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The officials of the State State Department have developed plans to close a dozen consulates abroad by this summer and are taking into consideration the idea of ​​closing many more missions, in what could be a serious blow for the efforts of the United States government to build partnerships and collect intelligence, say American officials.The Department also plans to fire many local citizens who work for its hundreds of missions. Those workers constitute two thirds of the agency's workforce and in many countries form the basis of the knowledge of their US diplomats environments.The narrowing is part of both the widest cutting of the federal government of President Trump and its foreign policy "America First", in which the United States end or reduce the important ways to exercise global i...

Pierre Joris, poet and translator who faced some of the most difficult verses of the 20th century, making the complex work of the German poet Paul Celan in English, died on February 27 in his home in Brooklyn. He was 78 years old.His wife, Nicole Peyraffite, said that the cause was cancer complications.Joris was the author of dozens of volumes of his poetry and prose. But much of the work of his life was spent grappling with Celan's poetry, which many critics considered, in the words of a scholar, "probably the greatest European poet in the post -war period".That greatness comes with a hitch for readers, however: the diabolical difficulty of a writer whose texts were trained and deformed by the chogiol of the Holocaust - "what happened", as Celan called it. Both his parents were assassinat...

Discord, the popular social chat app with the video game community, has met investment bankers in recent weeks to discuss preparations for an initial public offer as soon as this year, two people have said who are familiar with interviews.A hypo of a famous technological society could provide a shock so necessary for private companies that weigh public lists. The volatility of the market caused by an uncertain economy, together with strong evaluations for private companies, has led to a slow start for the IPO market this year.Discord was the last time by private investors in 2021 to about $ 15 billion.People, who required anonymity because the conversations are confidential, warned that the interviews were still exploratory and that the IPO plans remained subject to changes.A spokesman for...

Postpartum depression affects about one in seven women who give birth, but it is known little about what happens in the brain of pregnant women who experience it. A new study begins to shed light.The researchers scanned the dozen brain of women in the previous weeks and after childbirth and found that two brain areas involved in the elaboration and control of emotions increased in size in women who have developed symptoms of postpartum depression.The results, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, constitute some of the first tests that postpartum depression is associated with changes in the brain during pregnancy.The researchers discovered that women with symptoms of depression in the first month after childbirth also had increases in the volume of their amygdala, a brain...

When President Trump declared last month that he wanted to move all the two million residents of Gaza outside the strip into Egypt and Jordan and transform the territory into a "Riviera" on the beach for tourism, the pressure was on the Arab leaders horrified by the idea of ​​finding their great plan.On Tuesday, during an Arab emergency summit in Cairo, they put their vision: to reconstruct Gaza without forcing the Palestinians who live there. Sideline Hamas, the armed group that currently controls Gaza and appoints a committee of qualified bureaucrats to manage the strip for six months before delivering power to the Palestinian government recognized internationally in the West Bank. Then bring together the territory with the West Bank as a Palestinian state-A long-standing dream of Palest...

Without billions of dollars in American manufacturing weapons, it could only be a matter of time before Ukraine forces falter against Russia.How long, however, depends on the rapidity with which Europe and Ukraine can compensate for artillery, missiles, air defense systems and other weapons that the officials of the Trump administration have said on Mondays have been waiting. The United States had committed themselves to providing up to $ 11 billion weapons and equipment in Ukraine this year. Some of these came from the Pentagon's stocks, while some were ordered through new defense contracts, according to a new analysis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. On Tuesday, a former high -U.S. defense official said that the actual figure was probably closer to $ 9...

Seven Tesla charging stations were intentionally set fire on Monday in a shopping center outside Boston, the police said, the last of a series of attacks against the company of electric vehicles by its owner, Elon Musk, built a deep partnership with President Trump.The charging stations were set on fire around 1:10 in a shopping center in Littleton, Massachusetts, about 30 miles from Boston, according to a press release from the Police Department of Littoleton.The police said he told Littyton Electric Light & Water Department to close power to the charging stations while "heavy and dark smoke" has swallowed many. Before the electric company could answer, another charging station took fire.There were 12 charging stations on the site, according to a Tesla map.Tesla did not immediately respon...

A morbillo outbreak that spread on a western Texas band, killing a child, shows no signs of slowing down, according to the data released on Tuesday by state health officials.The Texas Health Department has reported that since the end of January, almost 160 people have contracted measles - 20 more cases than Friday - and 22 have been hospitalized.The centers for the control and prevention of diseases announced Tuesday that he would have sent some of his "detectives of the disease" in Texas, one of the first steps that the new administration has adopted to help manage the epidemic.The news arrives in the midst of criticisms of federal officials for having underestimated the need for immunizations with the vaccine against the measles-Morto-Rubella, one of the most important tools to appease a...

Israel has conducted new air attacks on the Syrian coast and Raid of Earth in the south of the country, part of a wave of attacks that Israel says is necessary for its safety that has raised tensions with the new Syrian government.The strikes seemed to be the last attempt to keep the weapons from the Assad regime from the hands of groups that could be hostile to Israel.The Israeli army declared on Monday evening that she had targeted a weapon storage structure in Qardaha, the hometown of former President Bashar al-Assad. The city is located a few kilometers from a large Russian air base outside the coastal city of Latakia. There have been no immediate reports of victims, according to the Syrian state press agency.Hours later, the Israeli military conducted raids of land in two cities of so...

The threatening threat of President Trump to abandon Ukraine is fueling support for a long -lasting proposal to use billions of dollars in frozen Russian goods to buy weapons for Ukraine and finance his reconstruction.The money - about 300 billion dollars owned by the Russian Central Bank - were frozen from the United States, the European Union, Great Britain and others after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The goal was to punish President Vladimir V. Putin for its attack not caused and cut the funds he could use for the war of wages.While the war starts at its fourth year, an increasing number of officials in Europe and elsewhere asked that the money be released to directly compensate for Ukraine.The idea recently collected impetus, while President Trump promised broker quickly t...