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He spent 17 days on the run, moving surreptitiously, sleeping in different homes. When Sharaf Obeidat saw security forces surrounding his building, he knew it was over. “They’ve arrested me,” he managed to write on Facebook, before he was hooded, handcuffed and led away. Neither a violent criminal, nor a political dissident, Obeidat is one […]
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There were questions about Ben Roethlisberger after surgery to reattach three tendons to the bone in his right elbow last fall. The Steelers quarterback is providing the answers this summer. It has the Steelers excited about their offense after what Roethlisberger did in his last full season, in 2018, when he led the league with […]
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Nearly three-quarters of older adults with dementia have filled prescriptions for medicines that act on their brain and nervous system, but aren’t designed for dementia, a new study shows. That’s despite the special risks that such drugs carry for older adults—and the lack of evidence that they actually ease the dementia-related behavior problems that often […]
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Travelers from the Netherlands arriving in the United Kingdom will have to self-quarantine for 14 days, the British Transport Minister Grant Shapps announced on Thursday evening. This quarantine obligation takes effect at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday and also applies to travelers from Aruba, France, Monaco, Malta and the Turks and Caicos islands. According to Shapps, […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the travel industry, but Google is trying to help by adding new tools to its travel tools that flag pandemic-related information for users, like local COVID-19 case counts and whether the hotel offers free cancellations. New additions include “travel trends” that show what percentage of hotels have availability and flights […]
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More than 10 times as much plastic has been found in the Atlantic ocean than previously estimated to be there, showing the the world’s plastic problem is likely to be much greater than realised. New measurements of the top 200m of the Atlantic found between 12 and 21 million tonnes of microscopic particles of three […]
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Lions rookie defensive lineman Jashon Cornell appears to have been lost for the season in practice today. Cornell went down with what looked like an Achilles injury today, and Lions head coach Matt Patricia told reporters after practice that Cornell suffered a “pretty serious injury.” That sounds like a torn Achilles tendon, which would end […]
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Dutch rail company NS suffered a loss of 185 million euros in the first half of this year. Without support from the government, that loss would have been over a billion euros, NS said in the presentation of its half-year figures on Friday. More support will be needed for the public transport sector to survive, […]
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Snap knows that people post videos with its augmented reality lenses to multiple platforms, and today, it’s launching lenses specifically to be used on TikTok. The company is partnering with four TikTok stars, including Jalaiah Harmon, who created the Renegade dance, to launch Snapchat lenses that track people’s bodies as they move and change in […]
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A real-life Willy Wonka would have been proud. But residents of a Swiss town got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory malfunctioned. The Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed local reports on Tuesday that there was a minor defect […]
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