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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...

At the beginning of the 2000s, a coronavirus that infects bats jumped into procione dogs and other wild mammals in south -western China. Some of those animals were sold in the markets, where the Coronavirus jumped again, in humans. The result was Pandemia Sars, which spread in 33 countries and caused 774 lives. A few months, scientists discovered the crownavirus in mammals known as Palm Wests sold in a market in the center of the epidemic.In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared Sars' evolutionary history with that of Covid 17 years later. The researchers analyzed the genomes of the two coronavirus who caused the pandemics, together with 248 coronavirus related to bats and other mammals.Jonathan Pekar, an evolutionary virologist of the University of Edinburgh a...

The last Israeli plan to move people to the north of Gaza has pushed a new wave of despair among the Palestinian civilians in the area, many of which have already been displaced several times since the beginning of the war.The displacement plan would have aggravated an already terrible humanitarian situation in Gaza, where hunger has risen since Israel imposed a block on aid supplies in March, pushing the United Nations to warn this week of a "growing humanitarian catastrophe"."We don't even want to hear the word" evacuation "again," said Anees Jneed, 31 years old, a thinly Palestinian who lives in an improvised refuge in the north of Gaza. Jneed said that his family had already been cracked at least six times from the beginning of the war in October 2023."The displacement means death,...

Few people want their neighbors to become public. This includes Elon Musk.In March, Musk's team put pressure on officials in the city of high level of West Lake Hills, Texas, to keep silent about the details of one of its buildings and safety operations, according to the E -mails to the employees of the city obtained from the New York Times through the requests of public registers.In those and -mail, employees of the technological billionaire asked West Lake Hills officials to make a public meeting private in April - where neighbors could talk about his 6 million dollar house. They indicated the work of Mr. Musk with the Trump administration as a reason why his registers of ownership and communications with the city were exempt from state and federal laws on public registers, the and -...

The Trump administration asked a federal judge on Monday to reject a case that tries to abruptly limit access to the abortion mifePristone pill, taking on the same position as the Biden administration in a carefully looked at case that has important implications for access to abortion.The deposit of the Court by the Department of Justice is surprising, given that President Trump and a number of officials of his administration have strongly opposed the rights of abortion. Trump often boasts that he has appointed three of the judges of the Supreme Court who voted in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade, who had guaranteed national law to abortion. And so far in his second term, his administration has taken measures to reduce the programs that support reproductive health.The storage is the first time...

On Monday, the United Nations Court rejected a case by accusing the United Arab Emirates of feeding the genocide in Sudan by supporting the paramilitary forces in the civil war under the country. The court said that "manifestly lacks jurisdiction".The International Court of Justice has not decided on the accusations made by the Sudanese government, but with a vote of 14-2, she refused to issue provisional emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates that Sudan had requested. With a vote of 9-7, he officially removed the case by his document, according to a summary of his decision.Both Sudan and the Emirates are signatories of the 1948 genocide Convention, but the United Arab Emirates, when they signed the Treaty in 2005, renounced a key clause that allows countries to sue each other...