“We advise municipalities to not depend on one source of water. We must mix it with groundwater development, we must also tap into reusable water, tap into desalination and also tap into artificial recharge. All these things will contribute to the resilience of water resources where we know that we are comfortable and move from being vulnerable to water shortages.” Water projects around South Africa have been marred by corruption for a number of years. Many projects remain incomplete due to money being stolen and procurement issues.

Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani accused Vučić of harboring a 1990s "mentality,” which, at the time, had led to "war" and the "killing of 150,000 civilians." Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti admonished Serbia, calling it a pro-Asian state – presumably a negative counterpart to a "pro-American" Kosovo. More than 23 years after Kosovo was separated from Yugoslavia through the illegal war of aggression, the EU’s efforts to build up the impoverished region has proven an utter failure.

RT spoke on the new planned broadside against Russian media with Sonja van den Ende, a Dutch journalist, who believes the ongoing crisis has become a pretext to intensify the years-long crackdown on freedom of speech in the West. “This is what the Western countries are doing since the start of the special military operation, even before that. Even before the Syrian war, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,” van den Ende said.

The questionable initiative comes as Germany is already experiencing mass protests, van den Ende noted, expressing hopes that the country’s citizens will only “protest more.” “The next part, the freedom of speech is gone. What is left then? They have no life. They can’t pay their bills anymore, they can’t say what they want. It’s a total dictatorship,” she said.

In 2017, scientists created a “BioBag” that functioned as an artificial womb, and they used it to grow a baby lamb. Now, a new concept has been unveiled exclusively to Science and Stuff showing how the same could be done for humans. In recently released footage, Hashem Al-Ghaili shows what childbirth might look like tomorrow. Specifically, he created an artificial womb facility named EctoLife.

Its purpose? In an exclusive interview with Science and Stuff, Al-Ghaili says he thinks the EctoLife concept could one day supplant traditional birth. In so doing, he said society would finally be able to meet the needs of parents who are “tired of waiting for a response from an adoption agency” and those who are “worried about pregnancy complications.” But most importantly, he says EctoLife could allow us to confront the infertility crisis head-on.

Science fiction becomes reality - Synthetic wombs might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but they follow in a long line of advancements in reproductive technology. On July 25, 1978, a baby girl named Louise Brown was born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England. What made her birth memorable was that Louise was conceived in a petri dish, and she is the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Today, more than 8 million children are conceived through IVF annually.

When I was growing up, kids would start learning algebra before they even got to high school. But these days many of our college students can’t even handle algebra. In fact, the Kansas Board of Regents is actually considering dropping algebra as a requirement at the state’s six public universities because so many students are failing the basic algebra course…

If we aren’t teaching our high school kids the basic math skills that they will need once they get to college, what are they actually learning? Well, one thing they are learning is how to use all of the new pronouns correctly. This is very important for life after high school, because using the wrong pronoun at the wrong time can get you into all sorts of trouble these days.

In the years ahead, we will have lots of young people that don’t understand math and science, but at least they will be well versed in the intricacies of modern pronoun usage. Needless to say, many of them will have to be supported by the government because they won’t be of much use to society.

Please don’t get me wrong. I am certainly not lumping all of our young people into a single category. There are some young adults that are doing more than fine. But in general, we have a real mess on our hands, and our system of education just continues to deteriorate with each passing year.

The mass circulation paper's report outlined some of the missile's specifications, which include a launch weight of 46,000 tons, an operational range of up to 12,000 kilometers (7,456 miles) that can strike the US or anywhere in Europe, and a payload of up to 500 kilotons.

The RS-24 Yars is an improved version of the previous Topol-M. Known in the West as SS-29, it was developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering and first tested in 2007. Able to prepare for launch in seven minutes, the missile can be fired from a prepared site, a special garage with a sliding roof, or from an unprepared position during field deployment, according to the website Military Today.

The measure is one of several initiated by the Biden administration to streamline the immigration and naturalization process, as well as reverse Trump-era measures that progressives have claimed were barriers to immigrants’ integration.

