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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and senior advisor to the U.S. president, known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his ownership of Twitter.
[303] [538] Iranian president Hassan Rouhani wrote a public letter to world leaders asking for help on 14 March 2020, due to a lack of access to international markets. [539] Saudi Arabia, which had launched a military intervention in Yemen in March 2015, declared a ceasefire.
In the United States, there were just over 2.8 million new users of illicit drugs in 2013 (7,800 new users per day); [115] among them, 54.1% were under 18 years of age. [115] In 2011, there were approximately 20.6 million people in the United States over the age of 12 with an addiction. [ 116 ]
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
In the 1990s, Quebec purchased much of its oil from the North Sea. Since 2015, it now consumes almost exclusively the crude produced in western Canada and the United States. [280] Quebec's two active refineries have a total capacity of 402,000 barrels per day, greater than local needs which stood at 365,000 barrels per day in 2018. [279]
Cincinnati (/ ˌ s ɪ n s ɪ ˈ n æ t i / ⓘ SIN-sih-NAT-ee; nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. [10] Settled by Europeans in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky.