What is pulling the plug on digital arts in South Africa?
Read More ‘There is a lack of specialised skills and animators. This is forcing studios to outsource outside the African continent’ It was easy to believe amid the Covid-19 pandemic that artists would be better off learning how to code. Almost every art form was being marketed and consumed online, from fairs to theatrical performances. […]
Questions mount over Alisher Usmanov’s links with Everton FC
Read More A series of football managers have raised fresh questions over the ownership of Everton FC after claiming they were interviewed for the top job in the presence of the now-sanctioned oligarch Alisher Usmanov. The multibillionaire is understood to have attended a sequence of meetings dating from current owner Farhad Moshiri’s initial acquisition of […]
US more lenient on transgender treatment than Europe, study shows
Post Content EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. is more lenient than any European country when it comes to allowing children to access medical services for gender transitions, according to a new study. The study, published by Do No Harm, a group that seeks to insulate the health care profession from “radical, diverse and discriminatory ideology,” analyzed the […]
Former FBI assistant director sees ‘glaring disparity’ in DOJ’s ‘kid gloves’ treatment of Biden
Post Content A former FBI assistant director is blasting the bureau for its “glaring disparity” in how the agency has approached the situations surrounding President Biden and former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified materials. The first batch of classified documents in Biden’s possession was found at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2, just […]
Supreme Court to hear immigration case brought by transgender woman against Biden administration
Post Content The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the case of a Guatemalan transgender woman who is seeking to avoid deportation from the U.S. after a lower court said she didn’t go through the proper process to demonstrate she would be persecuted in her home country if she were deported. The nine justices will […]
Biden’s week riddled with controversies from airline disaster to federal investigation into classified docs
Post Content President Biden’s past week was riddled with controversy, including a halt of domestic flights due to an FAA system failure, his administration’s recommendation of a gas stove ban, the discovery of classified documents from his time as vice president and the launch of multiple federal investigations into his mishandling of important government materials. […]
UK weather: warning of wintry showers and ice from Sunday evening
Read More Wintry showers are expected to create icy conditions across all four nations of the UK from Sunday evening, forecasters have warned. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for ice covering Northern Ireland, southern Scotland, northern England, northern Wales and the Midlands, while hundreds of flood warnings are in place across the […]
Karine Jean-Pierre said search for documents was ‘completed’ before WH announced more classified docs found
Post Content White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Thursday afternoon press conference lawyers had finished searching for classified documents after some were found in President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, garage. But the search actually continued that evening when more classified documents were found. Classified documents were also found at Biden’s private office at […]
“Martina Scialdone, una vita di passione a difendere le donne in tribunale”
Read More Il mondo di Martina l’abbraccia nel giorno più triste. Le arriva addosso dalle colleghe, dai social, dagli amici. Era amata e stimata, da tutti. Martina Scialdone era un’avvocata specializzata in diritto di famiglia, aveva 35 anni. Era uno dei legali dello studio Consulup di via Panama, al quartiere Parioli. Ogni giorno aveva a […]
Saudi Arabian academic on death row for using Twitter and WhatsApp
Read More A prominent pro-reform law professor in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to death for alleged crimes including having a Twitter account and using WhatsApp to share news considered “hostile” to the kingdom, according to court documents seen by the Guardian. The arrest of Awad Al-Qarni, 65, in September 2017 represented the start of a […]