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Middle East oil exporters are racing to build pipelines to bypass the straight-of-ormous
“where shipping has stalled amid the U.S. Iran war launched in February.”
NPR's Jane Raff reports, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says the straight-of-ormous will become irrelevant in the next two years as new pipelines are built, but that's not how energy analysts see it. The irrelevant is way too strong and overstated. That's Robert McNally, a former energy advisor in President George W. Bush's administration.
He and others say it will take several years for the biggest project since Saudi Arabia and Iraq to be finished, and that pipelines will still be in firing range of Iran. And they say pipelines won't solve the problem of transporting liquid natural gas, or shipping commodities such as fertilizer, where disruptions have already led to higher global food prices. Jane Raff and Pair News, Aman.
The effects of artificial intelligence on learning are still largely unclear, but education
Secretary Linda McMahon says, "With guardrails, AI can be a useful tool." "I have seen it work so well in the introductions that I've seen." McMahon's speaking there to CNN, and as technology plays a bigger role in the classroom, the education department has issued guidance for teachers, including preserving human-centered teaching.
In Nevada, around 14,000 homes in the Reno area have been forced to evacuate, as a brush fire has grown to more than 10,000 acres and approaches city center. Reno's mayor says some structures have already burned, Richard Edwards, fire chief of trucking meadows fire and rescue, says others may be forced to flee the hawk fire and should prepare.
“"Make sure to have your important documents, your medications, your pets, clothing, everything”
ready to go." Some 400 fire fighters are battling the blaze that's being fueled by high winds and drive vegetation. Today marks 100 days since the Ebola outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Michael Coloky reports doctors without borders is warning the disease is still spreading
at an alarming rate. In a statement, doctors without borders said that many people are dying from the disease without receiving medical care, adding that areas outside Congo'satory province, the epicenter of the outbreak, have witnessed a rapid rise in infection cases. According to the aid agency, Ebola treatment centers in the Central African nation urgently
require healthcare workers who are trained to deal with the disease. Meanwhile, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Gibriesus, has called for increased surveillance of the disease and improved access to healthcare among affected
“communities as part of efforts to contain the outbreak.”
For NPR News, a Michael Coloky in Nairobi. This isn't here news. Europe is heating faster than anywhere on earth and it's helping feed wildfires this summer, including in former battlegrounds. As Villa Mark's reports, that's unearthing a potentially deadly threat.
Occasionally in towns and cities that once faced heavy bombardments during World War II, construction teams on earth, decades-old ordinances that require bomb disposal specialists to close off entire neighborhoods to safely remove them. But in recent months, with sustained high temperatures and raging fires across the landscapes of Western Europe, rusty bombs and mines that date from the 1910s through the Cold War
now further threaten the lives of firefighters as they work to beat back the flames. As the fires clear out scrub and brush that long-help burial, munitions the bombs sometimes ignite. Blast of so far been reported from southwest France and all these Germany, no one has been injured.
The NPR News on Villa Mark's. For Americans, aged 45 and older, the rate of dying from alcohol used is up by about 30% since 2014, according to new federal data. It peaked in 2021, but today's rate is still higher than pre-pandemic. Deaths are around 2.5 times higher in men, but they're up in women too.
Gallup says overall, Americans are drinking at record low levels, just over 50% as younger Americans say they are much less likely to consume alcohol. It's day two of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, as China aims to showcase its dominance in advanced robotics. So far, organizers say the robots have broken two human records in the 100 meter dash and the
high jump. Others have been less successful, tripping, falling breaking apart even, catching on fire. This is NPR News.
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