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  A Medicine’s Life Inside the Body  When you take Tylenol or Advil for a headache or a sore muscle, the pain disappears. It seems like...

 Is Russia trying to freeze the war?   Kyiv, Ukraine – Lilya Pshenichnaya’s old apartment building in Kherson has not been flooded. It stands high above the right bank of the Dnipro river in the administrative centre of the eponymous southern Ukrainian region that was occupied by Ru Russian forces withdrew from the city in November, but still control the river’s lower, left bank, which has been flooded after the giant Nova Kakhovka dam collapsed early on Tuesday. “There’s nothing but trouble, everything is flooded, villages and forests,” Pshenichnaya told Al Jazeera from the safety of Odesa, a Black Sea port 200km (124 miles) west of Kherson, where she relocated after months in Russian captivity . Some low-lying parts of her hometown are also underwater, but evacuation efforts are thwarted by Russian bombing from the left bank – as landmines planted by retreating Russians months ago float up. “Our guys move around on boats, but they are being bombed, mines pop u...

Beirut’s Sursock Museum   Beirut, Lebanon –  There is a secret hiding in the portrait of Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock, a secret that only a sharp eye can spot: a minuscule line that marks the spot where the canvas was ripped by debris from the 2020 Beirut port explosion . It hangs at the recently reopened Sursock Museum, the first modern art gallery in the Arab world, which reopened its doors on May 26, three years after the explosion. Much like the portrait, originally painted in the late 1920s by Kees van Dongen and one of the few restored in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the museum looks as good as new. Jacques Aboukhaled, the museum’s longtime architect, walks through the building, pointing out the extensive restoration  work from the ceilings and panels that were mangled to the invisible but vital air conditioning and electrical systems as well as the elevators and skylights. In total, 57 artworks were damaged and meticulously restored by a team of Lebane...

Top 9 Highest-Paying Psychology Careers Top 9 Highest-Paying Psychology Careers For psychology majors, choosing among several types of psychology careers can seem overwhelming. As a whole, the role of a psychologist is expected to grow at an average rate of 6% between 2021 and 2031, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) . Each job opportunity, though, is unique, and professionals find joy in their work because of the specific populations they serve and the income earned. Below are five high-paying jobs for psychology majors that can help people reduce their mental health struggles and live their best lives. Industrial-Organizational Psychologist “There’s an increased recognition among employers and business owners that they can do better in the competitive marketplace if they focus on the psychology of the workplace,” says Dennis Stolle, senior director of applied psychology at the American Psychological Association (APA). Enter the increased need ...

Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko sentenced to two years Protests have erupted in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, after a court sentenced the leading opposition figure Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail for “corrupting youth”, dealing a blow to his chances of running for president next year. Sonko, 48, was accused of raping a woman who worked in a beauty salon in 2021 and making death threats against her. He denies wrongdoing and is boycotting court proceedings. The court on Thursday acquitted Sonko of charges of rape and issuing death threats, but found him guilty of a separate criminal offence described in the penal code as immoral behaviour towards individuals younger than 21. The case has triggered violent protests , with Sonko’s supporters denouncing the charges against him as politically motivated, which the government and justice officials deny. Sonko’s Patriots of Senegal (PASTEF) party said the verdict was part of a political plot and called on citizens to take ...

Pakistan minister says Khan should be tried in military court   Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan should be tried in a military court for his role in the protests that erupted across the country after his arrest earlier this month, the country’s interior minister has said. Rana Sanaullah accused ex-Prime Minister Khan of personally planning the attacks on military installations as part of deadly protests across the country after he was arrested on May 9. When asked on local news channel Dawn News on Tuesday if Khan would be tried in the military court, Sanaullah replied, “Absolutely, why shouldn’t he? The programme that he made to target the military installations and then had it executed, in my understanding absolutely is a case of a military court.” “He carried it all out. He is the architect of all this discord,” Sanaullah said. “[The evidence] is documented, it is in tweets and his messages. All this [planning] was decided before he went [to jail] that who...

ICC Cricket World Cup participation   Senior International Cricket Council (ICC) officials are set to travel to Pakistan to secure the country’s participation in this year’s 50-over World Cup in India which has been in doubt for political reasons. Bilateral cricket has been a casualty of the soured relations between India and Pakistan over the last decade, and the neighbours play each other only in multi-team events at neutral venues. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has declined to tour Pakistan for September’s Asia Cup and wants the entire tournament to be held in a neutral country, which has prompted a tit-for-tat response from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). PCB Chairman Najam Sethi told Reuters news agency this month there was a “very real possibility” of Pakistan boycotting the World Cup in India should its proposal to stage at least some Asia Cup matches on home soil not be accepted. The PCB said in a statement ICC Chairman Greg Barclay and ...