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resumed on Sunday, 24 November, with some viewers noticing a particularly NSFW recurrence on display. In the Tangled Worlds episode, the breeding habits of both Bengal tigers and purple frogs were respectfully documented in the first 20 minutes. Always with a sense of amusement, fans reacting on social media site X (formerly Twitter) were quick to highlight the continuous coverage of animal intimacy. Narrating an expanse of the tiger's territory, Attenborough explained: "It's the dry season. Between the trees, meadows of elephant grass provide cover for the most intimate of behaviours. In the last 10 years, the number of tigers in Nepal has doubled. "There are so many here that remarkably, pairs are mating within just 100 metres of each other." The corresponding action finished with the striped predators going their separate ways, as males do not engage in any parental duties. Further along, deep in the forests of India's Kerala state, the programme featured the plight of the purple frog, which emerge once every 12 months from their underground lair to breed. "This female has a belly full of eggs and on her back a newly acquired male partner," said Attenborough. "He grips her spine, making deep indentations in her flesh. They have timed their emergence to coincide with the monsoon rains. Somehow in the darkness they must find a tree in which to lay their eggs and then get back underground before dawn." Writing on X, : "Crap [can] we even show tiger mating this early in the day? There's children watching, Dave!" "Lots of rumpy [pumpy] in this episode this week!" . mass maiting — Havelock🌴🌻🍺👨‍🍳🎬🍷🔪🏎🪴 (@ihnewman) The problem with wildlife shows like Is that they are just filled with copulation and Death !! — paul j harrison (@pauharri) Tigers. Yet another creature that Pumps and Dumps! — Eamonn, Journeyman Reviewer (@RealEnli) Tell ya kids it's a piggy back ride! — Eamonn, Journeyman Reviewer (@RealEnli) Meanwhile, cameras later captured a herd of Asian elephants easily dismantling electric fences to reach plantations full of food. Attenborough revealed that Malaysian farmers have begun to encourage the enormous creatures onto their land; "Here the elephants are welcome. When old trees are felled, the herd can provide a waste disposal service."

Bernard Looney Appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors at Prometheus HyperscaleOnline fraud is on the rise in South Punjab, with an increasing number of victims registering complaints with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The cases largely involve swindlers exploiting poor communities through deceitful tactics, such as misusing thumb impressions for fraudulent account openings in micro-finance institutions. An FIA official revealed that fraudsters often target rural areas, promising lucrative schemes to poor villagers particularly women. These schemes involve collecting thumb impressions from victims under false pretenses, which are later used to open accounts with micro-finance institutions without their knowledge. Such accounts are subsequently used for illegal activities, leaving the victims in legal trouble despite their innocence. Salman Amjid, a resident of Multan, recently fell victim to one such scam. He was contacted on social media by fraudsters posing as distant relatives. Using psychological tricks and a fabricated narrative, they managed to extract a significant sum of money from him. The official underscored the urgency of addressing these crimes, particularly by tightening account-opening procedures for micro-finance institutions. “Many victims are unaware of how their thumb impressions are used until they face legal complications,” an FIA official explained. The agency is advocating for stricter verification processes to safeguard vulnerable populations. Despite their efforts, the FIA faces significant challenges due to resource constraints. “Each investigation officer is currently handling over 350 active cases,” the official disclosed. This workload hampers the agency’s ability to resolve cases promptly, leaving victims waiting for justice. The officials stressed the need for collaborative action, including enhanced public awareness campaigns and improved regulations for financial institutions especially for account opening. They urged citizens to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities immediately to curb the growing menace. The FIA remains committed to tackling online fraud and ensuring justice for victims. However, the need for additional resources and updated regulations is crucial to addressing the issue effectively and protecting vulnerable communities in South Punjab, they added.

