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US embassy staff in Sudan evacuated in 'fast and clean' operation amid fighting — abcnews — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Foreign nationals to be evacuated from Sudan — ground.news: 133 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

At least 21 killed as Somalia battles jihadis in remote area — ground.news: 35 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, U.S. leak reveals — ground.news: 11 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Kenya cult deaths: 21 bodies found in investigation into 'starvation cult' — ground.news: 164 sources — 24 April 2023 (LINK)

Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military, Stockholm think tank says — ground.news: 20 sources — 24 April 2023 (LINK)

Russia's Medvedev warns Moscow will scrap grain deal if G7 bans exports — ground.news: 15 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Russian billionaires see wealth rise to over half a trillion dollars, Forbes Russia reports — ground.news: 24 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Japan ruling party candidates to win four of five by-elections, NHK reports — ground.news: 11 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Bed Bath & Beyond files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will liquidate — axios — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19 for third time — ground.news: 37 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Thailand issues 'don't go out' warning as heat index hits record 54C — ground.news: 51 sources — 23 April 2023 (LINK)

Wastewater analysis indicates coronavirus wave in Switzerland around Zurich — swissinfo — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Rare big tornado near Myanmar capital kills 8 — ground.news: 36 sources — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Research on 2,400 languages shows nearly half the world's language diversity is at risk — phys.org — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Global Reserves Held in US Dollars Fell to Less Than 50% — Official States It Has Become a 'Toxic' Currency — news.bitcoin.com — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Sudan death toll rises to 413, World Health Organization says — ground.news: 4 sources — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Singapore plans to hang man over conspiring to smuggle 1kg of cannabis — taipeitimes — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Breakthrough at-home cancer test boasts 90% accuracy — thebrighterside — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Elon Caves, Gives Blue Checks Back to Twitter's Biggest Celebs — thedailybeast — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Elon Musk's Dad Says His Son's Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine — futurism — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

Doctors reveal the first sense people lose when they are hours from death: hunger, thirst, speech, vision, finally hearing and touch — mirror.co.uk — 22 April 2023 (LINK)

UN reports 'off the charts' melting of glaciers — ground.news: 28 sources — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

news.un.org: Human, economic, environmental toll of climate change on the rise: WMO — (LINK)

rappler.com: Pace of rise in global sea level has doubled — UN climate report — (LINK)

news.un.org: Human, economic, environmental toll of climate change on the rise: WMO — (LINK)

Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui named 2023 IPI–IMS World Press Freedom Hero — ipi — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

A game changer for CERN: new visitor and education centre, Science Gateway, due to open this autumn, will welcome up to half a million people each year. — cerncourier — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

10 members of same family dead in mass shooting in S. Africa — ground.news: 60 reports — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

!American tourists overrun French capital for a glimpse of Netflix scenery of 'Emily in Paris' — fortune ● — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

GOP leader, who voted to expel 'Tennessee Three,' resigns following report of workplace harassment — CNN — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

Do JWST's results contradict the Big Bang? Full discussion — bigthink.com — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard was arrested in Florida, authorities said. — aol — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

Twitter scraps 'government-funded media' tag on public broadcasters — orilliamatters.com — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

news.un.org: Human, economic, environmental toll of climate change on the rise: WMO — (LINK)

ground.news: 56 reports: UN's weather agency: 2022 was nasty, deadly, costly and hot — ((LINK)

— For the first time in history no snow survived the summer melt season on Switzerland's glaciers. Last year was close to but not quite the hottest year on record, ranking fifth or sixth hottest depending on measuring techniques.

rappler.com: Pace of rise in global sea level has doubled — UN climate report — (LINK)

A game changer for CERN: new visitor and education centre, Science Gateway, due to open this autumn, will welcome up to half a million people each year. — cerncourier — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

Do JWST's results contradict the Big Bang? Full discussion — bigthink.com — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

!American tourists overrun French capital for a glimpse of Netflix scenery of 'Emily in Paris' — fortune ● — 21 April 2023 (LINK)

