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Romanzo fiume del 1929, l'epico "Angelo, guarda il passato" dello scrittore americano Thomas C. Wolfe, è la versione editata da Max Perkins dell'immensa saga familiare "O Lost - Storia della vita perduta". All’origine di tutti i "grandi romanzi americani" a venire, è il racconto autobiografico della

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When a long-awaited rail link opens between northern Finland and Sweden, it will be possible to travel some 5,000km by train from Portugal's Algarve to Kolari in Lapland – Finland's northernmost station.

"The grand opening of this route will hopefully be just before Midsummer in late June," Sampo Kangastalo, development director of the northern Finnish city of Tornio, tells Yle News.

A deal signed on Friday between the two countries aims to unlock the missing link plugging Finland into the European rail network: a short distance between stations in the twin border towns of Tornio and Haparanda, which for decades has only been possible by bus or car.

Opening that bottleneck has required many years of bureaucratic and budget wrangling as well as electrification of the old train line between Kemi and Haparanda.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20220038

(You could also walk the 4.5 km between the currently operated railway stations across the border.)

Ein Team von Wissenschaftler:innen hat ein erhebliches Problem bei der Messung von Mikroplastik in der Umwelt entdeckt. Das Tragen von Handschuhen im Labor könnte dazu führen, dass die Plastikbelastung weltweit überschätzt wird.

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Die Wissenschaftler:innen betonen aber auch, dass jede Menge an Mikroplastik aufgrund der negativen Auswirkungen auf die menschliche Gesundheit und die Ökosysteme problematisch bleibt – selbst wenn die tatsächliche Belastung in der Umwelt geringer ausfallen sollte als ursprünglich angenommen.

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Convicted gang rapist Michael Angok has been arrested in Sydney's west five days after escaping custody from Bankstown Hospital.

Before his arrest, police "observed a pair of shoes" belonging to Angok outside a property and set up a crime scene.

He has been refused bail and is due to appear at Blacktown Local Court on Monday.

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes going negative

I know this is a fraught topic, but blowing up entire villages is past a red line. Just as with Gaza, they're blowing up people just because they can. We in the U.S. are complicit in this.

Just to reiterate, opposing Bibi is not antisemitism, it's anti war-crime. Like how opposing Trump isn't unamerican but rather saying "this is wrong."

The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations.

The Guardian reviewed three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media, which showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese media has reported more mass detonations in other border villages, but satellite imagery was not readily available to verify these claims.

The demolitions came after Israel’s minister of defence, Israel Katz, called for the destruction of “all houses” in border villages “in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza” to stop threats to communities in northern Israel. The Israeli military destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah, in south Gaza.

The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.

Federal agents arrested a man whose mother served as a spokeswoman for the Islamist embassy captors during the hostage crisis that began in 1979.

April 11, 2026

A State Department statement on the matter did not accuse the three arrested of any specific unlawful or harmful acts but stated that the Trump administration “will never allow America to become a home for foreign nationals tied to anti-American terrorist regimes.”

Mr. Hashemi is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, who served as the English-language spokeswoman for the Islamist embassy captors during the 444-day hostage crisis. Mr. Hashemi had been the subject of recent reports in conservative media outlets that portrayed him as living comfortably in Los Angeles while working as a psychology professor.