In Kyiv’s largest art museum, Arina Petrova and her father Serhii busily applied the final touches to their mannequins, anxious that a Russian drone attack could delay her long-awaited debut. The fashion-designing duo from Ukraine’s “Bob Basset” art house were about to present Petrova’s first ever collection — an array of punk leather animal costumes. […]
Read MorePop artist Peter Max, whose cheery psychedelic creations helped define the counterculture aesthetic in the 1960s, died on Monday, US media reported. He was 88.”We will remember his extraordinary creativity, his warmth, his curiosity and the way he saw beauty and possibility everywhere,” his son Adam Max said in a statement to ABC News.”His art […]
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The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday that the country’s nuclear-armed status was “absolute”, calling those hoping for its denuclearisation “idiots”. North Korea has legally enshrined its status as a nuclear weapons state, with its leadership declaring the country’s atomic arsenal permanent and irreversible. US President Donald Trump said in […]
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Australia will reduce migration by curbing “visa hopping”, tightening rules on students and working holiday makers as well as cracking down on overstayers, its interior minister said Thursday, as the far-right surges in the polls. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told the National Press Club in Canberra that immigration was “fundamentally a strength” for Australia, […]
Read MoreThe planet’s water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic, swinging between too little and too much, the United Nations warned Thursday, with an unprecedented El Nino expected to exacerbate the long-term trend. Last year was among the driest for the world’s rivers in over three decades, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization said in a report. In […]
Read MoreVor dem Hintergrund einer stärkeren Annäherung zwischen Kanada und der EU hält der kanadische Premierminister Mark Carney am Donnerstag eine Rede im EU-Parlament in Straßburg (11.30 Uhr MESZ). Es wird erwartet, dass Carney den Abgeordneten seine Idee einer “einzigartigen Allianz” zwischen seinem Land und der Europäischen Union erläutert. Kanada leidet ebenso wie die EU unter der […]
Read MoreVier Tage nach der Parlamentswahl in Schweden soll das mit Spannung erwartete offizielle Ergebnis des Urnengangs bekanntgegeben werden. In bisherigen Auszählungen hatte es ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen zwischen einem möglichen linksgerichteten Bündnis bisheriger Oppositionsparteien und der konservativen Regierungskoalition von Ministerpräsident Ulf Kristersson gegeben. Grund für das lange Warten auf das Endergebnis waren nach Angaben der Wahlkommission unter […]
Read MoreIn Russland beginnen am Freitag (ab 08.00 Ortszeit; Donnerstagabend 22.00 Uhr MESZ) die ersten Parlamentswahlen seit Beginn der großangelegten Offensive in der Ukraine vor mehr als viereinhalb Jahren. Bei der bis Sonntag stattfindenden Abstimmung über die 450 Sitze in der Staatsduma ist ein Sieg der Partei Geeintes Russland von Präsident Wladimir Putin sicher. Weiter zugelassen […]
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A researcher at NASA has found a massive, recently-formed crater on the Moon, a rare occurrence that only happens “once in a century or even longer,” according to scientists. The crater, dubbed “McGetchin,” measures 730 feet (222 meters) wide, NASA said in a blog post. It is believed to have been created in the spring […]
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