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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and France's President Emmanuel Macron talk prior to a tea ceremony Macron is deluded if he thinks he can persuade Xi to change
Try as he might Emmanuel Macron and his party are unable to arrest the popularity of the National Rally. A month out from the European elections, the latest poll has thei... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus, Pool) The Spectator
Emmanuel Macron   Photos   Politics   Xi Jinping  
Vladimir Putin speech at the military parade marking the 78th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War US, UK, most EU nations to boycott Putin inauguration
The United States and most European Union nations have said they will not send envoys to Tuesday’s inauguration of Vladimir Putin as Russian president. | Putin, 71, sec... (photo: kremlin.ru) Al Jazeera
Democracy   Photos   Politics   Russia  
This Monday, July 17, 2017, photo shows the Netflix logo on an iPhone in Philadelphia. Netflix says it made its first acquisition Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, buying the comic book publisher Millarworld. All the Most Brutal Burns From Netflix’s Epic Tom Brady Roast
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — There’s locker-room talk, and then there’s what the entire global Netflix subscriber base may have witnessed Sunday night. | Seven-time Super Bo... (photo: AP / Matt Rourke) The Daily Beast
INGLEWOOD   Netflix   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Netflix  
The Courage Monument represents a saddened Soviet Soldier looking upon the ruins of the Brest Fortress that was destroyed by the Nazis in 1941, the eternal flame is to commemorate those who fought with all their might to protect the fortress until destruction, Belarus, July 2, 2019. Democracy Is Losing the Propaganda War
Illustrations by Tyler Comrie On June 4 , 1989 , the Polish Communist Party held partially free elections, setting in motion a series of events that ultimately removed th... (photo: Creative Commons / Priscilla Meray) The Atlantic
Democracy   Disinformation   Photos   Politics  
Chinese military police march across Beijing's Tiananmen Square Tuesday, June 2, 1998, two days before the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 massacre which ended weeks of protests by democracy campaigners in the capital. Security has been increased in and around the square in the days building up to the ninth anniversary to prevent any commemorations of the massac As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative waste... (photo: AP / Greg Baker) Wtop
China   Iran   Photos   US States  
Palestinians sit by the destruction from the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. Rafah: Past the point of no return
If we listen to world leaders, we could be lulled into believing that Rafah has been a place of safety. But this city, nestled in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, has... (photo: AP / Hatem Ali) Al Jazeera
Hamas   Israel   Photos   Rafah  
File - Members of Sikh community hold a protest against the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Dozens of Sikhs living in Pakistan rallied against the killing of Nijjar, a 45-year-old Sikh leader who was killed by masked gunmen in Canada in June. The demonstrators alleged that New Delhi was behind the man's assassination. Canada police charge three with murder of Sikh leader Nijjar, probe India link
Canadian police on Friday arrested and charged three Indian men with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year and said they were probing whethe... (photo: AP / K.M. Chaudary) Philenews
Canada   Hardeep Singh Nijjar   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Hardeep Singh Nijjar  
File - Palestinians collect their belongings from the rubble of a residential building for the Moussa family after an Israeli airstrike in the Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, March 29, 2024 Gaza reconstruction could take 80 years, damage unseen since World War II: UN
A United Nations official says the destruction caused by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip is unseen since the Second World War, estimating that the reconstruction of the ... (photo: AP / Ismael Abu Dayyah) Press TV
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Artificial intelligence robot head with digital and binary illustration (android) AI has created a new form of sexual abuse
Nude images shared without consent can be traumatic, whether they’re real or not. | Getty Images/iStockphoto | How do you stop deepfake nudes? There’s a lot of debate... (photo: Creative Commons) Vox
Artificial intelligence   Photos   Technology  
File - A Palestinian child clears rubble following a deadly raid by Israeli forces that began Thursday night in the Nur Shams refugee camp, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, Monday, April 22, 2024. Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy
UN expert says death of 8-year-old appears to violate law after reviewing evidence gathered by BBC. ... ... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) BBC News
Gaza War   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   War Crime   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein, left, interacts with his attorney Mark Werksman in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP) Manhattan prosecutors announce retrial for film producer Harvey Weinstein
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has revealed plans to retry United States film producer Harvey Weinstein on charges related to sexual assault, less than a week... (photo: ABr / Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo) Al Jazeera
Harvey Weinstein   Photos   US States   Women's Rights  
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Thursday, April 25, 2024. UN Secretary-General calls for international investigation into mass graves reports in Gaza
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed grave deep alarm over reports of the discovery of mass graves at several locations in Gaza, including Al-Shifa and Nasser ... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Gulf-Times
Antonio Guterres   Gaza War   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Harvey Weinstein and his attorney Donna Rotunno, right, leave the courtroom during jury deliberations in his rape trial, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in New York. Opinion: Reversal in Harvey Weinstein case isn’t the demise of sex crimes prosecution
When a Manhattan jury found movie mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty of sex crimes in 2020, the verdict seemed to herald a new era of accountability. The #MeToo movement was... (photo: AP / Richard Drew) CNN
Crimes   Harvey Weinstein   Photos   Women's Rights  
 U.S. writer Paul Auster, author of "The New York Trilogy" and "The Book of Illusions" among other works, listens to a question during a press conference in Oviedo, Spain, Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006, where his is to receive Spain´s Paul Auster: cool narrator of noirish New York
Emilie BICKERTON May 1, 2024 40 mins ago 0 | Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email | Paul Auster, the Mr Cool of American fiction, has set many of his novels in New York Ci... (photo: AP Photo/EFE, J. L. Cereijido) Guam Pacific Daily News
Culture   Paul Auster   Photos   US States  
Varanasi, India as seen from Ganga river. Rising Hindu nationalism leaves Muslims fearful in India’s holy city
The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancien... (photo: Creative Commons / Marcin Biaek) CNN
Elections   India   Photos   Varanasi  
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