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The Dutch system of psychiatric detention (tbs) is under increasing strain from long waiting lists, a growing pile of court...
[Spotlight Initiative] ZOE-GEH District -- In eastern Liberia, Spotlight Initiative has supported government efforts to reduce maternal mortality rates by building a Maternal Child Health unit at Bahn Health Centre. Though maternal mortality has substantially reduced in recent years, in 2020, the country still had the sixth highest maternal mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa, according to data compiled by the World Health Organization.
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Berkshire Hathaway has finally cracked open its wallet. A little.
The U.S. is drawing heavily from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, releasing approximately 50 million barrels since the conflict with Iran began. These withdrawals are pushing emergency oil stockpiles to multi-decade lows, with significant amounts being exported. Analysts warn this depletion necessitates future replacements, potentially leading to higher prices globally.
The outbreak of war sent pump prices soaring to record highs and forced President Ferdinand Marcos to declare a state of national energy emergency.
LG Group stocks extended their sharp rally Monday, led by another surge in LG Electronics, as investors piled into shares seen as potential beneficiaries of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s expected visit to Korea and a possible first meeting with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo. LG Electronics jumped 29.86 percent to 380,500 won ($251), hitting the daily upper limit shortly after the market opened and setting a fresh 52-week high. The stock also closed at the daily ceiling Friday, extending a steep run
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President Donald Trump has sent an amended peace proposal back to Tehran seeking more explicit commitments surrounding Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, nuclear program, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz after declining Friday to immediately approve a proposed framework agreement during a Situation Room meeting with senior advisers, according to multiple reports published Sunday. The post Report: Trump Sends Tougher Iran Proposal Back to Tehran, Demands Stricter Nuclear, Hormuz Terms appeared first on Breitbart.
• Seeks detailed report from building authority on ‘violations’, reasons for ‘no action’ • Hall owners demand crackdown on mushrooming of ‘unsafe ballrooms’ KARACHI: Growing “complaints” about allegedly illegal issuance of no-objection certificates (NOCs) by the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) for marriage halls and marquees and the construction of commercial structures on amenity plots have prompted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to initiate an inquiry and seek a detailed report from the authority on “violations committed, financial loss to the national exchequer” and “reasons for its inaction”. The move from the NAB came in “pursuant to a complaint” received by the bureau, which points out two major areas of violations allegedly by the SBCA. A NAB letter to the SBCA chief refers to a brief summary of allegations about “illegal issuance of NOCs for construction of marriage halls/marquees” and “illegal construction of marriage halls on amenity plots”. “You are once again required to submit a detailed report in respect of violations committed, loss caused to national exchequer and reasons for inaction on the part of SBCA regarding construction and operation of marriage halls in Karachi,” said the NAB letter to the SBCA chief, citing past requests to the authority which were never responded to. The anti-graft body’s move coincides with the recent alarms raised by residents, activists and legal experts over the unchecked commercialisation of residential plots in Karachi. It is feared that the move would worsen traffic congestion, cause pollution, lead to collapse of infrastructure and degrade the environment across the metropolis, which is already plagued by multiple civic issues. Speaking at a press conference titled ‘Citizens Speak for a Liveable Karachi’, organised by the Karachi Citizens Foundation (KCF) last week at the Karachi Press Club, the speakers pointed out that the city’s sewerage infrastructure is already collapsing under existing pressure. In such conditions, allowing commercialisation in residential areas will make things worse. Responding to a question about the authority’s response to the NAB query, a SBCA spokesperson said that the building authority had already initiated a survey and was collecting data to compile a final report for the anti-graft body. “Our team is collecting data from all districts of Karachi to identify the illegally raised marriage halls and marquees from all over the city. Once the report is finalised its details would also be shared with the relevant institutions,” he added. The stakeholders, on the other hand, raised questions over the ongoing SBCA survey. They say that everyone knows where and how illegal marriage halls have been constructed in the city yet the civic administration appears to be targeting those who are carrying out legitimate and lawful business activities. Rana Raees Ahmed, President of the All Karachi Marriage Hall, Lawn and Banquet Owners Association, described the mushrooming of illegal ballrooms as “death traps”. “There are around 200 such ballrooms which are built on ground or mezzanine floors of multi-storey flats,” he said. “With no safe structures, no fire exits and no safety measures in place, these venues are nothing short of death traps where even a minor incident can lead to massive financial losses and loss of lives. Under whose watchful eye are these being built? On the other hand, our legitimate members and those running lawful businesses are required to submit documents, complete formalities and make repeated rounds of government offices, all in the name of a NAB inquiry.” With around 800 members having “legitimate and lawful businesses” of marriage halls and banquets, he said his association appreciated the NAB inquiry, calling it need of the hour. Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2026
