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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My departure will be duly remembered. "The Schlafwagen Requiem" by Smooth Genestar (youtu.be/YqAJFDLPEa8) Warning! Head gear highly recommended! #electronica #downtempo #nujazz
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The Schlafwagen Requiem
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The day you die is like any other, only shorter." -- Samuel Beckett www.azquotes.com/quote/1342189
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Samuel Beckett Quote
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Q-Anon 4chan-inspired [conspiracy ...] promised reckoning with an elite cabal [and] ran the same way: a fantasy of justice that feeds on an audience's appetite for punishment." -- Mark Cira on "Primetime" (2026) letterboxd.com/markcira/fil...
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A ★★ review of Primetime (2026)
There's an ugliness to Primetime and it knows its ugly. I don't mean the literal ugliness of the film; an orgy of videotape-turned-16mm-turned digital. I mean the kind of nihilism that protects itself...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Tragedy of the Seas (1841) — a colourful compendium of thirty-seven nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A person who does not know the answer to a question is merely ignorant. A person who constructs an ingenious 100-page argument for the wrong answer is stupid." -- David Krakauer (nautil.us/what-makes-h...)
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What Makes Humans Stupid
What Makes Humans Stupid: It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/09/2026
Dubbed a "chemical bomb," discarded cigarette butts leach heavy metals, nicotine, and microplastics into water, accounting for 12% of global aquatic litter. Researchers highlight beach smoking bans with targeted fines as an effective way to protect fragile marine ecosystems. mongabay.cc/M2FAoc
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Cigarette butts make up 12% of aquatic litter, global review finds
Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review. Researchers pooled data from 130 studies conducted in 55 countries…
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talking drums be calling... "Kitale" by DJ Sam One (youtu.be/dqFwe2V-hxU) Warning! Head gear highly recommended! #electronica #afrohouse #EDM (My Bluesky posts playlist: bsky.app/hashtag/elec...)
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 24/09/2026
TotalEnergies refused fuel to helicopters evacuating civilians as Islamist militants overran a Mozambican town in 2021, a British inquest heard this week.
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TotalEnergies refused support for rescue efforts during deadly Mozambique attack, inquest hears
Sworn testimony comes as energy giant faces two criminal complaints in France over its Mozambican operations.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israeli military bulldozers razed approximately 31 dunams of Palestinian agricultural land on Thursday in the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, tearing up around 400 olive trees—some of which have been cared for and harvested across generations for decades
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"To all of us, imperialism is piracy transplanted from the seas to dry land — piracy reorganised, consolidated, and adapted to the aim of plundering the natural and human resources of our peoples, and of other peoples of the world." buff.ly/8qftTjB
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Kadri: The Accumulation of Waste
Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 24/09/2026
Thirty thousand sterile male mosquitoes will be released on Thursday in Alvalade, Lisbon, in a final trial to curb the Asian tiger mosquito, which spreads dengue, zika and yellow fever. ➡️ l.euronews.com/JTUl
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Euronews @euronews.com · 24/09/2026
France wants a strict EU preference, Germany would include trading partners, while Spain is proposing a compromise as Brussels seeks to counter Chinese competition. #EuropeNews
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What counts as ‘Made in Europe’? France, Germany and Spain are divided
France wants a strict EU preference, Germany would include trading partners, while Spain is proposing a compromise as Brussels seeks to counter Chinese competition.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 24/09/2026
El otro frente del cambio climático: las lluvias torrenciales traen riadas de microplásticos
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El otro frente del cambio climático: las lluvias torrenciales traen riadas de microplásticos
Los ríos funcionan como desagüe de estos vertidos tóxicos que llegan a las costas y el mar en oleadas cada vez que se dan precipitaciones extremas: más de 260.000 toneladas de minúsculas partículas al...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/09/2026
Deforestation in the Amazon fell to a 10-year low under President Lula, but Brazil's tight election puts those gains at risk. Experts warn a victory by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro could revive policies favoring agribusiness and mining, threatening Indigenous lands and climate targets. Learn more!
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Tight Brazil election challenges fragile gains for Amazon conservation
As South America turns right, Brazil’s vote could leave the Amazon without conservation leaders.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 23/09/2026
Calls are growing for Netanyahu to be arrested when he appears in New York for the UN General Assembly. Though Mamdani has said NYC can't enforce the ICC warrant against him, human rights lawyers argue it's not the only option to hold him accountable.
