Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
The Voice Nigeria Contestant Dies After Snake Attack in Her Sleep
Ifunanya Nwangene, a rising star on The Voice Nigeria in 2021, has sadly passed away. She suffered a snake bite while resting in her apartment. And now, her loved ones are paying tribute to the incredible life she lived, while mourning the future that Ifunanya tragically lost. Ifunanya Nwangene has died at 26 Ifunanya’s version…
Read More“Melania” Is a Forty-Million-Dollar Journey Into the Void
The First Lady’s lavish new documentary portrays world events as B-roll between wardrobe changes. Source link
Read MoreThree dead in Ukraine in latest Russian attacks
Three people have been killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine despite new negotiations for an end to the war being announced for the middle of the week. A father and his adult son were killed when a bomb hit a house in the front-line town of Oleksiyevo-Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin reported…
Read MoreGerman AfD politican found guilty of money laundering, coercion
A controversial member of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was found guilty on Monday of money laundering and coercion. A district court in Würzburg ordered 24-year-old Daniel Halemba, the AfD’s top candidate in the Bavarian city ahead of local elections in March, to pay 160 daily fines of €190 ($225). The verdict can…
Read MoreMarx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism
That a handful of revolutionaries could collect airliners worth millions of dollars and hold Western passengers ransom made it appear the Palestinians had history on their side. They dubbed Dawson’s Field “Revolution Airport.” The French writer Jean Genet, who spent time in Jordan’s Palestinian camps and wrote a book about it, told militants that the…
Read MoreHow the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
St. Bride’s, situated in an alley just off Fleet Street, is known as the journalists’ church. Having weathered not a few disasters—the Great Fire of London, in 1666, the Luftwaffe in 1940—it now advertises itself as “A Space for Silence,” offering an hour of contemplation each weekday afternoon, yards from the world’s most famous newspaper…
Read MoreTribute to woman killed in Spain in possible case of gender violence
“She was just fantastic, in every sense of the word. If you looked up the definition of mother, that was her, she did everything for those kids.” Maxine Hill is describing Victoria Hart, a 33-year-old British mother of three, who was living in Spain when she was killed last month, in a case police are…
Read MoreGroundhog Day to bring warmer temperatures
After back-to-back weekends impacted by an arctic assault, we’re finally starting to put the worst of the cold behind us. While today wasn’t the warmest, temperatures did climb above freezing for the first time in a couple of days, allowing for a very slow melting process to continue. A much larger warm-up is on the…
Read MoreIsrael partially reopens Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza in pilot
Israel says it has partially reopened the critical Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in a limited capacity. Israel announced on Sunday that the crossing had reopened in a trial. Meanwhile, COGAT, the Israeli military agency that controls aid to Gaza, said in a statement that the crossing was actively being prepared for fuller…
Read MoreWhat a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish
What did you make of the President and Melania? And what’s different about filming a movie in the White House or on Air Force One? Well, the film we were doing was actually a documentary. The organization was highly impressive because, on Inauguration Day, we had something like twelve crews all around town. Once they…
Read MoreFamilies take legal action as British tourists die
Four British people have died within four months after being struck down with stomach bugs while on holiday in Cape Verde, lawyers representing their families have said. Mark Ashley, 55, of Bedfordshire; Elena Walsh, 64, from Birmingham; 64-year-old Karen Pooley, from Gloucestershire, and a 56-year-old man all died last year after contracting severe gastric illnesses…
Read MoreWhy Jackie Robinson Testified Against Paul Robeson
Six days later, he gives another performance, in Washington, D.C., in Room 226 of the Old House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Senator John Wood, of Ku Klux Klan progeny, then shepherd of the HUAC, had invited him to testify about the “communist infiltration of minority groups,” seemingly evidenced by the interest that Black American…
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