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- The 73-year-old **incumbent**, who is supported by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance coalition, has campaigned under the slogan “Modi’s guarantees”, emphasising welfare schemes that benefit hundred of millions of Indians.
- Germany’s ability to attract business investment suffered an “alarming” decline last year, when more than €135bn of foreign direct investment flowed out of the country and only €10.5bn came in, according to a leading economic institute.
- Tasnim news agency, which is close to Iran’s elite
Tasnim news agency, which is close to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, reported the explosion. Isfahan is home to a major base for the Iranian military.
- A Boeing engineer said on Monday that extensive testing had shown “zero” evidence of fatigue stress in the composite materials that make up its 787 jet, two days before a **whistleblower** is due to testify to the US Congress about what he has described as “catastrophic safety risks” in its manufacturing.
- The departure of Lee, the son of Singapore’s founding leader
The departure of Lee, the son of Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, also raises expectations for a consequential general election that could be held as soon as this year.
- Taylor Swift has reinstated her music on TikTok, putting her at odds with her own record label, Universal Music, which went to war with the social media group in February, muting her songs and the rest of its vast catalogue from the platform.
- Mexican officials said on Thursday
Mexican officials said on Thursday that they had filed a complaint at the International Court of Justice, the UN’s top court, asking the organisation to suspend Ecuador pending a public apology for the raid last Friday on the Mexican embassy, in which officials captured Ecuador’s former vice-president, Jorge Glas.
- Just be stronger than yesterday,
face your fear and wipe your tears.
- She has fond feelings for her Alma Mater.
- These two brands of milk powder which is better?
- **terminal building**
- Uber has reported its first annual operating profit, marking an “inflection point” in the tumultuous history of the ride-sharing company and sending its shares to fresh highs.
- The US’s budget deficit is set to soar by almost two-thirds over the next 10 years, from $ 1.6tn to $ 2.6tn, Congress’s independent fiscal watchdog has warned, as higher interest rates weigh on the government’s finances.
- Opinion polls suggest that parties of the nationalist and far right could win almost a quarter of the seats in June’s elections to the European parliament. Forecasts of a significant shift to the right in Europe therefore seem well placed. Yet we should be wary of treating the pan-continental far right as a homogenous bloc or of being too confident in judging its ability, after the vote, to shape and disrupt the usual business of the European legislature.
- BHP said the Australian government’s intervention to save the country’s nickel industry “may not be enough” as a write-off in the value of its nickel operations drove a near 90 per cent drop in first-half net profit.
- Israel’s cabinet has discussed restricting access for some Muslims to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during Ramadan, in a move that further inflames tensions during its war with Hamas, especially with the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
- Russian officials have refused to tell Alexei Navalny’s family the probable cause of his death or whereabouts of his body, which the late opposition activist’s team claims is a Kremlin-orchestrated cover-up.
- Walmart said prices for some of its products did not decline as much as it had anticipated during the most recent quarter, reflecting the sticky inflationary environment in the US that is prompting investors to reassess when the central bank will start cutting interest rates.
- For foreign visitors, the warm hospitality of Mongolia’s centuries-long **nomadic** tradition is alive and well in 2023.
- Israel imposed a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, mobilised a record 300,000 **reservists** and pummelled the Hamas-controlled enclave by air as the Palestinian militant group threatened the lives of dozens of hostages.
- Under the new rules, promoting crypto assets to UK customers without approval can result in an unlimited fine, and potentially up to two years **imprisonment**. They apply to all companies, whether based in the UK or abroad.
- Janet Yellen has warned Iran that nothing is “off the table” if Tehran is linked to this week’s militant attacks on Israel, even as the US Treasury secretary stressed that no decisions had been taken on economic sanctions.
- A Trump spokesperson said the decision was “an absolute **abomination** and another partisan knife stuck in the heart of our Democracy by Crooked Joe Biden”.
- JPMorgan is predicting that the euro will fall to parity with the US dollar by the end of this year, as the war in the Middle East threatens to push up the price of Europe’s imported energy and higher borrowing costs weigh on eurozone growth.
- “We are risking a palm oil 2.0 situation with deforestation for nickel mining,” said Mighty Earth senior director Amanda Hurowitz, referring to the havoc wrought to the environment by intensive farming of palm oil, a key ingredient in everything from **deodorant** to pizza.
- If you haven’t heard that financial storyteller extraordinaire Michael Lewis has a new book out, on the rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX founder and alleged fraudster **extraordinaire** Sam Bankman-Fried, then you probably don’t spend an awful lot of time on the internet.
- Yoon said on his social media account that he was "greatly honored" to be nominated for the award with Kishida.
- A U.S. foundation said Tuesday it will honor South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for their efforts to improve relations despite historical issues.
- Having wide contacts with local people, I’ve generally found the personality of Hangzhou people to be mild. Compared to native Beijingers, who are somewhat stubborn in their characters, willing to fight to the end with someone they don’t get along with, Hangzhou people rarely have direct conflicts with others. First of all, their tone of voice is not so “blasting”, and it offers narratives that are normally suggestive and trustworthy. If things do not work out, they may say, “Sir, let’s reconsider some other ways?”
