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In the autumn of 2024, the Cardinal who is now Pope Leo XIV sat down at a large round table inside the Vatican, discussing the challenges that face the Roman Catholic Church with a cardinal from Ethiopia, archbishops of Cameroon and Kenya, a cardinal posted in Mongolia and bishops of Texas and Liberia.By joining them at the table there was a Catholic podcaster of Dallas; A company consultant from Melbourne, Australia; a university administrator of the Figi; And a parishioned of Myanmar, three of whom were women.Each person at the table, clergy or secular, were granted three minutes of uninterrupted speech."Each voice had the same value," said Susan Pascoe, company consultant, president of Catholic Emergency Relief Australia. He sat down at a table with the future Pope for the meetings, whi...

After making the space for 53 years, a rebellious Soviet spatial vehicle called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet's atmosphere at 9:24 in Moscow on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the state company that manages the Russian space program.Designed to land on the Venus surface, Kosmos-482 may have remained intact during his dip. He splashed in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, said Roscosmos.Kosmos-482 was launched on March 31, 1972, but stood in the terrestrial orbit after one of his rocket boosters closed prematurely. The return of the spacecraft to Earth was a reminder of the Cold War competition that pushed visions similar to science fiction of earth powers that projected into the sun system."Remember a time when the Soviet Union was adventurous in space -...

A man from Virginia was accused of second -degree murder after shooting a teenager who was shooting a joke for Tiktok known as "Ding Dong Ditch" with two friends around 3 in the morning of Saturday, according to the documents of the court and local authorities.The SpotSylvania sheriff's sheriff's office responded to a relationship of a resident shooting during a theft with burglary and found two teenagers with gun wounds, the office declared in a note. One of the teenagers, Michael Bosworth Jr., 18 years old, died later from his wounds. The second person was treated for slight injuries and a third person in the group was unharmed, said the sheriff's office. The two friends of Mr. Bosworth were both less than 18 years old.The teenagers had been in the neighborhood to make a vide...

Funzionari della sanità pubblica nella contea di Los Angeles hanno dichiarato un focolaio di epatite A, un'infezione epatica altamente contagiosa guidata da un virus che può, in rari casi, causare gravi malattie.La condizione, che viene generalmente identificata in meno di 50 persone nella contea di La contea di Los Angeles, infettati almeno 138 persone nel 2024 e i casi sono rimasti insolitamente alti finora nel 2025. I funzionari affermano che i livelli del virus nelle acque reflue locali suggeriscono che queste cifre sono sottostimi.Ecco cosa sapere.In che modo l'epatite è trasmessa?Il virus dell'epatite A si diffonde attraverso il cosiddetto percorso orale-fecale, il che significa che viene ingerito attraverso cibo o bevande che sono state contaminate da pezzi di feci micro...

Before the war, this restaurant in the Rimal district of Gaza City was needed Thai food - when the ingredients in the north of Gaza could still be found.Wednesday, a bloody day in the Gaza Strip, with multiple strikes, the restaurant was the most fatal site. Thirty -three people were killed there and 155 wounds, according to the local ministry of health.I was right on the other side of the road when the strike happened, drinking coffee and using the internet in another coffee. When I got the way through noise, smoking and dust to take photographs, I came across a scene of the dead and death.Those who had survived were trying to help each other in the best possible way. The wounded woman seen in this photograph was taken away in a hospital a few moments.But at least one hospital was unable ...

British Airways will get 32 ​​new Boeing planes, in an agreement for a value of almost $ 13 billion, his mother company announced on Friday, one day after US officials have made fun of a large order for the largest American air producer.IAG, who owns British Airways and other European airlines, said he ordered the Boeing plane and 21 Airbus planes, a French aerospace company, to be delivered between 2028 and 2033The announcement came after Howard Lutnick, the secretary of the United States Trade, said Thursday that Great Britain would buy a planes of $ 10 billion Boeing planes while announced the details of what he called a "strong" commercial agreement between the two countries. Air order, however, is a commercial agreement and not part of the commercial agreement of governments.Lutnick a...

The artificial intelligence start-up of Elon Musk, Xai, is in negotiations to collect new funding that could evaluate it up to $ 120 billion, compared to $ 80 billion just over a month ago, two people with knowledge of the discussions have said.The interviews are in the early stages and the evaluation of XAI could climb or decrease while the progress talks, he said that the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Investors discussed that they have put $ 20 billion in the company, even if that figure could also change.The talks follow a great effort to fund fundraising by Openai, the San Francisco start-up that makes Chatgpt, who in March said he had closed a financing round that evaluated him at $ 300 billion. Openi launched the boom at the end of 2022 with the release of chatgpt, tri...

Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After jumping upwards in the 2000s, global health donations have grown very slowly in 2010. Filantropy culture has also changed in some way, with the age of the pledge to give - in which hundreds of richest people in the world have promised to give more than half of their great fortunes to charity - giving first to the starting movement called effective altruism and then to a new era of extremely wealth. from altruism that from grandeur. After the divorce of the Gates in 2021, Melinda eventually left the Foundation to establish his philanthropy; Warren Buffett, a longtime supporter, recently announced his plans to leave most of his remaining fortune in the hands of a charity trust that his ...

When Israel informed the Palestinian authority of having planned to demolish dozens of buildings in crowded parts of a border city in the western Israeli West West, the notification triggered a panic.Hundreds of Palestinians in the border city, Tulkarm, learned that they would probably not return to their homes at the end of an Israeli offensive system in the northern West Bank."They are causing a disaster," said Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the service committee in the Nur Shams field in Tulkarm.Since January, the Israeli army has conducted a large -scale military operation in three fields in northern West Bank, thinning tens of thousands of people and causing widespread destruction. Israeli officials, who say that the purpose of the campaign is to hit the militants and their weapons, have s...

Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on Friday with the heads of state visiting and a show of armed power in Piazza Rossa, staged as a global, grandiose and intimidating performance, and a president of any triumph in the war against Ukraine.The annual military parade below the walls and the ceremlin towers should be the largest since Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2022, a commemoration that the government and its cheerleaders used to raise support for war, confusing what could be the largest source of national pride with the much more divisive conflict."Our great victory 80 years ago is a new narrative, a new conception of the current stall of Russia with the West," said Sergei Lyaguzin, professor of international relations, on Russian state television th...