Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Gaza Strip sees flooding after heavy rainfall
Heavy rainfall in Israel and the Palestinian Territories has caused severe flooding in the largely destroyed Gaza Strip. Palestinian media reported on Tuesday that many people living in temporary tent camps along the coast were particularly affected by the harsh weather conditions. Videos and pictures showed Palestinians moving between flooded tents and struggling to remove…
Read MoreCAN 2025: Morocco pulls out all the stops for traveling supporters
CAN 2025 Morocco is leaving no stone unturned to ensure all African football fans can experience the 2025 AFCON on its home soil. In just a few weeks, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations will kick off in Morocco. It’s a major event for the Kingdom, which is aiming to lift the trophy for only…
Read MoreHaryana inaugurates biomass pellet plant in Rewari
The Indian state of Haryana has reached a key milestone in its clean energy journey with the inauguration of a 240 tonnes per day biomass pellet plant in the city of Rewari, by the Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi. The Haryana biomass pellet plant clean energy initiative is poised to advance…
Read MoreA Family Drama Over Gender in “Holy Curse”
“Holy Curse,” a new short from the U.S.-based Indian filmmaker Snigdha Kapoor, is punctuated by two instances of roadside urination. “I’ve done that so many times,” Kapoor told me, laughing, on a Zoom call from her home in Jersey City. In the film, one culprit is Radha, an androgynous preteen suffering through the gender codifications…
Read MoreOld Jeju killing falsely tied to S. Korea’s visa-free policy for Chinese tourists
After South Korea began receiving Chinese tour groups under a temporary visa-free policy, a nearly decade-old photo resurfaced in posts falsely claiming it showed a tourist let into the country under the scheme who proceeded to kill a local person. The posts blame President Lee Jae Myung for the murder, but the crime in fact…
Read MorePosts misrepresent unrelated videos as call for Okinawa’s separation from Japan
Clips showing Japanese actresses talking about their podcast and an influencer speaking about relationships have been repurposed in Chinese social media posts to give the false impression they show Indigenous Okinawans discussing the sovereignty of the region — a recurring target of misleading claims online. Neither of the actresses nor the influencer said they were…
Read MoreUK to enforce ETA travel permit rules from February onwards
The British government is set to strictly enforce checks on travellers from February next year to ensure they have an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), after an initial grace period with lighter checks, the UK government said. The ETA has been mandatory since April for citizens from Europe, the US, Australia and other countries, but checks…
Read MorePoland calls in Israeli ambassador over Yad Vashem exhibit
Warsaw strongly objected on Monday to how Poland was referred to in a post on X regarding the Star of David that was put out by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust over the weekend. The Polish Foreign Ministry said it was calling in the Israeli ambassador to protest, charging that the post was…
Read MoreGermany’s family business lobby opens door to AfD, sparking backlash
Germany’s Family Business Association, which represents the interests of companies ranging from medium-sized enterprises to giants like BMW and Merck, has lifted the “firewall” that existed around any form of cooperation with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. A scandal broke out after it was revealed that the group had invited representatives of the…
Read MoreIDF launches surprise drills in northern Israel after killing Hezbollah’s military chief
The IDF has heightened the alert level of its forces on the Lebanon border over concerns that Hezbollah could exploit winter weather and reduced visibility. The IDF launched a surprise drill near the Lebanon border in Israel’s North on Monday, a day after the IDF assassinated Hezbollah’s chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, the military…
Read MoreWhat Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?
The endgame of capitalism, in his account, is a world where “almost nothing escaped commodification.” Beckert here refers to commodities in the loose, colloquial sense of “products that can be bought and sold,” but for the most part he uses the word as the technical term for a tradable good, like grain or copper, that…
Read MoreDeep Cleaning by the Deep State
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