Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Peru bans Mexico’s President Sheinbaum as diplomatic dispute grows
Peru has declared Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a “persona non grata” who is unable to enter the country, days after severing ties with Mexico amid an escalating diplomatic dispute. Peru’s Congress voted 63 to 34 on Thursday in favour of symbolically barring Sheinbaum from the country after her government granted asylum to former Peruvian Prime…
Read More‘Our job is only killing’ – how Sudan’s brutal militia carried out a massacre
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of executions. Fighters laugh as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding past a row of nine dead bodies and driving towards the setting Sudanese sun. “Look at all this work. Look at this genocide,” one cheers. He smiles as he turns the camera on himself…
Read MoreWorld leaders launch fund to save forests, get first $5 bn
World leaders attending a climate summit in Brazil launched a fund Thursday to save the world’s forests, quickly raking in over $5 billion in pledges to reward tropical countries for not chopping down trees. The initial government commitments still fall far short of what is needed for the fund to attract the private investment it…
Read MoreIlana Glazer Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The actor, writer, and comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Read MoreNate Bargatze Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian and actor tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Read MoreAndy Samberg Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
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The actor tackles The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Source link
Read MorePolice raid office of former IDF top lawyer as A-G transfers case to military prosecution
The events concern an ongoing probe into the leak of a video from the Sde Teiman detention facility in July that depicted alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees by reservist soldiers. Israel police raided former IDF top lawyer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi‘s office on Thursday after Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara transferred the investigation of the case to the military…
Read MoreGermany fines JPMorgan €45 million for anti-money-laundering failings
Germany’s financial watchdog BaFin has fined JPMorgan €45 million after finding shortcomings in the US bank’s money laundering prevention systems. The Frankfurt-based subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co. failed to submit suspicious transaction reports on time between October 2021 and September 2022, BaFin said on Thursday. The regulator said the bank “culpably breached its supervisory…
Read MoreWho was Joshua Mollel, Tanzanian agricultural student abducted by Hamas?
Joshua Mollel, a Tanzanian intern at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was tragically killed in the Hamas attack. Friends remember him as brave and hopeful. Joshua Loitu Mollel, a Tanzanian agricultural student on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was 21 years old when he was murdered during the October 7 massacre, with his body kidnapped to Gaza. His remains…
Read MoreClip of fire on Malaysian light rail generated with AI help
There have been no fires on the light rail transit (LRT) system in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur in November, its operator said, contrary to social media posts claiming a video shows firefighters putting out a blaze on a train on the Ampang Line. The clip contains visual inconsistencies indicating it was generated with the help…
Read MoreMexico’s President Sheinbaum presses charges after groping attack on street
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for sexual harassment to be made a crime nationwide after being groped on the street while greeting supporters near the presidential palace in Mexico City. Sheinbaum, 63, said on Wednesday that she had pressed charges against the man and would review nationwide legislation on sexual harassment following the attack…
Read More“Peter Hujar’s Day” Gives the Past a New Life
What’s the point of talking pictures if the people in them don’t talk? The characters in Ira Sachs’s films always express themselves volubly, even when there’s plenty of action (rewatch the ardently kinetic “Passages”), but in his surprising and boldly imaginative new drama, “Peter Hujar’s Day,” talk becomes the action. It’s a bio-pic, of sorts,…
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