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The race is on for the US to regain its status quo as the world leader and push out China with the showdown for this conflict that appears to be in Africa. During the US-Africa Leaders Summit last week, US President Joe Biden expressed his newfound interest in African countries. He asserted that “The United States is all in on Africa’s influence” which has been perceived as an attempt by Biden to re-assert US influence in Africa in order to counter growing Chinese involvement. However, given the entrenchment of Chinese influence in Africa including their techniques of dept-trap diplomacy, the US may…

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Jończyk, R. Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers (Springer International Publishing, 2016).Book  Google Scholar  Morawetz, C., Oganian, Y., Schlickeiser, U., Jacobs, A. M. & Heekeren, H. R. Second language use facilitates implicit emotion regulation via content labeling. Front. Psychol. 8, 366 (2017).Article  Google Scholar  Naranowicz, M., Jankowiak, K., Kakuba, P., Bromberek-Dyzman, K. & Thierry, G. In a bilingual mood: Mood affects lexico-semantic processing differently in native and non-native languages. Brain Sci. 12, 316 (2022).Article  Google Scholar  Forgas, J. P. Mood effects on cognition: Affective influences on the content and process of information processing and behavior. In Emotions and…

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6. “Death on the Nile” “Death on the Nile,” directed by Kenneth Branagh, was released in February 2022. 20th Century Fox; William Morrow Paperbacks Earlier this year, the classic 1937 novel “Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie was made into a movie with a star-studded cast. Starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh, the story follows detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh) as he investigates who committed a murder on board a luxurious 1930s river steamer en route to Egypt. “Death on the Nile” faced many setbacks prior to its release.In 2021, Armie Hammer, one of the film’s stars, was accused of sexual…

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Mitchell Starc’s finger injury “doesn’t look the greatest” but Nathan Lyon is hopeful he will be fit to feature in the rest of Australia’s second Test against South Africa.The fast bowler suffered a knock to his hand attempting to take a catch on day one, casting a shadow over an otherwise spectacular performance from the hosts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.With Cameron Green paying a fitting tribute to Shane Warne in the Boxing Day clash with a first five-wicket haul in Test cricket, South Africa were skittled for 189 in Victoria.However, Starc was forced off during the final session and Lyon acknowledged they face a…

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Celine Dion has been out of the public eye for the past year owing to her health condition, which she recently opened up about. However, she shared a touching video wishing everyone well for the holiday season. The My Heart Will Go On singer recently announced that she has been battling a neurological disorder called Stiff Person Syndrome, or SPS. The disease tends to attack the nervous and autoimmune systems, eventually rendering the sufferer unable to move. Despite her diagnosis, Dion, 54, took to Instagram to share her well wishes with her 5.4 million followers in a bilingual video. She…

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