| 1. Russia-Ukraine war live: Romania finds ‘drone fragments’ on farm near Ukraine border15:04[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Nato member says it finds fragments of what appears to be a drone on farm near river Danube and border with Ukraine Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to label Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a “foreign agent”, Reuters reported citing the state RIA news agency. Ukraine has received a $1.5 billion tranche of funding under a World Bank programme, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday, helping it pay for its budget and social spending as it defends itself against the Russian invasion. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
3. ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home15:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slum - Photographs by Nicola Zolin
At 4pm, the sound of sirens is fading. On the pavement, a teenage girl – her eyes darting back and forth to monitor police presence – starts smoking crack. She is across the street from “Hotel 583”, a makeshift shelter in a dangerous part of downtown Manaus, the capital of Amazonas in Brazil. On the second floor of the building, in the Cidade de Deus slum, 20 of the 27 Warao people who live here cram into a sweltering room measuring about 20 sq metres. Some sleep on the floor, while the more fortunate are in hammocks. The children’s stomachs are swollen, the effect of parasites, and their skin is covered in rashes. Warao people are crowded into a makeshift building in the Cidade de Deus slum Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
4. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady review – moving account of undiagnosed autism15:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The Scottish comedian narrates her traumatic experience of being ‘wired differently’ and why autism is so frequently missed in women When the Scottish comedian Fern Brady phoned her father to say she had been diagnosed with autism, he was on his daily commute back from London. He said, “Oh right”, and began complaining about the traffic. Brady replied: “Well, they say autism can be inherited from one parent, so I guess that’s answered the question of which one.” Strong Female Character, written and narrated by Brady, and winner of the inaugural Nero award for nonfiction, documents the turmoil of growing up with undiagnosed autism, during which she excelled academically but struggled with sensory overload and had violent outbursts that baffled her family, teachers and peers. After she began self-harming, her parents sent her to an adolescent psychiatric unit where she was a day patient. She was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, though she knew that wasn’t the whole story. It took until she was 34 to get an autism diagnosis. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
5. The best translated fiction – review roundup15:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, Your Utopia by Bora Chung, The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig and Her Side of the Story by Alba de Cespedes Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, translated by Imogen Taylor (Pushkin, GBP16.99) “Somehow we survived. Again and again,” says a woman in this novel about life in the former USSR. Growing up in the 1970s in what is now eastern Ukraine, Lena experienced the full range of Soviet delights, from trips to the technical museum to see steam boilers and gas turbines, to working holidays in Sochi spent shaking hazelnuts down from trees. Lena wants to be a doctor, but can’t decide on a specialism. “Do dermatology,” a friend tells her. “They treat STDs too. Everyone has syphilis these days. You’ll rake it in!” The book covers decades, but the sparky, succinct style means it never feels rushed. It does lose focus a little as it reaches the modern day, but compensates with a range of new characters. “Sometimes it’s easier to get over things if you don’t think about them,” says one. But where would literature be with that attitude? Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
6. Europe live: Calls for European parliament to investigate possible Russian interference in elections14:58[-/+]Автор(?) President of Renew Europe writes to European parliament president after reports Russian influence network had paid current or former members The president of Renew Europe, Valerie Hayer, has written to the president of the European parliament asking for an urgent investigation into reports that a Russian influence network had paid current or former members of the European parliament. “I write to express the Renew Europe Group’s grave concerns about reports, confirmed by Polish, Czech and Belgian security services and by the Prime ministers of Belgium and the Czech Republic, that Members of this House and candidates in the forthcoming European elections have been paid by the Russia Government or its proxies to disseminate propaganda in the European parliament and beyond,” Hayer wrote in the letter, dated today. We urge you to launch an immediate and transparent investigation, in cooperation with national authorities, to uncover the scale of the influence operation within this house and allegations of potential corruption. If sitting MEPs or candidates in the upcoming European elections have taken money from or been corrupted by the Russia Government or their proxies, they must be exposed. We urge you to take the necessary steps to remove any access that the Voice of Europe has to the European parliament’s premises and protect the democratic integrity of this house. European sanctions should accompany those adopted by the Czech Government. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
9. Israeli airstrike in Syria kills more than 40 people, says war monitor14:38[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Strike near Aleppo weapons depot reportedly killed Hezbollah and Syrian troops, while civilians also said to be among dead Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo province have killed more than 40 people, including members of Hezbollah and a large number of Syrian soldiers in an area near the militant Lebanese organisation’s weapons depots, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. As many as 42 people were killed in what contradictory reports described as air and drone strikes in the early hours of Friday that hit missile depots for Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group in Aleppo’s southern suburb of Jibreen, near Aleppo’s international airport, and a nearby town that houses a military facility. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
10. Easter processions cancelled in southern Spain due to rainstorms14:27[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Spain is hit by strong winds and rain from Storm Nelson and four drown on storm-battered coasts Easter processions in southern Spain have been cancelled after heavy rain from Storm Nelson, as the country was hit by strong winds and four people drowned on its storm-battered coasts. All of the big processions in Seville on Holy Thursday were cancelled because of the rainstorms that were otherwise welcome in a region that has been experiencing a severe drought. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
