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Ice Stays Frozen In Alaska! Why Trump Must Convince France, UK & Germany To End Ukraine War & Not Putin: OPED
The Eurasian Times
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August 16, 2025
Did the “Ice melt” at the Anchorage base of Alaska during the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his host, U.S. President Donald Trump, in what happened to be their seventh meeting as heads of their respective countries?...
France: Court Bans Eugenic Experimentation on Down Syndrome Embryos
FSSPX.NEWS
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This decision puts an end to the DEVIT (Ethical Diagnosis of Individual and Transgenerational Variations) project – barring appeals to the Council of State – which attempted to introduce into clinical practice a eugenic technique explicitly...
French pro-Israel activist warns Jerusalem is losing global narrative
Ynet
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August 15, 2025
French pro-Israel activist Simon Moss has launched a scathing critique of Israel’s public diplomacy strategy, accusing the government of abandoning the global battle for public opinion. “I’m deeply frustrated with Israel’s PR strategy — or rather,...
Full-fat faith: the young Christian converts filling our churches
The Times
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Squeezing through the thronging and startlingly youthful crowd in search of a decent place to sit at the 11am service at St Bartholomew the Great, next to Smithfield meat market in central London, you wouldn’t guess that the Anglican Church had...
The railway children’s later life
The Critic
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August 16, 2025
There surely cannot be a better day out in the British Isles this summer than the brilliantly ambitious and perfectly executed production of The Railway Children on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Staged as part of Bradford Metropolitan...
Victoria Beckham reveals source of body-image and food issues in upcoming documentary: sources
Page Six
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August 17, 2025
Victoria Beckham has been famous for more than 30 years — but life in the spotlight has taken its toll. A new Netflix docu-series, premiering in September, reveals how years of negative attention led to body-image issues and a restricted diet,...
Meta under scrutiny over AI policy that allows bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children
Jamaica Observer
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August 16, 2025
The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) August 15, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – A United States (US) senator on Friday announced an investigation into whether Meta AI...
Britain’s real immigration scandal is not the one you think
The New World
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August 15, 2025
So far, this summer, those warnings have amounted to little. The riots of August 2024, an eruption of misplaced anger grounded in false rumours about the murder of children in Stockport, have not been repeated, though not for want of trying on the...
The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers: Is Paris Returning? Diamond White Drops Sizzling Hint!
Celebrating The Soaps
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August 15, 2025
The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers reveal that Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) is coming back to the soap in September 2025. With him being engaged to Paris Buckingham (Diamond White), she should make a return as well. Especially when you...
The Zummers drop debut single 'Grenoble'—a love letter to chaos, key fobs and French flats
Pique Newsmagazine
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August 15, 2025
The Pemberton quartet is launching a mini-tour around their new 'song of the summer' In 12 months, The Zummers have gone from playing backyards to headlining regional festivals. Over the last year, the quartet of genre-bending rockers has taken...
Gordon Ramsay's recipe for a happy family... while the Beckham kids seem to relish the limelight, the celebrity chef and his wife Tana were determined their children should forge their own career paths
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
Sunning themselves aboard a £16 million superyacht off the south of France earlier this month, David Beckham and Gordon Ramsay had plenty to catch up on. Though somewhat unlikely friends, the two men have known each other for almost 20 years – and...
How the Louvre Made France
Foreign Policy
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Few museums embody a country’s history, values, and role in the world as much as the Louvre does for France. After a long stint as a royal palace that housed monarchs’ private art collections, the Louvre opened its gates to the people during the...
ETHNIC CLEANSING!: Prince Turki condemns genocide by Netanyahu
Gulf Daily News Online
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Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al Faisal has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for attempting ethnic cleansing in Gaza. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Prince Turki called the Israeli leader...
Prabowo in Paris: Beyond the Parade, Geopolitical Synergies
The Diplomat
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August 15, 2025
After French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Jakarta in May, Prabowo Subianto stood as the guest of honor at the July 14 Bastille Day military parade in Paris. Beyond symbolism, this moment reflected a growing diplomatic, political, and...
Pablo Lopez: Twins’ veterans focused on rebuilding a culture ‘we’ve been lacking the last couple years’
Pioneer Press - Minnesota
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August 15, 2025
After his personnel staff unloaded 10 regulars in a series of trade deadline moves from July 28-31, Twins president Derek Falvey flew to Cleveland, where the remaining players — and a few new ones — were ready to start a three-game series against...
Weekend EssayThis is what the Muslim world needs to do to boost its birth rate
The National News
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We are often led to believe that women can have babies or careers – but not both. Every fresh dip in birth rates revives that refrain, and an emerging social media industry of “back to tradition” influencers holds it up as proof that women’s work...
French K-pop fans advocate for Korean history and culture
Donga Ilbo
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Drawn to BTS’s songs and choreography, Anaëlle Geleta, Amélie Chamal, and Inès Ferreira developed a deep appreciation for Korea. They began studying the Korean language and history, even taking related courses at university. Today, they have...
French dictionary sparks controversy over the true meaning of Congo’s iconic banana leaf dish, ‘liboke’
Malay Mail
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August 15, 2025
KINSHASA (DR Congo), Aug 15 — Diners flock to the terrace of Mother Antho Aembe’s restaurant in downtown Kinshasa to enjoy “liboke”, blissfully unaware of the linguistic brouhaha surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national dish. Made...
EMF exposure linked to brain damage and behavioral disorders in children
Natural News
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August 15, 2025
Health risks for children: Prolonged EMF exposure from devices like smartphones and 5G towers is linked to neurological disorders, ADHD, anxiety, and brain cancer, with developing brains at higher risk. Prenatal dangers: Research shows prenatal...
Muslim youths shut down Barbie screening for ‘promoting homosexuality’
The Times
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Threats from Muslim youths have forced a Paris suburban council to cancel a screening of the film Barbie, prompting an outcry and a criminal complaint by the government. The incident in Noisy-le-Sec, in the heart of the ethnically mixed...