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40 migrants, including infants, die in boat sinking off Tunisia
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Forty people, including infants, died when a boat carrying migrants seeking to reach Europe sank Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia, according to local judicial authorities. Around 30 others were rescued. Tunisian naval units that arrived on the scene rescued 30 other migrants on board the boat, which sank off the…
Read MoreShould We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread?
The inevitable progress of technology, in other words, makes the technological sublime elusive. And it’s also true that technologies tend to shrink themselves, taking on unassuming guises. (“Technologies tend toward ubiquity and cheapness,” Kelly writes.) My son and I sometimes throw around a “hoverball”—a little propeller-powered sphere that glows in the dark, and which can…
Read MoreFrench ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence for campaign finance conspiracy
Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind…
Read MoreThe Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
What is the light in “The Brothers Karamazov”? It is the voices. “The Brothers Karamazov” is a novel of voices. Men, women, young, old, rich, poor, foolish, wise: all are allowed to make themselves heard in their own right—all speak with their own voice. And in each individual voice there are echoes of other voices,…
Read MoreThis new luxury train route will soon link Paris with Italy’s Amalfi Coast
The world’s most glamorous train service is adding a new journey linking two of Europe’s most timeless destinations. From spring 2026, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express will launch its first-ever route from Paris to the Amalfi Coast. The lavish experience connects the French capital with Ravello via a three-night trip across both the French and Italian Rivieras.…
Read MorePakistan says ceasefire hinges on Afghanistan curbing armed groups
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that his country’s fragile ceasefire agreement with Afghanistan depends on whether the latter reins in armed groups attacking across their shared border. “Everything hinges on this one clause,” said Asif in an interview with news agency Reuters on Monday, after the two countries reached a ceasefire agreement…
Read MoreEU negotiator hopes for Russian gas import ban by year’s end
European Union energy ministers on Monday backed a proposal to ban imports of gas from Russia, boosting the bloc’s efforts to further cut Russian revenues from energy exports and raising hopes for a conclusion of talks. “An energy independent Europe is a stronger and more secure Europe,” said Danish Energy Minister Lars Aagaard who chaired…
Read MoreLouvre museum to remain shut after spectacular heist as hunt for thieves continues
The Louvre Museum in Paris will remain closed on Monday following a daring robbery in which eight priceless royal jewels were stolen in just seven minutes. Police are still on the hunt for the four-person commando unit responsible for one of the boldest art heists the world has seen in years. The robbery took place…
Read MoreA Dark Ecologist Warns Against Hope
The two have sparred before. In 2009, they exchanged public letters in the Guardian, circling a question that nags at many eco-minded Westerners: What, in practice, can one do? Kingsnorth accused Monbiot of offering a false choice: either “Liberal Capitalist Democracy 2.0,” the status quo with more solar panels, or “McCarthy world,” in which “The…
Read MoreMark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining
By dinnertime, the café had been convincingly transformed into a restaurant, with tea lights twinkling beside wildflower arrangements on exactingly set tables. The food came out slowly as the kitchen found its first-night footing, but the service was smooth and steady. If you could accuse Sanders’s first two courses, one called “corn,” the other “tomato,”…
Read MoreWhat Do We Want from Our Child Stars?
Still, Master Betty ruled the little province of Parnassus devoted to underage thespians until the advent of Shirley Temple—and it’s some measure of her talent, or maybe of her moment, that nearly a century later hers is often still the first name that comes to mind when we think of child stars. Temple’s autobiography, simply…
Read MoreIsrael awakes to a bittersweet morning of returns and loss
Recent incidents between Israel and Hamas have proven just how fragile the ceasefire remains. Today, Monday, Israel wakes to a bittersweet truth. Every living hostage is home. Too many families, however, welcomed only a coffin. In the past day, Hamas returned additional remains, and the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed through the Red Cross that “Israel…
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