Als erste afrikanische Sängerin überhaupt hat Angélique Kidjo aus Benin einen Stern auf dem berühmten “Walk of Fame” in Los Angeles bekommen. Bei der feierlichen Zeremonie posierte die 66-Jährige am Dienstag in Hollywood vor ihrem Stern für die Fotografen – und fing dann zur Freude aller Anwesenden an zu singen. “Wir Afrikaner sind uns oft gar […]
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Meta knowingly hooked and exploited children, a US federal court heard Tuesday in a trial against the social media giant on charges that it deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive to young users. In what many experts have called social media’s “big tobacco moment,” a coalition of states is asking that Meta be penalized by […]
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Australian toxic mushroom killer Erin Patterson began an appeal on Wednesday against her conviction in a triple-murder case that made headlines worldwide. The 51-year-old was found guilty last year of murdering her husband’s parents and an elderly aunt in 2023 by serving them a beef Wellington lunch laced with lethal death cap mushrooms. Patterson was […]
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Embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino will hope the departure of Kevin Lamour does not spark damaging revelations from the former chief operating officer of world football’s governing body. Frenchman Lamour’s position — which he had been in for less than two years — had become untenable after he broke ranks with senior FIFA directors last […]
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Turkey rejected on Wednesday Israeli allegations that it posed a threat by preparing to send troops to a base in Syria, which was hit in a strike that the United States blamed on Israel. The strike marked extraordinary defiance by Israel of the United States, which has sought to support Syria’s new government led by […]
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NASA on Tuesday released new images of the crater caused by a SpaceX rocket slamming into the Moon earlier this month. The photographs were captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) between August 11 and 12, and show the impact formed by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage striking the Moon’s surface on August 5. Scientists from the […]
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump said Tuesday that no talks with Iran are underway and none are scheduled, as he posted a map showing the Strait of Hormuz as a new American territory in a fresh jibe at Tehran. Trump has been pressing his threat to claim sovereignty over the crucial energy waterway as the nearly […]
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O primeiro-ministro do Canadá, Mark Carney, manteve conversas de última hora com o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, em uma tentativa de evitar a entrada em vigor, a partir desta quarta-feira (19), de tarifas adicionais sobre produtos de seu país. Trump ordenou no mês passado a imposição de tarifas de 50% sobre diversos produtos […]
Read MoreBundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) rät zu einem Ende der Debatten über Kanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU). “Es braucht Durchhaltevermögen”, sagte er dem “Münchner Merkur” vom Mittwoch. “Friedrich Merz ist die richtige Person zum richtigen Zeitpunkt – mit seiner Erfahrung, seinem außenpolitischen Fokus und der Bereitschaft, Entscheidungen auch mal gegen Widerspruch im eigenen Laden durchzusetzen.””Im Herbst wird’s […]
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