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6 migrants die in crash after police try to stop a van in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Six migrants died, while three others and their driver were injured in a vehicle crash near the Black Sea city of Burgas, a senior interior ministry official said Friday. The incident occurred a short time before midnight Thursday as police tried to stop a van with Romanian registration plates carrying nine…
Read MoreEurope’s next chapter: EU enlargement report lists progress, setbacks
The European Commission presented its annual enlargement report on Tuesday, assessing the progress of states aspiring to join the European Union: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. Of the ten membership hopefuls, two – Georgia and Turkey – are frozen in their accession tracks. Leading the pack are Balkan…
Read MoreRenoir’s Surprising Experiments in Perception
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Read MoreTehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art
At Dia, the cage has been reconstructed in full, complete with Hsieh’s boots and his tally marks gouged into the wall. Every day, Hsieh was photographed by his friend, and the photos, which are wrapped around the gallery, show his facial expression fixed from week to week, month to month—relaxed and blank. The only element…
Read MoreMrBeast Unveils ‘Beast Land’ Theme Park With Never-Before-Seen Games
In a jaw-dropping revelation, MrBeast a.k.a Jimmy Donaldson announced the inauguration of Beast Land, a one-of-a-kind theme park with never-before-seen games. The futuristic park draws inspiration from his viral challenge videos and promises visitors an immersive experience like no other. MrBeast announces his own theme park based in Saudi Arabia MrBeast fans and theme park…
Read MoreIs this next election cycle our last chance to save Israel’s future?
POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Professor Dan Ben-David, a leading economist, warns that Israel’s future depends on urgent education reforms, with the next election potentially its last chance. ‘We might not get another chance to turn this train crash around. Political leaders, especially the opposition, this is your chance,” Prof. Dan Ben-David, one of Israel’s leading economists and…
Read MorePeru 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 MoreFootage of stranded Mexican ‘grandparents’ misused in posts about Philippines typhoon
Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded swathes of the central Philippines in early November, sweeping away cars and riverside shanties, and tearing roofs off buildings, but images circulating on social media of an elderly couple waiting to be rescued from muddy floodwaters were not taken in the archipelago. The images were taken from video filmed in Mexico in…
Read MoreInside Mauritania’s mass deportation campaign targeting African migrants
Nouadhibou, Mauritania – When Omar*, a 29-year-old bricklayer from rural Gambia, crossed the border into Mauritania in March, he came in search of the better pay he’d heard he could find. He settled in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-largest city, where he shared a one-room shack with four friends, and found work as a casual labourer on…
Read MoreTyphoon Kalmaegi kills 5 people in Vietnam as the Philippines prepares for a new storm
DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people and leaving widespread damage across the country’s central provinces, days after the powerful storm battered the Philippines and left scores dead or missing. As floodwaters receded, recovery work began in battered towns and…
Read MoreJapan PM Takaichi fills panel posts with advocates of big spending
By Leika Kihara and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s reflationist advocates of expansionary fiscal policy are making a comeback in economic decision-making with some hand-picked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to fill posts in key government panels. The move heightens the chance proponents of former premier Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” stimulus will yield influence on the…
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…
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