Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Dozens arrested around the UK at protests to support proscribed group Palestine Action
LONDON (AP) — British police arrested dozens of people for supporting a banned Palestinian rights organization on Saturday as protests over the government’s decision to outlaw the group continued for a third weekend. Waving placards reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” demonstrators gathered in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Londonderry and Truro. The government…
Read MoreLexus Refreshes the LC 500—While Whispers of Its Exit Grow
Lexus Refreshes the LC 500—While Whispers of Its Exit Grow originally appeared on Autoblog. The LC 500 Soldiers On to 2026 Last month, a report out of Japan suggested that the LC 500, arguably Lexus’ coolest car in the lineup, is going the way of the dodo. Lexus didn’t confirm the news, but the signs…
Read MoreHow Rembrandt Saw Esther
Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a dim-witted ruler with a trophy wife—all of these feel so far from our daily preoccupations right now that the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “Esther in the…
Read MoreGaza students sit exams for first time since war began in October 2023
Hundreds of Palestinian students in Gaza are taking a crucial end-of-secondary-school exam organised by the besieged enclave’s Ministry of Education in the hope of entering university studies. Earlier this month, the ministry announced Saturday’s exam, which will be the first since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza after the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel…
Read MoreIsraeli-Druze group crosses border into Syria, IDF returns all to Israeli territory
The illegal crossings came around the announcement by US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire supported by Turkey, Jordan, and regional partners. A group of Israeli-Druze civilians had crossed the border from Israel into Syria between Friday night to Saturday morning, Israeli media reported. The IDF said…
Read MoreAs the going gets tough in South Sudan, some artisans offer cheap footwear made from rubber tires
WAU, South Sudan (AP) — From Rwanda to Kenya, fashioning footwear from discarded tires has long been a mark of local ingenuity. In South Sudan, however, the creative work of such artisans is now fueled by an economic crisis that has left the government on the verge of bankruptcy and many people struggling to put…
Read MoreEuropean ministers back tighter migration policy in joint declaration
Six EU countries have called for consistent deportations and a tightening of European asylum policy in a joint statement after talks on migration hosted by German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt. Dobrindt invited his counterparts from France, Poland, Austria, Denmark and the Czech Republic, as well as EU Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner,…
Read MoreThe Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. “I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with whatever the hell is going on right now,” the writer-director Ari Aster tells Adam…
Read MoreItalian deputy PM Salvini faces further trial over migrant boats
Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is to stand trial again for his crackdown on the arrival of Mediterranean refugees. The public prosecutor’s office said on Friday it was appealing against a previous acquittal ruling. The case will now go straight to Italy’s Supreme Court in Rome. A date for the new trial has not…
Read MoreUK sanctions Russian intelligence officers who targeted Mariupol theater and family of poisoned spy
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. on Friday sanctioned Russian military intelligence units and officers it said were behind preparations for a 2022 bomb attack on a theater in southern Ukraine that killed hundreds of civilians. Britain’s foreign ministry said it sanctioned 18 officers working for Russian military intelligence, known as the GRU. It said the…
Read More“Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire
“Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are. His earlier chillers, “Hereditary” (2018) and “Midsommar” (2019), had their labyrinthine ambiguities, too, but they also had propulsive craft and cunning, plus a resolute commitment to…
Read MoreBaseless posts about India embassy attack misuse old photos
Unfounded rumours have circulated among Indian social media users that the country’s embassy in Afghanistan was attacked in early July. The visuals in the false posts are old, and include a picture of a bombing that damaged the German embassy building in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul in 2017. “Shocking news from Kabul: Attack on the Indian…
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