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Last week, Europe recorded over 29,000 new deaths, said Hans Henri P. Kluge, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Europe said during a news briefing on Thursday. However, over the past week, the U.S. has seen approximately 8,720 new coronavirus deaths, according to data from The New York Times. This is approximately 3.3 times lower than the weekly death rate in Europe. Europe has also seen more death at a daily rate....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky formally applied to join the EU just the day before, asking for fast-track admittance due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which entered its sixth day on Tuesday. Ukraine has long aspired to be a member of the EU, but its desire to be part of Western institutions, such as the EU and NATO, has put it on a collision course with Russia, which wants to retain Ukraine in its orbit....

The survey is diagnostic of the mood in Europe after President Donald Trump tested trans-Atlantic alliances over his four years in office. “Our survey showed that Europeans’ attitudes towards the United States have undergone a massive change. Majorities in key member states now think the U.S. political system is broken, that China will be more powerful than the U.S. within a decade, and that Europeans cannot rely on the U....

But Watts was just the beginning: in dozens of cities, race riots (so severe in Detroit in 1967 that the president had to send in the 82nd Airborne); LSD-dropping college students calling cops “pigs” and taking over college-administration buildings; Yippie leader Jerry Rubin telling kids they needed to be prepared to “kill your parents.” By the end of the decade Johnson was in exile, and America, it seemed, had become a strange dystopia, decadent and almost prerevolutionary in its feverish discontent....

Nearly early every morning of these Games, on my way into the Main Media Center, I have been offered eternal victory. On the corner of 200 South and West Temple, somebody who is already a winner forever will hand me a leaflet. On the cover, as if it’s being lowered from heaven, is a gold medal hovering over a well-greened mountain range. “The Truth Is Coming!” it says. “You have come to a place in your life where you must now make a decision....

The video, recorded at Lewis’ Portsmouth, Ohio show on Thursday, was surfaced by attorney Ron Filipkowski and has been seen over 616,300 times. The clip is just shy of two minutes, but a much longer video of what Lewis said is available on YouTube. In the clip, Lewis addresses the Russia-Ukraine war, and suggests that people should listen to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “You know, as fed up as it sounds, maybe we should listen to what Vladimir Putin is saying....

You may remember — like you could possibly forget — LeBron James’ incredible block on Iguodala late in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals. With the score tied at 89 late in the fourth quarter, J.R. Smith took a swipe at Iguodala’s fastbreak layup attempt, giving James the extra second he needed to come out of nowhere and pin the ball against the glass. Kyrie Irving later followed with a clutch 3-pointer, and Kevin Love somehow stayed in front of Stephen Curry on the ensuing possession to preserve the lead....

An agreement was finally made after the Ever Given’s Japanese owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd., reaching a settlement with canal authorities over a compensation amount following weeks of negotiations and a court standoff. Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd. said the ship would undergo a dive surgery in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Port Said, before resuming the voyage and delivering the cargo aboard. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

Golson, a fifth-year senior who transferred from Notre Dame, beat out redshirt junior Sean Maguire in what Fisher called a close competition. MORE: FSU among Hayes’ top 15 programs all time | Top 25 conference games for 2015 “I think the skill sets (between Golson and Maguire) are a little bit different,” Fisher said in a press release. “That’s the other thing which allows us to move the ball with where we are right now as an offense....

It’s nothing really, just what looks like an elderly Everton fan picking his nose then wiping the findings on the head of a nearby woman. As if potentially wiping a booger on someone was disgusting enough, the way in which he wipes the head of the lady is about as creepy as creepy can get. But this is the point in the story where we tell you this may be too good to be true....

The 30-year-old England international was detained by police on Sunday before being taken to hospital and Everton have confirmed that the player is now receiving care. How much is Ronaldo worth? A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: “Police were called at around 4.35pm on Sunday, April 30, 2017 to reports of a concern for the welfare of a man on Eccles Old Road. “Officers attended and a 30-year-old man was detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for assessment....

The catchy acronym, of course, stands for “Wet A** P****” and, while it has already been streamed more than 57 million times on Spotify and climbed all the way to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 songs, such a visceral description of women’s anatomy and female pleasure has caused outrage among some listeners. With “WAP” came the sort of moral outrage of old, led mainly by conservative voices. Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, responded to critics in an interview with I-D....

Food waste has a huge impact on the environment. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), around 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year. “Food losses represent a waste of resources used in production such as land, water, energy and inputs,” it said. “Producing food that will not be consumed leads to unnecessary CO2 emissions in addition to loss of economic value of the food produced....

The letter was signed by the bipartisan group of female senators and led by Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, whose office sent it to Newsweek. In the letter, the senators state that U.S. “disengagement” from Afghanistan risks “hard-won gains for Afghan women and girls.” They note that last year, roughly 3.5 million Afghan girls were attending school, and 100,000 women were enrolled in universities. They add that in 2020, women were elected to senior government roles and the Afghanistan Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry “reported over 1,000 female entrepreneurs emerged”...

Should the season get underway as planned and continue without disruption, football will nevertheless look different due to the absence of a lot of familiar faces. As part of the agreement the NFL and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) reached last week, players are allowed to opt out for the 2020 season either because they’re deemed at high risk of developing complication from coronavirus or because they voluntarily choose to sit out the upcoming campaign....

On the April 16, 2022 episode of SNL, Lizzo becomes the first musician of the year to join the club, and the second of the season overall after Billie Eilish. Like the tradition of the “five-timers club,” the origins of the host-musical guest go back to the NBC show’s earliest years. Coincidentally, the first person to pull double duty on the series was also the first five-timers club member, Paul Simon....

Viewers probably know to expect a lobotomy or two, but graphic violence saturates the entire first season. And to serve those who have a morbid curiosity in the series but who want to know when to avert their eyes, we’ve assembled a list of every gory and gross development, and when they happen. Warning: Major spoilers ahead for Ratched, along with some grisly details that are sure to make your stomach turn....

She knew she shouldn’t. But maybe just this once it wouldn’t hurt. After all, what had she eaten that day, a few figs and dates? And it looked so good. And she was so hungry. Thus it was that Eve-the first woman with a food problem-ate the apple. Sure enough, the heavens roared their displeasure, Paradise collapsed around her and no woman has been able to feel safe around food ever since....

During the Warner Bros. presentation at this year’s CinemaCon—held in Las Vegas, Nevada through April 28—Barbie is set to be released into theaters on July 21, 2023. The film also stars Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Simu Liu and Kate McKinnon and Greta Gerwig is directing. She, along with her husband Noah Baumbach wrote the script. Robbie is also credited as a producer. Posted to social media on April 26, fans got a first look at Robbie as the main character in an appropriate pink convertible with a white and blue striped get up with a matching polka dot headband in front of a pink backdrop....

In a statement issued on Twitter and Instagram, Navalny said he was following the advice of his doctors, who warned he could die at any minute if he continued to refuse meals while serving a two and a half year prison sentence. “The doctors that I completely trust yesterday issued a statement that we have achieved enough for me to end the hunger strike. And to be honest, their words that ‘very soon there will be no one to treat’…deserve attention,” Navalny wrote in the translated post....