Dias Santana is 80% an Angolan production and 20% South African Netflix advertisement for the movie Santana, to be premiered on 28 August. Screengrab. Image text: “I want Dias Santana and his brother dead” From August 28, an Angolan production will appear for the first time in Netflix’s catalogue. It isContinue Reading
In the summer of 1940, with the threat of German invasion in the air, some of the wealthy and influential of Britain began privately evacuating their children to the USA and Canada. The result was an impression of grave social injustice. When the Conservative MP and socialite Henry “Chips” ChannonContinue Reading
Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition politician and activist, has been hospitalised after a suspected poisoning. Navalny’s spokeswoman suggested he was poisoned by something in tea he drank on the morning of August 20 before boarding a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow. While on the flight,Continue Reading
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Concert with Uyghur musician (the one holding the guitar) Perhat Khadiq from the group Qetiq. Screenshot from YouTube video. In many societies living under oppression and cultural denial, music is often the only space and form of resistance. This is particularly true for the 11 million Uyghurs in Western China,Continue Reading
The answer: It depends. A selection of headlines from Anglophone media showing diverse editorial practices with the surname of Belarus’ longtime ruler. Belarus provinces map by Golbez (CC BY-SA 3.0). Image of Alexander Lukashenko by Serge Serebro, Vitebsk Popular News (CC BY-SA 4.0). Graphic remixed by Georgia Popplewell (CC BY 3.0)Continue Reading
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Omega-3 fatty acids can limit inflammation by stimulating free fatty acid receptor 4. 1989studio/ Shutterstock Though asthma affects almost 340 million people worldwide, there is still no cure. The respiratory disease frequently develops in childhood, and can cause asthma “attacks” where the lungs become inflamed and the airways constricted, causingContinue Reading
Max Ščur leading the August 15 anti-Lukashenka demonstration which started from the Clementium in Prague. Photo (c): Filip Noubel, used with permission. While one of the smallest minorities in the Czech Republic, they have played a major role advocating for domestic changes in their homeland. When protests broke out inContinue Reading
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a historic agreement which makes the Emirates only the third Arab state to recognise Israel after Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. As part of the deal, dubbed the Abraham Accord, Israel has suspended highly controversial plans to annex theContinue Reading
