The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is expected to raise national security concerns about selling the iconic steel producer to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
American spy agencies have assessed that the Kremlin favors former President Donald J. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine.
With New Taliban Manifesto, Afghan Women Fear the Worst
Three years into its rule, the movement has codified its harsh Islamic decrees into law that now includes a ban on women’s voices in public.
Police Interviewed Georgia Suspect About Shooting Threats in 2023
The 14-year-old student accused of killing four people with a military-style rifle at his Georgia high school was questioned about online threats last year, the F.B.I. said.
BBC Select (September 4, 2024): With towering limestone cliffs, hidden temples, the teeming city of Bangkok and imposing forests, Thailand is a sacred kingdom of awe-inspiring beauty.
Each episode of this compelling natural history documentary is packed with amazing wildlife. Giant bats, huge water monitors, a dazzling island reef light show and the creatures of Bangkok are just some of the delights.
Times Literary Supplement (September 4, 2024): The latest issue features‘Sinister Beauty’ – Baudelaire and Les Fleurs du Mal; Hitler’s accomplices; No exit in Israel and Palestine; Posing for Lucian Freud and David Peace’s Munich…
The Globalist Podcast (September 4, 2024): Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro looks to jail the country’s opposition leader Edmundo González. This after the US recognised González as the legitimate winner of July’s presidential election.
Plus: African leaders arrive in Beijing for a key summit. Then: we dive into pop-girl summer and look ahead to autumn’s music trends.
More than 50 people were killed by two high-speed missiles that hit a military academy in the eastern city of Poltava, one of the most lethal Russian strikes in the war.
In strikes and protests, many Israelis are pushing their government to prioritize the release of hostages above the immediate defeat of Hamas. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to change course.
Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to ‘Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,’ Experts Say
Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posing a quiet but growing threat.
Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter (September 3, 2024): The new issue features Heart Attack 101; Avoiding Frailty; Special Report: Plant Power Tofu??; Is pasta bad for health? and Locally grown produce is more nutritious…
Heart Attack 101 – Knowing the basics of heart attacks can help with prevention, recognition, treatment and recovery
Physical frailty in older age can be avoided. Start now.
We all lose muscle and strength as we age. Frailty is something more. It can take away your health, your vitality, and your independence. But it’s not inevitable.
‘If there is an occupation for which women are utterly unfitted, it is that of the detective,’ claimed the Manchester Weekly Times in 1888 – already behind the times, it seems, as women had been acting the part for years, albeit invisibly. They had started to feature in detective fiction too. It was studying the burgeoning market in ‘lady detective’ stories post-1860 that led Sara Lodge to wonder who the fantasy sleuths were modelled on, and why the Victorians found them so disturbing and alluring.
It is hard to think of a person more qualified to write this book. In addition to being an art historian, a prolific writer, a lecturer and a broadcaster, James Stourton is also a former chairman of Sotheby’s UK. He joined the auction house in 1979 and left in 2012 to become a senior fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.
The Globalist Podcast (September 3, 2024): Benjamin Netanyahu faces surging pressure to secure a ceasefire deal, as a reported half million Israelis took to the streets in protest and Joe Biden accused him of not doing enough to bring home the hostages.
Then: Turkey officially joins Brics. Plus: Ukraine Fashion Week kicks off for the first time in two years following Russia’s invasion.
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