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Cook & EatYou probably know it: those long thin strands when you peel a banana. Sometimes there is none, other times your banana is full of them. What kind of threads are they and should you eat them or not? “Banana threads have a scientific name: we call them vascular bundle systems,” explains Sébastien Carpentier, who studies the properties of …

Reuters ONS News•today, 02:39•Amended today, 03:40 A majority of Chileans voted against the proposal for a very progressive new constitution in a referendum. It should have replaced the forty-year-old constitution, which dates back to the days of dictator Pinochet. The constitution enshrined many social rights, such as the right to housing, free education, accessible health care, and the right to …

A private plane that had taken off from southern Spain crashed off the coast of Latvia on Sunday evening, the Swedish rescue services reported. Four people were believed to have been on the plane, various foreign media reported. There is no trace of them. A Lithuanian Air Force helicopter was sent to the crash site for search and rescue at …

Opponents of the new constitution will demonstrate in the Chilean capital Santiago on Thursday.Statue Marcelo Hernandez/Getty What makes this Chilean constitutional referendum so special? Constitutions are often rewritten in Latin America, but usually an authoritarian president participates. In Chile, the people have the last word on Sunday on a text written by a committee of elected officials. The 388 new …

with videoIn Italy and the Czech Republic, several tens of thousands of people have demonstrated in recent days against the effects of the energy crisis which is gripping the entire European continent. Edwin van der Aa Sep 3, 2022 Last update: 03-09-22, 22:23 Tens of thousands of Czechs took to the streets of Prague today to express their concern over …

Last week, the regional health minister reported that the victims had “severe respiratory symptoms and double pneumonia”. The origin of the disease was unknown at the time. The first tests had shown that it was not Covid-19, the hanta virus or influenza A and B. Eleven infections All of the infections, up to eleven, occurred at a local private clinic. …

A 29-year-old Mississippi airport worker stole a plane and is threatening to crash the plane into a Walmart store. Police have evacuated the store and surrounding area and are trying to speak to the man. According to local media, police were notified around 5 a.m. local time that a plane, which may have been stolen, was flying low over the …

Driving in Europe is particularly dangerous for men, says the European Road Safety Observatory. Most road deaths occur in central and eastern Europe and three-quarters of road deaths are male, figures from Germany show Automobilwoche. A look at road safety statistics shows clear gender differences. In 2020, no less than 76% of road deaths in the EU were men. A …

Europe will not receive gas from Russia at this time. Gazprom is keeping the important Nordstream I gas pipeline closed for the time being. An oil leak is mentioned as the reason. The Nordstream pipeline was due to reopen on Saturday after maintenance. However, according to Gazprom, a leak was discovered during maintenance work it was carrying out with German …

Donald Trump wants the judge to authorize an additional investigation into the FBI’s search of his home in early August. The federal judge thinks about it. The US Department of Justice, for its part, says it has evidence that the former president’s team tried to hide documents he brought from the White House to his residence in Florida. Trump asked …