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Russian President Vladimir V. Putin arrived in North Korea, according to Russian state media, on a visit for the first time in 24 years after vowing to take ties with Pyongyang to new heights and jointly reject what he called the “global neocolonial dictatorship” of the country. the United States.The North's leader, Kim Jong-un, met with the Russian president on the airport tarmac early Wednesday local time, Russian state news agencies reported.Putin arrived in the middle of the night, stepping off his plane onto a red carpet lined with uniformed guards to embrace the waiting North Korean leader, a video later released by the Kremlin showed. Mr. Kim accompanied Mr. Putin in a Russian-made Aurus limousine that he received from him last year.The war against Ukraine brought Putin closer...

Move over, Microsoft and Apple. The stock market has a new king.On Tuesday, Nvidia leapfrogged two of the tech industry's most storied names to become the world's most valuable public company, according to data from S&P Global. Its rise has been fueled by the boom in generative artificial intelligence and growing demand for the company's chips – known as graphics processing units, or GPUs – that have made it possible to create artificial intelligence systems.Nvidia's rise is among the fastest in the history of the market. Just two years ago, the company's market valuation exceeded $400 million. Now, in the span of a year, it has gone from $1 trillion to more than $3 trillion.Nvidia's stock price rose 3.6% on Tuesday, bringing its value to $3.34 trillion. Both M...

Israel said the daily partial suspension of its military activity in part of southern Gaza, which began this week, aims to make it safer for aid groups to deliver aid to the territory. Here's a look at how the pause works and whether aid workers believe it can ease the suffering of civilians that the United Nations says is bordering on famine:What did the ad say?The army said Sunday it had suspended operations during daylight hours in parts of southern Gaza, responding to claims by aid groups that active fighting often prevented them from distributing food. The policy applies to a seven-mile-long strip of southeast Gaza surrounding a major road stretch. It does not include coastal areas from which Palestinians have fled since Israel began its invasion of the southern Gaza city of Ra...

Lesa Walton had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for years. “It was terrible,” said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. “I kept getting sicker and sicker.”She also had high blood pressure and was obese. Doctors told her to go on a diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail.Then she found a doctor who prescribed Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs. Not only has she lost more than 50 pounds, she said; Her arthritis resolved and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure.Her new doctor, Dr. Stefie Deeds, an internist and obesity medicine specialist in private practice in Seattle, said Ms. Walton exemplifies a growing movement in obesity medicine.Proponents call it “obesity first.” The idea is to treat obesity with drugs approved for that use. As obesity come...

It is expected to be another scorching summer, with extreme and prolonged heat waves expected in many parts of the United States and Europe.The sweltering conditions could impact millions of travelers and devastate holidays in some of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Numerous heat-related deaths among tourists were reported in Greece and Saudi Arabia in June following extreme temperatures in the Middle East and Aegean regions. Even those who have booked trips to traditionally cooler locations may not be spared from the summer heat due to the increasing unpredictability of weather patterns.Here are some tips on how to handle high temperatures when traveling in a hot area.Check government guidanceIf a heatwave is expected in your destination, check government websites bef...

After years of organizing Amazon workers and pressuring the company to bargain wages and working conditions, two major unions are teaming up to challenge the online retailer.The partnership was made permanent by voting that concluded Monday after members of the Amazon Labor Union, the only union formally representing Amazon warehouse workers in the United States, voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters , which has 1.3 million members. The vote was overseen by Amazon's union.The ALU scored a surprise victory in a Staten Island warehouse election in 2022. But it has yet to begin bargaining with Amazon, which continues to dispute the election results. Leaders of both unions said the affiliation agreement would put them in a better position to ch...

The United States on Monday imposed new sanctions aimed at cutting off weapons, supplies and funding to the Iran-backed Houthis, who control much of Yemen and have struck commercial vessels in the Red Sea to show support for Palestinians in Gaza.“The United States remains determined to use the full range of our tools to stop the flow of military-grade materials and funds from the sale of raw materials that enable these destabilizing terrorist activities,” Brian E. Nelson, Under Secretary of the Treasury Department for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement. The sanctions were imposed on two individuals and five entities that facilitated the procurement of weapons for the Houthis, as well as on one individual, one company and one ship that contributed to the shipment of ...

On a busy day at the Kwapong Health Center in rural Ghana, Beatrice Nyamekye inserted contraceptive implants into the arms of half a dozen women and gave eight or nine others a three-month hormone injection to prevent pregnancy. Some were looking for condoms or birth control pills, but most wanted something longer lasting.“They especially like the implants and injections,” said Ms Nyamekye, a community health nurse. “It frees them from worry and is private. They don't even have to discuss it with a husband or partner.The uproar at the Kwapong clinic is echoed throughout Ghana and much of sub-Saharan Africa, where women have the lowest rate of access to contraception in the world: only 26% of women of reproductive age in the region use a modern contraceptive method. – something othe...

Russian President Vladimir V. Putin will travel to North Korea for a two-day visit starting Tuesday to meet with a major arms supplier for his war against Ukraine.As the war dragged on, Russia found itself in desperate need of conventional weapons, including artillery shells, which North Korea could provide.Here's some background on what's happened so far and why it matters.What do we know about previous weapons shipments?The United States first accused North Korea of ​​selling artillery to Russia as early as September 2022, seven months into the war. North Korea denied the allegations at the time.Then, last August, the White House warned that Putin and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, were holding arms negotiations, and in September, Kim visited Putin in eastern Russia. A f...

Ryan Selkis, a cryptocurrency executive, was dining at Mar-a-Lago last month when he received an unexpected invitation: Former President Donald J. Trump wanted him to come on stage and say a few words.Selkis, who runs crypto data firm Messari, was one of about two hundred attendees at an event celebrating Trump's series of non-fungible tokens, the digital collectibles known as NFTs. As he reached the lectern, Mr. Selkis turned to the former president.“There are 50 million cryptocurrency holders in the United States,” the executive said. “That's a lot of voters.”This message has become a political talking point in the cryptocurrency world, as the industry tries to shake off a wave of scandals and establish itself as a powerful force in the 2024 election cycle. Three major crypto f...