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...The European Legal Support Center, an Amsterdam-based NGO which defends advocates of Palestinian rights in Europe, said there had been an “explosion of repressive incidents” since October 7....
...And finally, a link and a discount code for the US FT Weekend Festival, which is happening in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 4th at the Reach at the Kennedy Center....
...It’s not often that oh-so-cautious regulators actually rock the boat a bit 🚣🏽♀️....
...It is designed in the Jeffersonian style, with red-brick buildings, portico entrances and lots of busts: Adam Smith, John Locke, the Greek goddess Eos....
...“There’s a way and not the will,” says Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, director of the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights....
...“[The film] opened the Tribeca Film Festival which is, famously, situated in Tribeca,” chuckles Miranda of the unexpected red-carpet location....
...Take a look at the image below, available on the War on the Rocks website....
...over a month, this year’s Dresden festival is impressively inclusive, offering soprano Joyce DiDonato, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kent Nagano conducting Wagner and Wynton Marsalis’s Lincoln Center...
...And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom. Until, of course, there is....
...Beatrice Hodgkin will chair a session on psychedelics at the FTWeekend Festival at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, on 20 May....
...A few wooden walkways have been added, and here and there are deeper lagoons, indicated by rock walls, which make for nice immersion points....
...It’s red, white and blue and says “Fuck Biden”....
...The deteriorating situation in Arkansas is replicated in red states across the country....
...As Glenn Youngkin took to the stage at a crowded hotel ballroom in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the 1969 classic rock hit “Spirit in the Sky” blasted through the loudspeakers....
...Over at the Palm Springs Convention Center, a mid-century art and design fair is in full swing....
...as cars honked in support and blared “Changes”, a Soviet dissident rock anthem adopted by protesters there....
...Red state or blue, country or rock, believer or agnostic, her fan base crosses the most divisive lines. Now 74, with more than half a century of recording behind her, her star is as high as ever....
...Don’t even think about getting an appointment in Oscar week – she’s the red carpet’s go-to for glow (Camera-Ready Facial, from $390)....
...Even traditionally red states such as Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have emerged in recent years as clean energy powerhouses....
...It’s like going into a casino roulette table and putting all your assets on red.”...
...A crowd of suits and red ties slowly makes its way through a welcome arch made from red balloons, towards a temporary stage bearing a huge red banner that reads: “Grand Opening Risever Machinery, LLC.”...
...(FT) Hong Kong stages Uighur support rally A largely peaceful protest in the city’s financial district turned chaotic when authorities confronted protesters who were throwing glass bottles and rocks....
...Two discoveries by the Mars Curiosity rover have injected new hope into the long quest for evidence of life on the red planet....
...For the violin’s first strokes, a strobe dyed the curtain’s hem blue; for the plonk of piano, it lit up red....
...Gusts of 191km/h were recorded at Fastnet Rock, which lies 6.5km off the coast of south-west Ireland. The weather service has also warned that heavy rain could lead to coastal flooding....
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