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Author: Unknown
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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In Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee camp, three Rohingya artists are defying cultural erasure. Through painting, music, and photography, they preserve the memory of a people long persecuted in Myanmar. As Myanmar continues to deny them recognition, these artists are fighting back with colour, sound, and story.

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Author: Sumaya Mohammed, teacher living in Gaza
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Samer was killed in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on April 27. He was a peaceful man trying to earn a living to feed his children in a place where food has become more expensive than gold. During the ceasefire, he was able to buy vegetables from wholesalers. Samer continued selling day and night, even as buyers became scarce due to the high prices. Ten days after Samer was killed, a restaurant and a market on al-Wahda Street were bombed. At least 33 people were killed, two weeks before Samer’s martyrdom. Israel is blocking food from entering Gaza and destroying every link in food supply chain. As a result of the repeated targeting of vendors and markets, all that is available now to buy – for those who can afford to buy food are scraps. Israel has claimed that it is blocking aid to Gaza because Hamas takes it. Western media, fully complicit in distorting the truth, has parroted the claim. Israel is deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians. Our sole concern is how to keep surviving amid this catastrophic famine that has broken our bones and melted our insides. No one among us is healthy any more. Our bodies are dead, but they still pulse with hope – yearning for that miraculous day when this nightmare ends. Who still has a shred of compassion for us in their heart?

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Israeli air strike killed nine of her 10 children in Khan Younis. Her husband and only surviving child are in critical condition.

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Author: Euronews
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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More than 21 million Venezuelan voters called to vote for legislators, governors and other officials. But many citizens are considering whether to heed the opposition's calls to boycott the vote. The election will be the first to allow a large voter turnout since last year's presidential election. Villalobos was the head of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's electoral division when he took refuge in a diplomatic compound in March 2024. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described their departure as an international rescue operation. Voters also called to vote for Guayana Esequiba The National Electoral Council, loyal to the ruling party, will oversee Sunday's elections for state legislators, the 285 members of the unicameral National Assembly, and all 24 governors.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s film, It Was Just an Accident, has been awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. The dissident has endured years of travel bans and prison terms in Iran.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Author: NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 11:24:19

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Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See. Pope Benedict XVI had initiated the feast day as part of his efforts to unify China's estimated 12 million Catholics. Leo noted that prayers have been raised to God as a sign of the solicitude and affection. Leo told the archbishop of Hong Kong that he had “visited China several times and got to know the Chinese culture and reality” he said he expected Leo would follow Francis’ direction for the church in China. Chow added he gave Leo a small statue of Our Lady of Sheshan, a statue of the Madonna that is particularly venerated by Chinese faithful.

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Author: VANESSA GERA Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 10:31:28

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Warsaw Mayor Rafa Trzaskowski is a liberal urbanite who supports abortion rights and LGBTQ+ inclusion. He is backed by Tusk’s pro-European Civic Coalition, which has led a centrist coalition government since late 2023. Opposite him is Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian. The runoff follows a first-round vote on May 18 that narrowed the initial field of 13 candidates to Trzaskowski and Nawrocki. Recent polls show them running neck-and-neck, within the margin of error, making the outcome impossible to predict. Both men are courting voters who backed the hard-right libertarian Sawomir Mentzen. Romanian President-elect Nicusor Dan traveled to Warsaw, meeting with Tusk and joining the march. Law and Justice turned state-funded media into instruments of political propaganda, critics say.

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Author: Alex Marshall
Published on: 24/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Israel’s Eurovision Campaign Went All the Way to the Top Government social media accounts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined a drive to encourage people to vote for Israel's entrant. “Vote #04 — New Day Will Rise” the prime minister’s post urged followers. A furor over Israel’s media campaign undoubtedly helped this year. But many music fans would have voted for Israel simply because they enjoyed Raphael’s song, “New Day Will Rise,” a ballad performed on a glittering staircase, accompanied by pyrotechnics. Israel’s official Instagram account posted 10 times last Saturday urging its 1.5 million followers to vote up to 20 times for Raphael. None of the 25 other nations in the final used equivalent Instagram accounts to drum up votes. The foreign ministries of Lithuania and Ukraine each posted a single appeal on the app. NRK says it is "concerned that trust in the Eurovision Song Contest voting process is being challenged" Broadcasters in Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium issued statements this week urging Eurovision’s organizer to review the voting system. In a statement on Friday, the European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the competition, said it would examine the voting systems. If Israel had won, it would have secured the right to host next year’s contest, Levy said. Eurovision’s organizers would have “breathed a sigh of relief” when Israel didn’t win. Alex Marshall is a Times reporter covering European culture.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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A bystander’s video showed officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. The footage sparked weeks of global protests against police brutality and racism. It contributed to a jury’s murder conviction against Chauvin and a federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. In 2023 after a two-year investigation sparked by Floyd's death, the US Department of Justice found that the city of Minneapolis and its police department engaged in a pattern of civil rights violations. The narrative that Floyd died of an overdose persisted through the involved police officers’ criminal trials and beyond their convictions. It was one of many false statements about Floyd’s actions, his criminal history and the protests that followed his murder. How conservative influencers distort an autopsy report to push overdose claim Chauvin killed Floyd after police were called to a corner grocery store where Floyd was suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill. News reports about Floyd’s criminal record – which included three drug charges, two theft cases, aggravated robbery and trespassing – fuelled false claims about his background. The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office reported “fentanyl intoxication” and “recent Misinformation experts say it’s not surprising that Floyd and the 2020 protests remain a target of false portrayals years later because of the widespread attention Floyd’s death drew at a time when online platforms incentivise inflammatory commentary. The drug overdose narrative proliferated in conjunction with the October 2022 release of Owens’s film about Floyd and The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, parroted the false narrative in an October Ramesh Srinivasan, an information studies professor at the University of California-Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, said social media algorithms don’t allow nuanced conversations that require detail and context. A person’s online visibility and virality, which can directly correlate to their revenues in some cases, improves when a person takes extreme, antagonistic, partisan or hardened positions. Freelon said the internet has “added fuel to the fire” and broadened misinformation’