11. Busy sowing seeds? It pays to look ahead14:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Thinking about how you plant your spring seeds now will make it easier to save them come autumn It’s spring! The equinox has passed and so the days will be longer than the nights for the next six months. No matter what the weather throws at us (and it’s highly probable that there are frosty mornings still to come), we are categorically in spring. And I’d bet that you, like your fellow gardeners, are busy sowing seeds. Peas, beetroot, lettuce, radishes, spring onions, kohlrabi and more can be sown now. This time last year, I wrote about the magic of growing plants from seed and this hopeful gesture is an ideal practice to celebrate the return of the light. But this season I want to suggest, as you nudge your seeds into compost, that you contemplate the other end of their life cycle and plan to save their seeds for future years. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
12. ‘They kept us alive for thousands of years’: could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world?14:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, believes biodiversity will save the planet in the climate crisis The first year that the Hudson Valley Seed Company tried growing yakteen at their farm in upstate New York, the heirloom variety of Palestinian gourd quickly spread until its vines were sending their tendrils across a full acre of land. Born of a partnership with the artist, researcher and conservationist Vivien Sansour, that pilot plot was just one of many pieces of evidence supporting Sansour’s thesis: that saving Palestinian heirloom seeds could benefit not just Palestinians, but could help feed an entire planet in crisis. Sansour is the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, a project that began in 2016 to conserve Palestinian heritage and culture by saving heirloom seed varieties and telling the stories and history from which they emerged. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
14. ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Oppenheimer finally opens in Japan to mixed reviews14:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) People in Hiroshima react to first screening of the film, which was delayed after outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memes It is hard to think of a more emotionally charged venue than Hatchoza for the first screening in Japan of the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer. The cinema in Hiroshima is located less than a kilometre from the hypocentre of the first atomic bombing in history – the devastating culmination of the American physicist’s work. The film finally premiered in Japan on Friday, more than eight months after it opened in the US, to reviews that ranged from praise for its portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer – the “father of the atomic bomb” – to criticism that it omitted to show the human misery it caused in Hiroshima and, days later, Nagasaki, in the final days of the Pacific war. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
16. Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary13:30[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 election Relatives of the victims of Brazil’s brutal two-decade dictatorship have voiced anger and dismay over President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s reported decision to block official remembrance events marking the 60th anniversary of the 1964 military coup d’etat. Activists had hoped the leftist’s government would mark the 31 March 2024 anniversary of that power-grab with a series of memorials honouring the thousands who were killed, disappeared or tortured by the 1964-85 regime. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
17. On the 10-year anniversary of equal marriage in Britain, I’m thinking of my dad, and the long road to acceptance | Gary Nunn13:27[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) He was a tough bouncer from Kent who, like the country around him, grew to accept social progress My late dad was the hardest nightclub bouncer in a tough working-class area in Medway, Kent. He was a bodybuilder and terrifyingly quiet; you never quite knew what was going through his head. My underage sixth-form mates knew he would refuse them entry if they tried to get into the sprawling, sticky floored and aggressively heterosexual nightclub where he worked the door with a formidable scowl. Luckily, I would sooner pour petrol in my eyes than set foot inside. He told me he broke the arms of any drunken louts giving him trouble. I believed him. Gary Nunn is on X. Visit his free Substack here Comments on this piece are premoderated to ensure discussion remains on topics raised by the writer. Please be aware there may be a short delay in comments appearing on the site. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
18. John Boyega tells of ‘life-changing’ friendship with Damilola Taylor13:10[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Actor speaks for first time about how 10-year-old’s death in 2000 spurred him and others to ‘aim further’ The actor John Boyega has spoken for the first time of the “life-changing” impact of his friendship with Damilola Taylor and the way his sudden death spurred him and others to “aim further”. Boyega, 32, best known for his work in the Star Wars franchise, was school friends with Damilola growing up in south-east London. Damilola was 10 when he was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle walking home from a computer class in Peckham in November 2000. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
19. ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors13:02[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The increased use of AI to replicate the voice and movements of actors has benefits but some are concerned over how and when it might be used and who might be left short-changed When she discovered her voice had been uploaded to multiple websites without her consent, the actor Cissy Jones told them to take it down immediately. Some complied. “Others who have more money in their banks basically sent me the email equivalent of a digital middle finger and said: don’t care,” Jones recalls by phone. “That was the genesis for me to start talking to friends of mine about: listen, how do we do this the right way? How do we understand that the genie is out of the bottle and find a way to be a part of the conversation or we will get systematically annihilated? I know that sounds dramatic but, given how easy it is to steal a person’s voice, it’s not far off the mark.” Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
