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Viktor Orbán has sought to mobilize support for his brand of right-wing populism. He urged spectators to help him “occupy Brussels” in European Union elections this summer. The nationalist leader drew a sharp contrast between his country and the “Western world”. There is heightened political tension in Hungary following the resignation in February of the president.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

In New York, Irish immigrants and the Irish diaspora was once one of the most politically powerful voting demographics. In Italy and Israel – representative of the state’s large Jewish population – Ireland was the third “I” that top politicians would traditionally visit and pay tribute to if they wanted to succeed in New York politics.
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2 years ago Read more at City & State New York

Unraveling this hefty slice of pi required the equivalent computing power of hundreds of thousands of smartphones. The value of pi is equal to the circumference of a circle (the distance around its edge) divided by its diameter. It means you can figure out the circumferential of any circle if you know its diameter or radius (half the diameter) or vice versa because we know the value.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific Update 2024 was successfully held in Hong Kong. Nearly 75 leading industry experts were invited to speak at the conference. As one of the fastest-growing hotels globally, H World ranks sixth in terms of the number of hotel rooms.
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2 years ago Read more at PR Newswire

A group of writers announced Thursday that they are pulling out of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, citing the organizer’s inaction over the war in Gaza. The writers criticized literary nonprofit PEN America for failing to issue reports detailing attacks on Palestinian writers.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

The ship, operated by the Spanish aid group Open Arms, left Cyprus on Tuesday towing a barge laden with food sent by World Central Kitchen. It could be seen off Gaza's coast Friday morning. Israel has been under increasing pressure to allow more aid into Gaza.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC New York

“Whack World” is a debut mixtape as compact as it is brilliant. It’s mesmerizing, but it scans as a preview for a climactic release that never came. The safeguards and hypotheticals can be cast aside with the release of “World Wide Whack”. Whack’s stylistic genetics snap into focus from the jump.
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2 years ago Read more at Variety

Europe is staking its claim to be the world’s digital cop. Following last year’s Digital Services Act, comes the Digital Markets Act (DMA) The DMA went into effect on March 7 and has the much broader goal of combating unfair competition and preventing market dominance by so-called digital “gatekeepers” Europe has become a testing ground for the future of digital markets.
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2 years ago Read more at Hollywood Reporter

The worldwide mortality rate for kids younger than 5 years was slashed in half in 2022 compared to the turn of the century. Child mortality was even higher in 1990, when 13 million children under 5 died. By 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, that number hovered around 4.9 million.
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2 years ago Read more at Vox.com

McDonald’s Corp. has been hit by a system outage that appears to have started in the Asia-Pacific region. The issue rippled from Japan to Australia, New Zealand and several European countries. Social media users in the UK had reported being unable to place orders online on Friday morning.
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2 years ago Read more at Fortune