Iran students stage first anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
The student protesters honoured thousands of those killed when nationwide mass protests were put down last month. Source link
CABARET VOLTAIRE announce details of live album
Ahead of their final tour as Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder and Chris Watson have announced details of a live album, But What Time Is It Really?, due to be released on 24 April 2026 via Memetune. Pre-order the album HERE The album – which will be available on vinyl and CD via the band’s webstore and on the 2026 tour – was recorded during last year’s jubilant sold-out UK tour. Marking 50 years since the live launch…
The teacher who won $1m for turning India’s slums into open-air classrooms
"When you work in areas like these [slums], you have to build relationships not just with the students but the entire community. Whether that's through monetary help, supplying provisions in difficult times or offering a listening ear to someone who's overwhelmed. If we earn the trust and support of the community, we can continue our good work," Nagi explains. Source link
Exeter University students begin Covid compensation claim
It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic. Source link
Indian writer Arundhati Roy’s cult classic college film returns to spotlight
At its first screening in Delhi, Roy recalls that "students jammed into the hall and crowded on to the floor. Within a few minutes the audience began to yell, roar with laughter and wolf-whistle through the film. They recognised themselves, their language, their clothes, their jokes, their silliness." Source link
‘My prosthetic leg represents my love for this country Ghana’
Vino Studio / Nineteen57 EventsTaking to the catwalk in Ghana at the end of last year, Abena made a statement about the visibility of people with disabilitiesIt was hard to miss 33-year-old model and writer Abena Christine Jon'el's appearance at a recent major fashion show in Ghana.Walking the runway with her prosthetic leg wrapped in a colourful African print her appearance made a big impact.The Ghanaian-American was hoping to make a statement about the visibility of people with…
Work under way to renovate empty Plymouth Civic Centre
Work is under way to turn an empty civic centre into 144 rental flats and a new skills hub for college students.The first phase of work to strip out the Civic Centre in Plymouth has finished, including asbestos removal, safety checks and securing the site, said Plymouth City Council.Surveys are taking place on the building and its grounds, from drainage routes to utility lines to make sure the redevelopment meets modern safety rules.Councillor Mark Lowry said: "This has…
‘Worst in living memory’ say those rescued from rising waters
EPA/ShutterstockTens of thousands of people in Mozambique are being rescued as rising waters continue to devastate the southern African nation - the worst flooding in a generation.Teams from Brazil, South Africa and the UK have been helping with life-saving rescue operations."For me, this is the first time I have experienced a calamity of this magnitude. Elders say a similar disaster took place in the 1990s," 24-year-old mechanic Tomaz Antonio Mlau says.EPA/ShutterstockMany areas of south and central Mozambique are…
As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge
Allan LittleSenior correspondentBBCI had been asked to give a key-note speech at a conference at Columbia University's Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it in the faces of New Yorkers you spoke to.In my speech I made a few opening remarks about what the United States had meant to…
Hundreds of Minnesota businesses close to protest ICE presence
Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota shut their doors on Friday and thousands of protesters turned out in the frigid cold as part of an economic protest against the immigration crackdown in the state.The widespread rallies come after organisers encouraged residents to skip work or school and refrain from shopping in a show of opposition to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).The ICE operation ordered by Trump administration in the state have been going on for more than six…
‘Half of my friends were killed’ in el-Obeid school shelling
Mohamed Mohamed OsmanBBC World Service, El-Obeid, SudanBBCTwins Makarem (left) and Ikram were in separate classrooms when the shelling beganIt had been a normal day for 18-year-old twins Makarem and Ikram when their school came under fire.Makarem was in an English literature class and Ikram was in a science lesson when they heard "strange sounds" coming from outside the school in Sudan.Then the shelling started.Makarem says her shoulder "tilted" as she was struck. Screaming, her classmates dropped to the…
ICE detains 5-year-old Liam Ramos during Minnesota operation
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained a 5-year-old boy on Tuesday during an enforcement operation, Minnesota school officials have said, as part of an immigration crackdown in the state.Pre-schooler Liam Ramos was with his father - named by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias - when Conejo Arias was approached by agents on his driveway. In a statement posted on X, the DHS said "ICE did NOT target a child", but…
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