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China announced Friday it will begin screening people and goods entering the country for mpox over the next six months, just two days after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency. People travelling from countries where virus outbreaks have occurred, who have been in contact with mpox cases or display symptoms should “take the initiative to declare to customs when entering the country”, China’s customs administration said in a statement. Vehicles, containers and items from areas with mpox cases should also be sanitized, the statement added.

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Russia is “rapidly approaching” a key military hub in eastern Ukraine, a local official has said, as Moscow continues its advances despite Kyiv’s surprise gains in its enemy’s Kursk region. While Pokrovsk is not a major city – about 60,000 people lived there before the war and many have left since the start of the full-scale invasion – it serves as a key hub for the Ukrainian military thanks to its easy access to Kostiantynivka, another military center. Ukrainian troops use the road connecting the two to resupply the front lines and evacuate casualties toward Dnipro. Serhii Dobriak, head of...

More than 20,000 protesters are expected to cram into a 1.4 mile-long court-approved protest route near Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, creating a potential standoff between demonstrators and a police department with a history of excessive force. The 264 protest groups that have said will participate are primarily focused on Palestinian rights, ending the war in Gaza and reducing U.S. aid to Israel. Others represent a patchwork of left-leaning causes: climate activists, socialists, anti-racist organizations, queer and trans rights groups. Arab American groups in the Chicago area, home to the country’s largest Palestinian American community, said local police...

The New York Times said it took disciplinary action against a reporter who acknowledged leaking data about a WhatsApp group chat for Jewish business people that led to its members being doxxed and harassed by activists sympathetic to Palestinians. Natasha Frost, a Times reporter who was based in Melbourne, Australia, earlier this year, downloaded and shared 900 pages of content from the private WhatsApp chat that was launched by Jewish professionals in response to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 Israelis. Frost acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that she shared the...

Vice President Kamala Harris admitted to a small group of supporters Friday that the cost of food has been “too high” under President Biden. “We all know that prices went up during the pandemic when the supply chains shut down and failed, but our supply chains have now improved and prices are still too high,” the Democratic presidential nominee, 59, said during a campaign stop in Raleigh, NC, in a speech outlining her new economic plan. “A loaf of bread costs 50% more today than it did before the pandemic,” Harris continued, validating one of former President Donald Trump’s central...

We’re all aware of the ongoing cassette revival, which has seen sales of pre-recorded tapes rise to their highest levels for two decades. But it seems that many Gen Z-ers are purchasing tapes without having anything to play them on. Or any idea of how they work. The Wall Street Journal has revealed this in an interesting article that interviews a number of younger tape-heads. People like Amy Campbell, who admitted she struggled at first with the Kacey Musgraves cassette she bought from the country star’s website. First she had to borrow her mother’s old tape player. Then she had...

Right-wing critics have called Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the White House national monkeypox response deputy coordinator, a "Satanist" for having the pentagram tattoo on his chest. Some conservative commentators expressed their opinions about Daskalakis, who is openly gay, and criticized President Joe Biden for deciding in August to appoint him to the position. "Meet Demetre Daskalakis. Demetre was just appointed by Joe Biden to be the official White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator. Demetre proudly wears the official symbol of the Church of Satan: The Pentagram. Joe Biden appointed a Satanist to the White House," Newsmax host Benny Johnson tweeted...

This summer, high temperatures and a drought created conditions that led to the collapse.Heavy rain caused a part of a pyramid built more than 1,000 years ago to collapse in late July, according to Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.Located in the state of Michoacan in southern Mexico, the pyramid was part of a seat of power in a site known as Ihuatzio, the institute said.This summer, high temperatures and a drought created conditions that led to the collapse, as they caused cracks to form in the pyramid. When the rain fell, water flowed into the cracks and compromised...

The city of Medellin in Colombia has been on a bit of a journey: from notorious home of the drugs cartels and Pablo Escobar, to newfound haven for sex tourism and now to a city where dozens of men die in mysterious circumstances, often after arranging to meet women on dates. With nearly a hundred cases in the last few years, our Latin American correspondent Guillermo Galdos has been to investigate.

In older adults, even mild impairment can affect the brain. But there are simple ways to reduce the harm.Adults over age 65 who experience vision loss have a nearly 50 per cent increased risk of developing dementia. If those vision problems are corrected, that risk drops dramatically. That’s according to a report published by an international commission focused on dementia prevention, which added vision impairment to its list of 14 total modifiable risk factors for dementia. Other risk factors include smoking, diabetes, social isolation and hypertension. Experts say the addition of vision loss is not a surprise, particularly given that...

Acknowledging that "since President Biden's attempt to use the 'bully pulpit' to try to shame corporate price gougers into accepting a fair mark-up approach hasn't worked," Democrat presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris said "I will be taking a more aggressive approach. Within the first 100 days of a Harris/Walz administration we will issue a matrix delineating the fair prices for every major consumer product. I will instruct the Federal Trade Commission to monitor compliance and punish those businesses that violate our guidelines." She called this approach "the only sure way to put a lid on the inflation caused by the...

Mexico News Daily reports that a stela measuring more than 36 feet long has been discovered in the Cobá archaeological zone in the eastern Yucatán Peninsula. Glyphs carved into the stone describe the founding of the Maya settlement of Keh Witz Nal, or Deer Mountain, on May 12, A.D. 569, according to a preliminary analysis of the text conducted by researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The text also names K'awiil Ch'ak Chéen, a previously unknown ruler of Cobá, and confirms that rulers often adopted the name of the god K'awiil, a protective deity associated with...

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According to a Live Science report, excavators from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences working in western Russia at the Gnezdilovo burial ground have uncovered the remains of two people thought to have worked as medieval tax collectors. The first was a man who was between 35 and 40 years of age when he died. He was buried with a bronze belt buckle shaped like a lyre, a knife, a broken ceramic vessel, and a metal battle ax featuring a small hammer at one end and a semicircular notch at its base. This style of ax...

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Nine months into the war, and the latest complaint is that Israel is making it harder to get a ceasefire in Gaza, because Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government is adding new demands in the ceasefire negotiations. The talks between Israel and Hamas have continued for months, facilitated – if that’s the right word, and it may not be – by Egypt, the United States, and Qatar. Hamas complains that Israel has been moving the goalposts in recent weeks, issuing new demands that make it harder to come to an agreement. Is that true? And if so, is it fair? In a...

Great work, Europe. No really, you’re doing fine. You’ve got British toadies threatening to extradite American citizens for speaking freely and some dork at the European Union threatening an American citizen for daring to have an online interview with one of America’s two major party presidential candidates. That’s going to go over well. Good thinking because Europe can sure afford to alienate the members of one of America’s two political parties. The Russians are coming? Hey, sounds like a personal problem, Monsieur Pierre Le Beau and Sir Adrian Wellington Smythe-Grimbsy. Turn off the Eurovision Song Contest and go fight your...