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German far-right set for big win in eastern state – projections
Germany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream rivals, according to initial projections. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern. The far-right party is…
Read MorePolice launch investigation into swastikas graffitied during break-in at Pardes Hanna-Karkur school
Several swastikas were graffitied across the windows and tables of an art classroom at the school, in addition to other destruction of property caused in the room. Israel Police launched an investigation into the vandalism and break-in at Pardes Hanna-Karkur’s Shvilim school on Sunday morning. Several swastikas were graffitied across the windows and tables of…
Read MoreFrom ‘remigration’ to home-schooling: what does Germany’s AfD want?
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) was founded in response to the euro crisis, but its focus has shifted firmly to the far right. A stridently hardline anti-immigration stance, developed during the European migration crisis of 2015-16, is now the party’s signature issue. The AfD is seen to have profited from years of concern among many…
Read MoreSomalis, roiled by famine and climate displacement, brace for El Niño
Thousands of people in Somalia have already left their villages to seek refuge in bigger cities in the Horn of Africa amid a hunger crisis. Many are desperate after months of drought and a harvest that only made about 20% of average yields. Most Somalis are pastoralists, relying on their herds to survive. But many…
Read MoreRemains of 55 people recovered from Gaza rubble two years after strike
Civil defence officials in Gaza City said on Saturday that they have recovered the remains of 55 people from the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two years ago. Members of a family and numerous internally displaced persons had been staying in the house at the time, according to authorities conducting…
Read MoreHow a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
Jerry Hsu grew up in San Jose, about an hour south of San Francisco, and, for a time, he assumed he would never leave. He didn’t need to. In the late nineties and two-thousands, Hsu and his daredevil friends had proudly put their sleepy Silicon Valley city on the map as an unlikely skateboarding capital.…
Read MoreThe Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond
As someone who interviews celebrities for a living, I appreciate any twist to the form, which can get bogged down by promotional pablum and canned anecdotes. We can thank Denmark for the show’s specific innovation: Falchuk and his producing partner, Mikkel Bondesen, who is Danish, adapted “Famous Last Words” from a series created by Mikael…
Read MoreThe Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans
A man buys a drawing. A terrible friction materializes between the two of them, the man and the drawing, the latter of which might have been a vision on paper of existence on another plane—a flat botanical realm, rainbow-bright, governed by floating, expressionless heads. The symmetry, the sense of exact echoing across a central median,…
Read MoreIs Russia proving better at protecting friends than fighting enemies in West Africa?
When mutinous soldiers seized a strategic military base in Niger’s capital last Saturday, the country’s ruling junta turned to a foreign partner it has increasingly relied on since coming to power: Russia. Following a night of intense fighting in Niamey, Russia’s Africa Corps helped Nigerien loyalist forces to regain control of Air Base 101 at…
Read MoreGerman president calls for unity in democracy ahead of landmark vote
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday called for the country’s democracy and rule of law be protected from those “who scorn and trample all over them,” ahead of Sunday’s state election that can bring the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to power. “Ethnic-based thinking and nationalist isolationism are simply not the answer to the challenges…
Read MoreAt least 37 killed by toxic fumes during alleged petrol theft in Nigeria, reports say
People watched on anxiously as locals organise a rescue effort [YEAC] At least 37 people have died after inhaling toxic fumes while allegedly stealing petrol from a pipeline in Nigeria’s Rivers State, an environmental group in the oil-rich region says. Many are still missing after more than 100 people descended on Okari Jetty in Okrika…
Read MoreThe Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”
Na’s solution to this problem is speed: the faster he can keep his aliens moving—Va’migere, alas, is not alone—the less likely we are to scrutinize the malevolent jumble of pixels they are. The film’s first chase is a tour de force of kinetic delirium: Sung-ae (Hoyeon), a brave junior cop, drives Bum-seok through the streets…
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