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Smoke and destruction the city of Al-Fashir in Sudan, following clashes between the Sudanese Army and the RSF militia. Fighting has continued in the country despite an internationally brokered truce.
Welcome to Wednesday, where South Korea reverses its year-long refusal to send military aid to Ukraine, a ceasefire in Sudan has been ignored and a rogue toddler sets off security alerts at the White House. Meanwhile, Lucas Marín Llanes in Colombian daily El Espectador looks at the problems caused by crop substitution programs aimed at eradicating illegal coca cultivation.
[*Namaskar – Kannada, India]
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• South Korea may send military aid to Ukraine: South Korea may extend its support to Ukraine beyond humanitarian and economic aid if it comes under a large-scale civilian attack, President Yoon Suk Yeol said. This is the first time that that Seoul has considered providing weapons to Ukraine, after a year of ruling out that possibility. Meanwhile, Russia has accused Ukraine of sabotaging the Black Sea grain deal by demanding bribes from ship owners to register new vessels and carry out inspections under the cover of the deal brokered by the United Nations.
• Fighting continues in Sudan despite ceasefire: Fighting continues in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect. The regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued statements accusing each other of failing to respect the ceasefire.
• Mexico court limits army’s role in public security: Mexico’s top court has limited the army’s participation in public security tasks. This blocks a move by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to put a civilian force under military control. The Supreme Court annulled the legislative reform, concluding it was unconstitutional.
• Fox settles Dominion lawsuit: Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion for $787.5 million, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. Dominion argued its business was harmed by Fox spreading false information the vote had been rigged against Donald Trump. The deal also spares Fox executive Rupert Murdoch from having to testify.
• Beijing hospital fire kills 29: A fire broke out in Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday, killing 29 people, most of them patients. Twelve people have been detained by police for questioning as the cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials say they believe it originated from welding sparks from work being done in the hospital’s inpatient wing.
• Indonesian fishermen rescued after six days: A group of 11 Indonesian fishermen from two boats that were caught in the path of Cyclone Isa have been rescued from a remote island off northwestern Australia after six days without food or water. Nine other men are believed to have drowned at sea. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), rescued the fishermen and said the group was taken to Broome Hospital where authorities reported them in good health.
• Rogue toddler in the White House: Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, said a toddler crawled through the fence on the north side of the White House, setting off security alerts. “The Secret Service Uniformed Division today encountered a curious young visitor along the White House north fence line who briefly entered White House ground,” Gugliemli said.
🗞️ FRONT PAGE
German daily Frankfurter Rundschau devotes its front page to the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which will be marked at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial with a ceremony gathering the presidents of Poland, Germany and Israel. In April 1943, several hundred Jews imprisoned in Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers, in what is considered the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
📰 STORY OF THE DAY
Colombia pushes coca farmers into legal crops — but it's no clean fix
Convincing coca farmers to plant legal crops is better than spraying poisonous pesticides to wipe out the plants. And yet it turns out these crop substitution programs are problematic, disrupting livelihoods and unintentionally causing violence and deforestation, reports Lucas Marín Llanes in Colombian daily El Espectador.
🇨🇴🚫 Since cocaine was made illegal, various strategies have been implemented to control its supply. One such strategy involves the development of substitute crops for farmers and rural territories that cultivate the coca plant, who essentially rely on an illegal economy. This approach represents a significant improvement over established drug eradication policies, but has its own negative effects.
💸 One recurring argument for substitution is that forced eradication policies affect the revenues of households that depend on the coca economy. But crop substitution does the same. Families get involved with the coca economy because of the potential to earn more money. Previous studies have established that coca farmers tend to have higher living standards compared to other cultivators. Embracing substitution thus inevitably entails taking a profit hit.
💥 A point to consider in public and narcotics policies is the unexpected side-effects of state action. With crop substitution programs, evidence gathered under the Colombian substitution program shows that delays in implementing it, combined with a lack of protective measures for communities, led to an increase in deforestation, violence against community leaders and even inter-ethnic land conflict in some regions.