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Bull racing, Punjabi style, stands in stark contrast to floodlit cricket and hockey stadiums of Pakistan’s cities. In the village of Malal, a key hub for the sport, crowds gather annually to witness the spectacle. It is not uncommon for bulls to unseat jockeys, sending them tumbling through the dust. "It left 95 others behind," he says. "it left 95 other people behind" - he's not the only one who has left 95 behind.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Inter Miami have fought back from 3-1 down to grab a 3-3 draw at the MLS Eastern Conference leaders, the Philadelphia Union. Tai Baribo scored twice for Philadelphia on Saturday to give them the two-goal advantage. Lionel Messi gave Miami hope with an 87th-minute free kick before Segovia’s dramatic 95th minute goal grabbed the point for Inter. Quinn Sullivan called up to the US national team squad. Miami coach says we are in a bad trend but with a lot of spirit to come back to be the team we were at the beginning of the season. “We cannot concede every single corner kick and every single throw-in and give opponents opportunities to score. We need to be more focused in those situations,” he said.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Russian forces attacked Ukrainian regions overnight with 298 drones and 69 missiles. Ukraine's air force said on Sunday that Russian forces attack Ukrainian regions. Ukrainian regions were affected by hostile attack. Enemy air strikes recorded in 22 areas, and downed cruise missiles and attack UAVs (drones) fell in 15 locations, the air force said on Telegram. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said it had been a “difficult Sunday morning in Ukraine after a sleepless night” following “the most massive Russian air attack in many weeks”

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Malaysia has urged for the extension and expansion of a post-earthquake ceasefire in Myanmar due to run out by the end of May. The regional bloc has led fruitless diplomatic efforts to end Myanmar’s conflict since the military staged a coup and deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Myanmar’s failure to implement a five-point peace deal reached in April 2021 has led ASEAN to exclude the coup leaders from attending its annual meeting. Mohamad proposed that the ceasefire be extended and expanded “beyond the currently affected zones” Malaysia currently holds the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN.

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Author: SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press, OLEKSII YEROSHENKO Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 05:24:51

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Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Air Force says. It was the largest single aerial attack of the more than three-years-long war. Kyiv Day is a national holiday that falls on the last Sunday of May. Russian air defenses shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight. At least four people were killed and 16 were injured in Kyiv. The attack came on the third day of a planned prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. The last in a three-day prisoner swap was expected to take place later on Sunday. Liubov Fedorenko, 76, compares their village to some of Ukraine's most devastated cities. "The street looks like Bakhmut, like Mariupol, it’s just terrible," she says. Russia’s defense ministry said it expected the exchange to be continued. The previous night, explosions and anti-aircraft fire were heard throughout Kyiv as many sought shelter in subway stations as Russian drones and missiles targeted the Ukrainian capital.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Minnesota Timberwolves beat Oklahoma City Thunder 143-101 to tighten their playoff series. Julius Randle added 24 points for Minnesota, which set a club record for points in a playoff game in ripping the NBA regular-season win leaders and NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Timberwolves set club record for points in playoff game. Timberwolves led by as much as 129-84 late in fourth quarter. Wolves dominate early Minnesota seized 72-41 lead. Oklahoma City answered with a 10-0 spurt in the second half. The Timberwolves scored a 103-61 lead as the Thunder sent their starters to the bench.

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Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Russian forces hit Kyiv and surrounding areas in a “massive night attack”. At least four people were reported dead and five others wounded, officials say. A Russian attack killed three children in Ukraine’s northwestern Zhytomyr region. The victims were aged eight, 12 and 17, emergency services said. Russian military said on Saturday that Ukraine had targeted it with at least 788 drones and missiles since Tuesday. The Russian Ministry of Defence announced that its troops advancing slowly on the eastern front have captured two settlements in the Donetsk region as well as one in Ukraine’s northern region of Sumy. Russia announced that it would send Ukraine its terms for a peace settlement once a “1,000-for-1,000” prisoner swap between the two countries was complete.

