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☆ Sony World Photography Awards 2024: Take a look at this year’s winning images
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Juliette Pavy/Sony World Photography AwardsNow in its 17th year, the Sony World Photography Awards celebrates powerful images that resonate with audiences around the world. Mahé Elipe/Sony World Photography Awards “The Sacrifice Zone," taken in a remote part of Kazakhstan, won Eddo Hartmann the Landscape category. Eddo Hartmann/Sony World Photography Awards Ireland’s Siobhán Doran took the prize for the Architecture and Design category for "Sala Mayor (Living Room)." SiobhaÌn Doran/Sony World Photography Awards Jorge Mónaco of Argentina won the Portfolio category for his submission “Portraits and Landscapes.” Jorge Mónaco/Sony World Photography Awards The Still Life prize went to Federico Scarchilli from Italy. Sujata Setia/Sony World Photography Awards Thomas Meurot’s series "Kald Sòl" (Cold Sun) about surfing in Iceland's winter was the winner in the Sport section.

☆ Colorado Man Died From Venomous Gila Monster Bite, Autopsy Confirms
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Aimee Ortiz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

An autopsy report revealed that a pet Gila monster’s venomous bite contributed to a Colorado man’s death in February in what an expert described as “an incredibly rare” fatality caused by one of the desert lizards. The man, Christopher Ward, 34, died on Feb. 16 “due to complications of Gila monster envenomization,” said the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office autopsy report, which also cited heart and liver problems as contributing factors. Mr. Ward endured a four-minute-long bite by the lizard to his right hand on the night of Feb. 12, the report said. Paramedics found Mr. Ward in a bed, minimally responsive and “in apparent severe distress,” the report said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was put on life support and “continued to decline throughout his hospitalization.”

Persons: Christopher Ward, ”, Ward, “ Locations: Colorado, Jefferson

☆ Israel’s far-right wants to move Palestinians out of Gaza. Its ideas are gaining attention
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Mick Krever | Jomana Karadsheh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —The Israeli soldiers stand rifles in hand, arm over shoulder, speaking to the camera. “We must promote a solution to encourage the emigration of the residents of Gaza,” far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on January 1. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also holds a position in the Defense Ministry, says that Israel “will rule there. If Palestinians in Gaza are “post-Jihad, pro-Israel, and want to live that good life in that beautiful soil, there should be an opportunity for that,” he said. That color was adopted in 2004 and 2005 by the movement protesting Israel’s disengagement from Gaza.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, “, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel “, Antony Blinken, Dahlia Scheindlin, Itamar Ben Gvir, restoking, Netanyahu, ” Scheindlin, Diana Buttu, Netanyahu’s, ”, Ariel Sharon’s, Katif, Yishai Fleisher, ” Fleisher, we’ve, Fleisher, –, Jordan, ” Israel, Gush Katif, Hanan Ben Ari serenaded, Ben Gvir, Gila, Mahmoud Abbas, ” Omer Bartov, Buttu, ” Netanyahu, ” Tzvi, Melech, Ben Gvir’s Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Gaza . Social Media, ”, Likud, National, Defense Ministry, United, Haaretz, Israeli, National Security, Settler, West Bank, “, Israel, Norwegian Refugee Council, United Nations, International Court of Justice, Israel Defense Forces, Gush, Social Media, Oregon State University, City University of New, Brown University, Smotrich’s, Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power Party Locations: Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Ramallah, Authority, ”, United States, Palestinian, Qatar, “, Hebron, Turkey, South America, South Africa, The Hague, Jerusalem, Gush, Israeli, Nova Beach, City University of New York, Israel’s

In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on its land south of Phoenix. “This was a historic moment here for the community but also for the region and across Indian Country,” said Gila River Indian Community Gov. The idea is simple: install solar panels over canals in sunny, water-scarce regions where they reduce evaporation and make renewable electricity. Neither the Gila River Indian Community nor the Turlock Irrigation District are the first to implement this technology globally. Tribes hold the most senior water rights on the Colorado River, though many are still settling those rights in court.

