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As Pacific Heads of Health convene in Cook Islands, Tracy Yuen argues climate change, undernutrition and obesity are converging into a Global Syndemic — and calls for integrated action on food systems, health services and social protection.DisclosureThe study “Climate change and nutritional vulnerability: insights from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu” was supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). About the author/sTracy YuenTracy Yuen is the Pacific Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor at Save the Children Australia and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney School of Public Health.

Ned Buntline wrote more than 400 historical novels about the Wild West, Civil War, pirates, politics and much more

Following the guilty plea from a man for kicking a sea lion, the city of San Diego is urged to find ways to protect sea lions at La Jolla Cove.

El director de Alien y Gladiador asegura que busca adelantarse a las tendencias y reclama historias diferentes a los relatos que dominan actualmente el cine.

Tus dos muertos llega con una historia cargada de misterio, tensión y secretos familiares que prometen mantener al público atento.

Lillian Smart, who health officials believe contracted a brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a North Louisiana lake, died Saturday at a Ruston hospital from an infection linked to the pathogen. She had turned 8 years old a day earlier. “The injuries to her brain were too severe for her little body to recover from,” the […]

本周二，烏克蘭前國防部長費多羅夫（Mykhailo Fedorov）發布了一段疑似競選宣傳片的視頻，引起了巨大轟動。在視頻中，他批判了烏克蘭的腐敗，並模糊地呼籲：儘管俄羅斯正在入侵該國，但需要通過選舉來“恢復民主進程”。

本周二，乌克兰前国防部长费多罗夫（Mykhailo Fedorov）发布了一段疑似竞选宣传片的视频，引起了巨大轰动。在视频中，他批判了乌克兰的腐败，并模糊地呼吁：尽管俄罗斯正在入侵该国，但需要通过选举来“恢复民主进程”。

El filme de Sony  se acerca a Star Wars: The Force Awakens como una de las películas más taquilleras de la historia.

احکام جمهوری اسلامی علیه دانشجویان؛ گفت‌وگو با ایمان آقایاری

စစ်ကိုင်း၊ မန္တလေးနဲ့ မကွေးတိုင်းအပါအဝင် ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းနဲ့ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်က မြို့နယ်ပေါင်း ၂၅ မြို့နယ်မှာ ရေကြီးရေလျှံ။

New Jersey’s cleanup failures and privatization created this environmental nightmare. The state must act before it becomes a public health tragedy.

Durante la historia las mujeres desarrollan vínculos de solidaridad.

Очікується, що під час візиту також буде підписано низку угод у сферах охорони здоров’я, транспорту та енергетики