WHAT if, one fine morning, a call is extended — “Cockroaches of the world unite!” And suddenly millions of pointless, lazy little creatures swarm out from their ugly dens — from behind boxes, from under beds, from the dark corners of old cupboards? Lazy, yet resilient, cockroaches refused to evolve for the last 150 million years. All they have done is survive and breed. You chase them away with a broom, smash them with sandals, spray them with “Hit,” and still they return. When filth piles up, cockroaches are bound to appear. “What if all cockroaches come together?” — this was the exact question asked by 30-year-old Abhijit Dipke after Justice Surya Kant, the Honourable Chief Justice of India, compared India’s unemployed youth to “cockroaches” during a hearing on May 15. Within 24 hours, Dipke launched a website and social media handles on X and Instagram under the name Cockroach Janata Party (CJP). The name itself mocks the ruling party at the Centre. Then there is the logo: a cockroach sitting on a smartphone with full internet connectivity — reflecting the Chief Justice’s further accusation that professionally worthless youngsters turn into media or social media activists and attack everyone. But does a cockroach really attack anyone? Its clumsy wing-flutters may create a nuisance, and its flat existence may carry messages for future propagation. It troubles, certainly, but rarely harms. Outcome of a systematic betrayal The Cockroach Janata Party expects its members to meet certain standards. Gender, caste, or religion do not matter. Interested individuals are encouraged to conduct an eligibility self-check to ensure that they are effectively unemployed, physically lazy, chronically online, and capable of ranting professionally. These criteria perfectly echo how Indian society increasingly views Gen-Z. Justice Surya Kant’s remark, his later clarification notwithstanding, was not merely a personal slip of tongue. It reflected the broader mindset of India’s comfortable middle class, which does not endure the chronic financial and professional stress that the country’s youth face. Gen Z, or those born between 1997 and 2012, now constitutes more than a quarter of India’s population. Yet nearly 40pc of young graduates remain unemployed, according to the State of Working India 2026 report by Azim Premji University —only around 7pc secure permanent salaried employment within a year of graduation. The CJP’s manifesto contains five demands: no Chief Justice should receive a Rajya Sabha seat after retirement; the Chief Election Commissioner should face UAPA charges if legitimate votes are deleted; 50pc of cabinet positions should be reserved for women; media houses owned by Adani and Ambani should lose their licenses; and any MLA or MP defecting from one party to another should be barred from contesting elections or holding public office for twenty years. Rallies, slogans, and street-corner speeches no longer engage educated youth the way they once did. Instead, youngsters express their political consciousness through satire, memes, parody, and comedy reels. The party also demanded the resignation of the Union Education Minister following the recent cancellation of the 2026 NEET examination due to a question paper leak. The demands primarily target corruption and institutional decay, which easily makes one recall the 2011 anti-corruption movement — popularly known as the Anna Andolan — which sought to address political corruption through the Jan Lokpal Bill. That non-partisan civil movement eventually gave birth to Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party while simultaneously strengthening the BJP’s anti-Congress narrative before the 2014 general election. Could the CJP similarly evolve into a larger anti-establishment movement? The speculation becomes stronger considering that Dipke himself was associated with the AAP between 2020 and 2023. For now, however, the CJP primarily serves as a platform to raise issues and demand accountability. “The rest is satire,” they say.—The Daily Star (Bangladesh)/ANN Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2026
Yeon Sang-ho's "Colony" held the top spot at the Korean box office over the weekend, extending a run that has gone unchallenged since the film's May 21 opening. The latest zombie thriller from the "Train to Busan" director drew 971,034 admissions from Friday through Sunday, according to the box-office tally compiled by the state-run Korean Film Council. As of Monday morning, its cumulative total stood at 3,474,933. "Colony" played in the Midnight Screenings section of this year's Cannes Film Fes
It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.
