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In 1996, just 20 years old and with a brand-new career as a press photographer, in a run-down restaurant on the shores of Lake Baikal, in the southern region of Siberia, a woman read Alberto Giuliani's hand and told him that he was going to die. before turning 45.Three years later, this time in the Indian holy city of Vrindavan, a Brahmin - a Hindu priest - named Mr. Sharma, to whom Giuliani had rented a room, wanted to give him a parting gift: a hand reading. The future that the Hindu priest saw written on them impressed the Italian: “You will find the love of a rich woman, whom you met in your childhood. She will already have two children and together you will conceive a third, ”said the brahmin. “You will know how to give until you let everything go away. On a hot day in your 43 ...

Drafting BBC World News17 minutesImage source, Getty ImagesCaption, In recent weeks the price of bitcoin has reached all-time highs.If bitcoin were a country, it would consume more electricity per year than Finland, Switzerland or Argentina, according to an analysis by the Center for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge (CCAF).This happens because the process of "mining" the cryptocurrency - using gigantic servers that do not stop working - consumes a lot of energy.According to the researchers, bitcoin mining uses about 121.36 teravatios-hour (TWh) of electricity per year, a record that has a strong impact on the environment and surpasses a long list of countries.The issue returned to debate after Elon Musk, through its electric car company Tesla, reported the purchase of...

Coronavirus.- Pfizer and BioNTech start a global clinical trial to evaluate their vaccine in pregnant women The beginning of the trials of AstraZeneca in under 16 years old and that joins other como Moderna, Pfizer o Sinovac has opened a question that is overdue in the rush to protect the most vulnerable: Should boys and girls be vaccinated? A question that, however, does not have a firm response that sets the chair and that it is not subject to a possible modification in the future. Is w...

When I was a kid, I was what you would call a JRR Tolkien fan. I read The Lord of the Rings over and over again. I walked through the field, imagining it was Middle Earth. With just a flight of imagination, you could be comfortable in the Shire, exploring the mines of Moria or even flitting through the forests of Lothlórien.When the first Lord of the Rings movie finally came out, I was 14 years old and very excited to see it. But immediately, I noticed something distressing: no one on the screen looked like me. The darkest characters on the screen, the orcs, were all men. Even as a monster, apparently, there was no place for people who looked like me in Tolkien's world.Fortunately, I had my own to work with. I grew up in Sierra Leone, a place that I consider the most fantastic in...

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden. Foto: Stefani Reynolds-Pool / Getty Images Starting Wednesday, February 24, small businesses with fewer than 20 employees will be able to apply for federal aid funds under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which provides loans to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government of the president Joe Biden and the vice president Kamala Harris reported the loan application modifications, in order to balance access to aid under the premise that these types of companies represent 44 percent of the GDP of the United States, create two thirds of new jobs and employ nearly half of American workers, a high percentage of them are latinos The African Am...

Protesters gathered in Myanmar's largest city on Monday despite a thinly veiled threat from the ruling junta to use deadly force if people responded to a call for a general strike opposing the military takeover three weeks ago.Despite roadblocks around the US embassy in Yangon, more than a thousand protesters gathered there, while 20 military trucks with riot police had arrived nearby.The crowd was gathering after supporters of the Civil Disobedience Movement, a loosely organized group leading the resistance, called on people to join in Monday's date for a "Spring Revolution."The board warned against the general strike in a public announcement broadcast last Sunday on the state television station MRTV.“It is found that the protesters have lifted their incitement to the mob of mutiny and...

LLUS MIQUEL HURTADOTehern Updated Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 22:26Tehern reaches an agreement with the UN atomic agency to continue complying with the Nuclear Treaty but limit inspections to certain plants and only release information once sanctions are lifted.Zarif (left), in the meeting with Grossi (right).REUTERSDiplomacy US and EU offer Iran a way of atomic dialogue The head of the UN atomic agency has bought time in Tehern. After hours of meetings in the Iranian capital, Rafael Grossi it announced tonight an "understanding" that will allow it to "continue with the necessary verification and observation activities" of the Iranian nuclear program "for a maximum of three months." It is the time that observers estimate it will take to crystallize a dialogue between Iran and the...

The match held this Sunday at the stadium of San Mamés and who faced the Athletic and to Villarreal it ended with a 1-1 draw between the two contestants. The Athletic came to the meeting with strengthened spirits after winning away from home by a score of 0-4 at Cadiz. On the visitors' side, the Villarreal he was defeated by 1-2 in the last game he played against Real Betis. After the result obtained, the local team was placed in tenth position, while the Villarreal he stayed in sixth place at the end of the match. The game started in a positive way for the Villarreal team, who took the opportunity to open the scoring thanks to a goal from Ger...

Dalia VenturaBBC World News27 minutesImage source, Royal AcademyCaption, The modesty of the goddess of love and sex marked Western art. (Detail of engraving of Aphrodite of Cnidos by Claude Randon 1674 - 1704)In the 4th century BC Praxiteles, the most famous sculptor in Greece at the time, made something scandalous: a statue of a naked woman. For more than three and a half centuries, the classical world had become accustomed to seeing the male figure in all its glory, but this was probably the first sculpture of a life-size female figure with nothing to hide her private parts.The island of Kos had commissioned him a statue of Aphrodite and he had made two: in one version, the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and passion was dressed. In the other, without clothes, with one hand gesturi...

Dalia VenturaBBC World News27 minutesImage source, Royal AcademyCaption, The modesty of the goddess of love and sex marked Western art. (Detail of engraving of Aphrodite of Cnidos by Claude Randon 1674 - 1704)In the 4th century BC Praxiteles, the most famous sculptor in Greece at the time, made something scandalous: a statue of a naked woman. For more than three and a half centuries, the classical world had become accustomed to seeing the male figure in all its glory, but this was probably the first sculpture of a life-size female figure with nothing to hide her private parts.The island of Kos had commissioned him a statue of Aphrodite and he had made two: in one version, the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and passion was dressed. In the other, without clothes, with one hand gesturi...