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The first shipment of aid to reach Gaza by sea in almost two decades was fully unloaded on Saturday on a makeshift jetty in the Mediterranean, marking a milestone in a venture that Western officials hope will ease the enclave’s worsening food deprivation.The ship, the Open Arms, towed a barge from Cyprus loaded with about 200 tons of rice, flour, lentils and canned tuna, beef and chicken, supplied by the World Central Kitchen charity.José Andrés, the Spanish American chef who founded the World Central Kitchen, said his team would begin dispatching the food by truck, including to Gaza’s north, an…

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau wants people to step away from the abyss when it comes to climate action.“It’s a very difficult balance,” said the Danish actor, who portrayed Jaime Lannister in “Game of Thrones.” “You want to get people aware, you want to inspire change. But I think we’ve gone overboard by making it into this doomsday.”“It’s exhausting for everyone,” he added. “And it’s not quite true, actually.”In “An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet,” a documentary series from Bloomberg Originals, Coster-Waldau meets with scientists, activists and ordinary folks who have developed ingenious solutions to global issues — things like sargassum that captures…

The New York Giants signed Drew Lock during NFL free agency, giving them a quarterback to compete with Daniel Jones this season. The Seattle Seahawks wanted to bring Lock back, but general manager John Schneider claimed that the Giants promised Lock the opportunity to compete for the starting job in 2024.However, Lock and the Giants maintain that the team made no such assurances to Lock before agreeing to the deal. While meeting with the New York media for the first time, Lock stood behind Jones as the starter for next season.2024 NFL Free Agency: Latest News & Analysis“Daniel Jones is the starter of this team,” Lock said, via…

In brief: A class-action lawsuit against Apple has been slowly progressing over the last five years. The case alleged that Apple CEO Tim Cook misled investors with comments about iPhone sales in China, leading to significant investment losses. Apple has now agreed to settle the lawsuit with a $490 million payout. The case was first brought in April 2019 by the US city of Roseville before being taken over in 2020 by a local council in the east of England. Norfolk Council, on behalf of the Norfolk Pension Fund and other plaintiffs, alleged that comments made in November 2018 were…

Ukraine launched a series of attacks as Russians entered the second day of voting in the presidential election.Ukrainian shelling in the southern Russian city of Belgorod has killed two people and a drone attack caused a fire at a Russian oil refinery south of Moscow, officials have said, while Russian authorities claimed to have thwarted a new attempt by saboteurs to cross the border. Saturday’s attacks occurred as Russians entered the second day of voting in a presidential election that is all but certain to extend Vladimir Putin‘s rule by another six years. A man and a woman died in…

Is your man no longer interested in sex and coming home late every day because their work is ‘busy’? Logically, you might assume they’re cheating on you.But be warned, it could be actually be a sign they’re addicted to porn.That is according to two leading psychotherapists in the field, who have witnessed the poorly-understood compulsion end marriages.Dr Paula Hall, of not-for-profit online therapy programme Pivotal Recovery, said that much like how cannabis acts as a gateway for harder drugs, a porn obsession might potentially send users into spirals.’Many people start with online porn but then progress to chat, webcam, adult hook…

Dear Tripped Up,Last September, my husband and I left our kids with their grandparents and set off to Ireland. Our $2,132 itinerary took us from Minneapolis to Toronto to Dublin on tickets booked on United Airlines through Expedia but ultimately operated by Air Canada, a United partner. We had boarded our connecting flight in Toronto (and I was already dozing in my seat) when the captain announced an operator had crashed the jet bridge into the starboard engine. We were given hotel vouchers and told we would be rebooked for the next day. Checkout time came and went without a…

A new sign went up a few miles from the front line recently on the main billboard of an occupied town in Ukraine’s Luhansk region.“Vote for our president. Together we’re strong,” read the sign in the white, blue and red colors of the Russian flag, according to Anastasiia, a resident.The message was clear to her: That the president was Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, not Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, and that Mr. Putin was the only choice in the Russian presidential vote taking place in the occupied parts of Ukraine over the past three weeks.Mr. Putin long ago transformed Russian…

In Taiwan, the government is racing to do what no country or even company has been able to: build an alternative to Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX.Starlink has allowed militaries, power plants and medical workers to maintain crucial online connections when primary infrastructure has failed in emergencies, such as an earthquake in Tonga and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Officials in Taiwan face constant reminders that its communication infrastructure must be able to withstand a crisis. The island democracy sits 80 miles from China, where leaders have vowed to use force if needed to assert…