Persons: ”, Stephen Roe Lewis, ” Lewis, Sun Edison, haven't, Heather Tanana, “ Organizations: U.S . Army Corps of Engineers, Community, Twitter, University of California, UC Merced, Irrigation, Sun, Reclamation, Associated Press, Walton Family Foundation, AP Locations: Phoenix, United States, Gila, Merced, Central, Gujarat, U.S, Irvine, Navajo, Colorado, Lake Mead

Heavy fighting broke out around the Indonesian Hospital, which has housed thousands of patients and displaced people for weeks. More than 250 patients with severely infected wounds or other urgent conditions remain stranded at Shifa Hospital days after Israeli forces entered the compound. Four other babies died in the two days before the evacuation on Sunday, according to Mohamed Zaqout, the director of Gaza hospitals. NETANYAHU EXTENDS CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR’S TERMTEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has decided to grant the country’s central bank chief a second term. Jordan will build the hospital in southern Gaza to help with the territory's health crisis.

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☆ Monster Diet Drugs Like Ozempic Started With Actual Monsters
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Rolfe Winkler | Ben Cohen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ UCI to reopen talks on transgender policy after Killips' win in New Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

May 4 (Reuters) - The governing body of cycling (UCI) has agreed to "re-open consultation" around transgender women competing in elite female events. The decision was prompted by American Austin Killips becoming the first transgender rider to win a UCI women's stage race. "The UCI's objective remains the same: to take into consideration... the desire of transgender athletes to practice cycling. "The UCI also hears the voices of female athletes and their concerns about an equal playing field for competitors, and will take into account all elements, including the evolution of scientific knowledge." The UCI toughened its rules for transgender women to compete in its events last year, halving the maximum permitted plasma testosterone level to 2.5 nanomoles per litre and doubling the transition period to 24 months.

☆ Austin Killips: Cycling governing body defends transgender policy after first openly trans woman wins Tour of the Gila
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Cycling’s governing body – the UCI – has defended its transgender policy after Austin Killips won overall victory in the recent Tour of the Gila in New Mexico. Killips is the first openly transgender woman to win an official UCI women’s stage race, according to the Tour of the Gila website. Killips also won the Queen of the Mountains polka dot jersey, which is awarded to the best climber. “The UCI acknowledges that transgender athletes may wish to compete in accordance with their gender identity,” the governing body said in a statement sent to CNN on Wednesday. Among the critics of Killips’ victory on Sunday was former Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson, who said on Twitter that the UCI is “effectively killing off women’s cycling” with its policy on transgender athletes competing in women’s categories.

☆ UCI defends transgender policy after Killips victory
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

May 2 (Reuters) - Cycling's governing body the UCI has defended its policy on transgender athletes competing in female events after American Austin Killips fuelled the debate by winning the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico on Sunday. The 27-year-old Killips won the fifth and final stage of the race to become the first transgender cyclist to triumph in an official UCI stage race. In a statement on Tuesday the UCI said: "The UCI acknowledges that transgender athletes may wish to compete in accordance with their gender identity. "The UCI rules are based on the latest scientific knowledge and have been applied in a consistent manner. British Cycling changed its rules last year to ban transgender women from elite races, pending a full review.

☆ Biden to designate two new national monuments, in Nevada and Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A wind and snow storm builds along the mountains of the Spirit Mountain Wilderness as viewed from Highway 163 on March 10, 2021 in Laughlin, Nevada. The Biden administration on Tuesday will establish two new national monuments in the Southwest, a decision that will protect the Spirit Mountain area in Nevada and Castner Range in Texas from development. The proclamations are part of the administration's commitment to protect one-third of the country's lands and waters by 2030. The Spirit Mountain area, also known as Avi Kwa Ame, would be the largest protected area under the administration so far and only the second monument designated to honor Indigenous tribes while conserving public land. Avi Kwa Ame is considered sacred by tribes including Mojave, Chemehuevi and Paiute.

