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Tania León, the noted composer and conductor who also co-founded Dance Theatre of Harlem, never planned on emigrating to the United States. She wanted to move to Paris.When León received the opportunity to leave Cuba on a resettlement flight to Miami in 1967, she took it, thinking she would eventually end up settling in France where she would join the Conservatoire de Paris and become a concert pianist. Instead, she moved to New York and within months met Arthur Mitchell, the New York City Ballet dancer who achieved international acclaim and integrated the art form as its first Black star.“You…

KOLKATA, India, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a landmark achievement that puts Eastern India on the global map of cardiac innovation, Dr. Dilip Kumar, Director of the Cath Lab, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Device, and Structural Heart Expert at Manipal EM Bypass (erstwhile Medica Superspecialty Hospital), has successfully performed Eastern India’s first-ever case of Bachmann’s Bundle (BB) Pacing and Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing (LBBAP), a dual strategy that mimics the heart’s natural electrical rhythm. This process is known as complete physiological pacing. This pioneering heart rhythm management was applied to a 33-year-old male patient, Ravi (name changed), a car…

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s finance ministry said on Friday (Jun 27) it would impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made beer and hot-rolled steel for four months starting on Jul 3, citing substantial damage to Taiwan’s industry. The duties on Chinese-made beer will be as high as 64.14 per cent while for steel they will be as high as 20.15 per cent, the ministry said in a statement. “These products have caused substantial damage to the domestic industry, and in order to prevent the industry from continuing to suffer during the period of the investigation, the products would be subject to temporary anti-dumping duties,”…

Thirty players heard their names called and had their lifelong dreams realized during the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft on Wednesday at the Barclays Center in New York. Now, on Thursday, 29 more players will earn the opportunity to get onto an NBA roster during the second round of the NBA Draft, which is set to start at 8 p.m.Here are all 30 picks in the first-round of the 2025 NBA Draft:FIRST ROUND1. Dallas Mavericks: Cooper Flagg, Forward, Duke Cooper Flagg (R) shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver (L) after being drafted first overall by the Dallas Mavericks…

Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Fever is one of those giveaway signs that your body is doing things to kill something. And although it may make you feel pretty lousy, it’s often not something to panic. Your body can be thought of as a house with a thermostat, and your hypothalamus in your brain is the one that’s adjusting the temperature. Most people run around 98.6°F (37°C), but it’s totally normal for your temperature to go up or down a bit depending on things like the time of day, your activity level, or even your age. A…

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have subpoenaed Anthony Bernal, a senior aide to former first lady Jill Biden, as part of their rapidly expanding investigation into former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness while in office.The subpoena — signed Thursday by Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican Oversight chairman — requires Bernal to appear for a deposition on July 16. It came after several weeks of back-and-forth with Bernal’s lawyer over the timing of a voluntary interview, which Comer says ended with Bernal withdrawing from an interview scheduled for Thursday. “Given your close connection with both former President Biden…

Published Fri, Jun 27, 2025 · 10:13 AM[TAIPEI] Taiwan’s finance ministry said on Friday it would impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made beer and hot-rolled steel for four months starting on July 3, citing substantial damage to Taiwan’s industry.The duties on Chinese-made beer will be as high as 64.14 per cent while for steel they will be as high as 20.15 per cent, the ministry said in a statement.“These products have caused substantial damage to the domestic industry, and in order to prevent the industry from continuing to suffer during the period of the investigation, the products would be subject to…

BEIJING: China’s industrial profits swung back into a sharp decline in May from a year earlier, as factories slowed activity in the face of broader economic stress and a fragile trade truce with the United States. Deepening deflationary pressures and a persistent property crisis continued to undercut demand and economic growth despite an unexpected pickup in retail growth last month. Profits at China’s industrial firms fell 9.1 per cent in May from a year earlier, snapping a two-month growth streak, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Friday (Jun 27). Industrial profits slid 1.1 per cent in the first five…

[Singapore] Emerging markets in Asia, particularly Malaysia and India, are poised to benefit significantly from a surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) in data centres. This growth is driven by increased demand for data storage and cloud computing, alongside supportive government policies and resource availability, based on a Barclays Research report released on Wednesday (Jun 25).The estimated annual FDI in data centres in Asia-Pacific is expected to reach US$62 billion annually by 2030, up from about US$35 billion in 2024.The growth impact of this expected rise in investment in the region is likely to be staggered over time and across…

Published Fri, Jun 27, 2025 · 10:20 AM[BEIJING] China’s industrial profits swung back into a sharp decline in May from a year earlier, as factories slowed activity in the face of broader economic stress and a fragile trade truce with the United States.Deepening deflationary pressures and a persistent property crisis continued to undercut demand and economic growth despite an unexpected pickup in retail growth last month.Profits at China’s industrial firms fell 9.1 per cent in May from a year earlier, snapping a two-month growth streak, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Friday.Industrial profits slid 1.1 per cent in the…