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Mexico and the United States have agreed to strengthen efforts to regulate migration, officials said on Thursday. The two countries’ governments issued a joint statement after Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador, received top US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Security of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Blinken’s visit came as the Republican Party, which holds a majority of seats in the lower house of Congress, demanded US President Joe Biden crack down on irregular migrants in return for approval for a Ukraine aid package. Obrador says US agrees to keep crossings open Mexico’s president told reporters that the US had…

A man was trapped inside his crashed pickup truck for six days, drinking rainwater to survive, before fisherman finally spotted and rescued him, Indiana police have said.The 27-year-old man had been pinned tightly inside his car beneath a highway bridge in northwest Indiana, and could not reach his phone. Two men scouting for fishing spots on Tuesday afternoon noticed the smashed up vehicle with its opened white airbag, and decided to investigate inside, police told reporters.”They touched the body, and the person turned their head and started talking to them. So, that got a little rise out of them,” Sergeant…

The Russian and the US space agencies have agreed to cooperate on jointly sending crews to the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2025, according to the Russian agency, Roscosmos. The so-called cross-flights — which involve sending one US astronaut as part of the crew of a Russian spacecraft and one Russian cosmonaut as part of an American crew — were extended “to maintain the reliability of the ISS operation,” Roscosmos said. Rare US-Russian cooperation The space sector is one of the few areas remaining in which Moscow and Washington have continued to work together since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine…

Anton Bodner was relieved when it snowed heavily in Kitzbühel, Austria, just in time for the start of the ski season. “This has taken a lot of pressure off,” said the CEO of Bergbahn AG Kitzbühel, which operates 57 lifts around the small Austrian ski resort town. When there’s snow, the lifts transport about 1.5 million tourists each winter. “This year, nature gifted us this good start to the season,” said Bodner. “One which we haven’t had for a long time.” Despite the strong start of the ski season in Kitzbühel, the consequences of climate change are clear to see in…

Regardless of who is winning, losing or playing, the major narratives in German football are often attributed to Kopfsache – literally translated as a “mind matter.” About 5% of athletes in elite sports suffer from depression, roughly in line with the general population. German football is already extremely aware of mental illnesses like depression after the tragic death of Robert Enke in 2009, so how is the current sports psychology system in Germany faring? In September, Rene Paasch, one of Germany’s most prominent sports psychologists, suggested the role was in need of a “paradigm shift” because “outdated thought patterns and approaches” had left little room for…

Jacques Delors, a former head of the European Commission and key figure in the creation of the euro currency, died in his sleep in his Paris home at the age of 98, his family announced on Wednesday. Marked by World War II and its horrors, the generation Delors grew up in developed a creative, formative determination — a determination that drove Delors, as president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995, to lay the foundations of the modern EU. Within half a year of taking office in January 1985, Delors presented his masterpiece, the White Paper on the Completion of…

Oil exports to the two most populous countries on the planet, India and China, have made up 90% of all Russia’s crude exports this year, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Russian state broadcaster Rossiya-24 on Wednesday.  Novak, whose portfolio includes control of the country’s energy sector, said Moscow had successfully circumvented the effects of Western sanctions amid its invasion of Ukraine by rerouting supplies primarily to the two Asian giants.  He said that this process had already begun before its February 2022 invasion and the sanctions that soon followed, but that US and EU restrictions had served as a…

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, alleging that the tech giants used millions of articles without permission to train the artificial intelligence models that power tools such as ChatGPT. The lawsuit said the two companies “seek to free-ride on The Times’ massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.” Microsoft has a partnership with OpenAI that allows it to capitalize on the AI technology made by the smaller company. It is also OpenAI’s biggest financial backer While no sum is specifically requested from OpenAI and Microsoft, the New York…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said the war in Gaza is “greater than a war of extermination”. Speaking to Egyptian TV channel ON, Mr Abbas claimed the impact of the conflict between Israel and Hamas on the Palestinian people is “greater than a disaster”. He went on to compare the war to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war – which the Palestinians call nakba, meaning catastrophe in Arabic.”What happened in 1948, emigration and destruction, and what is happening now is far uglier than what happened (then),” Mr Abbas said.”What is happening now is the…

Five dead bodies were found on Christmas Day in an apartment near Paris, French prosecutors said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in the town of Meaux, some 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) east of the center of Paris, in the northern Ile-de-France region. The news website Actu17 reported that the victims were a woman and her four young children. It said that police were searching for the 33-year-old father who was “on the run.” He was already known to the police and was the primary suspect in the case. The bodies were found at around 9 p.m. local time (2000 UTC) on…