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Earlier this month, I finally achieved the elusive goal I had set for myself in Bungie's Marathon. I collected six of the game's rarest items, allowing me to attempt and then successfully clear the raid-style Compiler boss. I felt a massive weight lift off my shoulders - nearly 185 hours of playtime and I had […]
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn’t convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic. To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every Wednesday night, his wife, Sally, would make a big pot of spaghetti, and the group would tinker with components scavenged from old printers and picked up from junkyards. They called themselves the Shadow Group. They eventually constructed several different robots, but their main project was the two-legged Shadow Walker. In 1987, photographer Richard Greenhill organized a weekly gathering of DIY enthusiasts to work on projects in his attic, including the Shadow Walker. Richard Greenhill and David Buckley Greenhill’s friend David Buckley, a robotics and animatronics expert he’d met at Intergalactic, sketched out a rough design based on medical textbooks of human bone structure and muscle movement. The robot’s skeleton, made of maple, was greatly simplified—only one bone in the lower leg and a single wide toe on each foot. The ankle’s double-axis design allowed for two degrees of movement. The knee had no complicating kneecap. Greenhill didn’t want the robot to use motors, so its movement was controlled using compressed air to extend and contract 28 “air-muscles”—his version of a McKibben muscle, invented in the 1950s to mimic musculature with pneumatics. The muscles were connected to the bones across eight joints (hips, knees, ankles, toes), which provided 12 degrees of freedom. RELATED: The Short, Strange Life of the First Friendly Robot The robot’s headless torso held the control valves, electronics, and computer interfaces. It stood 168 centimeters tall and 46 cm wide and weighed about 38 kilograms. The group managed to get the robot to stand up reliably and balance itself; it could even regain its center if pushed a little. But walking turned out to be more of a challenge. Rich Walker joined the group as a teenager and began writing software to get the robot to stand. He was particularly interested in using neural networks to solve balancing problems, although he ran into a number of hardware obstacles, including the unreliability of the sensors and the valves, and the robot’s overall fragility. Over time, Walker and the team developed a standard library of routines to control the robot. Walker wrote a detailed description of the Shadow Walker in 1999, which is available on David Buckley’s website. The 1st International Robot Olympics By the time the Shadow Group began developing Shadow Walker, engineers in academia and industry had been working on robotics for several decades. The world’s first industrial robot, the Unimate, debuted in 1961, and in 1967 Donald Michie and others began building a series of Freddy robots to investigate machine intelligence. The IEEE created its first dedicated robotics organization in 1984 when it established the IEEE Robotics and Automation Council, which became the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 1987. Also in 1987, the nonprofit International Federation of Robotics was established to promote research, development, use, and cooperation in the field of robotics. As Shadow Walker pushed the limits for a DIY humanoid robot, industrial humanoids were also gaining ground. In 1986, Honda began working on its experimental (E-series) and later the prototype (P-series) humanoid robots, finally unveiling the P2 in 1996. The P2 stood 183 cm tall and weighed 210 kg. It was the first humanoid capable of stable, autonomous walking. This work eventually led to the development of the groundbreaking ASIMO. Greenhill’s friend, roboticist David Buckley, consulted medical textbooks to create Shadow Walker’s humanoid design.Richard Greenhill and David Buckley In the late 1980s, the public was both fascinated and horrified by the potential of robots. Businesses saw robots as a way to increase productivity, while workers worried they would take their jobs. Children viewed them as wondrous toys, while people with disabilities embraced them as tools of liberation. Military experts hoped robots would fight wars without endangering human soldiers, while politicians pondered if robots might eventually get to vote. Philosophers thought robots could challenge our notions of intelligence (and stupidity), while the religious struggled with concerns about the human race in a robot-dominated future. Shadow Walker’s simplified anatomy included only one bone in the lower leg and a single wide toe on each foot.Science Museum Group Peter Mowforth, cofounder of the Turing Institute in Glasgow, noted these disparate visions for robots when he announced the 1st International Robot Olympics, to be held in 27 and 28 September 1990 and hosted by the Turing Institute and the University of Strathclyde. The Olympics would round up the world’s best robots and showcase them head-to-head. Mowforth himself thought all of the competing visions of robots were overblown. Steeped in machine learning research and robotics development, he knew firsthand the limitations of the state of the art: Robots rarely worked as intended, easily broke down, and glitched over