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Prabowo Subianto has won over millions of Indonesian voters with promises of free school meals. But his big spending plans have yet to convince investors that he can afford to provide free meals to the entire country.Indonesia’s new president is considering tougher tax enforcement, reduced subsidies, potentially increased borrowing and even budget cuts for a new $32 billion to fund his flagship campaign promise – a national school meals program estimated to cost 460 trillion rupiah ($28 billion).Prabowo is also considering a larger cabinet, according to three people briefed on internal discussions, highlighting expansionary spending on multiple fronts that could…

For the loquacious, daring 46-year-old president, who is forever grabbing the limelight, coming up with new ideas, disrupting the status quo, the new reality is not a comfortable one. The Elysée bunker But like a Napoleon forced into exile, Macron has returned to the drawing board and is preparing his next battle: ruling France after what is expected to be a resounding defeat on Sunday. The French president may have to enter into a “cohabitation” government with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party, which is expected to command the largest group in parliament. Over the past days, Macron has been…

July 4, 2024 Jakarta – The recent United Nations report on the learning crisis facing low- and middle-income countries around the world has raised concerns about the state of early childhood education in Indonesia, which appears to be lagging behind its neighbouring countries. The report, produced by UNICEF in collaboration with UNESCO, highlights the importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) to promote, among other things, school readiness and lifelong well-being. Yet nearly 60% of children in low-income countries lack access to early learning opportunities, the report says. As a result, more than 300 million children worldwide will not…

A Colorado dairy worker has been infected with bird flu, the fourth human case in an ongoing outbreak that began with the disease being detected in cattle this spring.Colorado health officials said the man had mild symptoms, reporting only eye inflammation, a condition known as conjunctivitis.The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in a statement that the man received antiviral treatment and recovered. He works on a dairy farm in northeastern Colorado and had direct contact with dairy cows infected with the H5N1 virus, a virus that causes avian flu.Colorado health officials said they provided personal protective equipment…

MADISON — A Dane County judge ruled Wednesday that provisions of Wisconsin Act 10 are unconstitutional and denied a motion to dismiss a case challenging the Gov. Scott Walker-era law that severely limited the influence of unions, sparked massive protests and reshaped Wisconsin’s political climate for years to come.Several unions representing public sector employees filed the lawsuit in November 2023, citing a “dire situation” in the workplace, with problems including low wages, staff shortages and poor working conditions. In May, Dane County Judge Jacob Frost considered a motion from the state Legislature to dismiss the case, promising a decision “in…

Tap water from several locations at Cincinnati’s Bobbie Sterne Health Center in Over-the-Rhine contains lead at levels above acceptable limits.The health center, which serves thousands of poor men, women and children each year, confirmed Wednesday that the Cincinnati Health Department and Greater Cincinnati Water Works discovered lead after testing 55 water sources throughout the clinic.Health Ministry spokesman José Marques said eight water sources contained lead particles “above acceptable lead levels for drinking,” based on recommendations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Marques said none of those water sources were water fountains or other sources that would have been used regularly for…

Down angle icon An angle icon pointing down. Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is one of the first major Democratic donors to publicly call on President Joe Biden to withdraw from his campaign. Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times and Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donors have been concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to beat Donald Trump since his debate performance.Some donors told The Washington Post that the evening mirrored the president’s performance at recent donor events.Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings told the New York Times that another candidate needs to step up to beat Trump. Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, one of…

A new AI system can predict Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear, paving the way for earlier treatments, according to research recently presented by the US National Institutes of Health. Using patients’ medical records as input to train the machine learning system, the AI ​​model was 70% accurate in predicting Alzheimer’s seven years in advance and 80% accurate the day before diagnosis, the study found. In fact, its predictive accuracy improved to 90% when the researchers added basic demographic details such as birth year, gender, ethnicity and race. “Over the past few decades, electronic health records have…

The hospitality and leisure industry may have rebounded, but these stocks are still struggling to generate profits The travel and vacation sector is back in full swing. Today, many investors who invested during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis are feeling the excitement of a reinvigorated market. Yet, there are still a few travel and leisure stocks to sell. That’s because they missed out on the recovery for one reason or another. In these cases, investors may have invested in these stocks because of their long-term recovery potential. However, as the market evolves, stocks that lag sometimes need to be reexamined for…

Microsoft’s research team has unveiled VALL-E 2, a new AI system for speech synthesis capable of generating “human-level” voices with just a few seconds of audio, indistinguishable from the source. “(VALL-E 2 is) the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time,” the research paper reads. The system builds on its predecessor, VALL-E, which was introduced in early 2023. Neural codec language models represent speech as sequences of code. According to the team, what sets VALL-E 2 apart from other voice cloning techniques is its “Repetition…