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Salmon is an excellent source of protein. A standard 3-ounce serving (about the size of a deck of cards) provides around 22 grams. Along with protein, salmon also contains healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals. When eaten as part of a balanced diet, salmon can help support muscle health, promote heart health, and lower inflammation. Here’s how much protein is in different portion sizes of cooked wild Atlantic salmon: 3 ounces (oz): 21.6 grams (g) of protein4 oz: 28.8 g6 oz: 43.2 g The protein content varies across different types of salmon. Here’s the amount of protein in a 3-ounce cooked…

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran. Source link

Suspected drone sightings have disrupted flights at airports across Belgium on Tuesday, with no flights departing or arriving at Brussels Airport – the country’s busiest. Air traffic was suspended around 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after a drone sighting. An hour later it briefly reopened, before closing again shortly after.Liege Airport was also affected and it was not clear when flights would resume. Local media also reported drone sightings at the Kleine-Brogel and Florennes military airbases, local media reported.It is the latest in a string of suspected drone sightings causing disruption at European airports – including in Munich, Copenhagen and…

Donald Trump has relaunched his nomination of a billionaire private astronaut to be the new NASA chief and lead the space agency “into a bold new era”.Jared Isaacman, an ally of SpaceX boss Elon Musk, was originally nominated by the US president in the spring, but the rug was pulled at the last minute over his previous donations to Democrats.Now, in a sudden reversal, Mr Trump has decided Isaacman is, after all, the best person for the job.”Jared’s passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and unlocking the…

Natalia ZotovaBBC News RussianBBCLarysa Shchyrakova was jailed in Belarus in 2022 for “extremism”Larysa would have been happier staying in prison for the final four months of her sentence, if she could have gone home at the end of it.Instead she was bussed over the border from Belarus into Lithuania with 51 other political prisoners. They were released in September as part of a deal to relax sanctions hatched between Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko and US President Donald Trump.During the three years she spent behind bars for “extremism” and “discrediting” Belarus, Larysa Shchyrakova missed her mother’s funeral. Now she cannot…

A turbine blade is lifted onto a rack near tower sections at the Revolution Wind project assembly site at State Pier in New London, Connecticut, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDanish renewables giant Orsted on Wednesday reported a quarterly net loss as the beleaguered company continues to battle U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-wind policies.The world’s biggest offshore wind farm group posted a net loss of 1.7 billion Danish kroner ($261.8 million) for the July-September period. The result, which was slightly better than analysts feared, was significantly down from profit of 5.17 billion Danish kroner in…

Zhang Lei, founder and chairman of Hillhouse Investment, during the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAsia-focused private equity managers are turning more bullish on the world’s second-largest economy, betting on Beijing’s drive for technological self-sufficiency and rapid adoption to deliver the next phase of growth.Jean Eric Salata, chairman of EQT Asia, said that the strategic priorities outlined in Beijing’s new five-year plan are poised to deepen China’s edge in advanced manufacturing, bolster investment in technology and artificial intelligence, and boost consumption.”I’m actually bullish on China — and very…

Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondentGetty Images / BBCOn her first day of work, Adau realised she had made a big mistake.”We got our uniforms, not even knowing exactly what we were going to do. From the first day of work we were taken to the drones factory. We stepped in and we saw drones everywhere and people working. Then they took us to our different work stations.”Twenty-three-years-old and originally from South Sudan, Adau says last year she was lured to the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, on the promise of a full-time job.She had applied to…

Bitcoin, ethereum and the stablecoin USDT are promoted at a cryptocurrency store in Hong Kong on July 29, 2025. Peter Parks | Afp | Getty Images This report is from this week’s CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what’s driving the world’s second-largest economy. You can subscribe here.The big storyAmerica’s AI competition with China is coming for cryptocurrencies.At least that’s what U.S. President Donald Trump suggested following his meeting last Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping — a trade negotiation closely watched around the world.”I wanna make crypto great for America,” Trump told CBS News.…

Asian online giant Shein along with Temu, AliExpress and Wish are being investigated by Paris prosecutors after France’s consumer watchdog said childlike sex dolls had been found on Shein’s platform.Shein promised to co-operate fully with authorities as the company prepared to open its first physical store on Wednesday, on the sixth floor of Paris department store BHV.BHV’s decision to house the fast-fashion giant has angered rival clothing brands and a number have said they will leave the prestigious department store in protest.Fashion designer Agnès B said she would close her concession in BHV when her contract ended in January. “I’m…

