2021-11-19

United Kingdom

Kim Kardashian helps Afghan women's football team flee to Britain

Women playing sport was seen as a political act of defiance against the Taliban, and hundreds of female athletes have left Afghanistan since the group returned to power and began curbing women's education and freedoms.

19/11/2021

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The European Union at the forefront of biodiversity in the DRC

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Hidden in the thick primary rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are a few silverbacks and a host of small, fiery eyes.

19/11/2021

Tech News

Explained: What is the metaverse and what will it mean for you?

Early versions of the metaverse emerged in the early noughties. We take a look at what’s been done and how Meta’s vision will differ.

19/11/2021

Russia

Euroviews. The contours of Russia’s energy exports are defensible | View

"It seems simplistic if not outright false to frame the actions of Russia’s energy sector, a core contributor to its GDP, as anything other than those of a reasonable actor operating in a dynamic, challenging environment."

19/11/2021

Living

Do you know the true cost of your Black Friday purchases?

Tempting though these one-day deals may be, their environmental impact could be putting people off of Black Friday shopping.

19/11/2021

United Kingdom

London house fire kills four, including two children

Investigators are searching for the origins of a house fire in the Bexleyheath area of southeast London that killed two women and two children on Thursday evening.

19/11/2021

Culture news

David Bowie documentary coming soon from 'Montage of Heck' director

Brett Morgen's documentary of the late-Nirvana singer's complex life made serious waves at Sundance Film Festival in 2015. Can fans expect the same with David Bowie next year?

19/11/2021

Art

High flying London art dealer pleads guilty in €76 million fraud case

Inigo Philbrick once ran galleries across the world that catered swathes of wealthy clients. He increased his wealth substantially by selling 100 per cent ownership of high-value pieces to many different buyers.

19/11/2021

Money

Over €9 billion was lost to a boom in crypto crime on DeFi platforms

Crime is soaring in the mostly unregulated DeFi sector, according to London-based blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

19/11/2021

Europe News

Frost in Brussels as Northern Ireland trade dispute with EU rumbles on

Britain is threatening to suspend parts of the legally binding Brexit divorce agreement.

19/11/2021

My Europe Series

Finns fear migrants will be sent to their border with Russia

Poland and Lithuania say Belarus is intentionally sending migrants their way. Now there are fears Russia could do the same to Finland.

19/11/2021

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Diwali was celebrated in Dubai with feasts and fireworks

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With a population of 2.75 million Indians equalling 27.49% of the UAE’s population, the Indian community represents the country’s largest demographic. Diwali – India’s biggest and brightest holiday celebration, the festival of lights – is a major event on the Dubai calendar.

19/11/2021

Green News

British Columbia is bitten by climate change-fuelled weather extremes

From dangerous heat and destructive wildfires, to record breaking rainfall and catastrophic flooding. Parts of British Columbia, Canada have been at the epicentre of two top-end weather extremes within the space of a few months.

19/11/2021

Austria

Austria first in EU to fully lock down and make vaccination mandatory

Last Monday, Vienna announced a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated. That has now been extended to everyone.

19/11/2021

United Kingdom

Iran detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wins Magnitsky Bravery Award

Zaghari-Ratcliffe's 7-year-old daughter Gabriella accepted the award at a ceremony in London on behalf of the British-Iranian dual national, held in Iran since 2016.

19/11/2021

World News

Watch: Longest near-total lunar eclipse for nearly 600 years

Today's eclipse, although only partial, will last three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, the longest since February 18, 1440, which lasted 23 seconds longer.

19/11/2021

Lithuania

China condemns 'egregious act' as Taiwan opens Lithuania office

Taiwan opens office in Lithuania, angering China

19/11/2021

Belarus

Poland confirms Belarus border camp cleared as migrants given shelter

The latest moves are being seen as a sign that Lukashenko is now keen to defuse the crisis the EU and the West accuse him of orchestrating.

19/11/2021