Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Year-old earthquake footage misrepresented as showing Japan’s December 2025 tremor
After Japan’s northern coast was rocked by a magnitude 7.5 quake on December 8, videos purportedly showing the impact of the tremor were falsely shared on social media. The clips in fact show a street and a car park shaken by another powerful quake that struck central Japan on New Year’s Day in 2024. “Devastating…
Read More‘Horror and heroism’ at Bondi Beach
'Horror and heroism' at Bondi Beach Source link
Read MoreGermany’s Deutsche Welle broadcaster declared ‘undesirable’ in Russia
Moscow has labelled Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning its activities in the country. The move follows a recommendation by the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, DW reported on Sunday. A government statement posted on Telegram on Saturday said the General Prosecutor’s Office now considers DW to be…
Read MoreMemory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie”
Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, Source link
Read More‘Hero’ who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Mr Ahmed managed to wrestle the gun from the attacker in the struggle [BBC] A “hero” bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before…
Read MoreWATCH: Remarkable Video of Man Wrestling Gun Away From Australian Hannukah Shooter
A remarkable video circulating online appears to show a man attacking and ripping a gun away from one of the perpetrators of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach in a suburb outside of Sydney on Sunday evening. In the video, the man sneaks around a car to attack the shooter from behind before subsequently…
Read MoreThe Best Things I Ate in 2025
Trends in restaurants are like trends in art: cumulative, ambient, much more evident in retrospect than they are in the chaos of the present. If 2024 was the year that the French resurgence really took hold, bathing New York City in cream and caviar, maybe 2025 was the year of the scrappy, auteurish indie: restaurants…
Read MoreIsraeli foreign minister slams Australia after Sydney attack
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar sharply criticized the Australian government following the shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney on Sunday. “I’m appalled by the murderous shooting attack at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, Australia,” Saar wrote in a post on social media platform X. He said the Jewish community had been targeted and that…
Read More‘Stop evading, stop delaying’: 200 former hostages, families urge Netanyahu to start Oct. 7 probe
Security camera footage showing the entrance to Moshav Ein Habesor during the October 7, 2023, massacre. (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT) In a letter, the groups demanded “truth, justice, and accountability,” saying only a state commission has the legal authority to investigate decision-making before and after the attack. More than 200…
Read MoreIsrael strikes car in Gaza City, says it killed senior Hamas commander
The Israeli military said on Saturday it killed Ra’ad Sa’ad, a senior Hamas commander, by striking a car in Gaza City. Gaza health authorities said the attack on the car killed five people and wounded at least 25 others. In a joint statement on X, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said…
Read MoreFive held on suspicion of planning attack on German Christmas market
Five men have been detained on suspicion of planning an attack on a Christmas market in southern Germany, the public prosecutor in Munich said on Saturday. Formal arrest warrants were issued for four of the men, while one was taken into preventive custody for the suspected plans to attack a Christmas market in the Dingolfing…
Read MoreTeen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins
The British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins died, in September, at the age of seventy-eight, after a groundbreaking and globe-spanning career, leaving behind a catalogue that ranges from images of war-torn Afghanistan during the mid- to late nineties to scenes from Japan in the early two-thousands. But Steele-Perkins, a member of the Magnum photo agency, was particularly…
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