Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
AI images falsely shared as aid boats bound for Gaza
A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists left Barcelona for Gaza in late August with the aim of breaking Israel’s blockade. A few days later, AI-generated images of a fleet of boats boasting Palestinian flags were passed off as the travelling vessels. But one of the pictures bears the watermark of Google’s Gemini tool, while…
Read MoreNetanyahu’s chief of staff to replace Hotovely as Israel’s ambassador to UK
Tzachi Braverman, the outgoing PMO chief of staff, is known as the “most powerful man in the Prime Minister’s Office.” Tzipi Hotovely ended her five-year term as Israel’s ambassador to the UK on Monday and will be replaced by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman. Braverman’s appointment was approved by the Appointments Committee…
Read MoreMerz fights back tears at reopening of synagogue in Munich
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was very moved at the reopening of a restored synagogue in Munich on Monday, appearing to be fighting back tears, his voice breaking during his speech in which he recalled the inhumane crimes committed against Jews by the Nazis. Merz said he was appalled that anti-Semitism had flared up again in…
Read MoreWho are the 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation?
Leaders from across the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have gathered in Doha for an Arab-Islamic summit to forge a unified stance on Israel following its attack on a Hamas office in Qatar’s capital on September 9 that killed six people. The emergency summit of the Arab League and OIC began…
Read MoreUK drops charges against 2 men accused of spying for China
LONDON (AP) — Two men who were accused of spying for China in Britain, including a former researcher working in the U.K. Parliament, will no longer face prosecution, authorities said Monday. Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, had denied violating the Official Secrets Act by providing information or documents that could be “useful to…
Read MoreHow Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty
In Agnès Varda’s film “Jane B. par Agnès V.,” from 1988, a nearly forty-year-old Jane Birkin, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and a tweed blazer, her messy brown hair pinned back, sits in front of the Eiffel Tower and dumps out the contents of her purse. The purse, which she helped design, is named…
Read MoreIn Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home
That’s meant to be remedied by Calder Gardens, a new institution taking shape in a half-buried berm on the Parkway, not far from that paternal fountain. The site joins a civic row of culture—the Franklin Institute (science), the Free Library (books), the Rodin Museum (tormented figures), and the Barnes (eccentric juxtapositions of modern art and…
Read MoreIndia hardliners give Nepal protests baseless religious twist
Protesters in Nepal ousted the prime minister and set parliament ablaze over the government’s ban on social media and corruption allegations — but in neighbouring India, the violence is being misrepresented online as something else entirely: a religious uprising. While some claim that the demonstrations are a demand for a “Hindu state”, others say the…
Read MoreMadeleine McCann suspect turns down Met Police interview
The prime suspect in the high-profile case of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance has declined to be interviewed by the Metropolitan Police, the force has said. The Met said an international letter of request was sent to Christian Brückner, ahead of his imminent release for a separate offence, for him to speak with them which he later…
Read MoreFather reunited with family in Sudan after Al Jazeera news report
A Sudanese father who had lost contact with his wife for 18 months has been reunited with his family after recognising them in an Al Jazeera news report. Shamoun Idris lived with his wife, Fatma Ali, and their children in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, until the city became a battleground between Sudan’s regular army and the…
Read MoreThieves clear out almost 8,000 square metres of vineyards in Germany
Unknown perpetrators have stolen almost all the ripe grapes from two vineyards in Germany’s Rhineland, covering an area of around 8,000 square metres. The grape varieties affected are Riesling and Sauvignon blanc, the police said on Sunday. The two independent winemakers in the village of Gundheim near the city of Worms in the state of…
Read MoreIsrael hits Gaza City campus as military orders fresh evacuations
The Israeli military destroyed another building of the Islamic University in Gaza City on Sunday, saying Hamas had used the facility to monitor Israeli soldiers and plan attacks. Videos published by both Israeli and Palestinian media showed the building being struck and collapsing, and the military confirmed the attack. The claims could not be independently…
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