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Seeking to capitalize on outrage over Sunday's Israeli attack that set fire to an encampment and killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, including children, many U.N. Security Council diplomats this week are backing a new resolution that would call for a halt immediate fire and the halt to Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah.But they will have to overcome objections from the United States, which has veto power over the Council and has signaled it will not support the resolution in its current form.Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current composition of the Security Council, drafted and circulated the one-page resolution, which states that “Israel, the occupying Power, will immediately stop its military offensive and any other actions in Rafah." We call for ...

Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a new method of couple therapy based on emotional attachment, challenging what had been the dominant behavioral approach – the idea that behaviors they are learned and therefore can be modified. on April 23 in Victoria, British Columbia. She was 76 years old.Her death, in hospital, was caused by a rare form of melanoma, said her husband, John Douglas.As divorce rates increased in the 1970s, couples therapy flourished. Drawing from traditional psychotherapeutic practices, therapists focused primarily on helping troubled couples communicate more effectively, deepen their education, and “negotiate and bargain,” as Dr. Johnson puts it, over contentious issues like parenting , sex and household c...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken suggested on Wednesday that the Biden administration might be willing to tolerate attacks by the Ukrainian military inside Russia using American-made weapons, saying the United States will “adapt and adapt” the their position based on changing conditions in the country. the battlefield.Blinken said the United States neither encouraged nor allowed such attacks. But he said Ukrainians must make their own decisions about how to best defend themselves — a position he has stated before — and that the U.S. government has “adapted and adjusted as needed” as the war has evolved.When a reporter asked him if his words “adapt and adapt” meant that the United States might support Ukraine's attacks with American-made weapons inside Russia, he replied: “Adapt a...

A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county commissioner, urging them to oppose the re-election of the county’s sheriff.He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner.He also posed as a fictional New York City heiress he called Jessica, tricking an adviser to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office into divulging improper conduct by the department.“And boy, did he ever spill ALL of the beans,” Mr. Dougan said in a written response to questions for this article, in which he confirmed his role in these episodes.Those subterfuges in the United ...

US officials said Tuesday that the Israeli attack that killed dozens of Palestinians in southern Gaza was a tragedy but that it did not violate President Biden's red line to hold back arms shipments to Israel.The bloodshed came after Biden warned earlier this month that the US would block some arms transfers if Israel targeted densely populated areas of Rafah – a warning that has been tested regularly with the progress of the war.John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, said the deaths were "devastating" but that the scale of the attack was not enough to change American policy. “We don't want to see a big ground operation,” Kirby told reporters. "We didn't see it."Israeli tanks were on the outskirts of the city "trying to put pressure on Hamas," Kirby said. He also offered a ...

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook: sweet sensors on the tip, salty on both sides, sour in the back, bitter in the back.But the idea that specific tastes are confined to certain areas of the tongue is a myth that "persists in the collective consciousness despite decades of research debunking it," according to an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine. The concept that taste is limited to the mouth is also wrong.The old diagram, used in many textbooks over the years, originated in a study published by David Hanig, a German scientist, in 1901. But the scientist wasn't suggesting that the various tastes are separated on the tongue. He was actually me...

"Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!" hundreds of people sang at the top of their lungs.An eight-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese flew down a hill. Seconds later, a waterfall of two dozen people fell behind it. The first person to reach the bottom of the hill, which is so steep that it's nearly impossible to stay upright while running down, wins.The cheese hunting competition, one of the most distinctive traditions in England, if not the world, dates back to at least the early 1800s, according to local lore. While it's unclear why the race began (some say it had to do with grazing rights on the land or a fertility ritual), today people come from all over the world to see or personally participate in the race. 'event.Thousands turned out at Cooper's Hill in southwest England ...

A two-hour drive from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, rows of solar panels stretch to the horizon like waves on an ocean. Despite having nearly limitless oil reserves, the kingdom is embracing solar and wind energy, partly in an effort to maintain a leadership position in the energy sector, which is vital to the country but rapidly evolving.Gazing at more than 3.3 million panels, covering 14 square miles of desert, Faisal Al Omari, CEO of a recently completed solar project called Sudair, said he would tell his children and grandchildren to contribute to Saudi's energy transition Saudi. “I'm really proud to be a part of it,” he said.While oil production remains a crucial role in the Saudi economy, the kingdom is turning to other forms of energy. Sudair, which can light 185,0...

Fluctuating disease rates, innovative treatments and talk of “moonshots” at the White House could make cancer seem like a modern plague. But a new discovery sheds light on how humans dealt with disease and sought cures as far back as ancient Egyptian times.Scientists led by Edgard Camarós, a paleopathologist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, were studying an Egyptian skull about 4,600 years old when they found signs of brain cancer and its treatment.“There was an uncomfortable silence in the room, because we knew what we had just discovered,” Dr. Camarós said.Using a microscope, he and Tatiana Tondini of the University of Tübingen in Germany and Albert Isidro of the Sagrat Cor University Hospital in Spain, the study's other authors, found cut marks around the edges...

House Republicans on Tuesday accused officials at the National Institutes of Health of orchestrating “a conspiracy at the highest levels” of the agency to hide public documents related to the origins of the Covid pandemic. And lawmakers vowed to expand an investigation that uncovered emails in which top health officials spoke openly about trying to evade federal records laws.The latest allegations — which come just days before a House committee is expected to publicly question Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a former top NIH official — represent one front in a growing push by lawmakers to connect American research groups and the country's leading medical research agency with the onset of the Covid pandemic.So far this push has produced no evidence that American scientists or health officials ha...