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Abdul El-Sayed Wins High-Stakes Democratic Primary in Michigan
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Kemi Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine says Conservative leader has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
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A former neo-Nazi activist who was convicted of harassing a Jewish MP has withdrawn as a Conservative election candidate after Kemi Badenoch offered him a role as an adviser to the party.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine said on Wednesday that he had withdrawn from next year’s local elections, and that the Conservative leader had instead asked him to become an adviser to her party’s culture and integration commission, where he will specifically focus on how young men become radicalised.
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Candidate who dropped out beats Trump’s pick in a battleground GOP House primary
Pakistan's ruling party leads in Kashmir vote despite boycott call by banned group
Candidates backed by twice-elected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party have won 24 of the 34 seats decided in the first two phases of voting, the election commission, said Wednesday.
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One Night Only review – sex is legal for 12 hours a year in bizarre romcom
‘What if The Purge was for premarital sex?’ is the odd, gimmicky elevator pitch for this slickly made yet ungainly oddity that can’t quite get past the grimness of its conceit
Going into a romcom, there are always the same questions. Will there be genuine chemistry? Will the rom and the com be equal in parts? And, for the last decade and change, will this be the one that finally resurrects a genre long past its prime? But for Universal’s glossy late summer offering One Night Only, notably the first wide-releasing romcom since April, there are more probing questions than usual. The film is the ungainly result of a four-cocktails-in elevator pitch which imagines a world where single people are only legally allowed to have sex on one night of the year, an idea that has seen it been referred to as “Sex Purge”.
On paper, it’s the set-up for a grim Handmaid’s Tale-adjacent horror of a totalitarian state insisting extreme control over the body, but instead it’s used as the backdrop for a sunny meet-cute, screams of protest drowned out by a zippy Top 40 soundtrack. One sits down wondering not just if boy will end up with girl but also how the government would be able to enforce such tyranny and what horrifying punishments lay in store for those willing to pick personal freedom over state-mandated abstinence. If it sounds like far too much for a breezy summer romp to take on, then that’s because it most definitely is, an overstuffed yet undercooked soufflé that can’t quite, ahem, rise to the occasion …
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Ночные атаки на Россию: пятеро погибших в Подмосковье, пожар на складе Wildberries в Ленинградской области
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Сшивка кадров с микроскопа: как собрать большое изображение из видео
Рассматривать предметный образец под микроскопом — всё равно что пытаться увидеть концертный зал через замочную скважину: в поле зрения попадает только небольшой фрагмент, а общей картины не видно.
Поэтому предметное стекло постепенно перемещают под камерой, а система записывает видео и собирает отдельные кадры в одно большое изображение, которое можно сохранить и использовать для исследования. Сделать это простым наложением кадров нельзя: во время движения они могут смазываться, освещение меняется, а похожие участки легко перепутать. Мы сравнили несколько подходов к совмещению соседних кадров.
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What to Know About the ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria That Killed 7 People in the U.S.
Vibrio vulnificus, a type of “flesh-eating” bacteria, has killed at least seven people in Louisiana and Florida—prompting U.S. health officials to caution beachgoers about wading in warm coastal waters where the bacteria thrive.
The Louisiana Department of Health said on Aug. 6 that five residents died this year because of Vibrio vulnificus infections, and four others were hospitalized. All nine cases were associated with wounds exposed to seawater, the health department said, and all patients had underlying health conditions.
The bacteria has also killed two people in Florida, state health officials there said. At least 14 people in Florida have contracted the bacterial disease this year. Florida’s health department hasn’t provided additional details, including how the people became ill.
Vibrio vulnificus is part of the Vibrio genus of bacteria, a group of water-loving pathogens that includes the bug that causes cholera. Vibrio vulnificus infections are much rarer than cases of cholera globally, but they’re much more likely to be fatal. About 1 in 5 people who are infected with Vibrio vulnificus die, sometimes within a day or two of becoming sick, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
How do you get a Vibrio vulnificus infection?
Vibrio vulnificus can sicken people in different ways. Most commonly, the pathogen is consumed through raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters, says Valerie Harwood, a professor of biology at the University of South Florida who studies the bacteria. “Oysters prefer the same salinity of water as Vibrio vulnificus,” she says, “and since oysters are filter feeders, they pull water and microorganisms into their [digestive] tract, and the bacteria get concentrated in their tissue.”
Vibrio vulnificus can also infect open wounds; for example, if someone with an open cut waded into waters infested with the bacteria, they could contract the disease. Once in the body, the “flesh-eating” pathogen can travel under the skin along fascia, the connective tissue that surrounds every part of the body, and cause tissues to degrade and die, or necrotize. This type of infection is known as necrotizing fasciitis, and in severe cases, can result in amputation or death.
The infected person will often get an “extremely hot and painful wound, but you might not be able to see it initially because it’s under the skin,” Harwood says.
Ingesting Vibrio vulnificus can cause diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and other symptoms of food poisoning. In people with weakened immune systems, the infection could spread to the bloodstream and be life-threatening.
Wound infections tend to be more lethal, Harwood says. People who are elderly or have certain underlying medical conditions, including liver disease, diabetes, or cancer, are at greater risk of severe disease, the CDC says.
“If you go in the water and 8 or 24 hours later, your leg hurts and feels hot, go to the doctor right away,” Harwood says.
How to prevent a Vibrio vulnificus infection
In light of the recent deaths, U.S. health officials have urged people, particularly beachgoers in locations where Vibrio vulnificus flourishes, to take precautionary measures to avoid getting sick.
