When the Public Theater announced in June that it had placed the Under the Radar festival on indefinite hiatus, its founder, Mark Russell, did not know if he would be able to find another home for it. The Public cited financial reasons for the decision; other institutions were facing similar struggles. But today Russell, in …
The Pentagon announced a new $200 million weapons package for Ukraine on Wednesday. This pledge is Washington’s 48th such tranche of arms, which the Defense Department used to encourage Congress “to meet its commitment to the people of Ukraine by passing additional funding to ensure Ukraine continues to have what it needs to defend itself …
Several prominent football clubs have been among the many German institutions to show solidarity with Bayern Munich, FC Cologne, FC St. Pauli and Borussia Dortmund all used social media platforms to send messages of support for the war-torn country. Dortmund’s emotional message to its Israeli fan club even ended with the words “Am Yisrael Chai,” meaning …
The ceremony to honor a fallen Russian soldier went viral for all the wrong reasons. Officials dedicating a park and a playground to a local hero who died in the Ukraine war chose a song from “The Hunger Games,” blaring out the national anthem in the movie about a totalitarian state where young people are …
A Russian Town Where the War Dead Were Everyone’s Neighbors Read More »
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., joined late night host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday and said that Americans weren’t sending their “best and brightest” to Capitol Hill, arguing that it is “scary.” “Is it awkward to be in the Capitol and then run into people that you have put up a devastating meme about because you’ve got …
How many spirits do you think are surrounding you at this very moment? Lords of the Fallen presents you with this grim newfound curiosity, then hands over the tool to satiate it. A lamp lets you take a peek at the realm of the dead — called the Umbral realm — in real time during …
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Following the terrible events of the weekend, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have placed the Gaza Strip under siege. Some 300,000 reservists are being mobilised. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the IDF will “destroy” Hamas, the terrorist pseudo-government which rules the Strip and its two million inhabitants. It seems clear that for …
The IDF are going into Gaza again – but this time they have a new trick Read More »
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday that the government would seek to dissolve the Japan branch of the fringe Unification Church, more than a year after the group’s extensive ties to conservative Japanese politicians were revealed in the wake of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination. After Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was …
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Our interview lineup for DealBook Summit 2023 We’re excited to announce the lineup for the DealBook Summit, to be held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on Nov. 29. Andrew will host a series of conversations with the biggest newsmakers in the worlds of business, politics and culture. We hope you will …
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LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spent the week listening to the opposition Labour Party pull apart his green policies. Now another damning verdict has arrived — this time from his own climate advisers. Sunak’s recent package of climate policy reforms “increase longer-term risks” that the U.K. will miss its goal of net …
Government advisers to Rishi Sunak: You’ve put UK climate goals at risk Read More »
China appears to have decided that its road to greater global clout lies through the Palestinians — no matter what hits it takes for going soft on Hamas. Beijing’s initial statement failing to condemn Hamas for this weekend’s attack drew immediate backlash from Israeli and U.S. officials for minimizing the brutality the Palestinian militants had …
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