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With 'Blood-Soaked War Criminal' Set to Land in Mamdani's NYC, Calls Grow to Arrest Netanyahu
Mamdani has said New York can't enforce the ICC warrant against Israel's prime minister, but one human rights lawyer argued it's "not the only tool available to the US when it comes to holding Netanyahu accountable."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/09/2026
Tigrayan leaders say new war with Ethiopian government has begun, as fighting erupts reut.rs/4hkttBh
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Tigrayan leaders say new war with Ethiopian government has begun, as fighting erupts
The leaders of the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray ‌said on Wednesday that they had entered a new war with the federal government as fighting broke out in Tigray and two neighbouring regions, shattering a four-year-old peace deal.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 23/09/2026
Sara Duterte, the impeached vice president of the Philippines, is facing an increasing risk of a conviction and a lifetime ban on politics after the Senate lowered the vote threshold for a guilty verdict.
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Philippine Senate’s lowering of voting threshold raises stakes for Sara Duterte
The Senate cleared a motion making the constitutional requirement for a two-thirds vote to convict cover only the votes of those present.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22/09/2026
[Commentary] Community-based land management in Brazil delivers proven conservation results, yet nearly half of these households face economic hardship. Direct income-transfer programs like the Tropical Forests Forever Facility could safeguard both forest guardians and vital ecosystems.
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Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)
More than half a century has passed since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in Science in 1968. In that influential article, he argued that human greed and short-term thinking would…
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il Post @ilpost.it · 19/09/2026
In Spagna si protesta contro il turismo di massa mangiando in strada
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In Spagna si protesta contro il turismo di massa mangiando in strada
Succede a Mallorca, Valencia, Madrid, con l'obiettivo di ricordare alle amministrazioni che ci sono anche i residenti
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 19/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW, Politico denied access to White House grounds
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico denied access to White House grounds
The three news outlets denounced the ban as a violation of the US constitution and vowed to keep reporting on the US government. They are expected to take the bans to court.
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I swear I saw her... "La femme d'argent" by Air (youtu.be/YUX8fUrKRNU) Warning! Head gear highly recommended! #electronica #downtempo #spacepop
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AIR - La femme d'argent (from Moon Safari - Official Audio)
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/09/2026
“In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes. Read more about the emotional power of books: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NWg4L9
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Can Reading Make You Happier?
After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 21/09/2026
'We call on France to support the creation of an International Panel on Inequality'
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'We call on France to support the creation of an International Panel on Inequality'
Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly at the end of September, 10 economists, including Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz and Gabriel Zucman explain why it is crucial to establish a global assessment of inequality, a growing concern for democracies and the environment.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 21/09/2026
Six Nobel Prize-winning economists have come out in support of California's billionaire wealth tax proposal, writing in an open letter that it could mark "a turning point in the battle between democracy and oligarchy."
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Nobel-Winning Economists Say California Billionaire's Tax Could Be 'Turning Point in the Battle Between Democracy and Oligarchy'
​“What will allow California to thrive in the future," the economists said, "is not letting a handful of billionaires live tax-free: it is adequate public spending on health, education and public infrastructure, key engines of economic growth."
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Euronews @euronews.com · 21/09/2026
The AI boom has driven US chipmaker Nvidia’s supply chain emissions up by 725% since 2020, according to a new report by environmental and civil society groups.
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Nvidia chip use pollutes as much as a Russian coal giant, report says
The AI boom has driven US chipmaker Nvidia’s supply chain emissions up by 725% since 2020, according to a new report by environmental and civil society groups.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/09/2026
U.S. Military Attacks Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing Four
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U.S. Military Attacks Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing Four
The U.S. military attacked a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, killing four people. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was transporting drugs. Since Se...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 21/09/2026
'We can counter the AfD': In this eastern German city, local leaders refuse to give ground
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'We can counter the AfD': In this eastern German city, local leaders refuse to give ground
'Europe's far right takes root' (1/6). In Weissenfels, Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right AfD scored a historic result in the regional election held on September 6. Conservative Mayor Martin Papke (CDU) believes that '80% of the far right's success comes from its extremely effective marketing.'
