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A French charity organization has a ship. This ship rescues migrants in the sea. They are between Libya and Italy. The ship travels to Italy. The Italian government says that the ship must not come there. The ship stays at sea for several weeks.

Some migrants are sick. They need help. No port wants the ship. In the end, the ship goes to the French port of Toulon.

Giorgia Meloni is Italy’s new prime minister. She is the leader of the government. Her ideas are extreme. Her government only supports Italy.

The change makes the relationship worse between Italy and France. Now, France won’t take 3,500 asylum seekers from Italy.

Nigeria Crisis

In Nigeria, prices go up a lot in August. Every year, the country looks at how much things cost. This is called inflation. And this time, it is really high at 25.8%. It is the highest number in 18 years.

President Bola Tinubu does some things in May which make prices go up. He stops giving extra money to people and companies for petrol. He changes the way how money works between countries. This means that food and transport cost more now. And people are very upset. This is the eighth month in a row that prices go up. The number is the highest since 2005.

Experts say that this happens because the money in Nigeria is more expensive. Some things, like fuel and food, cost more. The central bank is going to decide what to do with money on 26 September.

Reindeer live in Finland. They walk freely. This is a problem. They can walk into roads. Around 4,000 animals die every year from cars.

People try to solve this problem. They make a new app. When you see a reindeer, you touch your phone. You tell the phone that there is a reindeer. The app makes a warning zone. If somebody drives into the zone, the phone warns him or her.

The project is already running. One thousand people have the app. There are 100 fewer accidents in 6 months.

There is new research. People from Cambridge University carry it out. The people study 8 sheep. They teach them to identify the faces of four people. In the end, the sheep identify the people 8 times out of 10.

This is important research. It shows that sheep can identify faces. They are like people or monkeys

Facebook makes its first smart glasses. Other companies make smart glasses in the past. They are not successful. Google makes Google glass in 2013. People do not like how the glass looks.

Mark Zuckerberg is the boss of Facebook. He says that users of the glasses can take photos and make videos. They can put them on social media. Users can also make calls and listen to music and podcasts. Users can wear the glasses and communicate with other people at the same time.

Facebook works with the company Ray-Ban. Ray-Ban makes sunglasses. People love how they look. Facebook hopes that people will love the new smart glasses, too.

The Amazon is in Brazil. The Amazon is the largest forest in the world. Millions of special animals and plants are there. It is home to indigenous people.

Indigenous people live in and understand nature. They protect it. They live in the Amazon for hundreds of years.

Gold and other special rocks are under the ground in the Amazon. People take rocks from the ground. It is illegal to mine in the Amazon. Many illegal mines are there. People destroy the forest and rivers to make the mines. They bring sickness to the indigenous people.

The Brazilian president will change the law. It will be possible to mine in the Amazon. About 30% of gold comes from illegal mines now.

In 1921, French-Russian scientist and perfumermakes Chanel No. 5. His name is Ernest Beaux. Chanel No. 5 is the first perfume by Gabriele ´Coco´ Chanel.

Chanel No. 5 is one of the most popular perfumes. Its bottle and formula change very little since 1921.

Jasmine is in Chanel No. 5. It is the most important part of the perfume. Farmers in France grow flowers for perfumes since the 17th century.

Then it changes in the 1980s. Some farmers sell their land. Other countries grow flowers for perfumes. It is not good news for Chanel. Chanel needs a lot of flowers.

Chanel does business with the Mul family. They grow jasmine for Chanel. They still do it today. Chanel has enough jasmine for its perfumes.

A bionic arm is not a real arm. It is mechanical. It works almost as well as a real arm. It changes a person´s life. A person does not need so much help from other people if he has this arm. He can play games or ride a bike. He can tie his shoes.

Campbel Arid gets his bionic arm in 1998. He is the first person in the world who gets it. His arm weighs 1.8 kilograms. It uses a battery.

Now the technology is changing very quickly. Today´s bionic arm reads signals from a person´s muscles. Scientists believe that the technology will change soon. New technology will read a person´s mind.

Ether is a blockchain network. A blockchain network is a special technology. It stores data. It puts data in lists called chains. It is a safe technology. Nobody can steal the data.

People send a digital money called Ethereum in Ether. Ethereum is the second largest digital money. The largest digital money is Bitcoin.

Ether is not very expensive. People pay only a small fee when they do business in Ether.

Ethereum 2.0 is a new version of Ether. It stores more data. Experts say that it will be cheaper than Ether.

People like Ether. They can do business without banks.

This happens near Verona, Italy. A cow falls into a ravine. It gets hurt. It cannot get out. A helicopter comes to airlift it. The helicopter carries it over the grass. It looks like it is flying. The helicopter drops it near a group of other cows.

Hopefully, the cow will recover soon.