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‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy of the west
Omar El Akkad grew up believing in an idealized America. Born in Egypt, raised in Qatar, and transplanted as a teenager to Canada, the writer saw the west for its freedoms – a place where, unlike at home, he could check out a William S Burroughs book from the library …
Surfing prodigy Milla Brown: ‘It’s pretty normal now for girls to be doing big airs’
Each year Stab, a surf media outlet with a cult online following, pulls together a video edit of the best waves of the past 12 months. “Best” is of course a subjective measure but the compilation typically features some of the best surfers in the world pulling big turns, big …
‘Not what we signed up for’: inside Trump’s ‘shocking’ Kennedy Center takeover
annual gathering of conservatives
had just got under way near Washington when its organiser, Matt Schlapp, turned to Ric Grenell and quipped: “My daughters want tickets to all the good Kennedy Center shows.”Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence, was recently named by …
Musk’s ‘Doge’ claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestorm
Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” has been accused of setting off a political firestorm in India after it claimed that the US government had been sending millions of dollars to support the Indian elections.
, …German election shows how far green wave has receded in Europe
In the final days of an election campaign dominated by migration, the likely new chancellor of Europe’s biggest polluter sought to assure voters that its economy ministry would not be occupied by NGOs. Instead, conservative lead candidate Friedrich Merz posted on social media that it would be led by “someone …
MP Mike Amesbury sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for assault
Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for punching a man to the ground.
after an investigation, last monthadmitted a single charge of section 39 assault
in relation …M23 militia’s advance in eastern DRC has killed 7,000 since January, UN told
About 7,000 people have died in fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels started renewed advances in January, the DRC’s prime minister has said.
At a high-level meeting of the UN’s human rights council in Geneva on Monday, Judith Suminwa Tuluka also …
Former Brexit party MEP in court on Russia-linked bribery charges
A former leader of Reform UK in Wales agreed to receive money to make statements “benefiting” the Russian narrative on Ukraine while serving as an MEP, a court has been told.
Details of the allegations against Nathan Gill, who served as a member of the European parliament for Ukip and …
The big idea: what do we really mean by free speech?
Free speech is in permacrisis – or so some would have you believe. Complaints that freedom of speech is under attack come mostly from the political right, from public figures who appear to the naked eye to be
extremely
free to say and do what they like, and see …Forest fires push up greenhouse gas emissions from war in Ukraine
The burning of Ukraine’s forests at unprecedented rates over the past year has helped push the total greenhouse emissions from the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion to almost 230m tonnes, analysis shows.
, published on the third anniversary of the invasion, found the fighting and its …