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In Mandalay, near the epicenter of the quake that rocked the region, volunteer rescue workers raced against time as they combed through the ruins of apartments, monasteries and mosques to find survivors. Others struggled to come to terms with all they had lost.Downed power lines, destroyed roads and a lack of equipment made rescue work even harder in a city already enduring a repressive military government and a civil war that is now in its fourth year.“There are at least a hundred people still trapped inside,” said Thaw Zin, a volunteer who was sitting in front of a destroyed condominium.…

Frank Curnow, a retired Navy veteran, had a question for the Republican Party volunteers at an early voting site in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Thursday.Why, he asked, were some polls suggesting a tight race for the open seat in his reliably conservative congressional district, Florida’s Sixth?“That’s not good,” said Mr. Curnow, 77, a registered Republican who voted for the party’s candidate, State Senator Randy Fine, because “he carries the Trump banner.” The race, he added, “is critical.”Voters in the district, which includes the stretch of coast between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach, overwhelmingly voted for President Trump. But on Tuesday,…

In the early 1900s, Franz Boas, who is considered one of the founders of American anthropology, became fascinated by a large shrine associated with Indigenous whaling rituals off the coast of British Columbia.He had been sent a photograph of the shrine, which belonged to members of an Indigenous group called the Mowachaht. It showed a wooden structure on a small island, surrounded by a tangle of cedar and spruce, that sheltered 88 carved wooden human figures, four carved whale figures and 16 human skulls.Boas decided to acquire it for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he…

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A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Aug. 1, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThree members of Intel’s board of directors will not stand for reelection in May, the company said in a filing on Thursday.Omar Ishrak, former CEO of Medtronic; Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, a doctor and philanthropist; and Tsu-Jae King Liu, the dean of the college of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will retire from the board at Intel’s annual meeting in May.Intel has nominated 11 directors, who all currently serve on the board, including new CEO Lip-Bu Tan.The…

Once a week, most weeks, the ground in Chisholm, Minn., shudders underfoot.“When they blast over here, we can feel it in town over there,” Jed Holewa, a City Council member, explained as he looked out over the pit of the Hibbing Taconite mine, a machine-made canyon of flint-colored earth extending to the hills just southwest of town.The low rumble of controlled explosions is reassuring in an area where few livelihoods are more than a couple of degrees removed from the mines. But this month the ground beneath the Iron Range has begun to shift in a very different way.The sedimentary…

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The ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) has launched a coordinated international relief operation in Myanmar, according to the New Straits Times.  A delegation from the AHA Centre, led by executive director Lee Yam Ming and director of operations Sithu Pe Thein, arrived in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday evening to collaborate with Myanmar’s Department of Disaster Management in supporting regional response efforts. The AHA Centre is also coordinating with other ASEAN nations in the relief operations. It is mobilising ASEAN Emergency Response and Assessment Team members from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and…

Brandon Moreno defeats Steve Erceg by unanimous decision in their main event flyweight title eliminator bout in Mexico City.Former two-time flyweight champion Brandon Moreno erased a stigma from his last Ultimate Fighting Championship Mexico outing, winning a unanimous decision against Steve Erceg in a flyweight title eliminator bout at the UFC Fight Night main event, sweeping the cards 49-46, 49-46, 49-46 over the former flyweight title challenger in Mexico City. Although Saturday’s fight was closely competitive, Moreno won all but one round – Round 3 – on all three cards as the 31-year-old kept the fight standing and made Erceg…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.AP Møller-Maersk has warned that plans for a shipping emissions trading scheme intended to fix the price gap between fossil fuels and green energy would only encourage the sector’s use of LNG.The measures will be discussed at crunch talks held by the UN’s International Maritime Organization next month. Plans to place an economic cost on shipping pollution have split the industry into opposing camps, with some supporting a complex credit trading scheme over a flat levy on each tonne of emissions.The Danish…