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A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in the global waterway was unaffected, a canal spokesperson said.The Bahamas-flagged Grace Emilia suffered a malfunction of its rudder and tugboats pulled it to the side of the canal to allow other vessels to pass, said George Safwat, a spokesperson for Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority.He told The Associated Press that the north-bound tanker stopped working in the southern part of the canal, where a two-lane waterway enables ships to transit.CHINESE MILITARY AIRCRAFT, VESSELS CROSS INTO TAIWANESE AIRSPACE IN LATEST THREAT OF FORCECanal services provider…

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has cleared the NFL’s concussion protocol over a month after suffering a concussion in Week 16 of the NFL season, according to multiple reports. The doctors are confident Tagovailoa will be ready to go when the 2023 season’s activities begin, per the NFL Network.  “[Dolphins] QB Tua Tagovailoa has cleared the NFL’s concussion protocol, sources say,” Ian Rapoport of NFL Network said on Twitter. “He met with several medical professionals in the process. They are confident he’ll be 100% when the time comes for football.”J.J. WATT INVITES TOM BRADY TO ‘NEWLY RETIRED’ GOLF GROUP: ‘DRINKS ARE…

British Steel is examining more than 800 job cuts at its flagship UK plant, according to trade unions, in a move that raises questions over a proposed £300mn support package from the government. Although the company, which is owned by China’s Jingye, has not yet started formal consultations on the potential job losses, workers were informed of the proposals at a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, union officials told the Financial Times. British Steel was unavailable for comment. The company employs about 4,000 workers in the UK, the majority working at its Scunthorpe site, which operates two of Britain’s remaining four…

A killer delivery driver filmed himself in the house of a 71-year-old woman he murdered, dancing with a twerking model who would later turn on him and become a key witness. Mohammed El-Abboud, 28, and Kusai Al-Jundi, 25, were jailed for at least 35 years each after they were found guilty of murdering an elderly divorcee they tried to ensnare in a £4.6million romance fraud. They had plotted to steal from Louise Kam, 71, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, and trick her into signing power of attorney documents which they thought would give them control over her multi-million pound property portfolio.…

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced on Wednesday it is piloting a $20 monthly subscription plan that offers users priority access to the AI chatbot even during peak times. The paid plan, called ChatGPT Plus, comes two months after the tool was released publicly and quickly went viral, thanks to its ability to generate shockingly convincing essays in response to user prompts. Many people who wanted to test the tool have been locked out or joined the waitlist. Now, anyone who signs up for a subscription will benefit from faster response times, and priority access to new features and improvements.…

Mahogany Geter, a model in Tennessee, spent her childhood avoiding mirrors.  “I felt hideous, like a freak of nature,” Geter, 25 tells TODAY.com. Geter was born with lymphedema in her left leg, which she says caused it to eventually swell to 100 pounds. “When I’m out in public, people stare at me. There’s a lot of pointing — and I’m talking about adults here,” Geter says. “Kids have the courage to ask me questions.”The Mayo Clinic describes the medical condition as a swelling caused by a build-up of lymph fluid in the body’s tissues. It generally occurs in arms or legs,…

A man in Peru’s capital Lima has died and others were hospitalised as nationwide clashes between protesters and police continued in the eighth week of the South American country’s political crisis. The death of Victor Santisteban Yacsavilca, 55, on Saturday brought the nationwide toll in the protests that began in early December after the impeachment and arrest of President Pedro Castillo to 58. Initially focused in Peru’s rural, mountainous south, protests have gained steam in the capital in recent weeks. Saturday’s protests were mostly in Lima and the southern Cusco region, Peru’s ombudsman said in a statement. Santisteban had suffered a severe head injury, the national…

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The ongoing migrant standoff at a Manhattan hotel turned ugly Wednesday after a group of about 10 outside activists used open umbrellas to prevent the news media from documenting the scene. The intervention prompted several migrants to angrily confront a journalist who was shooting a video for Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV, with one migrant hitting the camera and dislodging its small monitor unit. Some of the 35 migrants gathered in front of the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen also shouted at other camera operators to try to intimidate them. NYPD cops issued warnings but made no arrests. The newshound whose…

Eating lots of ultra-processed foods may raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, a new study suggests.  An analysis of data from more than 197,000 adults from the U.K. who were followed for a median of nearly 10 years revealed that the risk of cancers and cancer-related deaths rose as the percentages of ultra-processed foods in a person’s diet increased, according to the report published in eClinicalMedicine.“Our research suggests that cutting back on ultra-processed foods as part of lifestyle interventions may have important benefits on cancer risk,” says Dr. Eszter Vamos, the study’s lead author and a clinical senior lecturer…