20. John Cooper Clarke: ‘I read Kerouac at 12 and figured I could improve on it’13:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The punk poet on finally getting JD Salinger, why he rereads the Bible, and growing up with Rupert Bear and Batman My earliest reading memory My earliest memories are of reading Rupert Bear, American comic books – Batman, Superman, Weird Planets, Creepy Worlds, Sinister Tales, Mad magazine, Kid Montana, Kid Colt: Outlaw and also Dick Tracy. My favourite book growing up The Buffalo Bill Annual, which contained the potted biographies of all the big hitters of the old west, including the titular figure himself plus Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse and Frank James, the Reno brothers, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid and more. I remember it had full-colour illustrations throughout. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
21. Yes, rugby shirts are in fashion – just make it clear you’re wearing it that way | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion13:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Forget the dodgy connotations: if it’s good enough for Chloe Sevigny, it’s good enough for the rest of us The rugby shirt is the Breton top of 2024. I am entirely serious. Instead of Pablo Picasso or Brigitte Bardot in a navy and white stripe T-shirt, your style icon for this spring is Prince William in his St Andrews uni days, popping the contrast white collar on his Abercrombie & Fitch. This is not quite true. I’m exaggerating for effect, no need to panic. Forget freshers’ week. Put Twickenham out of your mind. Instead, think David Hockney, in a pink and blue rugby shirt with washed-out green trousers. Think Diana, Princess of Wales. Chloe Sevigny, Oscar-nominated actor who – more importantly for our purposes, is one of the best dressed women in the world, with an innate style compass that unfailingly finds true north – regularly wears a rugby shirt, these days. “It’s warm and it’s easy and it’s casual. It’s basically a nicer version of a sweatshirt. I mean, it has a collar!” she told Harper’s Bazaar last year. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
22. Experience: I’m a full-time Henry VIII impersonator13:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Some schoolkids are clearly nervous. One asked if I’d ever killed a child I’ve always been interested in the past. At school, I threw myself into history lessons. I turned one of my mum’s bedsheets into a toga so I could pretend to be a Roman, and spent holidays learning hieroglyphics long after lessons on ancient Egypt had finished. When I was eight, we did the Tudors at school, and my aunt took me to the Tower of London, not far from where I grew up in Thurrock, Essex. I was spellbound. Back home, I’d pore over my mum’s Encyclopaedia Britannica, try to copy Hans Holbein portraits, and watch documentaries about Henry VIII over and over. There was just something magical about the Tudors. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
25. ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?12:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have no running water, no fuel and are surrounded by running sewage and waste piling up. Like the rest of Gaza’s residents, they fear the air they breathe is heavy with pollutants and that the water carries disease. Beyond the city streets lie razed orchards and olive groves, and farmland destroyed by bombs and bulldozers. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
26. If life is one giant computer simulation, God is a rubbish player | Dominik Diamond12:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) While religion doesn’t feature much in video games, I find the theory that we are all characters in a huge sim ever more believable – and appealing It’s Easter weekend, when Catholics like me spend hours in church listening to the extended editor’s cut of a story whose ending we already know. Sitting there for the millionth performance of the Passion recently, I got to thinking about how few religious video game characters I’ve ever encountered. It’s interesting that in a world where so many people’s lives are dictated by religious beliefs, there is such a scarcity of religion in games. I mean, you could argue that all games are Jesus homages, with their respawns and extra lives, but even I admit that’s a stretch. The Peggies in Far Cry 5 are a mind-controlling violent cult; those Founders in BioShock Infinite use religion to elevate and justify hatred of foreigners; and you have those wackadoodles in Fallout worshipping atomic bombs. Religion is almost exclusively used as means for leaders to get minions to do bad things. (Admittedly, they may be on to something here.) I guess that when so many video games are structured so as to set you up as a lone protagonist, up against a huge force, religion is a fairly obvious go-to villain. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
27. Grigor Dimitrov stuns Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets to reach Miami Open semis11:19[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) - Top seed and Indian Wells champion shocked in last eight
- ‘Sometimes simplicity is genius,’ says Bulgarian victor
Carlos Alcaraz’s hopes for a Sunshine Double came undone in spectacular fashion after the top seed lost 6-2, 6-4 on Thursday to Grigor Dimitrov, who will move on to face Alexander Zverev in the Miami Open semi-finals. Dimitrov, the 11th seed, won 77% of his first-serve points compared to just 56% for Alcaraz. He also won four of the five break points he faced and broke the Spaniard four times during the 92-minute encounter. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
28. Kitty Coles’ easy recipe for soft leeks with ricotta parsley sauce and parmesan breadcrumbs11:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Buttery and soft leeks with a cheesy crusty topping – a faff-free Easter meal Parsley sauce is making a comeback – you heard it here first. I eat it a lot, in various iterations, but in today’s dish it is one of three things that are very simple to make and work beautifully in harmony. The other two are soft, buttery leeks and cheesy breadcrumbs. Together, these three building blocks make a perfect Easter lunch, either alongside potatoes and greens, or as a side for ham or roast chicken. I urge you to make extra breadcrumbs – they are addictive and go with everything. Thank me later. Kitty Coles’ book, Make More with Less: Foolproof Recipes to Make Your Food go Further, is published by Hardie Grant at GBP22. To order a copy for GBP19.36, go to guardianbookshop.com
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29. Fast-rising Lu and Lee, both 14, could provide Fischer v Spassky-style rivalry11:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Lu Miaoyi jumped to the 2400 international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee beat the US No 1 Irina Krush in St Louis In November 2022 this column wrote that a then little-known 12-year-old Chinese girl, Lu Miaoyi, could join Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan among the top three women players in chess history: the world elite: It has taken a while, but the evidence is mounting. Lu’s mother, Xu Yuanyuan, was Chinese women’s champion in 2003 and a double world girls champion. Lu learned chess at three, got her first Fide rating at five, and was 2200, master level, at 10. At 12, she defeated Armenia’s No 3-ranked woman, Lilit Mkrtchian, in a brilliant 18-move sacrificial miniature. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