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Several European countries were among a group of 22 nations that have adopted a declaration saying that AI “must remain under human direction, oversight and control.” The group has suggested creating a global supervisory regime.
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22 countries back call to keep AI ‘under human control’
Finnish President Alexander Stubb tells POLITICO he aims to create an international AI institution and hopes to get the U.S. and China on board.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21/09/2026
The African dwarf crocodile, the world’s smallest crocodile, faces rising pressure in Nigeria from overexploitation and habitat loss. Driven by high demand in the bushmeat trade, a new study assesses the scale of sales across markets in the Niger Delta. Amir Sadiq reports for #Mongabay.
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World’s smallest crocodile in high demand for bushmeat trade in Nigeria
The African dwarf crocodile is the world’s smallest living crocodile. These reptiles, nocturnal predators of crabs, gastropods and the occasional fish or small mammal, can reach 2 meters (6.6 feet)…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/09/2026
“Algorithmic censorship doesn’t need to erase testimony. It can leave it online while gradually stripping it of reach, discoverability and an audience,” EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com.
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Echoicide: Who decides which truths survive in Gaza?
From Gaza to the digital age, visibility has become one of the central political struggles of modern conflicts.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 19/09/2026
Instagram veta el anuncio de una obra de teatro de Virginia Woolf en Barcelona por tratar “temas sociales”. El Teatre Raval denuncia la censura en las plataformas de Meta a la publicidad de 'Una habitación propia' por remitir a cuestiones como el “feminismo” o los “derechos civiles”
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Instagram veta el anuncio de una obra de teatro de Virginia Woolf en Barcelona por tratar "temas sociales"
El Teatre Raval denuncia la censura en las plataformas de Meta a la publicidad de 'Una habitación propia' por remitir a cuestiones como el "feminismo" o los "derechos civiles"
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 19/09/2026
Cuba works to restore power after another blackout
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Cuba works to restore power after another blackout
This latest nationwide outage, the 12th since late 2024, comes as the island nation grapples with woes triggered by a US fuel blockade.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 18/09/2026
Rachel Nolan (@rachelbnolan.bsky.social) on mass protest
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Can Resistance Be Copied? | Rachel Nolan
From 2010 to 2020, more people crowded onto the streets around the world to protest than at any other time in known history. Starting with what is often
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Euronews @euronews.com · 18/09/2026
A new ECFR study finds most Europeans still want a stronger, united Europe, but doubt it's achievable: around 68% see decline, not renewal. #EuropeInMotion
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Are Europeans facing a 'crisis of confidence'?
A new ECFR study finds most Europeans still want a stronger, united Europe, but doubt it's achievable: around 68% see decline, not renewal.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/09/2026
Ceuta border crisis fuels EUs far right despite fall in migrant arrivals, commissioner says reut.rs/3TB8vGE
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Ceuta border crisis fuels EUs far right despite fall in migrant arrivals, commissioner says
Images of migrants crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta have fuelled support for far-right parties despite a sharp decline in irregular ​arrivals in Europe following tougher migration policies, EU Migration Commissioner Magnus ‌Brunner said on Friday.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 18/09/2026
Análisis | Cómo funciona la maquinaria de ejecuciones en Irán y cómo el Gobierno esconde su alcance
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Cómo funciona la maquinaria de ejecuciones en Irán y cómo el Gobierno esconde su alcance
De la opacidad en las cifras a la división falsa entre ejecuciones políticas y ejecuciones por delitos comunes, los expertos sostienen que la maquinaria de la pena de muerte es un pilar estratégico de...
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Euronews @euronews.com · 18/09/2026
In Portugal, temperatures could approach 38°C in the Alentejo and the Tagus Valley, driven by an anticyclone positioned to the north of the Azores.
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Portugal prepares for rising temperatures and likely heatwave
In Portugal, temperatures could approach 38°C in the Alentejo and the Tagus Valley, driven by an anticyclone positioned to the north of the Azores.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 18/09/2026
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 254 of The Continent. Social media made Mauritania’s iron ore train a daredevil adventure. Our photo essay captures the beauty of ordinary life. bit.ly/254_TC
A black-and-white photograph fills the cover of The Continent. It shows a long passenger train travelling through a vast, pale desert landscape in Mauritania. The photograph is taken from alongside the train, looking backwards along its left side. In the foreground, an arm extends through an open train window towards the landscape, with the hand and fingers reaching out into the open air. Another passenger is partly visible leaning from a window further ahead.