Maupay also had a dig at Everton when he departed on loan to Marseille in the summer and his latest taunt has further angered the Premier League club’s supporters. The 28-year-old said on X after Sean Dyche’s side had lost 2-0 to Nottingham Forest at Goodison Park on Sunday: “Whenever I’m having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile.” Former boxer Tony Bellew was among the Toffees’ supporters who responded to Maupay, with the ex-world cruiserweight champion replying on X with: “P****!” Maupay endured a miserable spell at Everton, scoring just one league goal in 29 appearances after being signed by the Merseysiders for an undisclosed fee in 2022. He departed on a season-long loan to his former club Brentford for the 2023-24 season and left Goodison for a second time in August when Marseille signed him on loan with an obligation to make the deal permanent. After leaving Everton in the summer, Maupay outraged their fans by posting on social media a scene from the film Shawshank Redemption, famous for depicting the main character’s long fight for freedom.No. 25 Illinois rebounds in big way, blasts UMES 87-40Refik Hodzic Keston K Perry As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to get much worse. While its effects, such as unprecedented flooding, devastating droughts, storm surges, biodiversity loss and more intense hurricanes appear novel in the eyes of many in the Global North, these disasters have caused immeasurable destruction for decades across the Global South, especially the Caribbean. Extreme weather events not only threaten the economic viability of these societies, but also call into question the role of the most powerful international economic institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Intervention by these bodies has consistently worsened the economic situation of climate-stricken communities. This is why the World Bank and the IMF need to be abolished to save the planet and human lives. Caribbean island nations know this reality all too well. On July 1, Hurricane Beryl slammed into Grenada. Two of its island territories, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, were flattened, as Beryl damaged or destroyed nearly 100 percent of homes and devastated infrastructure. At least six people were killed. The neighbouring island nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines also suffered widespread destruction due to the hurricane. Across the two countries, as many as 80,000 people were affected, with 20,000 people made homeless and 11 killed. Jamaica was not spared either. The hurricane killed at least four people and affected 160,000. Farming communities suffered devastating losses. It has been now almost five months since the hurricane swept through the Caribbean and these communities are still struggling to recover. This is because these island nations have been taken hostage by disastrous deals with the IMF and the World Bank. Instead of helping a region that is at the epicentre of climate disasters, these two institutions force its nations into borrowing arrangements that prioritise austerity and objectives of global capital, rather than immediate and longer-term relief and recovery. As a result, communities suffer under increased public debt and reduced investment in supporting the social infrastructure necessary to respond to climate disasters and mitigate the effects of climate change. In addition, instead of offering unconditional relief and recovery funding on terms required to truly meet the needs of people, these entities have explicitly supported debt-related financial tools like catastrophe insurance or bonds, debt swaps, and now “disaster clauses” integrated into debt contracts. A disaster or hurricane clause adds to the contractual terms of a debt instrument the ability of a borrower to defer payments of interest and principal in the event of a qualifying natural disaster. The clause sets out the kinds of preconditions for specific events or triggers that would permit the borrower to temporarily defer repayments of interest, principal, or both for a period of one to two years. This mechanism does not reduce or eliminate debt. While it purports to offer “relief”, it brings further misery and onerous costs to climate-devastated governments and communities. Take for example the disaster clause, which has been praised and advocated by Caribbean economist and current climate finance adviser of the Inter-American Development Bank, Avinash Persaud, one of the architects of the “Bridgetown Initiative” for the reform of the international financial system. It can only be triggered when an arbitrary threshold like wind speed or financial cost of destruction during a hurricane has been satisfied or exceeded. In the case of Hurricane Beryl, Grenada was able to trigger this clause, but Jamaica was not able to make use of a similar financial tool. In Grenada’s case, the deferred payments will be added back to the principal in subsequent years. In Jamaica’s case, a catastrophe bond could not be used because the hurricane did not meet the so-called “air pressure” parameter, which means investors’ funds remain safe. A catastrophe bond is a high-yield debt instrument arranged by the World Bank and designed to raise money for insurance corporations in the event of a natural disaster. These investors profit as much as 15 percent returns on these instruments when they fail to pay out. If a payout was triggered, bondholders could have paid as much as $150m. These thresholds do not follow scientific evidence or consider the complicated nature and unpredictability of these disasters. That is because they are determined by financial analysts who pursue higher returns