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to follow through with $5 million payment to expert who debunked his false election data — CNN — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

Current climate polices 'a death sentence' for the world, warns Guterres — news.un.org — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

UN chief to convene meeting to work on way forward on Afghanistan — reuters — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

Cern entices authorities over gigantic collider with green arguments — genevasolutions.news — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

Yemen stampede during charity distribution kills 85 — ground.news: 279 reports — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

Github: EcoHabit is a web app project that aims to create awareness of the environment and help people build environmental friendly habits. It will visualize users' habits by tracking their activities (recycling, commuting, eating, etc.) and encourage them to improve their habits with better alternative options. It also targets to be users' go–to place to find the closest recycling locations and give them clear instructions about how to divide and recycle each material. — source — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Interpol Arrests 14,000 in Latin America Gun Raids, Seizes $5.7 Billion in Drugs — afp / news18.com — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Costa Rica's president presented a set of security measures in response to surging crime rates in the Central American country, which is currently on track this year to beat 2022's record murder rate — ground.news: 10 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

A federal judge in Miami handed down a 15-year prison sentence Wednesday to the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela’s national treasurer — ground.news: 18 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Seagate to pay $300 million penalty for shipping Huawei 7 million hard drives — ground.news: 16 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Macron booed by angry French after signing pensions reform — ground.news: 43 reports — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

Researchers said they have discovered that parts of the brain region called the motor cortex that govern body movement are connected with a network involved in thinking, planning, mental arousal, pain, and control of internal organs, as well as functions such as blood pressure and heart rate — ground.news: 16 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

— They identified a previously unknown system within the motor cortex manifested in multiple nodes that are located in between areas of the brain already known to be responsible for movement of specific body parts — hands, feet and face — and are engaged when many different body movements are performed together.

The researchers called this system the somato-cognitive action network, or SCAN, and documented its connections to brain regions known to help set goals and plan actions.

This network also was found to correspond with brain regions that, as shown in studies involving monkeys, are connected to internal organs including the stomach and adrenal glands, allowing these organs to change activity levels in anticipation of performing a certain action. That may explain physical responses like sweating or increased heart rate caused by merely pondering a difficult future task, they said.

"Basically, we now have shown that the human motor system is not unitary. Instead, we believe there are two separate systems that control movement," said radiology professor Evan Gordon of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature.

"One is for isolated movement of your hands, feet and face. This system is important, for example, for writing or speaking — movements that need to involve only the one body part. A second system, the SCAN, is more important for integrated, whole body movements, and is more connected to high–level planning regions of your brain," Gordon said.

Germany says Patriots delivered to Kyiv — ground.news: 15 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Russia accuses Ukraine of sabotaging grain deal with bribery scheme — ground.news: 12 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Russian hackers targeting Western critical infrastructure, UK says — ground.news: 48 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Sudan's paramilitary RSF agrees to 24-hour ceasefire: It was not immediately clear whether the Army would announce its own commitment to the ceasefire — reuters /thehindu — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Thousands flee Sudan capital following collapse of truce — ground.news: 16 reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Dominion CEO Defends Fox News Settlement Decision, Says "All Of The Facts We Had Discovered During The Case Had Already Come To Light" — deadline.com — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Fox faces similar defamation case from Smartmatic after Dominion settlement — cnbc — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

Police and marines in Mexico's capital have arrested an alleged senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang who is wanted in the United States for extortion, drug distribution and terrorism-related charges — ground.news: reports — 19 April 2023 (LINK)

West Africa faces acute food shortages with thousands near famine, say UN agencies — ground.news: 17 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

'Almost impossible' to provide aid in Sudanese capital, IFRC says — reuters — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

'Still a lot of people dying': WHO warns Covid pandemic remains volatile: In the last 28 days, more than 23,000 deaths and three million new cases have been reported to the World Health Organization — ground.news: reports — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

Alphabet Loses $57 Billion Amid Reports Of Samsung Replacing Google With Microsoft's BingChat — mashable — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