30. Mega, extra chunky and luxurious: how Easter eggs roll in 202411:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Analysts say fastest growing part of market is for ‘talking point’ eggs, with some clocking in at 1kg At Easter, people used to get excited if theirs came with a mug and a bag of sweets but those days are over, with social media stoking demand for talking point “mega eggs” in fancy shapes and exotic flavours. The choice is no longer just about the type: think “blonde”, “strawberry-white” or “pistachio” flavour chocolate not bog-standard milk, dark and white. There is also a race to create the thickest and, ergo, most luxurious shells. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
31. From teeth grinding to sweaty palms, Botox can fix a lot more than wrinkles | Sali Hughes11:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Medical botox is growing and for some, it can drastically improve quality of life What does someone who gets Botox look like? Taut, rich, fake, “done”? Anyone who pigeonholes such people is at least a decade behind the times and unaware of how toxin injections may be helping their friends, colleagues and neighbours with a number of non-beauty-related complaints, from excessive sweating to teeth grinding. I suffer from neither, but Dr Joanna Christou of the Cosmetic Skin Clinic in London treats these and many other complaints in the same way she softens my frown lines. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
32. Young people like me are still feeling the effects of Covid – and they’re not all bad | Isabel Brooks11:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) When it comes to studies, work or social abilities, some fared better than others. But the pandemic left its mark on all of us, whether we realise it or not I recently came across a folder on my laptop labelled “Covid”. Inside I found screenshots I had taken of the government website, showing daily cases, ICU admissions and deaths from Covid-19. These reports were released every weekday during the first lockdown, and each afternoon I would collect them in this folder and study them, trying to understand what was happening in the wider world – before I began a busy evening of Zoom birthday quizzes, Netflix Party and WhatsApp. I was shocked – both that I had ever been so macabre in the first place, and also that, four years later, I had forgotten doing it. I don’t remember being anxious or depressed during lockdown, but I have 60 image files suggesting otherwise. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
33. Shirley Henderson: ‘I start off thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to do this?’11:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The Harry Potter and Bridget Jones star is a dazzlingly versatile performer, with a string of Michael Winterbottom films under her belt, as well as Star Wars, TV’s Happy Valley and an Olivier award. She explains how she keeps on top of it all It is easy to feel protective of Shirley Henderson on this gloomy winter afternoon. Is she warm enough? Does she want to put the heating on? “Aye, I’m OK,” she says from her home in Fife, a few strands of chestnut hair falling over her glasses as she huddles close to the laptop. “It’s a wee bit blowy out. But I’m at the age where you can get too warm, so I’m all right.” Her giggle is helium-high: the sort of sound you want to trap, like in one of those toy moo boxes, so that you can play it when you’re down in the dumps. Hearing Henderson laugh, or say “Sorry darlin’?” when she hasn’t quite heard your question makes you feel as if you’ve been cuddled. Her allusion to the menopause, though, takes a moment to sink in. Though 58, she looks barely old enough to be online without parental controls. (No suspension of disbelief was required when she played a mother who dresses as her own adolescent daughter to sit an exam in May Contain Nuts.) Henderson came to prominence in the 1990s as one of the UK’s most probing, unpredictable character actors. After being spattered with excrement in Trainspotting, she won pivotal roles in two masterpieces: she was a soprano pining for her son in Mike Leigh’s Gilbert-and-Sullivan extravaganza Topsy-Turvy, and a feisty hairdresser smacking her lips at London life in the rhapsodic Wonderland. That was the first and best of her six collaborations with the director Michael Winterbottom, as well as the one which got her hooked on improvising. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
35. ‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists11:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) When the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisis When Ukraine’s Antarctic research and supply vessel Noosfera left Odesa on its maiden voyage on 28 January 2022, it passed Russian warships in the Black Sea. A month later, Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Noosfera has not been back since. “A few weeks later, and Noosfera would have been an important symbolic target for Russia,” said Vadym Tkachenko, a biologist who recently completed his second Antarctic winter at Ukraine’s Vernadsky base. The ship now supplies both Ukrainian and Polish Antarctic bases from Chile and South Africa twice a year, at the start and end of the winter. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
38. Inside the battle for ‘trophy asset’ the Telegraph – and for the soul of Tory Britain10:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Traditional affinity between Conservatives and the newspaper has given way to a complex, splintered drama, and the attempted acquisition by Gulf-backed RedBird IMI lies in limbo With the Conservative party trailing Labour by nearly 20 points in the polls, it needs all the help it can get if it is going to have a fighting chance at the next election. So Downing Street strategists privately wonder why the Daily Telegraph – arguably the UK’s most staunchly rightwing paper – is not being more supportive of Rishi Sunak in its coverage. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
39. ‘Get on a plane’: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women10:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Exclusive: Territory’s government calls for visit to listen to those thought to be living with consequences of forced fitting of IUDs The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said. In an attempt to reduce the population of the former Danish colony, at least 4,500 women and girls are believed to have undergone the medical procedure, usually without their consent or knowledge, at the hands of Danish doctors between 1966 and 1970 alone. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