The railway tracks run diagonally from the lower centre of the image towards the distant horizon. The surrounding desert is largely flat and barren, with low dunes, scattered shrubs and rocky patches stretching into the distance.

At the top, a yellow-orange strip reads: “AFRICAN JOURNALISM | 19 SEPTEMBER 2026 | ISSUE 254.” Beneath it, in large white lettering, is the title “The Continent.”

On the right side of the photograph, large dark-grey text reads: “Beyond the spectacle of Mauritania’s iron train.” Below the headline is the photo credit: “FETHI SAHRAOUI / THE CONTINENT.”

The overall cover is stark and minimalist, contrasting the dark train and reaching arm with the almost white expanse of the desert.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/09/2026
Industrial fishing for fishmeal has devastated sardinella stocks off Guinea-Bissau, threatening local food security. An @occrp.org report links Chinese factory ships and Turkish fleets to the collapse, prompting the government to ban fishmeal production to safeguard community diets.
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Report links fishmeal production to decline in key species for Guinea-Bissau communities
Populations of sardinella, an important protein-rich fish, are in rapid decline in the waters off Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. The decline appears to be related to industrial fishing for two species…
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We don't wanna be just... "Puppets" by Jane Maximova (youtu.be/cPwWVjD83K) Warning! Head gear highly recommended! #electronica #downtempo #lofi
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We'll all be... "Renegades" by Beat.dowsing (youtu.be/Y-uyCcHJuFc) Warning! Head gear highly recommended! #electronica #downtempo #ambient
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Mike Delta @mikedelta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fancy my interpretation? "Body Language (Interpretation)" by Booka Shade (soundcloud.com/booka-shade/...) Warning! Head gear highly recommended! #electronica #deephouse #downtempo
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Body Language (Interpretation)
Berlin-based duo Booka Shade, aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, have carved out a reputation as one of the most celebrated electronic acts to come out of Europe over the past two decades. Wi
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 16/09/2026
Hashim Thaçi, former Kosovo president, sentenced to 25 years for war crimes
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Hashim Thaçi, former Kosovo president, sentenced to 25 years for war crimes
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi was found guilty of war crimes and jailed for 25 years by a court in The Hague.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nigel Farage is a political conman. He claims to represent the man in the street - but he's the champion of the filthy rich. New column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 14/09/2026
Le rappeur Macklemore écarté de la tournée d'Ed Sheeran après des propos pro-palestiniens
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Le rappeur Macklemore écarté de la tournée d'Ed Sheeran après des propos pro-palestiniens
Le rappeur américain Macklemore a annoncé lundi avoir été écarté de la tournée d'Ed Sheeran, une exclusion qu'il attribue à ses propos pro-palestiniens lors de précédents concerts.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 15/09/2026
Once a hunting ground for Cold War bragging rights, space has now evolved into a key strategic arena, as states jostle for a military and technological edge. ➡️ l.euronews.com/Bw9I
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 15/09/2026
'The growing debate over the 'AIpocalypse' is also, and above all, about big money'
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'The growing debate over the 'AIpocalypse' is also, and above all, about big money'
As leaders in the artificial intelligence sector warn of the existential risks posed by their own technology, Anthropic prepares for the largest IPO in history. In his column, Le Monde's New York correspondent, Nicolas Chapuis, explores this dangerous paradox.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 13/09/2026
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China’s underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades restofworld.org/2026/china-expert-a…
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Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortga...
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 13/09/2026
Législatives en Suède : la gauche en tête, l'extrême droite en recul selon les sorties des urnes
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Législatives en Suède : la gauche en tête, l'extrême droite en recul selon les sorties des urnes
L'opposition de centre-gauche serait en tête des élections législatives en Suède avec 51,3 % des voix, selon les sondages de sortie des urnes. Près de huit millions d’électeurs étaient appelés à voter dimanche pour départager le bloc de centre-gauche de Magdalena Andersson et la coalition de droite de l'actuel Premier ministre Ulf Kristersson, soutenue par l'extrême droite.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/09/2026
In “Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,” Benjamin Moser seeks to replace a largely comforting story about Israel with an entirely damning one, Isaac Chotiner writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.
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