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A watercolor by Egon Schiele, "Boy in a sailor suit", should be sold next month in London from Christie to Christie after the house of rods has mediated a settlement between the deliveries and heirs of a Viennese cabaret artist who He possessed the work before being before he had killed him in a Nazi concentration camp.The portrait of 1914, with a low estimate of $ 1.3 million, is one of the approximately 80 works of the Austrian expressionist artist that the executor of Cabaret, Fritz Grünbaum, possessed. A frank critic of the Nazis, Grünbaum was arrested by Gestapo in 1938 and was imprisoned in two concentration camps, including Dachau, where he died in 1941.After decades of work to trace and claim his collection, his heirs, Timothy Reif and David Frankel, have recovered or achieved the ...

The role of Elon Musk as the cost reduction of the costs of President Trump and his immersion in right -wing policy seem to deviate his attention as Tesla in a dangerous moment for the electrical car company.Tesla cars sales decreased by 1 % last year even if the global market for electric vehicles grew by 25 percent. Musk did not deal with this submarine and did not offer any concrete plan to revive sales. He also did not provide details on a cheaper model that Tesla says he will start producing this year. In the past, Mr. Musk spent months or years promoting vehicles before appearing in showrooms.And he spent most of his time from the elections to Washington and in the House of Mr. Trump in Florida - completely from Austin, Texas, where Tesla has his company headquarters and a factory, o...

The funds for vital health programs all over the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite the order of a federal judge who temporarily interrupted the dismantling of the Trump Administration of the main foreign aid agency of the government.Interviews with people who work on health initiatives in Africa and Asia have discovered that parents in Kenya whose children have tuberculosis are unable to make them test. There is no clean drinking water in the fields in Nigeria or Bangladesh for people who flew from the civil conflict. A therapeutic food program cannot treat acutely malnourished children in South Sudan."We have people who travel 300 kilometers from the mountains to try to find their drugs in other hospitals, because they are not there in which they live...

Hamas delivered Thursday those who said were the remains of four Israelis taken hostage during October 7, 2023, attacks against Israel, including a woman and her two children whose abduction was widely seen as an emblematic of Hamas' assault.Palestinians from Palestinians gathered near the southern city of Gaza of Khan Youunis to look at the theatrical transfer staged by Hamas: four coffins placed on a stage in front of a cartoon and vampiric picture of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister . Triumphic music beat in the background.A coffin brought a photo of Kfir Bibas, who was less than nine months old when he was kidnapped. A few meters away, a poster threatened that if Israel returned to war against Hamas, even more hostages would have returned to coffins.Miles away, the Israel...

Luis Rubiales, former head of the Soccer Federation of Spain, was sentenced on Thursday for sexual aggression for having strongly kissed a member of the women's national team on the lips after the team won the women's world 2023.The kiss of the player of Mr. Rubiales, Jennifer Hermoso, triggered a national scandal, has deepened debates on long -standing sexism in Spanish football and has become a watershed moment in the #metoo movement of Spain.On Thursday, a Spanish court also fined Mr. Rubiales 10,800 euros, about $ 11,270, but was not sentenced to prison. He clarified him from a separate accusation of coercion.Mrs. Hermoso said that the kiss was not consensual, that Mr. Rubiales contested. Speaking in a courtroom near Madrid at the beginning of this month, he said: "Don't win a world cu...

Anyone who wants to keep up with the opinions of President Trump knows they go to his social account of truth. There, its reasoning is found on a panoplia of issues, including military strikes in Somalia, rates on Canada and Mexico, relations with Russia, the causes of a collision of fatal planes, the American property of the Gaza Strip and a workmanship budget now before the congress.On Wednesday, for example, after the initial interviews of ceased the fire between the United States and Russia during the war in Ukraine, he took the account to attack the leader of Ukraine. "Think about it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, convinced the United States of America to spend $ 350 billion dollars, to go to a war that could not be won, who never had to start," said the Post by...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration had adopted a series of "sex -based definitions" of the official government to give public and federal terms with which to describe categories including "male", " female, "" woman "and" man ".The definitions are listed in a "guide" of a page that is partly aimed at maintaining women and transgender girls outside women's sports, discouraging the treatments that affirm the genre for young people and the fulfillment of the commitment of the President Trump that the Federal Government will recognize only two sexes: male and female."This administration is reporting common sense and restoring the biological truth to the federal government," said Kennedy in a note. "The previous administration policy to tr...

After President Trump shocked the Arab world last month, suggesting that the entire population of Gaza is expelled from the territory, his helpers reformed the idea as an invitation to leaders of the Middle East: they exclude a better plan or do it ."All these countries say how much they worry about the Palestinians," said the secretary of state Marco Rubio last week. "If the Arab countries have a better plan, then it's fantastic," added Rubio.Now, the governments of several Arab states are trying to do exactly this. Representatives of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are quietly coordinating to form an alternative Vision for Gaza in Which Arab Countries would Help Fund and Oversee The Recondstruction of Gaza, While Keeping Its Residents in Place and preserva...

Pope Francis, who was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs, slept well during the night and had breakfast on Wednesday, said the Vatican, since the worries grew up for the health of the 88 -year -old Ponteff.In a short update of the early morning, the Vatican said that Francis "spent a peaceful night, woke up and had breakfast".Francis was admitted to the hospital of Polyclinic A. Gemelli in Rome with bronchitis last Friday. Subsequent diagnostic tests discovered that they have developed pneumonia in both lungs.It also has a polymicrobial infection, which means that it has a mix of microbes, such as a virus or bacteria, in its lungs or another part of its respiratory tract. The infection required the use of cortisone antibiotic therapy, said the Vatican.His general health continued to be...

Humane, the ambitious start-up behind the PIN AI device that aimed to replace smartphones one day, agreed to sell parts of his HP activity for $ 116 million, said the companies Tuesday.HP said he planned to acquire Humane's "artificial intelligence capacity", including his software platform, intellectual property, patents and some employees. The OI pin will be closed, Humane said in a message to customers.The agreement makes up a fall for the high-level start-up, which has heavily promoted the $ 699 pivot with ads, a TED speech and the Paris fashion week with supermodel. Humane has collected $ 240 million in funding from high -profile investors, including Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce and its Openii counterpart, Sam Altman, evaluating the company at $ 850 million before publishing a prod...