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1 week, 5 days ago

What Trump’s Deportation Threats Really Mean

LOADING ERROR LOADING In a Sunday interview with NBC News, President-elect Donald Trump repeated what is becoming one of the incoming administration’s most provocative talking points: When parents of U.S. citizens face deportation, his administration will deport the whole family together. “I don’t want to be breaking up families,” Trump said when asked how mass deportation would impact America’s roughly …

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1 month ago

British artist chosen to ‘reinterpret’ controversial statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II

The Telegraph

Leopold’s regime lasted from 1885 to 1908 before, under huge international pressure, the government took the region out of royal hands and renamed it the Belgian Congo, which gained independence in 1960. Mr Locke was conscious of the risk of “triggering” members of Belgium’s Congolese community by being too explicit in his depiction of Leopold’s horrific crimes. ‘Denying atrocities’ Asked …

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2 months, 1 week ago

A full-scale replica of Anne Frank's hidden annex is heading to New York for an exhibition

New Indian Express

AMSTERDAM: The annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York. A full-scale replica of the rooms that form the heart of the Anne Frank House museum on one of Amsterdam's historic canals is being built in the Netherlands and will be shipped across the Atlantic for a …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Victoria Beckham posts glamorous snaps of lookalike daughter Harper, 13, at her new fragrance launch party after the Spice Girl stripped down to a tiny bodysuit in THAT racy clip

Daily Mail

Victoria Beckham posted glamorous snaps of her lookalike daughter Harper at the launch party of her new fragrance, which took place last week. Victoria Beckham, 50, posted glamorous snaps of her lookalike daughter Harper, 13, at the launch party of her new fragrance, which took place last week The mother-of-four sent temperatures soaring once again by sharing racy BTS footage …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

How Harris' past debates set her up for sparring with Trump

NPR

How Harris' past debates set her up for sparring with Trump toggle caption Julia Nikhinson/AP It’s been more than 20 years since Kamala Harris first started preparing for political debates. The moment, Prozan said, put Harris’ opponents “on notice” and sent a message: "You're not going to push me around. “You can have your materials prepared, but a witness could …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Independence Day 2024: Five popular pre-independence eateries across India

India TV News

As India gears up to celebrate its 78th Independence Day in 2024, it is a time to reflect on our rich history and heritage. And what better way to do that than by taking a culinary journey through some of the oldest and most popular pre-independence eateries across the country? So, let's take a trip down memory lane and explore …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Conservationist Aldo Leopold’s last remaining child dies at 97

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The last remaining child of famed conservationist and author Aldo Leopold has died at age 97. Estella Leopold, a researcher and scientist who dedicated her life to the land ethic philosophy of her famous father, died on Sunday in Seattle after several months in hospice, the Aldo Leopold Foundation announced. She and her siblings donated not only …

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1 year, 5 months ago

No end in sight to Ukraine war even as global calls for ceasefire get louder

The Hindu

Published : Jun 29, 2023 11:00 IST - 8 MINS READ The chances of the Russia-Ukraine war ending any time soon are getting dimmer by the day. Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously said that one of the important reasons for carrying out the “special military operation” in Ukraine was to cleanse the country of neo-Nazis and fascists. Ukraine denied …

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2 years ago

26/11: A reminder that counter-terrorism needs a ‘whole of nation’ approach

Firstpost

In an eerie coincidence of numbers, there were 26 intelligence alerts about terrorist attacks on Indian soil before the attacks happened in Mumbai. V Balachandran, a former special secretary, Cabinet Secretariat and a former police officer, says that a specific alert also came in from Assam which mentioned one of the targets by name: ‘Leopold’. The alert also advised ‘necessary …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Head-on | Russia-Ukraine war will remind world leaders at G20 summit in Bali of Europe’s violent past

Firstpost

At the G20 summit in Bali, as India prepares to assume the group’s year-long presidency, it will be seen by many as the engine that helps propel the world forward As world leaders of the G20 meet in Bali this week, the economic and geopolitical consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war will weigh heavily on the summit. Not only have more …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ for abuses in DR Congo

Al Jazeera

Philippe is the first Belgian official to express regret for atrocities inflicted on the Congolese, but he is yet to apologise. Belgium’s King Philippe has reaffirmed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s colonial-era abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but stopped short of formally apologising, again. On the occasion of my first trip to Congo, right here, in …

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2 years, 10 months ago

100 years of Ulysses: A novel idea, a date celebrated around the world

Hindustan Times

The 19th-century European novel celebrated adultery; in the 20th century, when adultery raised brows no longer, it turned to transgressive relationships, as between Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert and Lolita. Much of the novel, set on the day of June 16, 1904, is driven by Leopold Bloom’s throbbing anxiety about his wife Molly’s ongoing affair with her concert manager Blazes Boylan. …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Beijing shuns Ericsson, Nokia as the west curbs Huawei

Live Mint

The U.S. and many of its allies have restricted the use of 5G cellular equipment made by China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Now Beijing is doing the same to Huawei’s Western rivals. China Mobile Ltd., a government-owned wireless carrier that is the world’s biggest by subscribers, awarded in July 5.4% of its latest 5G-equipment tenders to non-Chinese suppliers, down from 11% …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Lagging Vaccination Rates Among Rural Seniors Hint At Brewing Rural-Urban Divide

NPR

Lagging Vaccination Rates Among Rural Seniors Hint At Brewing Rural-Urban Divide Enlarge this image toggle caption Doug Barrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Doug Barrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Chris Reimer had never heard of Leopold, Mo., when he found himself rushing down a winding, two-lane road toward the rural, 65-person community in February. Urban counties' vaccination rates outpace rural ones in all …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Behind Congo’s misery

The Hindu

Theories of development up to the middle of the 20th century glorified the European model of development, suppressing critical and alternative perspectives, with the intention of pushing it as a trustworthy model for decolonised countries to follow and get integrated with the international political economy. At the Berlin Conference in 1885, the European colonial powers gave King Leopold II the …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Belgium takes down statue, king regrets colonial violence