40. With Germany legalising cannabis, Europe is reaching a tipping point. Britain, take note | Steve Rolles10:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Regulating cannabis use is no longer radical but an increasingly normalised strategy. The ‘tough on drugs’ approach is archaic Germany’s cannabis reforms were approved this week, overcoming the final legislative hurdle when the Bundesrat, Germany’s upper house, voted through the bill that passed with a huge majority in the Bundestag (lower house) last month. Germany is a significant addition to the growing list of countries defecting from the drug war consensus that had held for more than half a century. More than half a billion people now live in jurisdictions establishing legal adult access to cannabis for recreational use. When Germany’s new law comes into force on 1 April, it will decriminalise possession of up to 25g of cannabis for personal use (and up to 50g in the home), allow requests to remove criminal records for past possession offences, legalise home growing of up to three cannabis plants for personal use, and establish a regulatory framework for not-for-profit associations within which cannabis can be grown and supplied to members. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
41. ‘He’s not broken’: a year later, Evan Gershkovich is still in Russian prison09:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The US journalist was seized by officials and charged with espionage, and friends and family say he has kept his spirits up Friday marks the grim first anniversary of the day when masked Russian officers grabbed Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist, at a steakhouse in Yekaterinburg where he was waiting to eat on a reporting trip. Gershkovich, a 32-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has not seen a day of freedom since. He has been held in the infamous Lefortovo prison on the outskirts of Moscow, where the Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was once detained. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
42. ‘I lost hope with the Home Office’: Palestinians fundraise to evacuate family in Gaza09:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Hundreds of GoFundMe campaigns set up after Home Office refuses visas or Ukrainian-style entry scheme When Hadil Louz heard the news that her family were going to be evacuated from Gaza earlier in March, the relief was immense. “I was really happy, I screamed in the house shouting how happy I am because it took us a lot of time, effort, stress and uncertainty,” she said. “At the same time, there was a heartache thinking of my other sisters and brother who are still stuck in Gaza with their children.” Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
43. Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit08:54[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Photos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observers If the official photos are anything to go by, Emmanuel Macron’s three-day trip to Brazil has been more romantic getaway than international diplomacy. The French president, who ended his tour of the South American country on Thursday with a state visit to the capital, Brasilia, prompted online hilarity after the publication of photos showing him being particularly chummy with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
44. Can Bibles, sneakers and social media save Trump from financial ruin? – podcast08:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Donald Trump is embroiled in a balancing act between several criminal and civil trials, which could cost him millions of dollars and potentially even put him behind bars. On top of that, there’s the small issue of a presidential campaign. So the question is: can he afford to do it all? This week Jonathan Freedland speaks to Erica Orden, of Politico, to discuss the highs and lows Trump experienced this week, and whether or not he can raise the money to save himself from bankruptcy Archive: Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
45. A Gentleman in Moscow review – Ewan McGregor is almost as fantastic as his outrageous moustache08:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) This charming period drama about a 1920s Russian aristocrat being kept in a hotel by the Bolsheviks sees McGregor on sparkling form. He’s an intoxicating, swaggering figure of delight Some books are difficult to film, and TV is a fool to attempt them. Others, however, perch on the shelf poised and preened, all dressed up and ready for the small screen. Amor Towles’s 2016 novel A Gentleman in Moscow could have been designed as a handsome, charming period drama, of the kind that once slid smoothly on to BBC One or ITV1 on a Sunday evening. It’s actually on Paramount+, but is handsome and charming and Sunday-ish still. It remains to be seen whether Paramount takes advantage of the fact that the novel’s early chapters create a setup that could run on TV indefinitely, or whether it renders roughly the same amount of narrative as the book then bids us adieu. But that setup is this: in Moscow in 1921, four years after the revolution, the country’s disfranchised aristocracy face summary trials and executions. Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov (Ewan McGregor) – Sasha to his friends, “Your Excellency” to the dwindling minority of Russians who still recognise honorifics – seems to be next, but is saved from death by the surprising fact that he is the credited author of a seminal revolutionary poem. A Gentleman in Moscow is on Paramount+ now Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
46. It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought08:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) In rural Rajasthan, villagers have taken action against climate damage by constructing water-saving walls, trenches and dams to revive their farmland The villagers of Surajpura have built a wall: a 15ft (4.5 metre) mud bulwark that snakes through barren land for nearly a mile, with an equally long trench dug beneath it. It might not look like it, but for the 650 residents who toiled on it for six months in 2022, it is an architectural marvel. The wall passed its strength test last year when it stopped rainwater runoffs, and the trench channelled the water to parched farms in the drought-prone region of Rajasthan in north-west India, reviving them for the first time in more than two decades. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
49. USWNT’s Korbin Albert apologizes after reports of anti-LGBTQ+ reposts07:26[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) - Megan Rapinoe appears to reference Albert on Instagram
- 20-year-old sorry for ‘hurtful’ social media activity
USWNT midfielder Korbin Albert apologized on Thursday night for liking and sharing social media posts that she described as “offensive, insensitive and hurtful”. The 20-year-old Albert, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain, had reportedly reposted anti-LGBTQ+ content on her TikTok account. “I want to sincerely apologize for my actions on social media,” Albert wrote in a post shared on her Instagram story. “Liking and sharing posts that are offensive, insensitive and hurtful was immature and disrespectful which was never my intent. I’m really disappointed in myself and am deeply sorry for the hurt that I have caused to my teammates, other players, fans, friends and anyone who was offended. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
50. Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed? – podcast06:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) It’s a decade since the first same-sex marriages were performed in England and Wales. What have they meant for LGBTQ+ people? Growing up, Lisa never thought she would get married. As a gay woman, she did not even think a wedding was a possibility. Then, in 2014, same-sex couples in England and Wales finally won the right to be legally married. Lisa and her partner, Tracey, were among the first to do so. The Liberal Democrat politician Lynne Featherstone tells Hannah Moore why she championed marriage equality during the coalition government. She remembers with shock some of the comments that were made about what the consequences of the change would be and explains opposition from religious critics of the bill. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
54. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend03:00[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Everton must find goals, Forest need tight games to go their way and there’s a mighty showdown in Manchester Eddie Howe turned radical as Newcastle lost their FA Cup quarter-final at Manchester City earlier this month, deploying a back three. For a confirmed four-at-the-back manager, it represented quite a departure but retaining it might just suit Newcastle’s personnel – particularly against West Ham at St James’ Park this Saturday. Given that Sven Botman is sidelined for nine months following ACL surgery – and with hindsight the Dutch defender should have had that operation when he first damaged his knee in September – the best back three would surely be Jamaal Lascelles, Fabian Schar and Dan Burn flanked by Kieran Trippier, if fit, or Tino Livramento and Lewis Hall. Hall has disappointed following his summer loan from Chelsea but a left wing-back position might finally enable him to demonstrate why many once believed he was an England player in the making. With Schar showing off his ball skills at sweeper, 3-5-2 might yet propel Newcastle into Europa League combat next season. Louise Taylor Newcastle v West Ham, Saturday 12.30pm GMT Bournemouth v Everton, Saturday 3pm GMT Chelsea v Burnley, Saturday 3pm GMT Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace, Saturday 3pm GMT Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
55. Obese children twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis, study suggests02:01[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Swedish researchers say inflammation caused by obesity is likely to increase risk of developing conditions such as MS Children who are obese may face more than double the risk of developing multiple sclerosis as adults, a study suggests. MS can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing a range of potential symptoms including problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation or balance. It is a lifelong condition that can sometimes cause serious disability. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
57. Elena Rybakina into Miami final despite meltdown against Victoria Azarenka01:55[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) - Fourth seed beats Belarusian 6-4, 0-6, 7-6 (2)
- Alexander Zverev into men’s semi-finals
The fourth seed, Elena Rybakina, overcame a second-set meltdown to beat the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 0-6, 7-6 (2) on Thursday and secure a return trip to the Miami Open final. Rybakina, the highest seed remaining in the women’s draw, won nearly 82% of her first-serve points but converted only two of her 11 break-point chances en route to securing victory in two hours and 33 minutes. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
62. Workers were on break in cars when Baltimore bridge collapsed, wife of survivor saysЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) ‘We don’t know if they were warned before the impact,’ says wife of one of eight construction workers who was on the bridge The construction workers who were on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday were on break in their cars, according to the wife of one of the construction workers who survived. Speaking to NBC on Thursday, the wife of Julio Cervantes, one of the eight construction workers who was on the bridge when it collapsed, said: “All of the men were on a break in their cars when the boat hit. We don’t know if they were warned before the impact.” Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
63. Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horrorЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said. Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
65. People in Hungary: Share your political hopes for the futureЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) We’re keen to hear from people living in Hungary what their hopes are for the political future of the country With Peter Magyar in the headlines in Hungary after he declared he was launching a new political party, we’re interested to hear how people living in Hungary feel about the country’s political landscape. What political direction do you hope will Hungary take? And have there been any events or developments that may have particularly affected your political views in recent months or years? What are your hopes for the future? Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
66. Louis Rees-Zammit’s rugby-to-NFL dream edges closer but huge obstacles remainЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) New rules around kickoffs are a boost to a player who may sign for the Super Bowl champions. But a practice squad remains his likely destination If ever there was a time, if ever there was a place, for Louis Rees-Zammit to chase his NFL dream, this is it. The former Welsh rugby union star is reportedly nearing a deal to join the Kansas City Chiefs, the back-to-back Super Bowl champions. Rees-Zammit is likely to join the team for their annual training camp, a kind of extended trial as he learns the rigors of the NFL. He will join a 90-man training camp roster that will eventually be whittled down to 53, with 16 further places up for grabs on the practice squad, in effect a reserve team. This season also marks the first time that teams will have an extra spot available on the practice squad carved out for players who have come through the league’s International Player Pathway program. Since the IPP was introduced, 37 international players have signed with teams and 18 remain on rosters. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
67. Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?Чт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bullet In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century. According to that research, the calcium in green beans dropped from 65 to 37mg. Vitamin A levels plummeted by almost half in asparagus. Broccoli stalks had less iron. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
