A harrowing film that premiered at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday about a five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year gives a “voice and face” to Palestinian victims of the war, its director said.”The Voice of Hind Rajab”, a dramatic portrayal of real events from January 2024, left many journalists sobbing at […]
Read MoreAt least 21,000 children in Gaza have been disabled since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, a United Nations committee said Wednesday. Around 40,500 children have suffered “new war-related injuries” in the nearly two years since the war erupted, with more than half of them left disabled, said the UN […]
Read MoreThe arrest of an Emmy award-winning comedy writer for allegedly insulting transgender people online has reignited a UK row over freedom of speech, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday urging police to “focus on the most serious issues”. Irish writer Graham Linehan, who co-created the popular 1990s sitcom “Father Ted”, says he was arrested […]
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had not heard about “The Wizard of the Kremlin”, a film starring Jude Law as the Russian leader that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The film by French director Olivier Assayas is a look at Putin’s career through the eyes of a fictional political advisor, Vadim Baranov, […]
Read MoreFrench authorities are bracing for a day of nationwide protests led by far-left activists next week, with intelligence officials warning the movement’s decentralised nature makes its scale and impact difficult to predict. The broad anti-government campaign, dubbed “Bloquons tout” (“Let’s block everything”), has urged a shutdown of France on September 10 with a string of […]
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A Guiana, pequeno país da América do Sul com as maiores reservas de petróleo per capita do mundo, tenta desempenhar seu papel entre as ameaças da Venezuela, que reivindica dois terços de seu território, e seu novo aliado, os Estados Unidos, cuja empresa ExxonMobil lidera o boom petrolífero. A Guiana apoia o envio de navios […]
Read MoreFür Werbung mit Aussagen wie “umweltfreundlich”, “klimaneutral” und “biologisch abbaubar” sollen künftig schärfere Vorschriften gelten. Die Bundesregierung beschloss am Mittwoch einen Gesetzentwurf, nach dem allgemeine Umweltaussagen über ein Produkt wie “nachhaltig” oder “umweltfreundlich” nur noch zulässig sind, wenn sie auch belegt werden können. Beziehen sich die Aussagen nur auf einen Teilaspekt des Produkts, dürfen die […]
Read MoreRescue teams struggled Wednesday to reach survivors as night approached days after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as access to remote areas remained obstructed. A shallow magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit the mountainous region bordering Pakistan late on Sunday, collapsing mud-brick homes on families as they slept. Fearful of the near-constant aftershocks rattling the area, people […]
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Bei den hohen Energiepreisen in Deutschland soll es künftig dank einer Absenkung der Stromsteuer und durch Zuschüsse bei den Übertragungsnetzentgelten eine spürbare Entlastung geben. Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) sprach nach einem entsprechenden Kabinettsbeschluss der schwarz-roten Koalition am Mittwoch in Berlin von “guten Nachrichten für die Stromkunden”. Wirtschaftsverbände und Verbraucherschützer kritisierten die Entlastungen hingegen als zu […]
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