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The Dominican Republic has approved a request by a trading firm to export 20,500 gallons of diesel to Haiti for use principally in hospitals, according to letters seen by Reuters, as gangs continue blocking a key fuel terminal in Haiti. Fuel shortages created by the gang blockade have left Haitian hospitals without diesel to power […]
North Korea fired artillery shells late Tuesday into the waters of its coast. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired about 100 shells off its west coast and another 150 shells off its east coast. South Korea called the launches a “clear violation” of a 2018 agreement meant to reduce tensions between […]
WELLINGTON — Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say. None of the stranded whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized in a “heartbreaking” loss, said Daren Grover, the general manager of Project Jonah, a nonprofit group which helps […]
SYDNEY — Australian academics say a project to grow plants on the moon could help feed communities on Earth that suffer from climate-driven weather disasters. The researchers are supporting an ambitious multinational mission that aims to grow plants on the lunar surface within three years. The project is led by an Australian space start-up called Lunaria One. […]
A flight containing some members of the royal family has landed at Aberdeen airport in Scotland ahead of their arrival at Balmoral, according to the UK’s PA Media news agency. Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and Prince Edward and Edward’s wife Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, […]
India and Namibia have signed an agreement to bring cheetahs to the forests of the South Asian country, where the large cat became extinct 70 years ago. According to the agreement signed Wednesday, eight African cheetahs will be transferred from Namibia to India in August for captive breeding at the Kuno National Park (KNP) wildlife […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces and those from Russia are fighting for “literally every meter” in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, while pleading to international partners that Ukraine “needs modern missile defense systems.” In his latest nightly video message, Zelenskyy said Russia’s “key tactical goal” has not changed, with Russian forces also pushing […]
The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing” Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and co-editor and of the off-beat blog Boing Boing, is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon […]
Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the new challenges. Yet, instead of […]
Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is normally expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve complex generative forms in time through […]
