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Review: Velázquez’s Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena

LA Times

Philip IV was in trouble. Enter Mariana, the subject of an extraordinary, monumental full-length portrait painted by the Spanish genius Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, loaned by Madrid’s Prado Museum to Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum. A cascade of lace in loose white oil paint falls from Mariana’s left hand in Diego Velázquez’ portrait of young queen Mariana The dress …

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Spain's farmers urge EU to drop Mercosur deal

China Daily

From left: Argentina's President Javier Milei, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Paraguay's President Santiago Pena hold hands to express unity during the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay on Friday. MARIANA GREIF/REUTERS Spain's farmers have been showing their disdain for the proposed trade deal between the …

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Spain's farmers urge EU to drop Mercosur deal

China Daily

By EARLE GALE in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-12-10 09:15 From left: Argentina's President Javier Milei, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Paraguay's President Santiago Pena hold hands to express unity during the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay on Friday. MARIANA GREIF/REUTERS Spain's …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

El fútbol femenino prospera en México siete años después de la creación de la Liga MX femenil

Associated Press

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — La delantera Charlyn Corral tuvo que coger una maleta y emigrar a España en 2015 porque en su país no existía todavía una liga profesional. El fútbol femenino en México se ha transformado desde entonces y una muestra reciente son los más de 50.000 aficionados que acudieron el lunes pasado a presenciar la final donde Monterrey …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

How war tourism is on the rise in Ukraine

Firstpost

Since the beginning of the Ukraine war in February 2022, images of death and destruction have been beamed around the world. “I’m a little bit scared, I’m not going to lie, because you never know.” He was on a “dark tourism” tour offered by one of a dozen or so Ukrainian companies specialising in a marginal but growing sector – …

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Fifth storm in under a month bears down on Philippines

Raw Story

The Philippines issued fresh weather warnings on Tuesday as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Toraji. But Tropical Storm Usagi is now just two days away from the coast of Luzon, the archipelago nation's largest and most populous island, and gaining strength, the national weather agency …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Fifth storm in less than a month bears down on the Philippines

Al Jazeera

The Philippines issued new weather warnings as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated before Typhoon Toraji. But Tropical Storm Usagi is just two days away from the coast of Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island, and gaining strength, the national weather agency said on Tuesday. The government …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cop29: Activists look to Britain for climate leadership as Trump’s win casts long shadow over crucial UN talks

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Every year the climate summit produces a treaty agreed by all countries, and this year’s will focus on the …

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2 months ago

Post-weaning depression 'taking women by surprise' when breastfeeding ends

ABC

Mariana is the first person in her family for four generations to breastfeed. 'Often mislabelled as late-onset postpartum depression' Post-weaning depression, also sometimes referred to as weaning blues, is a "mental health concern that can arise when women are in the process of ceasing to breastfeed their babies", says Astrid S. Tiefholz. Unlike postnatal/postpartum anxiety and depression, post-weaning depression is …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Girl Ultra falls back in love on latest EP ‘Blush’

LA Times

As tourists celebrate the high-end vintage shops, the evocative street art and chic eateries of Roma Norte, one of Mexico City’s trendiest neighborhoods, Mariana de Miguel can’t help but resent its overcrowded nature. Instead of avoiding it altogether, the singer-songwriter, better known as Girl Ultra, frequently faces the streets’ madness to reach what she calls her “oasis” — a small …

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3 months ago

Scientists finally solve mystery of 'alien' noises coming from deepest part of Pacific Ocean

Daily Mail

The Mariana Trench is one of the most mysterious places on Earth. So it's no surprise that unusual sounds coming from the Mariana Trench sparked fears of an alien invasion when they were first recorded back in 2014. Measuring almost seven miles deep, the Mariana Trench sits on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and is so difficult to reach …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories

LA Times

Book Review A Sunny Place for Shady People By Mariana Enríquez. Critics have called Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez a queen of horror, and since the publication of her gorgeous, monstrous novel “Our Share of Night,” fans have turned her into a literary rock star. Her new short story collection, “A Sunny Place for Shady People,” delivers another striking performance. As …

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4 months ago

Man charged with murder after Amazon delivery driver killed in ‘vanjacking’

The Independent

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4 months, 1 week ago

Their job was saving lives. They lost their own in Brazil’s horrifying plane crash

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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “She wasn’t the kind of doctor who would …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese-born athletes fly the flag for adopted countries

