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Even before Sunday's announcement of the crash of a helicopter believed to be carrying the Iranian president, relations between Tehran and the United States had come dangerously close to open conflict. What happens in the coming days — whether President Ebrahim Raisi and other leaders survive, and what Iran claims was the cause of the crash — could determine whether the two countries are able to find a way out of several simultaneous crises .In the long term, the fight that matters most is the one centered on Iran's nuclear program. The program had been largely contained after the Obama administration negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015. But President Donald J. Trump denounced and abandoned the deal six years ago, and eventually the Iran has resumed production of nuclear ...

Overdose deaths in the United States fell slightly last year, the first decline in five years, according to preliminary federal data released Wednesday.The rare good news in the decades-long addiction crisis is attributable mostly to a decline in deaths from synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl, said researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics, who compiled the numbers.But the full picture of the drug death toll remains bleak. Although deaths from opioids have decreased, deaths from stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine have increased. And some states, including Oregon and Washington, continued to see sharp increases in overall overdose deaths.Overall overdoses in 2023 were estimated at 107,543, down from 111,029 in 2022, a decline of 3%. Opioid deaths decreased by 3...

Russia and Ukraine targeted each other's territories on Sunday with drone attacks and airstrikes that hit urban centers and energy facilities, as both sides look for ways to inflict damage beyond the battlefield.The Russian military said it shot down nearly 60 Ukrainian drones over the Krasnodar region in southwestern Russia, which Ukraine has increasingly targeted in recent weeks because it hosts energy and military facilities supporting combat operations .Local Russian officials said an oil refinery was hit in the attack. A Ukrainian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, said Ukrainian drones hit the refinery and a military airfield in the region. Russian officials have not commented on the reported attack at the airport.Ukrain...

As in the United States, TikTok is popular in Taiwan, used by a quarter of the island's 23 million residents.People post videos of themselves buying trendy clothes, dressing up as video game characters, and playing pranks on their roommates. Influencers share their choreographies and discuss whether sticky rice dumplings are better in northern or southern Taiwan.Taiwanese users of TikTok, owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, are also being served the kind of pro-China content that the US Congress has cited as a reason to pass a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in America.A recent example is a video showing a Republican congressman, Rob Wittman of Virginia, stoking fears that a vote for the ruling party in Taiwan's January election would prompt a surge in American arms ...

Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's war cabinet, presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an ultimatum on Saturday, saying he will leave the government if he does not soon develop a plan for the future of the war in Gaza.While Gantz's departure would not overthrow the country's emergency wartime government, the move would further strain a fragile coalition that has provided Netanyahu's far-right government with a boost of international legitimacy, and would make the prime minister once again more dependent on the government. its intransigent partners.“If we choose the path of fanatics, dragging the country into the abyss, we will be forced to leave the government,” Gantz said in a televised news conference. “We will turn to the people and build a government...

Engineers and scientists have an enduring fascination with spider silk. Similar to the typical silkworm silk from which comfortable sheets are made, but much stronger, the material inspired the invention of lighter, more breathable body armor and materials that could make aircraft components stronger without adding weight. Researchers are even using examples from spider webs to design sensitive microphones that may one day be used to treat hearing loss and deafness and to improve other listening devices.Spiders use their webs like huge external eardrums. A team of scientists from Binghamton University and Cornell University reported in 2022 that the webs allow the arachnids to detect sound from 10 feet away.When you hear a sound through your ear, what you're actually experiencing ar...

Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili said Saturday she had vetoed a foreign influence bill that sparked protests and plunged the nation into a political crisis, threatening to derail her pro-European aspirations in favor of closer ties. close with Russia.The Georgian Parliament, which passed the bill in three readings, is expected to override the veto. The ruling Georgian Dream party, which presented the bill, can turn it into law as early as May 28, when Parliament returns to session.Ms. Zourabichvili called her veto “symbolic,” but it nevertheless represents another step in the political conflict between the country's pro-Western opposition, which Ms. Zourabichvili supports, and the Georgian Dream party, which has been in power since 2012.The crisis has highlighted the highly pola...

For the past year and a half since ChatGPT was released, a frightening question has hovered over the heads of major online publishers: what would happen if Google decided to overhaul its main search engine to give greater prominence to generative artificial intelligence – and in would it interrupt our business in the meantime? ?The question speaks to one of the most fragile dependencies in today's online media ecosystem.Most large publishers, including the New York Times, get a significant share of traffic from people who go to Google, search for something, and click on articles about it. That traffic, in turn, allows publishers to sell ads and subscriptions, which pay for the next wave of articles, which Google can then show to people searching for the next thing.The whole symbiotic...

Temiz ve sağlıklı suya erişim, günlük hayatımızın temel bir gerekliliğidir. Suyun kaynağından evimize ya da iş yerimize ulaşana kadar geçtiği süreçte hijyenin sağlanması, sağlık açısından büyük önem taşır. Bu noktada, 8 yıllık tecrübesi ve uzman kadrosuyla TEKDEZ, suyunuzun temizliği ve güvenliği konusunda profesyonel hizmetler sunar. TEKDEZ, dezenfeksiyon ve izolasyon alanlarında geliştirdiği teknik altyapısı ile Türkiye genelinde öncü firmalara hizmet vermektedir. Su Deposu Temizliği - Sağlıklı Su İçin Vazgeçilmez Su depoları, suyun kaynağından kullanıcıya ulaşmadan önce depolandığı yerlerdir. Ancak zamanla bu depolarda mikrop, bakteri ve çeşitli kirleticiler birikebilir. Su deposu temizliği, bu zararlı maddelerin birikmesini engellemek ve suyunuzun temiz kalmasını sağlamak için dü...

At school tables and desks transformed into shelters, wartime vendors lined a street, selling used clothes, baby formula, canned food and the rare batch of homemade biscuits.In some cases, entire aid packages – still decorated with the flags of donor countries and intended to be distributed free of charge – were stacked on sidewalks and sold at prices few could afford.Issam Hamouda, 51, stood next to his meager commercial offering: an array of canned vegetables and beans from a relief carton his family received."Most goods found in markets carry the label 'Not for sale,'" he said.Before the war between Israel and Hamas devastated Gaza's economy, he was a driving instructor. Now, Mr. Hamouda supports his family of eight in the only way he can: by reselling some of the food aid ...