Posts by Entrepreneur South Africa
Hicksville woman loses nearly $1M in alleged elder scam; Queens woman arrested
A Queens woman was arrested and charged with attempted grand larceny after a 70-year-old Hicksville woman was allegedly persuaded to send nearly $1 million as part of an elder scam, Nassau County police said. According to police, a woman identified in court records only by the surname Tierigeli claimed to be with the Delhi Police…
Read MoreVivian Wilson encourages queer people to ‘disobey’ as midterms approach
Vivian Jenna Wilson knows what’s at stake for the LGBTQ+ community. With the fast-approaching midterms, the famous transgender model is using her platform to showcase her unapologetic queerness at a pivotal moment in history. Wilson has teamed up with Desigual on their empowering new campaign, Born to Disobey, which encourages queer people to claim their…
Read MoreEmbattled Spanish PM insists no prior warnings before Ceuta crisis
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said no-one foresaw the influx of 72,000 migrants in the exclave of Ceuta, as pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis. “It’s absurd to think that the government knew and did nothing,” Sánchez told Spain’s parliament on Thursday, hours after tens of thousands of people joined protests across…
Read MoreReporting the Big World
Ascherson may not have known it, but he was establishing the pattern of his career, and indeed his life: an engagement with the world driven by conscience and curiosity, and a relentless desire to get it all down on paper, in one form or another. Ascherson has too often thrived as a straight reporter to…
Read MoreLavrov: Russia to close branches of Germany’s Goethe-Institut
The Russian government will close Goethe-Institut branches, Germany’s international cultural institutes, across the country, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday. Lavrov said the move was in response to Germany’s planned closure of the Russian House in Berlin, according to the Interfax news agency. The German government announced the closure after an explosive-laden drone was…
Read MoreFrench police deployed to disrupt dinghies as Burnham and Macron meet
The UK and France are boosting police officer numbers on the French coast to stop “mega dinghies” from launching across the English Channel, the British prime minister’s office said as Andy Burnham prepared to host Emmanuel Macron. Prime Minister Burnham will welcome the French president to Number 10 Downing Street in London on Thursday for…
Read MoreTaking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair
Performances alternated between two stages—Marigold and Dandelion—without overlap, in theory giving all forty-five thousand attendees a shot at laying eyes and/or ears on every set. In practice, this worked for a time. Walking at a motivated but not harried pace, I could reach earshot of the opposite stage within six minutes or so—a number that…
Read MorePoland extends checks at German border for further six months
Poland is extending its temporary border check with Germany once again. A spokesman for the European Commission in Brussels said on Wednesday that Poland had informed the commission that the checks, which were previously scheduled to run until October 2, are to remain in place until March 30 next year. Checks at the border with…
Read MoreFive Great Campus Novels
“Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,” Randall Jarrell writes in his 1954 satire, “Pictures from an Institution.” In the novel, the university is home to two types: the asses and the industrialists. The former are dreamy, romantic; the latter, hard-nosed, pragmatic. Each of the campus…
Read MoreThe Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
What do we hope to communicate when we film and photograph food? In his 1957 collection, “Mythologies,” Roland Barthes argued that food photography was often an exercise in whitewashing: the highly stylized pictures featured in glossy magazines, which he called “ornamental cookery,” precluded a person “from touching on the real problems concerning food,” such as…
Read MoreHungary warns of Russian threat after Leipzig airport drone attack
Hungary’s government has said a failed attack involving an explosives-laden drone at Germany’s Leipzig airport shows that Russia poses a threat to European security. “Hungary is deeply concerned by the growing number and intensity of Russian hybrid activities on European soil,” Foreign Minister Anita Orbán wrote on X late Tuesday. Recent incidents in Germany demonstrated…
Read More‘Heartbreaking:’ Mercy Chefs describes destruction and resiliency in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal (WAVY) – Floodwaters across Nepal and China have left nearly 4,500 people missing and more than 1,000 confirmed dead, according to the Associated Press. How to help after Nepal and Tibet’s catastrophic floods Disaster relief organizations have deployed and are delivering aid to heavily impacted communities. Workers with Portsmouth-based Mercy Chefs are currently…
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