➡️ Read more on Worldcrunch.com
#️⃣ BY THE NUMBERS
$6.17 million
The remains of a 67-million-year-old colossal Tyrannosaurus rex were sold at an auction for 5.5 million Swiss Francs ($6.17 million) to an undisclosed buyer in Zurich, Switzerland. The auction marked the first time in Europe and the third time worldwide that a complete T-Rex skeleton has gone under the hammer.
📣 VERBATIM
“As we entered Soledar and Bakhmut, we got the order to kill anyone: men, women, children, the elderly.”
— Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev, two former convicts who claim to have served as commanders for Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, have given an interview to activist website Gulagu.net, confessing to the murder of hundreds of civilians, Euronews reports. Uldarov recounted receiving kill orders in the Ukrainian cities of Soledar and Bakhmut directly from the owner of the paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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• A 25-Year Sentence Seals Putin's Switch From Authoritarianism To Totalitarianism — FRANCE INTER
• How Many Dead Bodies? Myanmar Military Stops At Nothing To Squash Resistance — THE CONVERSATION
• Foreign Cash, Women Founders: How African Tech Is Bouncing Back, Post-COVID — FINANCIAL AFRIK
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• South Korea may send military aid to Ukraine: South Korea may extend its support to Ukraine beyond humanitarian and economic aid if it comes under a large-scale civilian attack, President Yoon Suk Yeol said. This is the first time that that Seoul has considered providing weapons to Ukraine, after a year of ruling out that possibility. Meanwhile, Russia has accused Ukraine of sabotaging the Black Sea grain deal by demanding bribes from ship owners to register new vessels and carry out inspections under the cover of the deal brokered by the United Nations.
• Fighting continues in Sudan despite ceasefire: Fighting continues in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect. The regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued statements accusing each other of failing to respect the ceasefire.
• Mexico court limits army’s role in public security: Mexico’s top court has limited the army’s participation in public security tasks. This blocks a move by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to put a civilian force under military control. The Supreme Court annulled the legislative reform, concluding it was unconstitutional.
• Fox settles Dominion lawsuit: Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion for $787.5 million, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. Dominion argued its business was harmed by Fox spreading false information the vote had been rigged against Donald Trump. The deal also spares Fox executive Rupert Murdoch from having to testify.
• Beijing hospital fire kills 29: A fire broke out in Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday, killing 29 people, most of them patients. Twelve people have been detained by police for questioning as the cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials say they believe it originated from welding sparks from work being done in the hospital’s inpatient wing.
• Indonesian fishermen rescued after six days: A group of 11 Indonesian fishermen from two boats that were caught in the path of Cyclone Isa have been rescued from a remote island off northwestern Australia after six days without food or water. Nine other men are believed to have drowned at sea. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), rescued the fishermen and said the group was taken to Broome Hospital where authorities reported them in good health.
• Rogue toddler in the White House: Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, said a toddler crawled through the fence on the north side of the White House, setting off security alerts. “The Secret Service Uniformed Division today encountered a curious young visitor along the White House north fence line who briefly entered White House ground,” Gugliemli said.
German daily Frankfurter Rundschau devotes its front page to the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which will be marked at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial with a ceremony gathering the presidents of Poland, Germany and Israel. In April 1943, several hundred Jews imprisoned in Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers, in what is considered the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
Convincing coca farmers to plant legal crops is better than spraying poisonous pesticides to wipe out the plants. And yet it turns out these crop substitution programs are problematic, disrupting livelihoods and unintentionally causing violence and deforestation, reports Lucas Marín Llanes in Colombian daily El Espectador.
🇨🇴🚫 Since cocaine was made illegal, various strategies have been implemented to control its supply. One such strategy involves the development of substitute crops for farmers and rural territories that cultivate the coca plant, who essentially rely on an illegal economy. This approach represents a significant improvement over established drug eradication policies, but has its own negative effects.
💸 One recurring argument for substitution is that forced eradication policies affect the revenues of households that depend on the coca economy. But crop substitution does the same. Families get involved with the coca economy because of the potential to earn more money. Previous studies have established that coca farmers tend to have higher living standards compared to other cultivators. Embracing substitution thus inevitably entails taking a profit hit.
