Under a new law that came into force yesterday, all housing rentals under 30-days must register with the City of New York, and will not be allowed unless the landlords themselves live on the property and share their home, like a traditional bed-and-breakfast. This will immediately decrease the amount of accommodation available in the city […]
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Children can get bored at airports waiting to board planes, but an initiative by Delta Air Lines is aiming to solve this by enlisting younger passengers to do help with some airline jobs in San Juan. Flying with young children can sometimes be hard work for parents, with the long waits resulting in boredom for […]
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India’s lunar robot Rover has gone walkies on the lunar surface and now been put to sleep less than two weeks after its successful and historic landing at the lunar south pole, India’s space mission said. However it seems that Rover didn’t find any water. The lunar day, which last 14 Earth days has come […]
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A part of China’s historic Great Wall that is hundreds of years old has been severely damaged by construction workers in central Shanxi province, who used an excavator to dig a hole as a short cut to the other side. Police say two people are suspected of trying to create a new, shorter route for […]
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The Cuban foreign ministry says it has uncovered and dismantled an illegal human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight for Russia against Ukraine. It said that Cubans living in Russia and “even some in Cuba” had been “incorporated into the military forces taking part in the war in Ukraine”. Cuba is a close […]
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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a developing low pressure system far out in the Atlantic that could make its way to the Caribbean by next weekend and possibly form into the season’s next tropical depression or tropical storm. The National Hurricane Center’s 8 p.m. update showed a tropical wave over the far eastern tropical […]
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Washington, DC, 31 August 2023 (PAHO)- On the International Day for People of African Descent, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, called for a greater “response to the health needs of those who are systematically left behind”. The Americas region is home to approximately 210 million people of African descent, […]
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Around 2,500 people have died in Haiti this year while 1,000 have been injured and nearly 970 have been kidnapped, according to a statement from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released this week. Snipers in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince alone were responsible for killing or injuring nearly […]
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More than 100 schools across the United Kingdom have been ordered to close over fears that potentially dangerous lightweight concrete used when they were built between the 1950s and the mid-90s could lead to the buildings falling down. The crisis has left school administrators scrambling to find temporary accommodation and has forced many students to […]
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Las Vegas, the casino tourism mecca in the Nevada desert is seeing a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) robots replacing humans in tourism industry jobs. Check-in kiosks have replaced people at the front desk of hotels. Text-bots now make restaurant recommendations instead of a concierge. Robots can serve food, and behind the bar, machines are […]
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