(The Center Square) – Last week delivered another warning for the U.S. economy. Housing starts fell 12.4% in July, with single-family construction down nearly 10% for the month and 16.6% from a year ago. This is bigger than housing. Residential construction is one of the economy's most interest-rate-sensitive sectors, and its weakness spills into building materials, appliances, furniture, mortgage finance and other housing-adjacent industries. It fits the broader pattern we've been watching: outside of AI infrastructure and health care, not much is moving forward. The economy isn't falling apart. But high borrowing costs are clearly biting, hiring remains weak, and momentum is becoming increasingly concentrated in a handful of sectors. Tuesday: Can new-home sales surprise? That makes Tuesday's new-home sales report particularly interesting. The consensus expects July sales to fall to roughly 620,000 at an annual rate, from 628,000 in June. That would leave sales about 5% below their July 2025 level. June sales were already 5.6% below a year earlier. There is a case for an upside surprise. Mortgage rates have climbed sharply since the beginning of the year, but housing demand has been somewhat more resilient than the increase in monthly payments would suggest. The average mortgage rate rose from around 6% in February to roughly 6.5%–6.7% recently. Yet existing-home sales activity has managed to run modestly above year-ago levels. However, the flow of new resale listings coming on the market has slowed sharply. That matters for builders. They are still competing against a large stock of homes already on the market, so I would not call resale inventory scarce. But fewer new existing homes are being added to that stock, and builders have another advantage: incentives. Nearly two-thirds of builders are offering some form of sales incentive, and roughly 30% are cutting prices. Rate buydowns and other concessions allow builders to do something most existing homeowners cannot – lower the buyer's effective financing cost. So the consensus calls for another decline, but I would not be shocked if new-home sales beat expectations. Wednesday: A benign PCE print, with an important catch Next comes the Fed's preferred inflation gauge. July's headline PCE number should still benefit from the drop in energy prices during the month. Consensus estimates point to roughly a 0.1% monthly increase after headline PCE fell 0.1% in June. Core PCE, however, is expected to rise about 0.2% after increasing just 0.1% in June. And last week's producer-price report gave us a reason not to get too comfortable with a soft headline number. Wholesale prices were flat in July. Energy prices fell 3.1%, gasoline fell 5.7% and food prices declined 0.9%. That looks disinflationary. But the components of the producer-price report that feed more directly into PCE were considerably firmer. Core producer prices excluding food, energy and trade services rose 0.4%. Services excluding trade, transportation and warehousing rose 0.6%. Some of the components that feed into PCE were firm – notably health care and portfolio management, where prices jumped 6.5%. My estimate based on those PCE-relevant components points to roughly a 0.24% increase in core PCE for July, barely above the consensus forecast of 0.2%. There is another complication. The energy relief is already getting old. Oil prices have climbed again in August as conflict in the Middle East intensified. Brent crude has moved back above $90 a barrel, erasing much of the energy-price relief that should flatten the July inflation data. So July PCE could look relatively tame while telling us considerably less about where inflation is headed next. Friday: Jackson Hole and the problem at the long end That brings us to the week's main event. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh speaks Friday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole. This year's theme is “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.” The symposium runs August 27–29, with Warsh scheduled to speak Friday morning. But the most important financial innovation confronting Warsh may have nothing to do with payments. He arrives in Wyoming with the world's bond markets under pressure. The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield climbed to roughly 5.34% last week, its highest level since 2007. Treasury responded by doubling the size of liquidity-support buybacks in the 10- to 30-year portion of the curve, from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation. The announcement briefly pulled the 30-year yield down to about 5.19%. By Friday it was back near 5.28%. The bigger message is that this is not just an American bond selloff. Long-term borrowing costs have risen across advanced economies. Japan's 10-year yield has reached its highest level in roughly three decades. German yields have climbed to levels not seen since 2011. French long-term yields are near their highest since 2008, and Britain's 30-year borrowing cost has been trading around levels last seen in the late 1990s. Something larger is going on. Too many borrowers, not enough savings Start with energy. War and geopolitical instability in the Middle East have pushed oil prices sharply higher. That does not just raise near-term headline inflation. It increases uncertainty about how quickly central banks can return inflation to target. The Fed's own July minutes acknowledged that a prolonged conflict could worsen supply-chain problems and keep inflation elevated. Then there is trade. The world spent decades building supply chains around the assumption that goods and capital could move increasingly freely across borders. That process helped lower production costs and restrain inflation. First Covid, then tariffs, trade restrictions and increasingly fragmented supply chains now work in the opposite direction. The Fed staff has already attributed part of the recent increase in core-goods inflation to tariffs, even if policymakers generally expect much of that effect eventually to fade. Fiscal policy may be the bigger structural story. Global public debt is already around 94% of GDP and the IMF expects it to reach 100% by 2029. Across OECD economies, governments borrowed a record $17 trillion in 2025 and are expected to borrow roughly $18 trillion this year. Outstanding sovereign bond debt is projected to reach about 85% of OECD GDP. The United States is hardly alone. Governments across the developed world are financing aging populations, defense commitments, industrial policy, energy investment and existing entitlement programs while facing very little political appetite for either higher taxes or substantially lower spending. Every additional dollar of government borrowing has to find a buyer. And governments are no longer the only giant borrower in the room. The AI buildout is turning the world's largest technology companies into much heavier users of debt markets. Hyperscaler debt issuance has already reached roughly $220 billion this year, compared with just $12.5 billion over the same period last year. The OECD estimates that nine major AI companies raised $122 billion in bonds in 2025 and could spend roughly $4.1 trillion on capital investment between 2026 and 2030. That investment may raise future productivity. But first it has to be financed. Sovereigns need more capital. AI firms need more capital. Defense and energy infrastructure need more capital. All of them are competing for the same global pool of savings. Demographics may slowly make that pool less abundant as well. The aging of the developed world previously helped create a large pool of retirement savings, but as dependency ratios rise, the composition gradually shifts from prime-age workers accumulating assets toward retirees drawing income from them. Life-cycle models imply that this can reduce aggregate saving and put upward pressure on real interest rates. It is a slow-moving force rather than the explanation for last week's bond selloff – and household saving remains elevated in parts of Europe – but it points in the same direction over time. This is the new economics of capital: more demand for long-term financing meeting a supply of savings that is no longer expanding as effortlessly as it once did. Too many borrowers, not enough willing lenders: those supply and demand forces are putting upward pressure on real long-term yields. What the Warsh Fed is doing — and what it isn't That is the backdrop for a Federal Reserve that is changing how it communicates. The Fed held its policy rate at 3.50%–3.75% in July, but three officials – Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan – wanted a quarter-point hike. It was the largest unified hawkish dissent since 2016. The minutes showed that many participants thought further tightening could become necessary if inflation failed to decline, while some questioned whether financial conditions were restrictive enough to return inflation to 2%. That tells us what the Warsh Fed is doing: holding rates steady for now, emphasizing the inflation target and keeping the option of another hike very much alive. It is also giving markets less guidance about what comes next. Warsh's first two policy statements averaged just 113.5 words, 55% shorter than Powell's final eight. All 24 of the recurring Powell-era phrases I identified around the Fed's reaction function and forward guidance disappeared from both Warsh statements. “Prepared to adjust.” “Assessing the appropriate stance.” The language markets used to reverse-engineer the next move is simply gone. What the Warsh Fed is not doing may matter even more. It is not promising rate cuts. It is not using the balance sheet to cap long-term Treasury yields. And it is not telling investors that the Fed will insulate them from volatility at the long end of the curve. The July minutes reaffirmed that changes in the federal-funds rate should remain the primary way monetary policy is adjusted. The Fed may purchase short-dated Treasury securities when needed to keep reserves ample, but those are reserve-management operations – not a program to suppress 10- or 30-year borrowing costs. That distinction matters because the recent move in bonds has not primarily been an inflation-expectations story. The Fed's own analysis says the rise in Treasury yields during the intermeeting period was driven largely by real yields, while longer-run inflation expectations remained broadly anchored. Foreign sovereign yields rose alongside U.S. yields. The Fed can influence the overnight interest rate and the expected path of short-term rates. It cannot manufacture an unlimited supply of global savings. That is what makes this Jackson Hole different. Markets will listen carefully for any clue about whether Warsh thinks another rate hike is coming. Even a firm commitment to get inflation back under control may not be enough to make the long end of the yield curve cheap again. For everyday Americans, that means borrowing costs – on credit cards, auto loans and mortgages – may stay higher for longer, even if the Fed eventually starts cutting rates.