China Daily

Zeng Zhiying of Chile in action during her preliminary round match against Lebanon's Mariana Sahakian at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. WANG DONGZHEN/XINHUA If it weren't for the different flags sewn on the athletes' uniforms, some early-round table tennis matches at the Paris Olympics could have been mistaken for a national championship in China. The women's singles match between China's …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese-born athletes fly the flag for adopted countries

China Daily

Zeng Zhiying of Chile in action during her preliminary round match against Lebanon's Mariana Sahakian at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. WANG DONGZHEN/XINHUA If it weren't for the different flags sewn on the athletes' uniforms, some early-round table tennis matches at the Paris Olympics could have been mistaken for a national championship in China. The women's singles match between China's …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

A Strategically Located Tropical Paradise Full of Untapped Potential

LA Times

Often described as “America’s best kept secret,” the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is so much more than the U.S. backdoor to Asia. “The possibilities are endless,” added Sablan, “and we are doing our best to make all great ideas into realities that bring real returns to investors and long-lasting benefits to our community.” One way CEDA has managed …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meet Zhiying Zeng, the China-born Chile's table tennis veteran who incredibly makes Olympic debut at 58 in Paris

Hindustan Times

A 92-year-old father stayed awake until 5 a.m. in China to watch his 58-year-old daughter qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics — a dream he had seen since his daughter was a little girl when he took her for table tennis training. Chile's Zhiying Zeng plays a return to Lebanon's Mariana Sahakian during their women's table tennis singles preliminary round …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Budget boost needed for mission-oriented R&D plan

New Indian Express

It is gradually increasing its presence on the index, signalling its potential. As per the PM’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, “less than 1 percent of the country’s approximately 40,000 higher education institutions engage in research”. Learning from the US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the ANRF should adopt a mission-oriented approach to R&D. Mariana Mazzucato’s mission-oriented …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Saipan surprise: How delicate talks led to the unlikely end of Julian Assange’s 12-year saga

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — About a year and a half ago, a lawyer for Julian Assange presented federal prosecutors in Virginia with a longshot request: Dismiss the case against the WikiLeaks founder. The abrupt guilty plea by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was the culmination of negotiations that began a year and a half ago and accelerated in recent months. About a year …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Saipan, placid island setting for Assange’s last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss

Associated Press

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists — attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf — and the furthermost reach of the United States. “People here have more important things to worry …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why the hearing to free Julian Assange happened on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific

ABC

Julian Assange's long-running legal odyssey has moved around the world, involving high-level negotiations across Australia, the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ecuador. Seven years in an embassy, five years in prison, now Julian Assange looks set to come home Photo shows Younger Julian sat in front of microphones with a banner reading Human Rights in front of him …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty in deal with US to avoid further prison time

China Daily

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-06-26 10:16 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Saipan, on June 26, 2024. WASHINGTON -- Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a single felony count of violating the Espionage Act in federal court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, as part of a deal with US Justice Department to avoid …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty in deal with US to avoid further prison time

China Daily

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Saipan, on June 26, 2024. WASHINGTON -- Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a single felony count of violating the Espionage Act in federal court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, as part of a deal with US Justice Department to avoid further prison time and ending …

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Review: Velázquez’s Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena

Spain's farmers urge EU to drop Mercosur deal

Spain's farmers urge EU to drop Mercosur deal

El fútbol femenino prospera en México siete años después de la creación de la Liga MX femenil

How war tourism is on the rise in Ukraine

Fifth storm in under a month bears down on Philippines

Fifth storm in less than a month bears down on the Philippines

Cop29: Activists look to Britain for climate leadership as Trump’s win casts long shadow over crucial UN talks

Post-weaning depression 'taking women by surprise' when breastfeeding ends

Girl Ultra falls back in love on latest EP ‘Blush’

Scientists finally solve mystery of 'alien' noises coming from deepest part of Pacific Ocean

A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories

Man charged with murder after Amazon delivery driver killed in ‘vanjacking’

Their job was saving lives. They lost their own in Brazil’s horrifying plane crash

Chinese-born athletes fly the flag for adopted countries

Chinese-born athletes fly the flag for adopted countries

A Strategically Located Tropical Paradise Full of Untapped Potential

Meet Zhiying Zeng, the China-born Chile's table tennis veteran who incredibly makes Olympic debut at 58 in Paris

Budget boost needed for mission-oriented R&D plan

The Saipan surprise: How delicate talks led to the unlikely end of Julian Assange’s 12-year saga

Saipan, placid island setting for Assange’s last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss

Why the hearing to free Julian Assange happened on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific

WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty in deal with US to avoid further prison time

WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty in deal with US to avoid further prison time