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Author: ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 05:04:32

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“The Eternaut” premiered its first season on Netflix on April 30. The six-episode, Spanish-language series has struck a universal nerve. Netflix already renewed the show for a second season, with filming scheduled to start next year. Martn Oesterheld said the show had to be filmed in Spanish, with an Argentine cast and set in Buenos Aires. Netflix, pushing to expand beyond its saturated U.S. Market into previously untapped regions like Latin America, was a natural fit, he said. In the show, aliens wreak predictable mayhem on an unpredictable cityscape. Juan Salvo, played by Ricardo Darn, is haunted by the rout of his comrades sent by Argentina's dictatorship to retake the South Atlantic islands. The defeat killed 649 Argentine soldiers, many of them untrained conscripts. What comes through, the creators say, is the argente saying “atado con alambre” — roughly, “held together with wire”. "There is a general policy these days that the state shouldn't take care of its citizens," Darn says. But there are many cases where people are left to drift, as if they were shipwrecked," Oesterheld's daughters and potential grandchildren popped up on billboards all over Buenos Aires. By the time the military junta came to power in 1976, his daughters, ranging in age from 19 to 25, had joined a far-left guerilla group "The Eternaut' is a living memory, a classic story that's passed down from generation to generation," says Martn Oesterheld. "For it to be embraced by so many people in this way... There is no greater social commentary"

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Author: GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 05:07:58

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The Roman basilica of the Augustinians preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio. A new exhibit of works by the baroque painter is now on view in Rome until July 6. From the Pilgrims’ Madonna at the Basilica of St. Augustine to the Martyrdom of St Ursula closes the exhibit. The artist revolutionized the use of light and darkness in Western art. The name of the Pilgrims’ Madonna references not only the two figures before Mary, but also the fact that on this spot, the Augustinians have welcomed pilgrims en route to the nearby Vatican since the end of the 13th century. It was to commemorate a pilgrimage to Loreto — a shrine in central Italy where tradition says Mary’s house was miraculously airlifted. In fact, Caravaggio worked for prestigious, pious patrons, including a card Francis of Assisi is depicted in an angel’s arms while one of his early companions, Brother Leo, is barely visible in the surrounding darkness. It’s an early example of those “oscuri gagliardi” — a bold darkness, as a 17th century art critic quoted in an exhibit panel put it. In David with the Head of Goliath, the dripping severed head is a self-portrait. More of Caravaggio’s

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Author: Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 00:00:00

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Ukraine and Russia exchanged hundreds of prisoners on Saturday. Both sides released 307 servicemen, a day after 390 combatants and civilians were freed. The majority of Ukrainian soldiers were taken captive in the Donetsk region, some as long ago as 2022.

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Author: MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 24/05/2025 | 20:24:08

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Daniel Noboa, 37, sworn in alongside his Vice President Mara José Pinto. The young president pledged in his inauguration speech to tackle corruption, drug trafficking and violent crime. He also swore to implement reforms and said he would lay a solid foundation for job creation and investment. Violence and high unemployment levels remain the biggest challenges facing the president and his National Democratic Action party. Maintaining that majority will be crucial for Noboa in pushing through his agenda, including a crime-fighting bill marked as “urgent” for its economic implications.

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Author: REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 05:11:12

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Venezuelan voters summoned to choose lawmakers, governors and other elected officials. The election will be the first to allow broad voter participation since last year's presidential contest. Participation legitimizes Maduro's claim to power and his government's repressive apparatus. Villalobos was elections division chief for opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described their departure as an international rescue operation. The ruling party-loyal National Electoral Council will oversee Sunday’s election for state legislators, 285 members of the unicameral National Assembly and all 24 governors.

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Author: GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 24/05/2025 | 16:15:41

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Council of Europe defends independence of the European Court of Human Rights. Nine member states said its interpretation of rights obligations prevented them from expelling migrants who commit crimes. The leaders of Denmark, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland call for a "new and open-minded conversation"

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Author: QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 24/05/2025 | 21:14:34

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The American University of Baghdad celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of students Saturday at a campus that was once a palace built by Saddam Hussein. The university was inaugurated in 2021 on the site of the al-Faw Palace, built on an island in the middle of an artificial lake. It was later developed into an American-style university with a core liberal arts program through funding by influential Iraqi business owner Saadi Saihood. AUB has a growing network of international partnerships with top universities. AUB founder Saihood calls the graduation a symbolic moment that affirms this institution was built to last and to make a real difference.

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Author: The Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 25/05/2025 | 01:46:55

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Venezuelan opposition figures appear in public for the first time since leaving the diplomatic compound. The Venezuelan government denies it was a rescue, claiming instead that it was part of a negotiation. They were accused of encouraging alleged violent acts aimed at destabilizing the government.

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