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King and Queen meet artists to celebrate 25 years of Royal Drawing School
Telegraph & Argus
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The exhibition, The Power Of Drawing, features 50 works by well-known names and emerging talent, celebrating the act of drawing as a universal form of expression. Among the contributors were artists David Hockney and Tracey Emin, filmmaker Tim...
12 Best Matt Smith Movies And TV Shows, Ranked
/FILM - Indiana
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June 22, 2025
Matt Smith feels like a mess of contradictions. He often comes across as charming and even a little bit goofy, but can also imbue his work with a surprising amount of menace. He's excellent at picking television series to work on, but has appeared...
‘The Mauritanian’ Producer Set To Adapt Fatin Abbas’s Novel ‘Ghost Season’ Into Feature Film
Deadline
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June 23, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Smashing Dandelions, the new production company founded by The Mauritanian writer and producer Michael Bronner and Bhakti Shringarpure, has set plans to adapt Ghost Season, the novel by Sudanese-American writer Fatin Abbas, into a...
U.S. Could Vastly Expand Global Immigrant Detention Network
HuffPost
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July 16, 2025
The Trump administration is set to vastly expand deportations to countries other than immigrants’ home nations, supercharging a system of international detainee transfers that human rights advocates say exposes thousands of people to human rights...
Ethiopia gets accolades for leading digital transformation in Horn of Africa
Biometric Update
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July 17, 2025
At a recent meeting of Horn of Africa Finance Ministers in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Ethiopia’s digital transformation progress got thumps up from regional officials. The country, which is currently implementing a massive digital ID program, was...
Independence Day Plea: Church challenges leaders to prioritize nation over politics
Eye Radio
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July 11, 2025
Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 26 minutes ago Archbishop Justin Badi Arama, Primate and Archbishop of the Episcopal Church speaking to the media at Juba International Airport. Credit: Awan Moses/Eye Radio Juba, South Sudan (Eye Radio) –...
Nyala: Organised crime, chaos, terrorise civilians in South Darfur capital
Dabanga Radio
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June 22, 2025
Prepared by Sudan Tribune for Sudan Media Forum Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, is experiencing an unprecedented security collapse. Violations have escalated sharply, including extrajudicial killings, systematic looting, extortion, and...
Africa’s Addiction to Aid
Pressenza
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July 17, 2025
by Mesay Berhanu Gemechu Is it the beginning of the end of Africa’s overreliance on foreign aid? Trump’s decision to end the flow of aid going to the developing world, notably Africa, which has been channeled through the USAID over the past...
France unveils anti-Trump mural that shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes
Syracuse.com - New York
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July 17, 2025
ROUBAIX, France — As statements go, it’s a big one. A towering mural in France of the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes is racking up millions of views online with its swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump ‘s immigration and deportation policies....
Kilmar Abrego Garcia waits for judges to decide on release, faces uncertain future in Maryland
KTVZ - Oregon
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July 17, 2025
Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The former Baltimore director of the immigrant advocacy group CASA stood side by side with Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, outside a Nashville, Tennessee, federal...
Over 91 Million Africans living with chronic viral hepatitis – WHO
Premium Times
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July 17, 2025
More than 91 million people across Africa are living with chronic viral hepatitis, according to new data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), raising concerns over the low levels of testing, treatment, and prevention across the continent. The...
In the Shadow of Conflict: Building Health and Hope Among Sudan’s Displaced
The European Sting
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June 19, 2025
© WFP/Eulalia Berlanga People in Rupchai, South Sudan collect food aid that was dropped by airplanes. This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Mr. Ibrahim Ibrahim Kharif is a passionate medical student, youth leader and...
A new mural in France shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in a swipe at Trump
WTOP - District Columbia
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July 17, 2025
ROUBAIX, France (AP) — As statements go, it’s a big one. A towering mural in France of the Statue of… ROUBAIX, France (AP) — As statements go, it’s a big one. A towering mural in France of the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes is racking up...
Limited War Coverage: How Israel Censors Media Amid Iran Attacks
Tempo.co
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June 20, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Despite numerous video clips circulating on social media, major international media outlets rarely publish images of damage in Israel resulting from Iranian attacks. This is due to strict media censorship enforced by the...
Chameleone preaches peace in Western Equatoria on Independence Day
Eye Radio
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July 10, 2025
Authors: Jackson Gaaniko | Lasuba Memo | Published: 2 hours ago Ugandan musich icon Joseph Manyanja AKA Dr Jose Chameleone - courtesy Ugandan music icon Joseph Mayanja, popularly known as Dr Jose Chameleone, has called for peace and unity among...
US sends deportees to Eswatini in third-country deportation: DHS
Yahoo News
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(NewsNation) — The Trump administration on Tuesday sent five men, described by U.S. officials as “barbaric” criminals, to the small South African nation of Eswatini, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security...
How does Israel restrict its media from reporting on the Iran conflict?
Al Jazeera
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June 19, 2025
The Israeli government has issued new directives restricting how its media covers its current war with Iran. On Wednesday, a circular from Israel’s military censor, Brigadier General Kobi Mandelblit, announced new rules on what Israeli media...
Northern Corridor states pressure Kenya, Uganda to expedite railway
Zawya
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The Northern Corridor states have endorsed the annual plan along with a $4.5 million budget aimed at accelerating railway-related projects across the region. The countries which mainly use the Port of Mombasa and the Northern Corridor to import or...
World News in Brief: Global Investment Pluges, the Hurricane season in Haiti, the rise of cholera and hunger in South South
The European Times
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June 19, 2025
Their latest data show that international investment prospects this year “are negative”, a strong price correction of January, when “modest” growth seemed possible. The reasons for this variation in trade tensions and prices, the main effect of...
U.S. deports immigrants to the kingdom of Eswatini, where they have no ties
Global News
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July 16, 2025
The United States sent five immigrants it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland...