Portugal pavilion at Osaka Expo

Portugal’s pavilion at the Osaka Expo features an immersive multimedia exhibition with projection mapping on the walls, floor and ceiling to produce a simulation of being underwater, in the ocean. In this room, visitors will see a video with messages about the importance of marine conservation appearing on the walls. The pavilion’s theme is Ocean:…

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Locals notice dusty items in empty lot — and find 500-year-old treasures in Peru

On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, locals stumbled upon some dusty items in a vacant lot. They didn’t know it at the time, but they’d just discovered a cache of 500-year-old treasures. Locals in Puente Piedra district alerted officials about some historic-looking artifacts in an empty lot, Peru’s Ministry of Culture said in an April 7 news release. A joint…

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600 pounds of marijuana stolen from Colorado State Patrol, investigators searching for suspect cars

Colorado State Patrol investigators are searching for suspects after about 600 pounds of marijuana scheduled to be destroyed were stolen from a evidence trailer last week, according to the agency. The theft was discovered Friday morning when an evidence technician was conducting a property walkthrough of the Arapahoe County facility, according to a news release from Colorado State Patrol….

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Andrew Tate allegedly threatened woman with gun in her face, report says

Andrew Tate, the right-wing provocateur accused of rape and sex trafficking in Romania, allegedly ordered a woman into submission as he pointed a gun at her face, according to a new civil lawsuit in which four women accuse the self-proclaimed misogynist of rape, assault and coercive control between 2013 and 2015. The 38-year-old dual U.S. and U.K. citizen allegedly put…

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‘Understaffed as it is’: CT veterans worry about VA cuts under Trump as thousands of jobs at risk

John Alberghini, like many of his fellow veterans, was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. His friend, Ed Mishard, was exposed, too. “We sprayed it out of our helicopter,” Mishard said. “Right on me,” Alberghini replied, laughing. The symptoms of exposure to Agent Orange, a herbicide used by the U.S. military as a defoliant during the Vietnam War,…

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Tuberville slams ‘fake outrage’ of Trump nominee-blocking Democrat who called him a ‘maniac’

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., on Thursday accused a Democratic colleague of being disingenuous for blocking President Donald Trump’s State Department nominees after calling Tuberville a “maniac” for holding up military promotions under Joe Biden’s presidency. “It’s all for show up here,” Tuberville tweeted in response to a story on the holds placed by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “Theatre. Fake outrage.”…

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North Korean hospitals are posting price lists

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Some North Korean hospitals are posting prices for treatment and medicine in a break from past practice that suggests authorities are abandoning the goal of providing free health care, sources in the country have told Radio Free Asia. The communist country’s…

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