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Russians make mass cash withdrawals amid internet shutdowns and transfer controls
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (314+ words) Problems with online payments and ATMs have pushed citizens to withdraw record amounts over the past three months Between May 1 and 11 " a period marked by the Labor Day and Victory Day long weekends " Russians withdrew 210. 5 billion rubles, or about $2. 9 billion,…...
Secrets, UFOs, and smokescreens: Why Washington is obsessed with extraterrestrials
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (420+ words) The release of documents on unidentified phenomena ordered by Trump is the result of activists, politicians, and military figures who have been pushing for years to end what they denounce as a "truth embargo" In Washington at the moment there…...
A red star in the sky over the banlieue of Paris
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (716+ words) EL PA'S English Street vendors and market stalls begin to pack up by mid-afternoon on Saturday. In the narrow streets there is the smell of roast lamb and on the terraces locals from the neighborhood, retired laborers, and third-generation immigrants…...
Fear of ICE can be deadly: The murdered migrants too scared to report abuse
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (320+ words) Victims of domestic violence are unprotected in the United States. The fear of being deported keeps them from going to the authorities as was the case for two murdered Cuban women On April 28, at about 2: 00 a. m. , Garrido knocked on a neighbor's…...
Catastrophists versus accelerationists: Will AI destroy the world or save it?
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (468+ words) Academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book that the technology could lead to our extinction. Is there reason to believe them? At the other extreme are the boosters, or accelerationists, who take the opposite view: the…...
Kim Aris, son of imprisoned Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi: "The world seems to have forgotten her
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (673+ words) In an interview with EL PA'S, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's youngest son denounces the lack of credible information about his mother's whereabouts On April 17, the government of Myanmar (formerly Burma) announced a reduction in the 27-year prison sentence imposed…...
Toby Muse, author: "We live in a world that Pablo Escobar could never have imagined
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (363+ words) The author of "Kilo," a seminal book on the machinery that fuels drug trafficking, analyzes the failure of the war on drugs and Trump"s intervention in the fight against the cartels Question. The war on drugs has been going…...
Miguel D'az'Canel, the steward of the remains of the Cuban Revolution
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1238+ words) EL PA'S English Miguel D'az-Canel grows emotional, raising his fist before hundreds of left-wing activists from Europe and Latin America gathered at Havana's convention center, as seen in a video recorded days before a shipment of humanitarian aid arrived, while…...
The desperation of Cubans, trapped between Trump and the regime: "How can you resist when you have nothing?" | International
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (509+ words) The Cuban government is digging in its heels in the face of the overwhelming offensive from the United States, becoming increasingly disconnected from its citizens It's midday and the bread still hasn't arrived in one of the neighborhoods of central…...
Toby Muse, author: "We live in a world that Pablo Escobar could never have imagined" | Culture
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (363+ words) The author of "Kilo," a seminal book on the machinery that fuels drug trafficking, analyzes the failure of the war on drugs and Trump"s intervention in the fight against the cartels Question. The war on drugs has been going…...