Twelve days after taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing government agencies to “identify [and remove] barriers that impede access to immigration benefits” as well as conduct a “comprehensive review… of the civics and English language tests.”

Dorsey did not specify which company that was, but he was likely pointing to Elliott Management, which that year bought a majority share in Twitter for $387million under the direction of managing partner Jesse Cohn, who then set about trying to oust Dorsey.

The former Twitter CEO's comments come as the new chief twit Elon Musk started releasing internal Twitter files from before his takeover, which showed that the company actively tried to suppress the tweets of many conservative account-holders.

He added that companies like Twitter had too much power, and highlighted the banning of President Donald Trump from the platform as an example of that. 'I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump's account. As I've said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society.'

"South Dakotans deserve to know if their taxpayer dollars are being invested to benefit the Chinese Communist Party," Noem said Thursday. "The Investment Council has ensured that South Dakota has the best-funded pension in the country. But it is not possible to make good deals with bad people."

The governor's investment action came a week after she signed an executive order banning the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from all state computers and phones. Noem's order spurred at least four other states — including Texas, Maryland, Oklahoma and Tennessee — to take similar action last week.

The exercise simulated a series of WHO emergency health advisory board meetings addressing a fictional pandemic set in the near future. Participants grappled with how to respond to an epidemic located in one part of the world that then spread rapidly, becoming a pandemic with a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affecting children and young people. Participants were challenged to make urgent policy decisions with limited information in the face of uncertainty. Each problem and choice had serious health, economic, and social ramifications. 

Now, driven by government mandate, climate hysteria, and perhaps some aspects of consumer status EVs are on the scene again. But they still have essentially the same big problem they did around the turn of the last century: The infrastructure of the country is not set up to accommodate them, because they don’t fit the needs of the country nearly as well as gasoline-powered vehicles. ...The current problems with EVs can be seen by looking back 100 or so years. As so often happens, there is nothing new under the sun.

They called for “all possible efforts to reduce escalation in a way that contributes to restoring security and stability,” and to limit the negative consequences of the crisis, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Beijing reiterated its commitment to it a six-point initiative aimed at alleviating the situation in Ukraine. In March, China outlined a plan for preventing a humanitarian disaster, warning against “politicizing humanitarian issues” and calling for those in need to be given all necessary assistance in a timely manner.

The historic rapprochement between China and Saudi Arabia comes at a time of frosty relations between Riyadh and Washington. The traditional allies recently clashed over a decision by the Saudi-led OPEC+ oil cartel to cut crude production, a move the White House described as “shortsighted.”

At first blush, this might seem like an issue that’s peripheral to American politics — a purely religious matter. But it’s actually an indicator of just how fractured our politics have become. And if history is any indication, it’s about to get even worse.

Today, mainline churches are bucking under the strain of debates over sex, gender and culture that reflect America’s deep partisan and ideological divide. In a country with a shrinking center, even bonds of religious fellowship seem too brittle to endure. If history is any guide, it’s a sign of sharper polarization to come.

In February 2021, after three severe winter storms, the power grid in the southern state was damaged, causing power failure to millions of Texans. The power outage led to a lack of food, water and warmth and caused hundreds of people to die, and resulted in a $195 (£168.2) billion loss.

As the arctic blast makes its way towards the state, five tornadoes were confirmed in north Texas as of Tuesday afternoon... Dozens of homes and businesses were damaged by the line of thunderstorms, and several people were injured in the suburbs and counties stretching north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

It doesn't rain much in Southern California, so the district imports about half of its water from the Colorado River and the northern Sierra Nevada via the State Water Project — a complex system of dams, canals and reservoirs that provides drinking water for much of the state. It's been so dry the past three years that those water deliveries have hit record lows.

“Some Southern Californians may have felt somewhat protected from these extreme conditions over the past few years. They shouldn't anymore. We are all affected,” said Gloria D Gray, chair of the Metropolitan Water District's Board. State officials recently announced that water agencies like Metropolitan will only get five percent of their requested supplies for the start of 2023 due to lower reservoir levels. The river's two largest reservoirs — Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona state line and Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border — are each about one-quarter full.