Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Pro-Palestinian rally in Leipzig draws large police presence
Several hundred people gathered in Leipzig on Saturday for a pro-Palestinian demonstration to protest against supporters of Israel within the left-wing scene. Several left-wing groups registered to gather in the Connewitz district of the eastern German city. Large numbers of police officers were deployed, expecting an extended operation. The officers were separating the different groups,…
Read MoreBob Weir’s Feral Radiance
Although Weir was a serious person it was easy to make him laugh. He made you feel when you were with him that he had no other place to be, that things had worked out to bring the two of you together, and that he meant to enjoy this gift from life. He could also…
Read MoreCAN 2025: All the third-place playoffs in the tournament’s history
All the third-place playoffs in the history of CAN 2025 Egypt/@CAF Egypt and Nigeria are set to clash this Saturday, January 17, 2026, at 16:00 GMT in the third-place playoff of CAN 2025. Nigeria holds the record for the most third-place finishes—eight times in 1976, 1978, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, and 2019. The Super…
Read MorePolice deny claims Uganda opposition leader abducted by helicopter
Police in Uganda have denied allegations that presidential candidate Bobi Wine was abducted on Friday evening as vote counting continues in the East African nation amid an internet blackout. Wine’s party said a helicopter landed in the grounds of his house in the capital, Kampala, and forcibly took him to an unknown location. Initially Wine’s…
Read MoreUganda’s president heads for victory as his main rival cries foul
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a commanding lead in Thursday’s presidential election – well ahead of his main challenger Bobi Wine, whose party has already questioned the credibility of the results. Figures so far give Museveni 74% of the vote, with Wine on 23%, based on returns from 81% of polling stations. Wine’s party…
Read MoreErich von Stroheim’s Spectacular Art Is Back
As Steuben, Stroheim assumed a military bearing and status that he’d never approached in his actual Army days. The performance style that he thereby invented set the mold for most of his future roles; it was a defining trait of his films, and it embodied the convergence of artifice and realism that defines the art…
Read MoreUnder fire from the sea, families in Odesa try to escape Russian barrage
From Mariia’s 16th-floor flat, the calm waters of the Black Sea stretch out into the horizon beneath the fading twilight. “Up here you can see and hear when the drones come,” she says, standing by a wall-length, floor-to-ceiling window. When they hit buildings and homes in the city of Odesa down below “we see all…
Read MoreNia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
In “The Bone Temple,” the full extent of Jimmy’s evil is revealed early on. So, too, is the range of O’Connell’s screen villainy, no less impressively showcased by his recent turn as a vampire in “Sinners.” Jimmy is a gleefully sadistic killer of the living and the undead alike, and a sworn son of Satan,…
Read MoreZelensky says Russia preparing ‘new massive attacks’
Ukrainian intelligence reports suggest that Russia is preparing a fresh wave of “massive attacks” on the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, as Ukraine is struggling to keep its energy grid running amid freezing winter weather. “We are speaking frankly to our partners – both about air defence missiles and the systems we need…
Read MoreWith the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
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. Before becoming a podcaster, Jennifer Welch had a successful career as an interior designer and co-starred in a reality show on Bravo. But, since 2022, she…
Read MoreBentley Parts, Revolving License Plates Used to Smuggle 6 Million Cigarettes Into U.K, Police Say
This story has all the makings for a Hollywood spy thriller: expensive car parts, a massive smuggling operation, and a truck equipped with James Bond-style revolving license plates. According to a report by Kent Online, a man has been arrested and sent to jail for smuggling 6,349,800 mixed-brand cigarettes into the United Kingdom, smokes that…
Read MoreRussian court considers central bank’s $232B lawsuit against Euroclear over seized assets
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Friday began considering a lawsuit filed by the central bank against Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house that holds the bulk of Russian assets frozen by the European Union. The lawsuit seeks to recover 18.2 trillion rubles ($232 billion) in damages incurred when Russia was barred from managing…
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