It’s day two of China’s military drills in the skies and seas around Taiwan – and the latest exercises show how the People’s Liberation Army would surround the island on all sides by ships and aircraft. It’s a rehearsal of how Beijing would take the island, as it has vowed to do repeatedly. China has already set a new normal in the Taiwan Strait, steadily ramping up miliatry pressure on the self-governed island. So what is different about these drills – and what do they tell us? Propaganda vs reality It’s hard to tell exactly what is going…
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As women get older, our risk for certain chronic diseases increase. We can thank the aging process itself, and the loss of estrogen’s protective effects after menopause. Older women are more prone to conditions like osteoporosis, which can cause brittle bones. The chance of heart disease rises, as do the odds of developing dementia, in part because women tend to live longer than men, and risk increases with age. Diagnosing some conditions is more challenging, since the frequency, appearance and long term effects of many diseases often appear differently in women than in men. It’s a key reason not to…
As the war enters its 819th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, May 24, 2024. Fighting At least seven people were killed and dozens more injured in a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and home to about one million people. Nearly 11,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in the Kharkiv region since Russian forces began a cross-border ground offensive there on May 10, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said one woman was killed after a destroyed Ukrainian drone fell on her…
The new password sharing feature just applies to ones that are stored in Google Password Manager, the company’s service that natively stores your passwords and passkeys in Chrome and Android and is linked to your Google account. As of today, the new password sharing feature works on mobile — but apparently not via Chrome on desktop, yet. Once you share a password with one of your family members, a copy of it will be saved into that member’s own Google Password Manager. You can’t use this feature with people who aren’t in your Google-sanctioned family group (which can only have…
Posted: Hanoi is Vietnam’s vibrant capital city. It’s also one of its main travel hubs (most visitors either start or end their trip here). While I didn’t love my first trip to Vietnam, the country is one of the most affordable in the region, brimming with amazing eats and stunning natural beauty. It’s also easy to navigate and has a well-worn travel trail running north to south. But because Hanoi is part of the main route around Southeast Asia, it’s awash in hostels. I mean, there are tons of them here. And not all of them are created equal. To…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has green-lit the listing of eight spot Ether exchange-traded fund on U.S. stock exchanges, approving the asset manager’s 19b-4 form on Thursday afternoon. “It’s one of the biggest regulatory one-eighties in recent SEC history,” VanEck’s head of digital asset research, Matthew Sigel, told Fortune in a statement. Issuers include BlackRock, VanEck, Fidelity and Grayscale, among others. The agency’s relative silence over the pending applications in recent months led many in the cryptocurrency industry to regard an approval this year as a pipedream. Bloomberg analysts were predicting the odds of approval to be as low as 25%…
US President Joe Biden has named Kenya as a major non-Nato ally, making it the first sub-Saharan African country to receive that designation. Mr Biden announced the move during a three-day state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto. It is the first such visit to Washington by an African leader in more than 15 years and comes Russia and China have expanded their influence across the continent. Several governments in the Sahel region and western Africa have also fallen to military coups, leading to the removal of co-operation missions with western nations. The extension of major non-Nato ally status will…
The brutal attack on South Yemeni politicians in 1986, when assassins stormed a meeting of the country’s cabinet. The audacious assassination of South Yemeni politicians during a cabinet meeting in 1986 remains a landmark moment in the region’s history. Now, we hear exclusive recent testimony from South Yemen’s then-president, whose bodyguards carried out the attack. A leader of the political assassination squad and another eyewitness capture the extreme violence used as one political faction attempted to wipe out its rivals, in a minute-by-minute account. Reporter Gamal al Moliky tells how this rivalry escalated into a series of assassinations in 1986…
Throughout human history, groundbreaking technologies have emerged as the defining voice of their generation, reshaping communication and, in turn, the political landscape. In the 1890s, Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated the feasibility of radio, which emerged as the definitive voice for the pre-war generation, heralding a new era in mass communication. By the 1940s, the spirited competition between San Francisco tinkerer Philo Farnsworth and the team at RCA produced live television, which captured the cultural consciousness of the baby-boom generation, who were raised in front of the small…
The U.S. Department of Justice and a collection of states has filed an antitrust suit against Live Nation and is seeking to break up the company behind Ticketmaster. The suit seeks to effectively undo the merger, with Attorney General Merrick Garland saying “It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.” Ticketmaster, the suit claims, uses unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise a monopolistic control over the live events industry. The suit accuses the company of retaliating against firms that try to compete with it and has threatened and retaliated against venues that work with other ticket companies. Additionally, it said, concert…
Based on what scientists have said about Venus, finding a world similar to it may not seem like a thrilling breakthrough in space research: Our neighboring planet’s surface is a hot, toxic world, with sulfuric acid rain and volcanoes. But Venus might once have been an ocean world much like Earth before it devolved into a hellhole. Now two teams of international scientists have found a Venus-like planet not far from our own solar system, and they’re eager to know if it’s habitable. The so-called “exo-Venus,” a rocky exoplanet similar in size to Venus, is known as Gliese 12 b,…
My kids are used to seeing me with oddly colored things smeared on my face by now. Homemade face masks, like this probiotic yogurt facial mask, are great for hydrating and nourishing skin. The only downside is it needs to be used right away. This seaweed face mask however can be stored as a powder and mixed as needed to add to your skincare routine. It’s full of antioxidants and superfood ingredients that help draw impurities from the skin. A seaweed face mask also boosts collagen to help reduce the appearance of fine lines. Who cares if you look like…