for investors. Without sufficient resources for recovery and relief efforts, Jamaica and Grenada may be forced to request recovery loans from the IMF and the World Bank, therefore increasing debt burdens even further. The long-term effect of these arrangements can be seen in Barbuda, Sint Maarten and Dominica, which were devastated by Category 5 Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. My recent visits to these islands, which have not fully recovered, show that debt-related financial instruments are not just wholly inadequate, but utterly unjust. They cannot ensure the social, economic and environmental recovery of communities. In Dominica, for example, debt has mushroomed after the hurricane disaster as climate financing to help it “recover” came in the form of loans. As a result, the nation of 70,000 people is having to pay $30m per year just to service debt. As one Dominican taxi driver put it to me: “The true hurricane started after the hurricane passed.” The hardship that the IMF and the World Bank heap on climate-devastated communities falls in line with the legacies and realities of colonialism. The logic of their mechanisms can be traced back to the insurance system, capital markets, and financial instruments that fuelled the transatlantic slave trade. During that time, enslaved Africans were viewed as chattel and nonhuman property, ships owned by enslavers were insured by major brokers, and slave-produced commodities received investment from colonial governments and financial corporations. These all aimed to accumulate the wealth that produced metropolitan Europe. The World Bank and the IMF operate today as neocolonial institutions that continue the agenda of Euro-American imperial powers. They do not act to mitigate disasters but perpetuate them through debt bondage imposed on climate-devastated countries in the Caribbean and elsewhere. In this moment of multiple, intersecting crises, they are unsuited for the perils and challenges of the climate crisis. To be sure, the World Bank and the IMF were not intended to serve “The Wretched of the Earth” to borrow Frantz Fanon’s language. They were created to prop up Euro-American supremacy and hegemony and protect the interests of global capital. We therefore cannot expect these bodies to be reformed and operate against the economic and political interests of imperial powers and big capital. We need a global movement that calls for and acts on abolishing these institutions for us to meet the demands of these critical times. We need to do away with the World Bank and the IMF for the sake of human lives and for the sake of the planet. Courtesy: aljazeera

MPs declare Russian vodka, livestock and more in Parly gift registerMutual of America Capital Management LLC Raises Stock Position in Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ:STX)ASX set to rise as Wall Street extends winning streakNASA has launched a groundbreaking mission to explore the asteroid 16 Psyche, an object valued at an estimated USD 10 quintillion due to its high metallic content. This mission could unlock invaluable insights into the solar system's early formation and, theoretically, holds enough wealth to make every person on Earth a billionaire. The spacecraft aims to study Psyche's unique composition, which is believed to consist primarily of nickel and iron, potentially offering clues about the building blocks of planetary cores. Last month, NASA launched a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to 16 Psyche, a unique M-type asteroid located 2.2 billion miles away in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Unlike typical rocky or icy asteroids, 16 Psyche is primarily composed of valuable metals like iron, nickel, platinum, and palladium, which are essential for manufacturing technologies on Earth. Spanning 64,000 square miles, 30-60 per cent of the asteroid's composition is estimated to be metallic. ALSO READ: Jordan: Security Forces Kill Gunman Accused Of Firing Near Israeli Embassy; 3 Cops Wounded Metallic World 391 Million Kilometers Away The Psyche spacecraft, set to arrive at asteroid 16 Psyche in August 2029, will orbit rather than land on the metallic body located 391 million kilometres from Earth. While mining its resources could destabilise the global economy by flooding markets with immense wealth, NASA's primary aim is scientific. The mission seeks to understand the asteroid's properties, the universe's evolution, and planetary cores. Scientists speculate that 16 Psyche might be the exposed core of a planetesimal, an early planetary building block stripped of its outer layers through cosmic collisions. It's #TechTuesday 🚀Let's explore the Psyche Asteroid! Next stop: What could the Psyche asteroid be? Likely made largely of metal, it could be part of a planetesimal core, one of the solar system's building blocks.🪐✨ Stay tuned next Tuesday for more on the Psyche asteroid! pic.twitter.com/owUbIguWNy ALSO READ: Pakistan News: Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz Suspends Top Hospital Officials Over HIV Outbreak Asteroid Psyche Could Reveal Hidden Planetary Secrets Asteroid 16 Psyche, a 140-mile-wide object, is estimated to contain a core of iron, nickel, and gold valued at USD 10,000 quadrillion. NASA suggests it might be the partial core of a shattered planetesimal, an early building block of planets, offering a unique opportunity to study the interiors of terrestrial planets like Earth, typically concealed beneath their mantle and crust. Earth-based observations using visible and infrared wavelengths, along with radar, indicate that Psyche is irregularly shaped, resembling a potato.

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