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Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024 and almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. Even as Russian troops and tanks moved into Ukraine in February 2022, Russian natural gas kept flowing through the country’s pipeline network — set up when Ukraine and Russia were both part of the Soviet Union — to Europe, under a five-year agreement. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom earned money from the gas and Ukraine collected transit fees. Ukraine’s energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, confirmed Kyiv had stopped the transit “in the interest of national security.” “This is a historic event.

What dishes did Denver try making at home in 2024? Part of that answer can be found within the city’s libraries, which loaned cookbooks to thousands of hungry readers over the year. They include volumes on purely soups, one-pan meals and healthy and sustainable cooking. Ina Garten’s memoir from this year was a New York Times bestseller, but local readers also returned to her for her dinner recipes. Related: 5 things I’ve learned from writing cookbooks Below are the most popular cookbooks of 2024, according to the Denver Public Library system, which tracks e-book and physical book loans separately. Electronic cookbooks “Every Season is Soup Season: 85+ Souper-Adaptable Recipes to Batch, Share, Reinvent, and Enjoy” by Shelly Westerhausen Worcel (251 checkouts) “Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook” by Jess Damuck (184 checkouts) “5 Ingredient Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food” by Jamie Oliver (130 checkouts) “Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking” by Margaret Li & Irene Li (129 checkouts) “The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook: 500 Inspired, Flexible Recipes for Eating Well Without Meat” from America’s Test Kitchen (122 checkouts) Print cookbooks “Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook” by Ina Garten (194 checkouts) Related Articles Restaurants, Food and Drink | ACLU sues Colorado school district over removal of “highly sensitive” library books Restaurants, Food and Drink | Hundreds of bookstore staffers — including one in Colorado — get holiday bonuses from author James Patterson Restaurants, Food and Drink | The Book Club: “When We Flew Away,” by Alice Hoffman, and more short reader reviews Restaurants, Food and Drink | East Colfax brewery closing after 10 years of pouring literature-themed craft beer Restaurants, Food and Drink | Dick Kreck, whose wild Denver Post columns and books celebrated Mile High City, dies at 83 “Milk Street Simple” by Christopher Kimball (193 checkouts) “Dinner in One: Exceptional and Easy One-Pan Meals” by Melissa Clark (175 checkouts) “Skinnytaste Simple: Easy, Healthy Recipes Using 7 Ingredients or Fewer” by Gina Homolka (166 checkouts) “Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files” by Deb Perelman (160 checkouts) Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircrafts operated by the country’s airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 people a day earlier. Sunday’s crash, the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades, triggered an outpouring of national sympathy.

For President Jimmy Carter, morality was a personal obligation that became a national calling. A deeply religious man, he taught Sunday school for most of his adult life until the point in 2020 when he physically couldn’t anymore, and he projected that same moral leadership from his entry into politics through his ascendance to the presidency.

Moo Deng might seem to most people like just an adorable viral baby hippo, but to the government of Thailand, where she’s from, she’s a cultural ambassador and shining example of the country’s push to boost what it calls its “soft power.” The term soft power was coined at the height of the Cold War by American political scientist Joseph Nye, who used it to describe “when one country gets other countries to want what it wants” without the use of force, in contrast to the hard power “of ordering others to do what it wants.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But in the last year and a half, since the Pheu Thai party came to power in August 2023, Thailand has sought to redefine soft power instead as getting others to want what it has—with a particular emphasis on highlighting the country’s cultural prominence to attract tourists and foreign investment. Moo Deng isn’t alone.