69. How can we save British nightlife from collapse? Look to Germany – and its football | Gilles PetersonЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Small venues are the heart of our musical culture. Here’s my two-pronged plan to keep that heart beating Grassroots venues are the foundation upon which the mighty British music industry has been built, fuelling the phenomenal level of talent this small island has produced. Yet while successive governments have shouted about how they are a shining demonstration of the country’s creativity, the very same people have cut funding and opened the cultural sector to the most brutal market logic. Alongside government neglect, small venues across the country also face rising trade costs, pressure on disposable incomes, greedy property developers, post-pandemic changes in attitudes to communal experiences and the continuing shift towards an increasingly screen-based lifestyle. I cut my teeth DJing and dancing in small venues up and down the country, from my earliest experiences at Christie’s, in Sutton – when I’d head home after Carl Cox finished up as I had to be at school the next day – to a 10-year weekly Monday residency at Bar Rumba in Soho and many formative nights at the Hare & Hounds in Birmingham. There are countless more – far too many to list them all. If it weren’t for these backrooms, I would not be where I am today as a DJ. Nor would I have encountered (and still do!) those voices that push the culture forward and bring energy and positive momentum to our world. Gilles Peterson is a DJ, broadcaster and founder of Brownswood Recordings
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70. Manchester City v Arsenal: a potential title decider? – Football Weekly ExtraЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Troy Townsend and John Brewin to preview the upcoming weekend of Premier League football, including a huge game between Manchester City and Arsenal Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today: the Premier League is back and league leaders Arsenal go to Manchester City on Sunday. This game last season spelled the end of the Gunners’ title chances – will we see a repeat performance? Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
71. ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health dietЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) A group of hospitals serve up a menu rich in plants – and say they have had few complaints Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that. From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a “planetary health” diet – one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, known for its bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
73. Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levelsЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft ground A number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels. Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
74. Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goalsЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found. There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
75. How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feetЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. “Only adults go to work on those days,” said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three. Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. “First, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,” his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee – less than a penny – for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about GBP80 a square metre in the UK. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
76. The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcastЧт, 28 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) On 28 March it’s the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, among others. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how understanding it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
80. A naked man plays with bubbles at Glastonbury – Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s best photographСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) ‘I’d had too much to smoke and was lying down with my Leica when I saw the Bubbleman. The bubble burst just as I pressed the shutter’ I only have two of my pictures up at home – and this one lives in the bathroom. It was commissioned by The Face and was among the first documentary photographs I had published. In the 1990s, everyone wanted to work for The Face. My first assignment was shooting neo-Nazis in Rome. It only took 15 years of work for me to become an overnight success. After that, I suggested a story on travellers. It was 1992 and the Tories’ Criminal Justice Bill was due to give police new powers to stop the movement of travellers, taking away some of their rights to authorised sites. Myself and the writer Amy Raphael went off in search of travellers – and ended up at Glastonbury, where this photograph was taken. I’d had too much to smoke and was lying on the ground with my Leica when I saw the Bubbleman – and a naked bloke who came along and started playing with the bubbles. As I pressed the shutter, the bubble burst and I thought: “Shit, I didn’t get it!” But when I saw the contact sheet, there it was, the very last frame – with the material covering his willy. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
81. It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery | Ella SinclairСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The mooted memorial to the navy’s West Africa Squadron seems to be an attempt to rewrite history in a more favourable light Until very recently, most people in Britain would have said that this country’s most significant involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was our heroic decision to abolish it. In the past few years, this culturally ingrained consensus has been challenged by a renewed attention to Britain’s long-lasting legacy of slavery – and to the many families and institutions that profited from the enslavement of Africans. In the ongoing struggle to determine the meaning of this history, individuals and institutions across Britain’s political spectrum are grappling with the same pivotal question: how do we remember our past? For the campaigners seeking to build a new monument in Portsmouth commemorating Britain’s West Africa Squadron – the Royal Navy unit tasked with intercepting slave ships after Britain outlawed the trade in 1807 – the answer is simple. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
82. Heartbreak for Wales, joy for Poland, Georgia and Ukraine – Football WeeklyСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paul Watson, Jonathan Wilson and Ben Fisher as Wales fail to qualify for Euro 2024 Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today: Wales lose to Poland in their first ever penalty shootout – a missed Dan James penalty means Wales won’t qualify for Euro 2024. Poland will be joined by Georgia and Ukraine, who won their qualifiers respectively. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
84. Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperaturesСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) IFRC and USAid staging conference to draw attention to risks and share best practice in disaster alerts and response Two of the world’s biggest aid agencies will host an inaugural global summit on extreme heat on Thursday as directors warn that the climate crisis is dramatically increasing the probability of a mass-fatality heat disaster. The conference will highlight some of the pioneering work being done, from tree-planting projects to the development of reflective roof coverings that reduce indoor temperatures. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
85. Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentaryСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant physical remaining traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world. Annina decides to advocate for this legacy, initiating a debate among the islanders – many of whom have shared ancestry with the enslaved – about how to create an appropriate memorial. Along the way, she enlists the help of African American preservationist and veteran activist Peggy King Jorde, who makes important connections in their shared history. Buried is available with Swahili and isiZulu translated subtitles which can be applied in the video settings. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
86. St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to AfricaСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) British overseas territory may face legal action over alleged failure to honour reburial plan after remains found during airport project A British overseas territory is being urged to return the remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to their ancestral kingdoms in Africa, or potentially face legal action. The remains were excavated in 2008 when an access road to a new airport was being built on the remote South Atlantic Ocean island of St Helena. They were held in storage for 14 years before being reburied. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
87. Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St HelenaСр, 27 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) A braid from a formerly enslaved African buried on the island was the catalyst for Annina van Neel’s work to preserve and share these histories At the end of January 2012, I arrived on St Helena after a six-day journey by ship from Cape Town. After being surrounded by water for nearly a week, the sight of land on the midnight-blue horizon was overwhelming. It was as though someone had forgotten their piece of land in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. 47 square miles of volcanic rock, 2,810 miles from the coast of Brazil and 1,610 miles from Angola – an oasis in a desert, an enigma. I arrived on the island as part of the project team constructing St Helena’s first airport. Previously accessible only by sea, this incredible community, which had been defined by its isolation as an outpost and a place of exile for 500 years, would for the first time be easily reached by the rest of the world. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
92. Why is Islamic State targeting Russia? – video explainerВт, 26 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) On Friday 22 March, Islamic State claimed its deadliest attack in Europe when gunmen affiliated with the group stormed into the Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow and opened fire on people attending a rock concert. More than 100 people were killed. Russian police failed to thwart the attack despite warnings issued by the US to Moscow that extremist groups were plotting attacks in Russia. President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged the involvement of 'radical Islamists' but suggested Ukraine was involved, which Kyiv has rejected. The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, Andrew Roth, explains why the group might have targeted Russia, why Putin has blamed Ukraine and what impact the attack is likely to have on Putin's carefully tailored strongman image in Russia Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
93. ‘I noticed nothing strange’: suspect’s colleagues express shock at Moscow attackВт, 26 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Limited details have emerged about background of Muhammadsobir Fayzov and three other Tajik men accused of carrying out atrocity Former colleagues and clients at the small barber shop where Muhammadsobir Fayzov once worked were stunned when they saw the news. They knew the 19-year-old as a promising, hard-working stylist, and saw no signs that he and three other Tajik gunmen would be accused of committing last Friday’s bloodbath at a concert city hall in Moscow. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
94. ‘My child was drowning’: life and death on an English maternity wardВт, 26 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Norah Bassett was hours old when she died in 2019, after multiple failings in her care. What can be learned from her heartbreaking loss? If Charlotte Bassett had known that her daughter Norah’s life would be numbered in hours and minutes, not decades and years, she’d never have left her side. But she didn’t. So Charlotte went to have a shower after Norah’s birth on 12 April 2019. When she came out of the shower, a junior doctor was assessing Norah, who was being looked after by her father, James Bassett. The doctor gave Norah the all-clear, and left them alone. The maternity unit at the Royal Hampshire county hospital in Winchester was busy that evening. When the night shift came on duty, a midwife introduced herself. “She was very brusque,” Charlotte, 37, a data manager, remembers. “She said, ‘We’ve got too many people here. I’ve got this and this to do.’” Charlotte tried to breastfeed Norah, but she wasn’t latching. The midwife told Charlotte to cup feed her with formula. She didn’t stay to watch. Charlotte poured milk from a cup into Norah’s rosebud mouth. Blood came out. It was staining the muslin. The midwife didn’t seem concerned. Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
98. How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet – videoЧт, 07 мар[-/+]Категория(?) Автор(?) Cruising is booming – 2023 ticket sales have surpassed historic levels and 2024 has seen the launch of the largest cruise ship ever built. But as cruise tourism's popularity has increased, so have the pollution problems it brings. To customers, it may not be evident that any problems exist, since some cruise line companies claim to be becoming more climate-friendly. But the truth can be quite different. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet Continue reading...Медиа:1. image / jpg 2. image / jpg | ↑ |
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