Новости за 22.02.2024

Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler are in the game

Almost a year after Florida lawmakers passed a law giving Florida’s governor control over Walt Disney World’s governing district, Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling the takeover a success

The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth holiday

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his former top aides have met with police as part of an investigation into allegations they plotted a coup to remove Bolsonaro’s successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Don’t call them nostalgic

The former chief of Haiti’s National Police who was recently accused in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has announced he is resigning as permanent representative of Haiti to the Organization of American States

An international investigative team says that its probe into a 2015 attack in Syria found “reasonable grounds to believe” that the Islamic State group used mustard gas

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Poland's lawmakers have voted to approve over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ages 15 and above in a step to liberalize Poland's strict reproductive law inherited from the previous nationalist conservative government

Families and friends have started burying loves ones who were among at least 16 people killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela

The parents of two teenagers who survived a fire that killed 20 people at a high school dormitory for Indigenous girls last year have sued the government and accused authorities of negligence

Mother of chief Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says she’s seen son’s body, is resisting pressure to allow a secret burial

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has taken a co-pilot's seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber, a flight that appeared aimed at bolstering his image ahead of next month’s election he’s all but certain to win

Ella Mills knows we all want to eat healthier

English food writer Ella Mills says her Spicy Sun-Dried Tomato and Eggplant Ragu takes only 30 minutes and yields maximum flavor

Hungary’s nationalist government has delayed holding a vote on Sweden’s membership for more than 18 months, creating tension with Stockholm and drawing mounting pressure from its allies to finally move forward on ratification

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has set a target to further increase aquaculture production to meet rising demand for seafood and to fight global hunger and undernourishment

The chaotic debate over a cease-fire in Gaza reverberated through Britain’s Parliament as the speaker of the House of Commons faced calls to resign and lawmakers said they feared for their safety amid pressure from all sides of the issue

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central areas of the besieged territory overnight as alarm rose over the worsening humanitarian crisis

If there is one theme emerging at Milan Fashion Week, it is cocooning, hunkering down, enveloping one’s self in comfort clothing. No one is mentioning the wars and political divisions cleaving the globe, but it is clear that if they are not in the forefront of designers’ minds, the drive for self-protection is a subliminal part of the Zeitgeist. Here are some highlights from mostly womenswear previews for Fall-Winter 2024-25 on Thursday, the second day of Milan Fashion Week: MAX MARA DEFINES MODERN... Читать дальше...

The Metropolitan Opera is staging its first new production of Verdi's opera “La Forza del Destino” in nearly 30 years

Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever

A court in Montenegro has ruled that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges rather than to his native South Korea

The head of the Jewish Community in Denmark says the number of antisemitic incidents registered since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza has reached levels not seen since World War II

Turkey’s central bank has left its key interest rate unchanged at 45%, pausing a series of aggressive rate hikes aimed at taming high inflation