European villages in Spain, Italy and France already facing another year of extreme drought — euronews — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Caribbean leaders agree on plan to ban assault-style weapons — ground.news: 7 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Swiss charge Gambia ex-minister with crimes against humanity — APs — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Coronavirus leak from Wuhan lab was 'unintentional', reveals US Senate report — ground.news: 4 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

El Niño is coming, and ocean temps are already at record highs — that can spell disaster for fish and corals — theconversation — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Biodiversity targets may be slipping out of reach — study — BBC — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by parliament's sleaze watchdog over allegations of a possible failure to declare the shares held by his wife in a childcare agency boosted by the recent Budget — ground.news: 5 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Irish climber Noel Hanna,56, who had climbed Mount Everest 10 times, dies on Nepal's Annapurna — usatoday — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Woman, 20, fatally shot by upstate NY homeowner after pulling into wrong driveway: sheriff — nypost — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Brazil's Lula condemns invasion of Ukraine, touts peace initiative — ground.news: 16 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Catchup: US should stop 'encouraging' war in Ukraine, says Brazil's Lula — ground.news: 52 reports — 15 April 2023 (LINK)

Putin visits Russian-controlled Ukraine to discuss war with senior general — Kremlin — reuters — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Fox and Dominion settle for US$787.5m in defamation lawsuit over election lies — Guardian — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Rupert Wins Again: the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business — politico ← — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

UK, US sanction art dealer with suspected ties to Hezbollah — ground.news: 33 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

'Disney Outsmarted DeSantis Again' Over Development Dispute, Attorney Says — Newsweek — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Kuwait crown prince says reinstated parliament to be dissolved, elections held — ground.news: 21 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

After Ghana, Nigeria regulator grants approval to Oxford's malaria vaccine — ground.news: 15 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

China calls US accusations of police stations 'groundless' — ground.news: 43 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Swiss bank held nearly 100 Nazi-linked accounts, senators say — axios — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

— Credit Suisse downplayed the findings, saying that the AlixPartners probe showed that the SWC's claim that "many" names on the Argentinian list held accounts at the bank didn't hold up.

How to leverage your skills in the post-knowledge AI economy — weforum — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Almost 200 dead, 1,800 wounded in Sudan battles: UN — ground.news: 103 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Myanmar junta pardons 3,000 prisoners to mark Buddhist New Year — ground.news: 69 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Kuwait crown prince says reinstated parliament to be dissolved, elections held — ground.news: 21 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Taliban close education centers in southern Afghanistan — ground.news: 17 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Iran Makes Fresh Push to Force Women to Wear Hijab — ground.news: 15 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

After Ghana, Nigeria regulator grants approval to Oxford's malaria vaccine — ground.news: 15 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Nuclear waste powered battery lasts for thousands of years — thebrighterside — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Suspicions of corruption: the European Parliament reviews the lobbying rules for former deputies — ground.news: 4 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Australian charged over reports to suspected Chinese spies — ground.news: 25 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

F.B.I. Arrests Two on Charges Tied to Chinese Police Outpost in NYC — nytimes ● — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

China's economy grew 4.5% in the first quarter, the fastest pace in a year — cnbc — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

GOP megadonor Harlan Crow isn't charging Clarence Thomas' mother rent. Zillow estimates suggest that would have saved her $155,000 since 2014. — Business Insider — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

France bans Basel football fans from Nice to prevent clashes — ground.news: 4 reports — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for 3 months over information breach — ground.news: 53 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

F.B.I. Arrests Two on Charges Tied to Chinese Police Outpost in NYC — nytimes ● — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Australian charged over reports to suspected Chinese spies — ground.news: 25 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

China's economy grew 4.5% in the first quarter, the fastest pace in a year — cnbc — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years: The former journalist denies the charges against him, which are linked to his anti-war comments — source — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Uganda's junior finance minister charged with corruption offences — ground.news: 13 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)

Flights disrupted as Nigerian aviation workers strike over pay, conditions — ground.news: 21 reports — 17 April 2023 (LINK)