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handwritten on slide, “N. Side, Dock Gravel Pit" date stamped on slide December 1962

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The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union members, passed with the support of 164 nations, including France and the UK. The United States was the only nation to vote against it.

The US voted against it because of woke, obviously.

Fortunately for you, XScreenSaver can accurately reproduce a Mercator Globe, amongst other cursed projections.

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PANAMA-STAD (ANP) - Het Panamakanaal is vrijdag begonnen met het beperken van het aantal schepen dat de belangrijke vaarroute kan gebruiken. Door droogte als gevolg van het weerfenomeen El Niño staat het water in de twee kunstmatige meren die het kanaal voeden te laag.

Het aantal schepen dat dagelijks door het kanaal mag, wordt geleidelijk teruggebracht van 36 naar 32 halverwege september. Panama heeft om El Niño de noodtoestand uitgeroepen.

Ook Honduras en El Salvador kampen met ernstige droogte en hebben de noodtoestand afgekondigd. De huidige El Niño wordt naar verwachting de krachtigste sinds vergelijkbare metingen ongeveer veertig jaar geleden begonnen.

Het Panamakanaal verbindt de Atlantische en de Grote Oceaan en verwerkt ongeveer 5 procent van de wereldwijde handel over zee. Ongeveer 40 procent van het Amerikaanse containervervoer gaat door het kanaal.

Ook in 2023 leidde El Niño tot beperkingen. Toen werd het aantal dagelijkse doorvaarten op een gegeven moment teruggebracht tot 22.

Arnold Dix, an Australian engineer and geologist who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, says finding two workers alive in Trishuli 3A ‘gives us hope’

There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”.

Nine days after the deadly floods, two workers were pulled out alive from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal.

Girl bands from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand are going global with their fusion of traditional and modern sounds

“We all know that music is a universal language,” says Maloi Ricalde from Filipina girl band BINI, which mixes tropical pop with traditional songs, English with Tagalog, and silver knee highs with pastel colours.

“Incorporating Filipino language, Filipino culture, Filipino sound, into our music, it really gives identity and meaning to our music,” Ricalde tells the Guardian.

The activist said her two years studying and travelling in country ‘made me who I am’

• ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes

• Gloria Steinem: A life in pictures

When Gloria Steinem’s plane touched down in Bombay in 1957, she could not have known that her stay in India would become what she later called a “pivotal, life-dividing event [that] made me who I am”.

She was 22, with a degree in government from Smith college and was travelling on a Chester Bowles fellowship.

The Israeli army had helped plan the delivery of food aid on 1 April 2024, but things went wrong from the beginning and ended in seven deaths

• Exclusive: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

On the evening of 1 April 2024, a team of aid workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) stood on Gaza’s Mediterranean shore overseeing the unloading of a barge full of desperately needed food on a makeshift jetty made of sand and rubble.

The Gaza war had been raging for six months and Israel’s closure of land crossings had left the whole territory facing the threat of famine. WCK and local Palestinian contractors had constructed the jetty out of everything they could lay their hands on, including debris from the bombed house of one of the contractors, so that the pallets of humanitarian assistance could be delivered by boat from Cyprus.

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic

• Death on the road to Rafah: the night the IDF targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers

Seven aid workers killed in an airstrike in Gaza were marked as targets under an Israeli military practice of establishing guilt by association, a Guardian investigation shows.

A top Israeli military prosecutor announced last month that he would not pursue criminal proceedings for the April 2024 incident in which drones fired missiles at three clearly marked World Central Kitchen (WCK) cars soon after they had escorted a food aid delivery to Gaza. Three British humanitarian workers along with an Australian, a Palestinian, a Pole and a dual US-Canadian national were killed.