seemingly trivial problems. He envisioned the Robot Olympics as a testbed to assess what the latest generation of robots could and could not do. At the 1990 Robot Olympics, held in Glasgow, Shadow Walker wore pants to conceal its pneumatic “air-muscles” from competitors.Adam Hart-Davis/Science Source The call for participation was wide open. Instead of having predetermined categories of competition, the organizers opted to see who applied to compete and then group them based on their claimed capabilities. In addition to picking the winners of individual events, the judges would select an overall Olympic champion based on the quality of the hardware, the sophistication of behavior, and novelty. Other prizes were given for young competitors, technologies that showed commercial potential, and design. In the end, more than 50 robots were entered, from a mix of universities, industry, and hobbyist groups from Canada, France, India, Japan, Mexico, the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia. There were plenty of disappointments. Trolleyman, a golf-cart-like wheeled robot, suffered a power failure while carrying the opening Olympic torch through the streets of Glasgow. The pile rug in the arena tripped up many robots that had been trained only on flat, smooth floors. David Buckley later concluded that the events were too difficult, and that the Olympics didn’t push development forward. Of course, there were winners. In a surprise triumph for vintage technology, the fully mechanical 19th-century Japanese Archer from the Museum of Automata in York, England, won gold in javelin, beating out competitors more than 100 years its junior. The overall Olympic Champion was Yamabico, Shoji Suzuki’s entry from the University of Tsukuba, in Japan, which won bronze in obstacle avoidance and gold in wall following, but was disqualified in the talking category for not speaking English. The Shadow Group had high hopes for Shadow Walker. Unfortunately, though, it failed to take a step, and the biped race was won by the Cardiff University Biped. Shadow Walker now resides in the collections of the Science Museum in London. The Legacy of Shadow Walker In 1997, a paying customer in search of a robotic leg compelled the Shadow Group to get serious and become a registered company. Shadow Robot is now Britain’s oldest robotics company. Rich Walker, who had left the Shadow Group to earn a B.A. in mathematics and a diploma in computer science at the University of Cambridge, joined Shadow Robot in 1999 as technical director. Today he’s the director of the company. Shadow Robot specializes in durable robot hands rather than walking robots. But the focus on hands is also a legacy of the Shadow Group. Walker remembers that the Shadow Group’s first humanoid hand in the late 1990s was impressive simply for being able to pick up a pint of beer (a smooth-sided, thin-walled glass). Today, Shadow Robot’s hands are testbeds for dexterity. Gone are the pneumatic muscles, replaced by actuators that move each finger with precision. The classic model contains 20 motors, allowing for abductive and adductive movement with 24 degrees of freedom. Shadow Walker’s operator wore a data suit that captured his movements and allowed the robot to copy them.Richard Greenhill In a recent blog post, Sejal Parsotomo, senior marketing executive at Shadow Robot, wrote that while humanoid robots are great for public relations, specialized dexterity is key for success: A robot that can walk into your factory may be impressive, but a robot that can reliably manipulate objects is transformative. In its struggles to take more than a few steps, the Shadow Walker showed the inherent difficulty that robots had in mastering even low-level skills. In August 2025, Beijing hosted the World Humanoid Robot Games. Competing in sports such as gymnastics, soccer, and track events, as well as more “useful” tasks like hotel cleaning and sorting medicine, these robots could literally have run circles around the competitors in the first Robot Olympics 35 years earlier. And yet, there is still so much work needed in order for robots to navigate the human-built environment. Despite the astonishing progress, we’re still not all that close to actually useful humanoid robots. Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology. An abridged version of this article appears in the June 2026 print issue as “Learning to Walk.” References Richard Greenhill gives an overview of his life and the founding of the Shadow Group in a post on Shadow Robot’s corporate website. David Buckley has a compilation of resources on the Shadow Biped Walker, including specifications from the 1999 iteration and a brochure from the 1st International Robot Olympics. There is coverage of the Robot Olympics worthy of a gossip sheet in La Repubblica and lovely footage of the competition in this TV-am interview of Peter Mowforth by Lorraine Kelly.
A la tête du palais du Luxembourg depuis 2014, le sénateur LR des Yvelines espère être reconduit à l’issue du renouvellement partiel de la chambre haute cet automne.
Both sides remain far apart over what to do with the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s uranium stockpile.
A fuel blockade on Cuba has aggravated a lack of consistent garbage pickup and produced enormous trash piles.
Authorities probing the Pune hooch tragedy raid M/s Rex International warehouse in Bhiwandi, seize 5929 litres of methanol, probe links to illegal liquor network continues.