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13/07/2022

European Union finance ministers have given Croatia the final approval to adopt the euro single currency on January 1, 2023, replacing the Croatian kuna.
“I would like to congratulate my counterpart, Zdravko Maric, and the whole of Croatia for becoming the 20th country to join the euro area,” Zbynek Stanjura, the finance minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said on Tuesday.
It is the first expansion of the currency bloc in almost eight years just as the euro has dropped to its lowest level against the US dollar in 20 years.
The previous EU country to join the European single-currency area was Lithuania in 2015.

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13/07/2022

The president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled the country early Wednesday morning, hours before he was due to step down amid a devastating economic crisis that has triggered severe shortages of food and fuel.
Rajapaksa, along with his wife and two bodyguards, left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane bound for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives, according to an immigration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The president's departure followed months of demonstrations, culminating in protesters storming his home and office, as well as the official residence of the prime minister.
Rajapaksa had previously agreed to resign, with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe saying that he would leave once a new government was in place.
Sri Lankan presidents are protected from arrest while in power, and it is likely Rajapaksa planned his escape while he still had constitutional immunity. A corruption lawsuit against him in his former role as a defence official was withdrawn when he was elected president in 2019.

12/07/2022

A wildfire threatening some of the world's oldest giant sequoia trees in California's Yosemite National Park expanded five-fold over the weekend.
The smoke prompted air quality alerts throughout the park and obscured the views of its famous scenery.
As of Sunday, the blaze has scorched nearly 1,600 acres (648 hectares) of timber and brush at the southern end of the park, up from 250 acres on Friday, a day after fire was first reported by visitors on the Washburn Trail of the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.
National Park Service personnel immediately closed the Mariposa Grove, home to more than 500 mature giant sequoias, and on Friday evacuated the adjacent native American community of Wawona.

12/07/2022

Strong confidence arises from two related experiences: cognitive ease and coherence. We gain confidence when the explanation we have found is easy to remember and does not contain internal contradictions. However, lightness and coherence do not at all mean the truth of the judgment in which we believe.
The associative mechanism is set up in such a way as to suppress doubts and bring to light ideas and facts that are compatible with the prevailing story at the moment. By following the “what you see is what you see” rule, our consciousness achieves high conviction in something, often ignoring the unknown. Therefore, it is not surprising that many of us tend to believe the allegations of intuition.

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