💥 A point to consider in public and narcotics policies is the unexpected side-effects of state action. With crop substitution programs, evidence gathered under the Colombian substitution program shows that delays in implementing it, combined with a lack of protective measures for communities, led to an increase in deforestation, violence against community leaders and even inter-ethnic land conflict in some regions.
➡️ Read more on Worldcrunch.com
➡️ Watch the video: THIS HAPPENED
The remains of a 67-million-year-old colossal Tyrannosaurus rex were sold at an auction for 5.5 million Swiss Francs ($6.17 million) to an undisclosed buyer in Zurich, Switzerland. The auction marked the first time in Europe and the third time worldwide that a complete T-Rex skeleton has gone under the hammer.
— Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev, two former convicts who claim to have served as commanders for Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, have given an interview to activist website Gulagu.net, confessing to the murder of hundreds of civilians, Euronews reports. Uldarov recounted receiving kill orders in the Ukrainian cities of Soledar and Bakhmut directly from the owner of the paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
• A 25-Year Sentence Seals Putin's Switch From Authoritarianism To Totalitarianism — FRANCE INTER
• How Many Dead Bodies? Myanmar Military Stops At Nothing To Squash Resistance — THE CONVERSATION
• Foreign Cash, Women Founders: How African Tech Is Bouncing Back, Post-COVID — FINANCIAL AFRIK
✍️ Newsletter by Emma Albright, Inès Mermat, Anne-Sophie Goninet and Bertrand Hauger
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Smoke and destruction the city of Al-Fashir in Sudan, following clashes between the Sudanese Army and the RSF militia. Fighting has continued in the country despite an internationally brokered truce.
Welcome to Wednesday, where South Korea reverses its year-long refusal to send military aid to Ukraine, a ceasefire in Sudan has been ignored and a rogue toddler sets off security alerts at the White House. Meanwhile, Lucas Marín Llanes in Colombian daily El Espectador looks at the problems caused by crop substitution programs aimed at eradicating illegal coca cultivation.
[*Namaskar – Kannada, India]
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🌎 7 THINGS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW
• South Korea may send military aid to Ukraine: South Korea may extend its support to Ukraine beyond humanitarian and economic aid if it comes under a large-scale civilian attack, President Yoon Suk Yeol said. This is the first time that that Seoul has considered providing weapons to Ukraine, after a year of ruling out that possibility. Meanwhile, Russia has accused Ukraine of sabotaging the Black Sea grain deal by demanding bribes from ship owners to register new vessels and carry out inspections under the cover of the deal brokered by the United Nations.
• Fighting continues in Sudan despite ceasefire: Fighting continues in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect. The regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued statements accusing each other of failing to respect the ceasefire.
• Mexico court limits army’s role in public security: Mexico’s top court has limited the army’s participation in public security tasks. This blocks a move by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to put a civilian force under military control. The Supreme Court annulled the legislative reform, concluding it was unconstitutional.
• Fox settles Dominion lawsuit: Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion for $787.5 million, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. Dominion argued its business was harmed by Fox spreading false information the vote had been rigged against Donald Trump. The deal also spares Fox executive Rupert Murdoch from having to testify.
• Beijing hospital fire kills 29: A fire broke out in Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday, killing 29 people, most of them patients. Twelve people have been detained by police for questioning as the cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials say they believe it originated from welding sparks from work being done in the hospital’s inpatient wing.
• Indonesian fishermen rescued after six days: A group of 11 Indonesian fishermen from two boats that were caught in the path of Cyclone Isa have been rescued from a remote island off northwestern Australia after six days without food or water. Nine other men are believed to have drowned at sea. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), rescued the fishermen and said the group was taken to Broome Hospital where authorities reported them in good health.
• Rogue toddler in the White House: Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, said a toddler crawled through the fence on the north side of the White House, setting off security alerts. “The Secret Service Uniformed Division today encountered a curious young visitor along the White House north fence line who briefly entered White House ground,” Gugliemli said.
