The Trump administration is attacking higher education institutions in the United States as authoritarian governments seek to quash independent thought, the former president of Harvard University said Wednesday. The prestigious university is at loggerheads with Trump, who believes Ivy League schools are unaccountable bastions of liberal, anti-conservative bias and anti-Semitism, particularly around the protests against […]
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Um alto funcionário do Federal Reserve (Fed), crítico de sua gestão, afirmou, nesta quarta-feira (3), que o banco central americano se manteve independente de interferências políticas e insistiu que continuará assim.”A independência do Fed é fundamental para tudo o que fazemos (…) Há coisas que preocupam as pessoas, mas continuo acreditando que temos um Fed […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
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