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From raging against DEI initiatives to taking over the Kennedy Center, Trump has used his first month in office to severely change the cultural landscape of the USA. On Sunday, Julianne Moore revealed that her children’s book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ had been “banned by the Trump Administration” from schools run by the Department of Defence. The Still Alice actor, who had attended a Department of Defence-run school as her father was a Vietnam veteran, expressed her “shock” that her 2007 semi-autobiographical story about a girl accepting her freckles was one of the many books now forbidden by the Trump administration in…

Tout cela fait partie d’un schéma dans lequel elle et un cercle restreint de conseillers essentiellement allemands dirigent les opérations, en évitant largement le contrôle du Parlement européen et en gardant la mainmise sur tous les messages et toutes les communications. La pneumonie de von der Leyen en janvier a fourni un exemple frappant de la façon dont les choses fonctionnent désormais. Son équipe de communication a délibérément dissimulé le fait qu’une grande dirigeante mondiale était hospitalisée, tandis que l’Allemande elle-même n’a pas cédé le contrôle de l’exécutif européen à son numéro 2. Cela signifie également qu’une réunion des 27…

The agency also prevented one government from luring a human rights advocate abroad, where they faced potential injury or death, the country’s spy chief disclosed on Wednesday. Australia’s spy agency has uncovered three separate foreign plots to physically harm individuals living in the country, Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Mike Burgess revealed on Wednesday.In his annual address outlining national security threats, Burgess did not disclose the countries involved. However, he did state that an unnamed regime had planned to harm or assassinate one or more individuals in Australia as part of a broader global effort to silence…

Former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of a crime of sexual assault after forcibly kissing footballer Jenni Hermoso. Rubiales, who kissed Hermoso without consent after her team won the Women’s World Cup in August 2023, was fined €10,800 by Spain’s National Court, banned from approaching Hermoso within 200 meters and from communicating with her for one year.   “This action of giving a woman a kiss on the mouth has a clear sexual connotation, and it is not the normal way of greeting people with whom one does not have an emotional relationship,” Judge José Manuel…

Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator,” escalating tensions in the aftermath of US-Russia talks over Ukraine. The exchange of criticism between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Donald Trump further escalated on Wednesday after Trump labelled the Ukrainian leader a “dictator”.”I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and millions have unnecessarily died,” Trump says in a post on Truth Social.”Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” he added.Trump’s harsh words came in response to an earlier statement by Zelenskyy, who said…

A new right-leaning political power balance — evident in several votes since last year’s European election — is likely to assert its dominance when new legislation is proposed by the European Commission. The new political landscape allows the EPP to build majorities without the Socialists. Manfred Weber’s center-right EPP “must know there will be consequences to looking both ways,” the document states, but cautions against being “overly aggressive” to avoid alienating “more mainstream” voices in the EPP. As for collaboration with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists group, this should be decided on a “case-by-case” basis, the S&D’s…

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Wednesday that defence cuts “must never happen again”. Denmark will spend an additional 50bn kroner (€6.7bn) on defence over the next two years, amid the ongoing threat Russia poses to Europe, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced. Speaking beside her foreign and defence ministers at a press conference at the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, the Danish leader promised a massive rearmament drive, saying it was “Denmark’s security that is at stake”. Frederiksen stressed that it had been a mistake for countries like Denmark to have cut defence spending in recent decades.“Don’t…

The thawing of 7 trillion tonnes of glacial ice since has raised sea levels by almost 2 centimetres, with the Alps a melting hotspot. Climate change is causing glaciers around the world to melt faster than ever recorded, a new scientific study has found. These bodies of ice have shrunk by more than 5 per cent on average since 2000 – and at an accelerating rate in the past decade. Scientists have long been aware that glaciers – indicators of human-caused climate change – are melting increasingly fast. But this new study, published in the journal Nature, draws together various findings for…

“Let’s be clear, Zelenskyy is not a dictator but it’s only right and proper that Ukrainians have a timeline for elections,” Farage told conservative channel GB News. Farage spoke from Washington, D.C., where he’ll be talking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which runs until Saturday. Pressed on Trump’s remarks, Farage said: “You should always take everything Donald Trump says seriously. You shouldn’t always take things that Donald Trump says absolutely literally.” He citied the “bad blood” between Trump and Ukraine over the U.S. president’s first impeachment in late 2019. The House of Representatives impeached Trump for allegedly withholding U.S.…

Updated: 20/02/2025 – 15:45 GMT+1Tula-Tu, a baby elephant at Oregon Zoo’s baby, will make her public debut on 21 February. Visitors can see her and her mother, Rose-Tu, in Forest Hall. … More Tula-Tu, Oregon Zoo’s two-week-old baby elephant, is set to make her debut public appearance. Starting 21 February, visitors can see her and her mother, Rose-Tu, in the zoo’s indoor elephant habitat, Forest Hall. The young elephant was spotted playfully exploring her surroundings, rolling in hay, and staying close to her mother ahead of her first public appearance. Her arrival marks an exciting moment for the zoo, drawing…