2019-05-29
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United Kingdom
Euroviews. The centre can hold: Reassembling a broken party system for the new century ǀ View
When historians open their laptops and look back at the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, one of the key psephological trends they will notice is the decline of the two main political parties’ vice-like grip on the electoral system.
Spain
Meet the Spanish teenagers who hunt down celebrity spelling errors
Celebrities in Spain would be well advised to brush up on their spelling and grammar — lest they find themselves hunted down by a class of teenage spell-checkers who are publicly calling out written mistakes found on social media.
Angola
Explore Angola: Kizomba music helps renew Angola's cultural identity
In partnership with Infotur Angola
A music genre that is only a few decades old has captured the hearts of many Angolans. Eduardo Paim, the genre's founder, shares his musical influences and what effect Kizomba has had on his country.
Angola
Kizomba Dance - an Angolan celebration!
In partnership with Infotur Angola
Kizomba is a style of dance which has become really important in Angolan culture in recent decades.
The word "Kizomba" means "celebration" or "party" in Kimbundu, a Bantu language.
The dance style developed in Angola in the 1980s and 1990s in the region around the capital Luanda, first as a music
World News
Rabbis in Europe request addition of kippah-wearing rabbi
In a letter sent to the Unicode Consortium — a non-profit that approves new emojis — the Conference of European Rabbis said a fight against anti-semitism "starts with the small things", namely a new emoji that could represent the Jewish faith.
USA
'Charging the president with a crime was not an option,' says Mueller
US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in his first public comments on his Russia interference investigation, said on Wednesday that charging President Donald Trump was never an option for his team of prosecutors, citing Justice Department guidelines that prohibit charging a sitting president.
World News
Light pollution from SpaceX satellites may block view of stars
After Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully placed all 60 of its first Starlink v0.9 satellites into orbit last week, astronomers and astrophysicists alike have been expressing their concerns over the light pollution they could cause.
Libya
Euroviews. Europe's inaction on the civil war in Libya will bring crisis to our shores ǀ View
It isn’t hard to see why Ghassan Salamé accused the global community of lacking the ‘moral motivation’ to end the Libyan civil war. After all, his comments followed Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a warlord and dictator-in-the-making.