The Louisiana Department of Health recommends that people with open wounds on their body, including new piercings, scrapes and cuts, to stay away from warm salt and brackish coastal waters, such as the Gulf of Mexico, until the skin is healed.
Harwood says she personally would even avoid wading in such waters a day or two after shaving her legs in case of micro-tears on the skin. “I’m not even a germophobe or anything,” she says. “I just don’t want to risk any exposure.”
Harwood also offers advice that shellfish-lovers may have a hard time swallowing: “Don’t eat raw oysters in the summer,” she says.
Vibrio vulnificus flourishes when waters are warm. (The bacteria also love the warmth of the human body.) They can also live in colder waters, but their populations shrink under those conditions, Harwood says. Eating raw oysters during cooler months or oysters that have been harvested in colder waters, such as on the western coast of the U.S., could be safer, Harwood says. She also recommends that people wear gloves when shucking oysters to avoid getting cut and risk being exposed to the bacteria.
“Washing oysters won’t help,” she adds, though cooking shellfish kills the pathogen. The Florida health department recommends that people boil shucked oysters for at least three minutes, or fry them in oil for at least 10 minutes at 375°F.
Vibrio vulnificus infections are rare globally. In the U.S., about 150 to 200 cases of the disease are reported every year, according to CDC data—most of them in Florida and other Gulf Coast states. Climate change, however, is expected to increase the prevalence of Vibrio vulnificus in the U.S. and around the world.
In 50 years or so, Vibrio vulnificus infections are projected to be present in every Eastern U.S. state because of global warming, according to a 2023 study in Nature. Similarly, a paper published in March 2026 found that cases of Vibrio vulnificus infection are rising in Northern Europe “alongside warming coastal waters.”
Vibrio vulnificus “used to be seen as a very rare infection, but it is becoming a huge problem now, especially with the heatwaves in the summertime, and the growing popularity of year-round sea bathing,” Yaovi M. Gildas Hounmanou, an infectious-disease expert and co-author of the 2026 study, told Gavi, the global vaccine organization, in a May interview.
There is currently no Vibrio vulnificus vaccine for people, though researchers are exploring potential options. People who suffer serious infections are treated with antibiotics. However, says Harwood, “if Vibrio vulnificus gets into your bloodstream and causes sepsis, sometimes there is nothing doctors can do.”
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Former world champion Joseph Parker cleared to box again after failed dope test
‘My provisional suspension is lifted and I’ll be back soon’
British board of control confirms news but with no details
The former heavyweight world champion Joseph Parker said on Wednesday that he had been cleared to fight again after failing a dope test last October. The 34-year-old New Zealander, who held the WBO title from 2016 to 2018, had denied taking a prohibited substance but risked a two-year ban.
Parker failed the voluntary test on the day he fought and lost against Britain’s Fabio Wardley. Reports at the time indicated that he had tested positive for traces of cocaine.
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Похоже, мы проспали рубеж в 3 ТВт солнечной энергетики
Тут такая забавная ситуация получается. Похоже, мировая солнечная энергетика уже перешагнула отметку в 3 ТВт установленной мощности, но при этом до сих пор никто не может точно сказать, в какой именно день это произошло ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Abdul El-Sayed’s win proves change is possible for Democrats. His next fight may determine their future
If the progressive wins Michigan’s general election, it could redefine the 2028 presidential contest. If he fails, the establishment will call him a cautionary tale
In the final stretch of the state’s Democratic primary for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed challenged voters at a small event in rural Michigan to think about the message they could send the rest of the country when they cast their ballots.
“Who are we? Who do we want to be?” El-Sayed said. “Do we want a state that’s defined by how much money corporations brought in to tell us what we couldn’t have? Or do we want to be a state where we demonstrate to the rest of the country what’s possible when you build a movement of, by, and for the people?”
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Activist who rallied around a datacenter moratorium will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November
William Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer who foregrounded his support for a datacenter moratorium, has won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s seventh congressional district in a victory for progressives.
Lawrence was a co-founder of the youth-led climate justice organization the Sunrise Movement, the group that in 2018 mainstreamed calls for a Green New Deal to battle economic injustice while rapidly phasing out planet-warming fossil fuels. The 36-year-old defeated Bridget Brink, a former US ambassador to Ukraine and Slovakia, and Matt Maasdam, a former US Navy Seal and military aide to Barack Obama.
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Abdul El-Sayed’s win proves change is possible for Democrats. His next fight may determine their future
If the progressive wins Michigan’s general election, it could redefine the 2028 presidential contest. If he fails, the establishment will call him a cautionary tale
In the final stretch of the state’s Democratic primary for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed challenged voters at a small event in rural Michigan to think about the message they could send the rest of the country when they cast their ballots.
“Who are we? Who do we want to be?” El-Sayed said. “Do we want a state that’s defined by how much money corporations brought in to tell us what we couldn’t have? Or do we want to be a state where we demonstrate to the rest of the country what’s possible when you build a movement of, by and for the people?”
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At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 injured in another round of deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for more air defence weapons, saying ballistic missile interceptors ‘could have saved the lives of those killed today’. For months, Ukraine has been warning about shortages after Donald Trump backtracked on his promise to let Ukraine manufacture missiles locally. In response to the attack, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen said ‘Russia must pay’ – but will it?
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Under China's new 'unity' law, Tibetans fight to preserve language and culture
A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet.
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