🗞️ FRONT PAGE
German daily Frankfurter Rundschau devotes its front page to the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which will be marked at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial with a ceremony gathering the presidents of Poland, Germany and Israel. In April 1943, several hundred Jews imprisoned in Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers, in what is considered the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
📰 STORY OF THE DAY
Colombia pushes coca farmers into legal crops — but it's no clean fix
Convincing coca farmers to plant legal crops is better than spraying poisonous pesticides to wipe out the plants. And yet it turns out these crop substitution programs are problematic, disrupting livelihoods and unintentionally causing violence and deforestation, reports Lucas Marín Llanes in Colombian daily El Espectador.
🇨🇴🚫 Since cocaine was made illegal, various strategies have been implemented to control its supply. One such strategy involves the development of substitute crops for farmers and rural territories that cultivate the coca plant, who essentially rely on an illegal economy. This approach represents a significant improvement over established drug eradication policies, but has its own negative effects.
💸 One recurring argument for substitution is that forced eradication policies affect the revenues of households that depend on the coca economy. But crop substitution does the same. Families get involved with the coca economy because of the potential to earn more money. Previous studies have established that coca farmers tend to have higher living standards compared to other cultivators. Embracing substitution thus inevitably entails taking a profit hit.
💥 A point to consider in public and narcotics policies is the unexpected side-effects of state action. With crop substitution programs, evidence gathered under the Colombian substitution program shows that delays in implementing it, combined with a lack of protective measures for communities, led to an increase in deforestation, violence against community leaders and even inter-ethnic land conflict in some regions.
➡️ Read more on Worldcrunch.com
#️⃣ BY THE NUMBERS
$6.17 million
The remains of a 67-million-year-old colossal Tyrannosaurus rex were sold at an auction for 5.5 million Swiss Francs ($6.17 million) to an undisclosed buyer in Zurich, Switzerland. The auction marked the first time in Europe and the third time worldwide that a complete T-Rex skeleton has gone under the hammer.
📣 VERBATIM
“As we entered Soledar and Bakhmut, we got the order to kill anyone: men, women, children, the elderly.”
— Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev, two former convicts who claim to have served as commanders for Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, have given an interview to activist website Gulagu.net, confessing to the murder of hundreds of civilians, Euronews reports. Uldarov recounted receiving kill orders in the Ukrainian cities of Soledar and Bakhmut directly from the owner of the paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
👉 MORE FROM WORLDCRUNCH
• A 25-Year Sentence Seals Putin's Switch From Authoritarianism To Totalitarianism — FRANCE INTER
• How Many Dead Bodies? Myanmar Military Stops At Nothing To Squash Resistance — THE CONVERSATION
• Foreign Cash, Women Founders: How African Tech Is Bouncing Back, Post-COVID — FINANCIAL AFRIK
This is our daily newsletter Worldcrunch Today, a rapid tour of the news of the day from the world's best journalism sources, regardless of language or geography.
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• South Korea may send military aid to Ukraine: South Korea may extend its support to Ukraine beyond humanitarian and economic aid if it comes under a large-scale civilian attack, President Yoon Suk Yeol said. This is the first time that that Seoul has considered providing weapons to Ukraine, after a year of ruling out that possibility. Meanwhile, Russia has accused Ukraine of sabotaging the Black Sea grain deal by demanding bribes from ship owners to register new vessels and carry out inspections under the cover of the deal brokered by the United Nations.
• Fighting continues in Sudan despite ceasefire: Fighting continues in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect. The regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued statements accusing each other of failing to respect the ceasefire.
• Mexico court limits army’s role in public security: Mexico’s top court has limited the army’s participation in public security tasks. This blocks a move by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to put a civilian force under military control. The Supreme Court annulled the legislative reform, concluding it was unconstitutional.
• Fox settles Dominion lawsuit: Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion for $787.5 million, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. Dominion argued its business was harmed by Fox spreading false information the vote had been rigged against Donald Trump. The deal also spares Fox executive Rupert Murdoch from having to testify.
• Beijing hospital fire kills 29: A fire broke out in Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday, killing 29 people, most of them patients. Twelve people have been detained by police for questioning as the cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials say they believe it originated from welding sparks from work being done in the hospital’s inpatient wing.
