Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Surprise as Ivory Coast’s ex-first lady cleared to contest presidency
Ivory Coast’s former First Lady Simone Gbagbo, 76, is the surprise inclusion in a list of five candidates who have been officially cleared to contest next month’s presidential election. She will run against President Alassane Ouattara, 83, who took power after she and her former husband, Laurent Gbagbo, were captured in a presidential bunker during…
Read MoreFormer Iranian defense official Amir Mousawi resurfaces in Iraq after disappearing in Cairo
Rumors spread by Iranian media suggested the Iranian official had been abducted by Israel’s Mossad. A former Iranian defense ministry advisor confirmed on X that he had returned to Iraq after previously going missing in Egypt during a trip taken on his Iraqi passport, according to Middle Eastern media reports. Tehran had previously confirmed that…
Read MoreState media: North Korea tests powerful rocket engine
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways North Korea has tested a new type of solid-fuel engine for intercontinental missiles, state media reported on Tuesday. State news agency KCNA reported that…
Read More‘Intolerable situation in Gaza,’ UK PM Starmer discusses with PA President Abbas in London
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met PA President Mahmoud Abbas, backing Palestinian statehood at the UN while stressing the need for a Gaza ceasefire, hostages’ release, and no role for Hamas. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at 10 Downing Street on Monday evening, the UK Government confirmed. During their…
Read MorePalestinian gunmen kill 6 people in attack on Jerusalem bus stop
JERUSALEM — Palestinian attackers opened fire at a bus stop during the morning rush hour in Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding another 12, according to Israeli officials. An Israeli soldier and civilians who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers, said police, who later arrested a third person in…
Read MoreCar Thief Sues People Who Stopped Theft
We live in a crazy, mixed-up world when a car thief who was stopped by regular people is now suing those Good Samaritans. Even better, the guy who was stealing a vehicle but was stopped is reportedly a repeat offender. But he’s apparently the victim. Army football player and his dad rescue a car crash…
Read MoreItaly’s renewable energy delays could miss EU carbon emission goals: report
Italy may struggle to meet its carbon emission reduction commitments due to delays in renewable power generation and energy storage systems, according to Reuters, based on a recent study conducted by Edison and TEHA Group. The report suggests that Italy could take an additional ten years beyond the expected timeframe to deploy the necessary green…
Read MoreClip of strong winds in Vietnam falsely shared by Thai users to taunt Cambodia
After major storms caused flooding in parts of Southeast Asia, a video of people battling strong winds surfaced in Thai social media posts falsely claiming it was shot in Cambodia. However, the clip in fact shows the impact of a storm in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi in July 2025. The six-second clip was shared on TikTok…
Read MoreKadir Nelson’s “The Soloist”
When the news is especially distressing, it can be easy to feel like art is futile; that you should, instead, focus your attention on all the suffering in the world, such as the cruelties inflicted by the second Trump Administration. But, for the cover of the September 15, 2025, issue, the painter Kadir Nelson chose…
Read MoreBohuslav Martinů Is One of Music’s Great Chameleons
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches? The characteristic quirks of major composers are easily identified: Beethoven’s hammering three- or four-note motives, Schubert’s juxtapositions of heavenly melodies and harmonic abysses, Brahms’s pensive parallel sixths, Mahler’s agonized four-note turns. Even in the case of many-sided figures such as Monteverdi or Stravinsky,…
Read MoreThe War on Trans Art
In July, the artist Amy Sherald pulled out of a large-scale show at the Smithsonian after learning that she might not be able to include a portrait of Lady Liberty as a Black trans woman. The Trump Administration heralded the “removal” of the exhibit as “a principled and necessary step.” Sherald quickly decried it as…
Read MoreFrance faces more political upheaval as prime minister’s fate hangs in the balance
PARIS (AP) — France risks losing its third prime minister in 12 months on Monday, with incumbent François Bayrou facing a parliamentary confidence vote that he called but is widely expected to lose, heralding more instability for the European Union’s second-largest economy. The 74-year-old centrist prime minister, appointed by President Emmanuel Macron just under nine…
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