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These are the key events on day 1,180 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Monday, May 19: Fighting Russia launched its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, destroying homes and killing at least one woman, a day before United States President Donald Trump is due to discuss a proposed ceasefire with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 273 drones at Ukrainian cities, more than the previous record Moscow had set in February, on the war’s third anniversary. Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said Russia planned to conduct a…
JAKARTA: Indonesia raised the alert level of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki to the highest after it erupted eight times over the weekend, its volcanology agency has said. Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores island in eastern Indonesia, spewed volcanic ash between 3km to 5.5km high on Sunday (May 18), Muhammad Wafid, the agency’s head said in a statement late on Sunday. “Our analysis showed that the activities of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki are still high so we raised the status level starting on Sunday at 8pm,” he said. Images shared by the agency showed clouds of thick grey ash billowing from the crater.…
Test opener Usman Khawaja will again play for the Queensland Bulls next season despite his feud with the state’s head of elite cricket Joe Dawes.Khawaja was furious with Dawes for suggesting that the veteran batsman had “no hamstring issues”, the reason given for him not playing for the Bulls in their final match of the regular Sheffield Shield season in March against South Australia.“Joe Dawes came out the other day and said a few inflammatory things, which was really disappointing to me as a player,” Khawaja said in March.“Joe said the medical staff had no idea (about my hamstring injury).…
Most people aren’t born savvy travelers. It’s something that only comes with on-the-road experience. Travel savviness is a process born of missed buses, foolish behavior, cultural unawareness, and countless tiny errors. Then, one day, you begin to seamlessly move through airports and integrate yourself into new cultures like a fish to water. In the beginning, you’ll make a lot of travel mistakes.But I want to help speed up the process and help you avoid my mistakes (and I often make a lot of them), so I put together this giant list of my best travel tips that cover everything under…
A Los Angeles business owner has found a novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building: playing a children’s song on an annoying loop.”They played ‘Baby Shark’ all night long,” Tracy, a woman who lives in an encampment next door to the building at the corner of West 11th and Main streets, told NBC4 Los Angeles. “They’re doing everything they can to make us move or drive us crazy. But it’s doing the latter. It’s driving people crazy.”The building owners began playing the song through a loudspeaker pointed directly at the encampment, which Tracy told the outlet…
If you’ve ever watched one of my tutorials, you know I’m obsessed with finding ways to edit faster in Lightroom. I want to avoid having to jump to Photoshop just for minor tweaks or small retouching tasks, so I keep looking for ways to apply the same techniques inside Lightroom. Today, I want to share five custom Lightroom preset tools that I created as a way to experiment, and now I can’t imagine working without them. These aren’t your average presets that just provide you with a pre-baked look. They’re more like editing power-ups for your Lightroom editing workflow that…
China’s retail sales growth slowed in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Monday, signaling that consumption remains a worry for the world’s second-largest economy.Retail sales rose 5.1% from a year earlier in April, missing analysts’ estimates of 5.5% growth, according to a Reuters poll. Sales had grown by 5.9% in the previous month.Industrial output grew 6.1% year on year in April, stronger than analysts’ expectations for a 5.5% rise, while slowing down from the 7.7% jump in March, indicating the impact from U.S. tariffs was not as harsh as was being expected.”We should be aware that there…
New Central Bank crypto regulations could effectively outlaw Tether (USDT) trading in Russia, experts have explained.However, they say that the new rules would not preclude Russian firms from using USDT or other stablecoins as payment or settlement tools in cross-border trade deals.USDT Trading in Russia: Under Threat?The media outlet RBC reported that the bank has issued rules ahead of its approval of trading within its crypto sandbox. The rules are set to come into force on May 26.The USDT market cap over the past month. (Source: CoinGecko)The sandbox was established with the view of allowing Russian firms to use crypto…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Bond market mayhem over the past few months has been a boon for investment bankers. Traders are enjoying their highest levels of revenue in over a decade. But the rise of bond vigilantes — investors who theoretically discipline fiscally profligate governments — is also helping the fustier world of retail banking.In theory, lenders’ profitability should be on the way down. Products such as mortgages are often tied to central bank rates, which are falling in the Eurozone and the UK. KBW estimates…
For those who grew up in the 80s or 90s, the continent of Aden is certainly a nostalgic battleground, and fans can revisit it in the official sequel to fantasy role-playing game (RPG) game Lineage, as Lineage2M is set to launch its open beta in Singapore and Malaysia on 20 May! Hailed as the pinnacle of the MMORPG genre, this legendary title carries the collective memories of millions of players worldwide. Developed by the veteran mobile game powerhouse NCSOFT and co-published with NCV Games, Lineage2M reignites the passion for this epic saga that spans 28 years! Since the PC title’s…
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