• Indonesian fishermen rescued after six days: A group of 11 Indonesian fishermen from two boats that were caught in the path of Cyclone Isa have been rescued from a remote island off northwestern Australia after six days without food or water. Nine other men are believed to have drowned at sea. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), rescued the fishermen and said the group was taken to Broome Hospital where authorities reported them in good health.
• Rogue toddler in the White House: Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, said a toddler crawled through the fence on the north side of the White House, setting off security alerts. “The Secret Service Uniformed Division today encountered a curious young visitor along the White House north fence line who briefly entered White House ground,” Gugliemli said.
German daily Frankfurter Rundschau devotes its front page to the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which will be marked at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial with a ceremony gathering the presidents of Poland, Germany and Israel. In April 1943, several hundred Jews imprisoned in Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers, in what is considered the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
Convincing coca farmers to plant legal crops is better than spraying poisonous pesticides to wipe out the plants. And yet it turns out these crop substitution programs are problematic, disrupting livelihoods and unintentionally causing violence and deforestation, reports Lucas Marín Llanes in Colombian daily El Espectador.
🇨🇴🚫 Since cocaine was made illegal, various strategies have been implemented to control its supply. One such strategy involves the development of substitute crops for farmers and rural territories that cultivate the coca plant, who essentially rely on an illegal economy. This approach represents a significant improvement over established drug eradication policies, but has its own negative effects.
💸 One recurring argument for substitution is that forced eradication policies affect the revenues of households that depend on the coca economy. But crop substitution does the same. Families get involved with the coca economy because of the potential to earn more money. Previous studies have established that coca farmers tend to have higher living standards compared to other cultivators. Embracing substitution thus inevitably entails taking a profit hit.
💥 A point to consider in public and narcotics policies is the unexpected side-effects of state action. With crop substitution programs, evidence gathered under the Colombian substitution program shows that delays in implementing it, combined with a lack of protective measures for communities, led to an increase in deforestation, violence against community leaders and even inter-ethnic land conflict in some regions.
➡️ Read more on Worldcrunch.com
➡️ Watch the video: THIS HAPPENED
The remains of a 67-million-year-old colossal Tyrannosaurus rex were sold at an auction for 5.5 million Swiss Francs ($6.17 million) to an undisclosed buyer in Zurich, Switzerland. The auction marked the first time in Europe and the third time worldwide that a complete T-Rex skeleton has gone under the hammer.
— Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev, two former convicts who claim to have served as commanders for Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, have given an interview to activist website Gulagu.net, confessing to the murder of hundreds of civilians, Euronews reports. Uldarov recounted receiving kill orders in the Ukrainian cities of Soledar and Bakhmut directly from the owner of the paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
• A 25-Year Sentence Seals Putin's Switch From Authoritarianism To Totalitarianism — FRANCE INTER
• How Many Dead Bodies? Myanmar Military Stops At Nothing To Squash Resistance — THE CONVERSATION
• Foreign Cash, Women Founders: How African Tech Is Bouncing Back, Post-COVID — FINANCIAL AFRIK
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People gathered in Jakarta, Indonesia, to witness a “hybrid” eclipse that was also visible from Australia and East Timor. This hybrid eclipse is a type of solar eclipse that creates an annular or a total solar eclipse, depending on where onlookers stand in relation to the Moon.
Welcome to Thursday, where at least 80 are killed in a stampede during a food distribution event in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, climate scientists worry that the return of the El Niño may lead to record high temperatures, and Oceania is treated to a “hybrid” solar eclipse. Meanwhile, Vera Mantengoli in Italian daily La Stampa hopes that counting beds in Venice can be a wake-up call about over-tourism in la Serenissima.
[*Cebuano, Philippines]
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• At least 78 killed in crush at Ramadan charity event in Yemen: At least 78 people have been killed in a crush at a school in the Yemeni capital Sanaa during a distribution of charity for Ramadan. Hundreds of people had crowded into the school to receive donations which amounted to about $9 (£7) per person. Those responsible for the distribution of the funds have been detained and an investigation is underway, the interior ministry said Houthi rebels have run the city since they drove out the government in 2015.