This is their third trip to the NFL title game in four years and Kansas City fans can be heard throughout Phoenix singing the "tomahawk chop" chant. It is a jarring contrast to the displays of Native American culture and pride that Super Bowl hosts have invited to participate in the days leading up to the game. Chiefs fans are all but assured to perform the "tomahawk chop" cheer loudly in the minutes before kickoff, as they did prior to the game in their previous two Super Bowl appearances. And it's tone deaf," said Rhonda LeValdo, an Acoma Pueblo journalist who founded the Not in our Honor coalition in 2005, to advocate against the use of Native American imagery in sports. "I don't even understand what you guys are saying and you have the Chiefs logo and you guys are doing the chop."

☆ The US relied on a secret force of Japanese-Americans to win World War II in the Pacific — while their families were locked up at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Katie Sanders | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Japanese-American Nisei soldiers at US Army Military Intelligence Service language school. Not many people know that we had Japanese-Americans fighting the Pacific war. The very first Japanese language school was started by the Army a months before Pearl Harbor. A US Army Nisei soldier gives water to a child in Okinawa. US Army Nisei soldiers interrogating a Japanese prisoner of war.

☆ Democratic Rep. Tom O'Halleran faces off against Republican Eli Crane in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Tom O'Halleran is running against Republican Eli Crane in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. Three-term Democratic Rep. Tom O'Halleran faces off against Republican Eli Crane in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. Arizona's 2nd Congressional District candidatesO'Halleran, first elected in 2016, serves on the House Committees on Agriculture and Energy and Commerce. Voting history for Arizona's 2nd Congressional DistrictArizona's 2nd Congressional District encompasses the northwest corner of the state. His opponent, Crane, has raised $3.45 million, spent $3.1 million, and has about $356,000 still left to spend, as of October 19.

☆ Decizie istorică: Israelul devine prima ţară care interzice comerţul cu blănuri pentru industria modei
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-10 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Decizie istorică: Israelul devine prima ţară care interzice comerţul cu blănuri pentru industria modeiIsraelul a devenit prima ţară care interzice prin decret ministerial comerţul cu blănuri de animale pentru industria modei. „Israel este prima ţară din lume care îşi închide porţile în faţa acestei industrii pline de cruzime”, a declarat Jane Halevy-Moreno. Mai multe ţări din lume au adoptat interdicţii parţiale asupra comerţului cu blănuri naturale, mai ales pentru speciile deosebit de ameninţate, precum focile. Interzicerea totală a comerţului cu blănuri nu este în vigoare decât în câteva oraşe şi regiuni ale lumii, precum Sao Paulo în Brazilia şi statul american California. India a adoptat o reglementare similară la nivel naţional, însă doar pentru blănurile de nurcă, vulpe şi şinşila.

Persons: Mediului, Instituţia, Jane Halevy Organizations: Ministerul, Gila Gamliel, Mediului, AGERPRES Locations: Gila, Israel, Sao Paulo, Brazilia, american California, India

☆ Israelul a atacat o navă iraniană, în Marea Roșie
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-07 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

O navă iraniană suspectată că ar aparţine Gardienilor Revoluţiei a suferit avarii în urma unei explozii produse în Marea Roşie, iar un oficial american a declarat pentru cotidianul The New York Times că Israelul a înştiinţat Statele Unite despre acest atac, scrie digi24.ro. Nava Saviz a suferit daune după o explozie care a avut loc marţi seară în Marea Roşie, în largul coastelor statului Djibouti, anunţă autorităţile maritime iraniene, citate de agenţia Tasnim. Iranul anunţă că nava civilă era staţionată în Marea Roşie într-o misiune de combatere a pirateriei. La sfârşitul lunii martie, o navă cargo israeliană a suferit avarii după ce a fost lovită de o rachetă în Marea Arabiei, într-un incident atribuit Iranului. O navă iraniană, Shahr-e-Kord, care circula din Iran spre Europa, a fost vizată de o explozie urmată de un incendiu, la începutul lunii martie, în Marea Mediterană.

Persons: Revoluţiei, Saviz, Benjamin Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu, MV Helios Ray, Gamliel, Apărării Organizations: The New York Times, Mediafax, The New York, israelian, Apărării, Channel, MV, Wall Street Journal Locations: Statele Unite, Djibouti, Iran, israelian, Washington, The New York Times, exerciţiu, Orientul Mijlociu, Israel, Iranului, Golful Oman, Europa, Siria

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