames, that don’t open, making it more than a little chilly in winter and a greenhouse when temperatures soar. “You have to really love this building to live in this apartment,” laughs Giorgetti, joking that he needs to wear a hat and scarf in bed during winter and still wakes up with a frozen face. Continue reading... ... 15.12.2024 20:03 In the new film "Babygirl," directed by Halina Reijn, Nicole Kidman plays a successful CEO who seeks fulfillment from an unsatisfying marriage by taking up with a much younger intern. Kidman talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about how she chooses such intense and challenging roles. She also talks about family life with husband Keith Urban, and navigating grief over the recent death of her mother. Страницы: 826827828829830831832833834835836837838839840841842843844845846847848849850851852853854855856857858859860861862863864865866
Over 60 percent of those significantly impacted by a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1 feel little progress has been made toward recovery and construction, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.
The questionnaire, conducted among 155 residents of six hard-hit municipalities in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Noto Peninsula, underscores the slow pace of rebuilding and growing concerns about declining attention to affected areas as the first anniversary of the quake approaches.
Read full story here
The 87-year-old pontiff, on his first-ever visit to Corsica, said in an address earlier Sunday that the 'concept of secularity that is not static and fixed, but evolving and dynamic', and urged people to pray for the cylone-hit French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte.
Google’s chief executive spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit
A professor of statistics explains that living is about taking risks and not knowing the outcome, and why it’s important to accept and embrace that My father was an enthusiastic traveller, but as he got older he increasingly suffered from what he called “travel fever”, a vivid term for the acute anxiety felt before a journey, essentially due to uncertainty about all the things that could go wrong. Sadly, this eventually stopped him from going on holiday. Then I, too, started to suffer similar apprehension, so I consulted a psychotherapist. She recommended a small piece of cognitive behavioural therapy, which involved acknowledging the mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, but telling myself that these were essentially indistinguishable from feelings of excitement about the prospect of a journey. This reframing of my feelings has been reasonably effective – it’s one way of dealing with uncertainty.It’s not just the uncertainty of travel that we all have to face. None of us knows what is going to happen, or what is currently going on outside our immediate knowledge, or the vast majority of what has happened in the past. Uncertainty has been called the “conscious awareness of ignorance”, and there is a lot we are ignorant about. Continue reading... ... 
Reaction to Brian Thompson’s killing shocked pundits but a polarized US is united in contempt for health systemJust over a week ago no one knew who Luigi Mangione was. After he was revealed as the alleged assassin of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, on 4 December, he quickly became one of the most polarizing figures in American pop culture.To some, he’s an anticapitalist arch villain. To others, he is a Marxist folk hero exacting revenge against the unchecked avarice of American medical insurance companies. To yet more, he’s a damaged young man struggling with a variety of intense health issues, whose family and friends desperately tried to reach out to him after he disappeared in the weeks and months before the killing. Continue reading... ... 
A 15-year-old junior high school student has died after she and a male classmate were stabbed Saturday while waiting in line at a fast-food restaurant in Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, according to local police.
The assailant, described as a man around 40 years old and approximately 170 centimeters tall, remains at large following the incident.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here
Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murder in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, retained a high-profile attorney as he faces extradition to New York. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports for Sunday TODAY.
Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.
The integrity of the country is threatened by Turkey's next steps, which is pushing further into the north, and Israel, which has occupied a new part of the Golan Heights.
Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell lifted trophy in ‘highest-scoring final ever’, watched by more than 8 millionIt has been a difficult year for Strictly Come Dancing. Just six months ago, questions were mounting about whether the show should be axed after a string of allegations of bullying during rehearsals, and there were fears controversy would hang over its 22nd season when it launched in September.But as Chris McCausland lifted the glitterball trophy in Saturday night’s final, those fears appeared unfounded. Strong viewing figures and a overwhelmingly positive reaction to this year’s lineup suggest the show has regained its place at the heart of Saturday night family entertainment. Continue reading... ... 
A tornado toppled trees, overturned cars and left damage in Scotts Valley, California, on Saturday, leaving several people with injuries. A tornado warning was issued Saturday morning in San Francisco.
