# NuseReal

Breaking nuse

US Embassy in Kyiv shuts down after receiving warning of 'significant' Russian air attack. — 20 November 2024 (LINK)

Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai trial. — 20 November 2024 (LINK)

Palestinian journalist Iyad Alasttal awarded PEC 2024 prize. — 20 November 2024 (LINK)

NATO holds large Arctic exercises in Russia's backyard. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Wired: Anyone can buy data tracking US soldiers and spies to nuclear vaults and brothels in Germany. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Residents in Haiti's capital fight alongside police in a battle to repel the latest gang attack: at least 28 suspected gang members were killed and hundreds of munitions were seized. — 19 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 33 media reports (LINK)

SpaceX's Starship completes sixth test flight with Trump in attendance: SpaceX faced technical challenges preventing the booster stage from being captured by the launch tower's 'chopstick' arms. Despite a failed booster landing, Starship's upper stage completed a partial orbit and splashed down in the Indian Ocean after about an hour. — 19 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 222 media reports (LINK)

Other headline news that internationalists can use

UN prepares to vote on Gaza truce with US plan still up in air. — 20 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 9 media reports (LINK)

UNESCAP conference calls for renewed, bold efforts to make gender equality commitments a reality in Asia and the Pacific. — 20 November 2024 (LINK)

UN Force in Lebanon says four Ghanaian peacekeepers wounded, Israel blames Hezbollah rockets. — 19 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 10 media reports (LINK)

Iran has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, UN says. — 19 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 76 media reports (LINK)

Ahead of the final round of negotiations for a global plastics treaty scheduled to run from 25 Nov.to 1 Dec. in Busan, Korea, a new report puts it bluntly: "Despite the manifest benefits of plastics, plastics pollution now threatens the environment, food security, and human health." — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

— A study published in March found that half of patients with asymptomatic cardiovascular disease had microplastics in their carotid artery plaque and were at higher risk of a heart attack, stroke and death in the next three years than those who did not. A similar correlation has been found between the presence of microplastics in feces and inflammatory bowel disease. In the lab, microplastics can be deadly to human cells.

— "It's important to note here, correlation does not prove causality."

Miscellaneous nuse

Higher energy bills push UK inflation to 6-month high in October. — 20 November 2024 (LINK)

Trump nominates Dr. Oz to run medicare. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Trump picks Linda McMahon, former wrestling executive, to head Department of Education. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Nestle to cut costs, boost marketing under new CEO. — 19 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 21 media reports (LINK)

Italy recovers Etruscan artifacts worth $8.5 million bound for black market. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Wired: Anyone can buy data tracking US soldiers and spies to nuclear vaults and brothels in Germany. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

9 animals that have gone extinct during your lifetime (if you are over 50). — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Ancient Aztec death whistle had a terrifying effect on the human brain, University of Zurich study finds. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

— A team from the University of Zurich examined the skull-shaped artifacts, uncovering how the Aztecs may have used sound as a psychological tool during their most sacred and brutal rituals. When blown, the death whistle produces a sound so unsettling that listeners today describe it as "extremely chilling and frightening." Unlike any musical instrument we know in modern times, these whistles create a sound that eerily mimics a human scream — a calculated design that seems purposefully horrifying. "The whistles have a very unique construction, and we don't know of any comparable musical instrument from other pre-Columbian cultures or from other historical and contemporary contexts," says lead researcher Sascha Frühholz in a university release.

Portugal wins World Cheese Awards as UK misses out due to post-Brexit customs. Swiss cheeses 2nd and 3rd. — 18 November 2024 (LINK)

— It's a soft and buttery sheep's milk cheese from Portugal, made by Quinto do Pomar in the Serra da Gardunha in the centre of the country that has been named the best in the world. The cheese topped the charts (86 points) at this year's World Cheese Awards, which was held in Viseu, northern Portugal, beating two Swiss cheeses: Tea Fondada (84 points) and Alpenhorn Mifroma (84) — coming in second and third place, as well as Spanish and American cheeses (La Cava Barus García-Baquero and Bayley Hazen Blue, which rounded off the Top 5). Awards 2025 in Berne 13-15 November 2025, for first time in Switzerland (German link)

Agenda

European Launch of the Ecological Threat Report 2024: 19 November 1230-1430, hybrid. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) Annual General Meeting: 18-20 November 2024, Palais des Nations. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)

— This year's theme is Redefining Mining: Balancing the Need for Minerals with Protecting People and the Planet.

UN Climate Change Conference Baku - 11-22 November 2024. (LINK)

WTO General Council special meeting on 28-29 November to advance the process for selecting the next Director-General. — 12 November 2024 (LINK)

Gaza cultural heritage on show in Geneva in 'Patrimony in Peril' exhibition at Museum of Art and History: 5 October-9 February2025— 5 October 2024 (LINK)

— The artefacts are from a collection of more than 530 objects that have been stored in crates in a secure warehouse in Geneva since 2007, unable to return to Gaza. The exhibition, which runs until February 9, also includes artefacts from Sudan, Syria and Libya. It was staged to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

Musica ex Machina: an exhibition about algorithmic music: EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, till 29 June 2025 — (LINK)

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