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...The choirs, including the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, were on the whole excellent. But the soloists were outstanding....
...Center....
...‘Flags of convenience’ Standing in the street in the loyalist Old Park district of North Belfast, Quintin Oliver looks down the hill to the green copper dome of Belfast City Hall....
...Hills tumbled away towards distant mountains. We rattled over copper-coloured rivers on plank bridges and passed abandoned lunch counters plastered with peeling advertisements for beer....
...When they first met, Garrison was surprised by Shanahan’s youth and her casual demeanour....
...They also contained roughly 1,160 tonnes of copper, enough for 1.6mn home electric vehicle chargers....
...On Capitol Hill on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced pressure over the safeguarding of young users....
...“One reason is that they keep going back to this same failed approach: crackdowns on youth....
...Upstairs, Sunny Hills serves free pineapple cake and tea as an example of omotenashi, the Japanese term for hospitality....
...The country is also a key producer of palladium, which carmakers use to remove toxic emissions from exhaust fumes, as well as platinum, copper and nickel, which are used in the batteries that power electric...
...Salvaging the Biden climate plan There is a scramble under way on Capitol Hill to keep the Biden administration’s emissions goals on track after West Virginia senator Joe Manchin torpedoed the climate centrepiece...
...In the past few weeks, the country’s youth have received a brutal education on what the Taliban are like....
...Industrial metals including copper and aluminium also slid as the election looked set to dash hopes of a climate-focused stimulus package....
...“He should be reaching out across the aisle and bringing his agenda to Republicans, to Democrats to try to make it happen,” says Evan Weber, political director of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led group...
...What else we’re reading The Middle East’s discontented youth The Middle East and north Africa is home to the world’s youngest populations and highest youth unemployment rates....
...Russia banned all Chinese citizens while the US Centers for Disease Control said Japan’s cruise ship quarantine was ineffective....
...It is especially a problem in rural areas: the Pew Research Center estimates that a third of rural Americans do not have broadband at home....
...The Chicago Cultural Center is a very grand affair....
...Violence has flared in provinces such as Kasai, an opposition stronghold, and the Kivus, where as many as 140 rebel groups roam hills dotted with mines....
...From about 1300, the monks of Furness Abbey had been scouring the hills for iron and felling woods for charcoal....
...This underscores that in 2020, Republicans are courting seniors, and Democrats are all about the youth....
...Nasa will live stream the launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:30pm ET....
...As the man intricately drips water from a huge copper jug, I ask him where the beans he has blended come from....
...UK Oil & Gas, a small explorer led by Aim veteran David Lenigas, has issued a statement raising the estimated quantity of oil at Horse Hill in Kent....
...“The message I am seeing is that they are stunned that something like Iguala could derail everything,” said Luis Rubio, a political analyst with the Wilson Center in Washington....
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