• In Sudan, residents flee capital Khartoum as fighting continues: Thousands of civilians have fled Sudan's capital and foreign nations are trying to evacuate their citizens, amid a fifth day of fierce fighting that brought the death toll to close to 300. Witnesses reported people leaving Khartoum in cars and on foot on Wednesday morning, as gunfire and deafening explosions rocked the city.
• World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Niño returns: The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the warmer El Niño weather phenomenon, after three years of La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which generally lowers global temperatures.
• Russia expands war recruitment drive with video ad calling for “real men”: The Russian military has launched a video campaign to lure more professional soldiers to fight in Ukraine which challenges those interested to show they are "a real man" and swap what it casts as hum-drum civilian life for the battlefield. The ad follows a report from British military intelligence suggesting that Moscow is seeking to recruit up to 400,000 professional soldiers — on a volunteer basis — to bolster its forces in Ukraine.
• India court rejects Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against conviction: An Indian court has rejected opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's appeal seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case. The decision extends the uncertainty over whether he can contest in national elections due next year. Mr Gandhi has been sentenced to two years in jail for 2019 comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname at an election rally.
• Moonbin: K-pop star dies at age of 25 in suspected suicide: K-pop star Moonbin has died at the age of 25, his record label has announced. He was found unresponsive by his manager at his apartment in Seoul on Wednesday night. He was a child actor and model in the 2000s before joining the popular boy band Astro in 2016.
• Succession penthouse is on sale for $29 million: The triplex apartment of Kendall Roy — Jeremy Strong's character in HBO's Emmy-winning hit show, Succession — located at 180 East 88th Street, Manhattan, New York City, is now on sale for $29 million.
Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth pays tribute to cultural icon Yehonatan Geffen who died at the age of 76. The songwriter, poet, author and journalist was known for his countless songs and poems for both children and adults, as well as his newspaper columns dissecting the ills of the Israeli right-wing leaders and the occupation of the West Bank.
A special counter installed in Venice shows that places to sleep for visitors will literally outnumber those for locals in Venice for the first time in the coming weeks or months. Housing activists hope it will finally be a wake up call for the city, reports Vera Mantengoli in Italian daily La Stampa.
🇮🇹🛏️ Tourists in Venice have always seemed to be everywhere. But now, for the first time, locals are about to be reduced to minority status. The stunning fact for the iconic lagoon city is confirmed by a special "tourist bed counter" installed in the windows of a secondhand bookstore, MarcoPolo. As of this week, there are 48,596 beds for tourists versus 49,365 residents. At this rate, the ratio of one tourist per one resident may be just weeks away.
🏠 “Soon there is going to be a tourist per resident,” said Matteo Secchi of "pro-Venice" website Venessia.com. Venessia.com demands that whoever opens a tourist tenancy should be required to be a resident or that, for every new tourist tenancy, new public housing should be made available.
⚖️ The purpose of the counter is to instill in those who pass by the question: Is it possible not to turn the city into a tourist village? A question that is not obvious given that the city administration has not yet done anything, despite having the means to intervene in the regulation of tourist leases. In other Italian cities that are beginning to have similar problems, support is growing for imposing limits on tourists as a national law, but it still has a long way to go.
➡️ Watch the video: THIS HAPPENED
Research by UK newspaper The Guardian revealed that King Charles III's assets have significantly increased his wealth to an estimated £1.8 billion ($2.2 billion). Items include diamond-encrusted jewels, private properties, paintings by Monet, Rolls-Royces and a collection of rare stamps. However, it is currently impossible to ascertain the full value of the monarch's personal fortune, as it is not subjected to public scrutiny.
— Die Aktuelle is facing serious backlash after the German weekly magazine ran what it advertised as Formula One great Michael Schumacher’s “first interview” since his 2013 skiing accident — an “interview” actually generated through AI-powered chatbot. The family of the former Ferrari driver, who hasn’t been seen his public since the accident left him severely injured, is considering legal action against the magazine.
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