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchAlthough her next Budget remains three weeks away, exhausted political commentators are already confident of some measures to be announced by Rachel Reeves, the U.K.’s finance minister.One is a further extension of the freeze in the thresholds at which people begin to pay the basic and higher rates of income tax.Another is a 4% rise in the National Living Wage (NLW) — the minimum hourly wage British employers must pay workers aged 21 or over — to £12.70 ($16.56) from the start of…

A fire that broke out in a nursing home in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina has left 11 people dead and at least 30 others injured, authorities say.The blaze started on Tuesday night at the retirement facility in the town of Tuzla, breaking out on the seventh floor shortly after 20:45 local time (19:45 GMT).Around 20 people were sent to a medical centre for treatment, including firefighters, police officers, medical workers, employees, and residents of the home, a police spokesperson said.While cause of the fire was not immediately clear, Prime Minister Nermin Nikšić called it “a disaster of enormous proportions”.Officials said a full…

When using glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs (GLP-1s) for weight loss or diabetes, you need to get comfortable with injecting the medication under your skin (subcutaneously). Typically, you will target your stomach, thigh, or upper arm because these areas tend to have more fat tissue. When injecting the medication, rotate sites or avoid injecting it in the same spot twice in a row. This helps prevent injection site reactions like swelling and rashes. It may also prevent lipohypertrophy, which is when a lump of fatty tissue forms under the skin. Why It Works: While research is not conclusive, some studies have found…

The cyber attack on high street department store Marks and Spencer is expected to directly cost roughly £136m.The figure is only the cost of immediate incident systems response and recovery, as well as specialist legaland professional services support. Combined with a loss in sales, as the retailer’s online systems were out of action from Easter into the summer, statutory profit before tax at the business has been nearly wiped out for the first half of the year.This profit measure dropped from £391.9m last year to £3.4m this year. Statutory profit before tax is the official profit figure reported in a…

The namesake of Mazar-i-Sharif suffered countless cracks in a 6.3-magnitude quake, but, like Afghanistan, it has endured for centuries. Source link

Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesNvidia will help train and mentor emerging deep tech startups in India as a founding member of a $2 billion investment alliance, deepening its presence in the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem.The U.S. chipmaker has joined the India Deep Tech Alliance (IDTA) — a group of private equity and venture capital investors pledging $2 billion for deep tech investments — as a founding member. Deep tech startups are an umbrella term for emerging companies in semiconductors, space, AI,…

China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens. Source link

More than 130 roads were blocked, power and communication networks disrupted, while health services remain under heavy strain, according to the UN aid coordination office (OCHA). “Up to 360,000 people may require food assistance”, underscored the World Food Programme (WFP). Access to some western parishes continue to be difficult due to debris and fuel shortages, OCHA said. WFP has been “working around the clock”, developing joint plans and strategies with the Government, said Brian Bogart, Country Director for WFP Multi-Country Caribbean Office, briefing journalists in New York via video link.Jamaican resilience“The Jamaican people are resilient”, he said, “but they need urgent…

The country’s space authorities said that were investigating whether an object had hit the space station and the risks tied to it. Source link

A woman uses her mobile phone as she walks past the logo of Japan’s telecommunications giant SoftBank in Tokyo on December 25, 2013. Toru Yamanaka | Afp | Getty ImagesShares of Asian AI-linked companies and tech firms fell Wednesday, tracking declines in U.S. peers, as investors turned wary of stretched valuations in the market’s most crowded trades.Japan’s SoftBank, a key backer of AI-related firms, saw shares drop 13%, while semiconductor testing equipment maker Advantest declined over 8%, chipmaker Renesas Electronics lost 5.48%.South Korean memory chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix lost nearly 6%. The surge in chipmakers SK Hynix…

Joe Bae, co-chief executive officer of KKR & Co., during the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPrivate equity fund managers are bracing for a wave of consolidation as investors demand higher returns and stronger governance, forcing a shakeout in an overcrowded industry, several industry veterans said at a high-level finance summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday.”How is it that there are more private equity funds in North America than there are McDonald’s franchises,” said KKR & Co’s co-CEO Joe Bae on Tuesday, noting that the U.S. has about…

Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth could take the edge off global warming and limit the damage caused by climate change, according to Britain’s leading scientific body.But the Royal Society has warned that strategies aimed at bringing about these changes are not without risk. The society, which sparked the scientific revolution in the 17th century, said in a new report that bold new technology for reflecting sunlight back into space could “buy time” for cuts in fossil fuel emissions to take effect.It said two strategies – pumping reflective particles high in the atmosphere and spraying salt into clouds…

The government of Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a program of big spending to spur Canada’s economy and reduce its dependence on the United States. Source link

The attack occurred in North Kordofan, which has seen an increased military buildup as the army and paramilitary forces jockey for control of the country. Source link