Minority Islamic sect associated with overthrown Assad regime waits to see how threats of revenge will play outTo prepare khubeiza, the leaves of the kale-like plant must be roughly chopped and sauteed with onions, garlic and a dash of salt. Folklore says that the recipe originated among the Alawite communities who lived in Syria’s mountainous coastline where the fibrous, wild-growing plant can be found in abundance. So poor were the Alawites during Ottoman times, the story goes, that the only food they could find to eat was khubeiza, which sprouts like a stubborn weed every spring.When Hafez al-Assad, a member of the minority Islamic Alawite sect, seized the reins of power in 1971, he promised to lift the neglected community out of its poverty and end its hunger. Continue reading... ... 
Residents and local officials are growing frustrated and alarmed by a lack of answers from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security over the slew of mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey and other states. NBC’s Sam Brock reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.
I had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it.
Our expert rounds up some of the best waterproof jackets and raincoats for everything from a drizzly coffee run to hiking in the wilderness• The best waterproof jackets for men: get outdoors whatever the weather, with help from our expertIn the words of Alfred Wainwright, “there is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing”. When you live in boggy Britain, where it rains more than 150 days a year, waterproofing is a serious business – and a great waterproof jacket is a year-round wardrobe staple.Whether you’re climbing a mountain or heading out on the commute, it’s worth investing in a decent jacket that’s fully waterproof, breathable and fits you properly. I’ve put nine through their paces in rainy hike conditions to find the very best women’s waterproof jackets.Best overall waterproof jacket:
Montane Torren£300 at MontaneBest waterproof jacket for hiking:
Rab Kangri£199 at Ultimate OutdoorsBest casual waterproof jacket:
Patagonia Torrentshell£180 at Cotswold OutdoorBest waterproof jacket for skiers:The North Face Summit Tsirku Gore-Tex Pro£503.30 at Ellis BrighamBest waterproof jacket for the mountains:
Tierra Nevado£222 at Trekitt Continue reading... ... 
During an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he’s leaning toward supporting President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, but calls on those who have leveled anonymous allegations against Hegseth to publicly make their case before the Senate. Graham tells Kristen Welker that Hegseth told him he would release the accuser from her non-disclosure agreement.
During an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says President Biden should consider preemptive pardons for members of the January 6th Select Committee. President-elect Trump previously told Kristen Welker that members of that committee should “go to jail.”
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he wants to work with President-elect Trump and Republicans “in a bipartisan way” to raise the federal minimum wage. Trump previously told Kristen Welker that he was open to the idea.
Israeli foreign minister says move was prompted by Irish government’s ‘extreme anti-Israeli policies’Israel has announced it will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Dublin’s decision last week to support a petition at the international court of justice accusing Israel of genocide.The move was announced by the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, who said it was prompted by the Irish government’s “extreme anti-Israeli policies”, noting its decision to join the ICJ petition last week. Continue reading... ... 
Residents of Avery County, North Carolina, whose lives were turned upside-down by the flooding of Hurricane Helene three months ago, were visited recently by the anonymous, wealthy businessman who goes by the name Secret Santa, making his annual deliveries of kindness. Correspondent Steve Hartman accompanied him as he spread comfort among those still displaced or affected by the storm.
Art defines the space in an apartment in an iconic building whose Brutalist architecture once led to protestsSome people buy their dream home for the location, others for the space it affords them; for Italian fashion designer Massimo Giorgetti, it was a love affair with Brutalism.His one-bedroom Milan apartment is housed in the former L’Istituto Mobiliare Italiano residential complex in the city’s Porta Romana district. Externally untouched since it was finished in 1966, this celebrated Brutalist masterpiece came with a few caveats – namely its single-glazed windows set in iron frames, that don’t open, making it more than a little chilly in winter and a greenhouse when temperatures soar. “You have to really love this building to live in this apartment,” laughs Giorgetti, joking that he needs to wear a hat and scarf in bed during winter and still wakes up with a frozen face. Continue reading... ... 
In the new film "Babygirl," directed by Halina Reijn, Nicole Kidman plays a successful CEO who seeks fulfillment from an unsatisfying marriage by taking up with a much younger intern. Kidman talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about how she chooses such intense and challenging roles. She also talks about family life with husband Keith Urban, and navigating grief over the recent death of her mother.