- The perception of a place may be quite different from the perspectives of sightseeing and permanent residence. Previously, I had visited Hangzhou several times as a tourist: its feel, however, bore no comparison with what I am experiencing now as a long-term contract professor who is acquainted with a large number of his students, colleagues and friends. In other words, now I can really get to the bottom of the place.
- The new rules give the federal government the power to negotiate lower prices for some of the most expensive prescription drugs produced by Pfizer, Merck and other pharma companies purchased by Medicare, the taxpayer-funded healthcare system for retirees.
- The US government named 10 of the best-selling drugs as the first to face tough price regulations in a bid to slash healthcare costs, marking the biggest shake-up for the pharmaceutical industry in decades.
- The survey of FTSE 350 company secretaries, due to be published on Tuesday, found that almost a quarter believed increased reporting requirements were reducing the time available for boards to hold strategic discussions “to a large extent”.
- South Korea has no other choice but to accept Japan's decision to discharge contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea "as a responsible member of the international community," Seoul's oceans minister said Thursday.
- Fishermen and residents of Fukushima Prefecture are preparing a lawsuit to demand that Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the government stop releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean. The lawsuit will be filed on Sept. 8 at the Fukushima District Court, with about 100 people expected to sign on as plaintiffs, lawyers for the plaintiffs said at a news conference on Aug. 23.
- The videos show rural sites, including the corn fields and the yard where Sanxi Grandpa lives and the typical Gobi landscape of Northwest China.In some videos, he turns into a Chinese swordsman standing in front of a Gobi landscape from the images of a farmer working on a corn field with a farm tool on his shoulder.
- Short videos about the life of a 67-year-old man nicknamed "Sanxi Grandpa", who lives in Yongdeng county in Northwest China's Gansu province, went viral recently on Douyin, a short-video platform known in the West as TikTok.
- Salmijanov has enjoyed a warm welcome in China, with fans eager to pose for selfies alongside him.
- The 24-year-old middle-distance runner from Estonia boasts over 2 million followers on Chinese social media platform Douyin, with his posts about the games attracting thousands of likes and comments.
- Richard Moriarty has been appointed the new head of the UK’s accounting watchdog, as it seeks to introduce significant reforms in the wake of a series of corporate scandals.
- Facebook owner Meta is preparing to launch a range of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that exhibit different personalities as soon as next month, in an attempt to boost engagement with its social media platforms.
- Rhythm Li, a 21-year-old university student, also chose to escape the "beauty duty" and got a buzz cut a couple of weeks ago.
"I was so excited that something that had been holding me back was cut off," she said.
But she was "very nervous" about how her mother might react.
"I also went straight from long hair to short hair in junior high school, and my mum had a 'cold war' with me for two weeks," Ms Li said.
- A propaganda poster from the 1970s shows images of working women.
During the early years of the People's Republic of China, masculine female images were frequently praised in film, literature and government propaganda.
And women who tried to polish their looks were often stigmatised and called "bourgeois".
But since China began opening up in the late 1970s, Western culture has influenced the communist standard of female beauty.
In today's China, women are supposed to be fair-skinned, young-looking, and slim.
Celebrities and social media influencers have played a big role in promoting this standard.
According to a Deloitte report, the market for cosmetic surgery in China is now the "fastest growing in the world", with an expected market value of more than 350 billion yuan ($71 billion) by 2025.
Shen Hsiu-hua, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University, has extensively researched women's rights in China.
She said the "male gaze" was widespread and it had a long and profound impact on Chinese women.
Dr Shen said it was a "very important" reason for the rebellion of young feminists.
"Under this gaze, women lose their freedom," she said.
"I think it took a lot of courage for them to express themselves differently."
**'Buzz cut girls' and social pressure**
- “**Past Lives**” is a single released for **BØRNS**' debut studio album *Dopamine*. He feels that he and his lover have possibly already met in a previous life, suggesting their souls have gone through reincarnation – a religious and philosophical belief that the soul can begin a new life in a new body after biological death.
- For a thousand miles, clouds are tinted yellow in the setting sun’s glow;The northern wind buffets the wild geese in the heavy snow.Don’t worry about not meeting an intimate on your way;Of you, who in the whole world doesn’t know?
- US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry is on a three-day visit to China from Sunday during which he met with high-level officials, including China's Special Climate Envoy Xie Zhenhua.
- **Farewell to a Lutist**
Yellow clouds spread for miles and miles have veiled the day,The north wind blows down snow and wild geese fly away.Fear not you’ve no admirers as you go along!There is no connoisseur on earth but loves your song.
- However, if one applies energies of millions of electron volts, nuclear reactions, fission and fusion, and the processes of radioactivity occur; our elementary particles then are protons, neutrons, and electrons.
- Dopamine is known as the feel-good neurotransmitter—a chemical that ferries information between neurons. The brain releases it when we eat food that we crave or while we have sex, contributing to feelings of pleasure and satisfaction as part of the reward system.
- Central banks must accept the “uncomfortable truth” that they may have to tolerate a longer period of inflation above their 2 per cent target in order to avert a financial crisis, the deputy head of the IMF has warned.