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Pela segunda vez no ano, o Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico (ONS) acionou o plano emergencial para reduzir a geração de energia diante do excesso de oferta no Sistema Interligado Nacional (SIN). A medida ocorre das 11h às 13h30 deste domingo (23), sem impacto para o consumidor, afetando apenas as distribuidoras. O objetivo é preservar a segurança do sistema diante da expectativa de menor consumo no fim de semana. Notícias relacionadas:Consumidores poderão escolher fornecedores de energia a partir de 2027.Bandeira tarifária continuará amarela em agosto.O plano prevê a restrição da geração de usinas Tipo 3, conectadas às redes de distribuição. O grupo inclui pequenas centrais hidrelétricas (PCHs), usinas a biomassa e empreendimentos eólicos e solares de menor porte. O ONS também adotou medidas complementares para reduzir a geração de usinas sob seu controle direto. Medida ocorreu em junho O primeiro acionamento de 2026 ocorreu em 7 de junho, no feriado prolongado de Corpus Christi. Na ocasião, o ONS solicitou o gerenciamento de 1 mil megawatts (MW) das 10h às 14h. O plano emergencial foi aprovado pela Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (Aneel) em 2025, diante do avanço da geração distribuída, principalmente da energia solar. Em agosto de 2025, no dia dos pais, o excesso de energia quase provocou uma sobrecarga no sistema. Naquela data, a geração distribuída chegou a representar 37,6% da demanda nacional. Para equilibrar o sistema e evitar um blecaute que poderia atingir vários estados, o ONS reduziu a produção de hidrelétricas e termelétricas. O operador cortou 98,5% da geração eólica e solar centralizada. ONS prepara corte automático Diante do crescimento da geração solar, o ONS anunciou, na última quinta-feira (20) que está preparando um sistema para desligar automaticamente parte da geração distribuída em situações críticas. Chamado de Esquema Regional de Alívio de Geração (Erag), o sistema automático prevê até 3 gigawatts (GW) de corte, divididos em três estágios de 1 GW. O mecanismo seria acionado somente depois de esgotadas as demais alternativas de controle. Segundo a ONS, um projeto-piloto deverá ser realizado até o fim de 2026 em uma distribuidora. Se os testes forem bem-sucedidos, a implementação poderá avançar em 2027. A geração distribuída, que reúne micro e minigeração, soma cerca de 50 GW de capacidade instalada no país. Para o ONS, o crescimento dessas fontes aumenta a complexidade da operação porque parte da energia produzida não pode ser observada ou controlada diretamente pelo operador. Distribuidoras executam cortes A Associação Brasileira de Distribuidores de Energia Elétrica (Abradee) informou que as distribuidoras seguirão as orientações do ONS para executar o plano anunciado para este domingo. Em nota, a entidade pediu procedimentos mais detalhados para definir os cortes. Segundo a Abradee, critérios claros são necessários para dar segurança operacional e jurídica aos geradores.

Esta nueva temporada estará marcada por tormentas, combates y nuevos obstáculos.

Sudan’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday that its forces had shot down a “hostile” drone The post Sudan says it downed ‘hostile’ drone near Ethiopian border appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

Лідери країн Північної Європи та Балтії (NB8) підтвердили свою непохитну солідарність і підтримку Україні