Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Eight killed as Kenya protesters battle police, medics say
At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured in nationwide protests in Kenya against President William Ruto’s government, doctors and rights groups have said. Police clashed with protesters, who marched in their thousands – some chanting “Ruto must go” and waving branches as a symbol of peaceful opposition to his rule. The government…
Read MoreThe Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”
Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical attack: the kind that instinctively finds fault with the derivative. This is a subset of splatter cinema that endures, in no small part, by feeding on its own touchstones. The sinewy, politically charged masterworks of…
Read MoreBurial of Zambia’s ex-president in South Africa halted at last minute by court
A South African court has halted plans to bury former Zambian President Edgar Lungu at a private ceremony just as it was about to start. The news was only announced to mourners in South Africa after a funeral mass had already finished. This is the latest twist in a row between the government and Lungu’s…
Read MoreCrowned with Purpose: Bobbi Mendez Is the Reigning Queen of the World—And She
From styling sheep named Glitz and Glamour on a Mennonite farm in Lancaster County to glamming up celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Johnny Depp, Bobbi Mendez has always known one thing: she was born to shine–and to help others do the same. Now crowned Mrs. Queen of the World 2025, one of the most prestigious…
Read MoreDeal or no deal? Zimbabwe still divided over land 25 years after white farmers evicted
A quarter of a century after their land was seized during a chaotic land reform programme that made global headlines, a small group of white Zimbabwean farmers have accepted a controversial compensation deal from the government. Once the backbone of the country’s agricultural sector, many of them are now elderly, visibly frail, battling illness and…
Read MoreVideo shows Malaysia factory fire, not Iranian attack on Israel’s air defence system
Arch foes Iran and Israel exchanged devastating strikes for 12 days before adhering to a US-proposed ceasefire on June 24, but a video shared on social media does not show the result of an Iranian missile attack on an air defence system in Tel Aviv. The video in fact shows a blaze at a factory…
Read MoreSwitzerland’s ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: Holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: Full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS offered a glimpse of the Rhone Glacier — which feeds the eponymous river that flows through Switzerland and France to the Mediterranean — shared…
Read MoreCollege granted injunction against protesters
A Cambridge college has been granted an interim High Court injunction against pro-Palestine protesters who had taken up position in its grounds. Activists from the Cambridge 4 Palestine group were evicted from land at Magdalene College, off the city’s Bridge Street, on Tuesday morning at about 07:00 BST. The legal stance follows similar action by…
Read MoreCoffee Prices Slammed as Frost Risks in Brazil Recede
Dark roasted coffee beans with scoop by Rattanapol via Shutterstock September arabica coffee (KCU25) today is down -10.10 (-3.09%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25) is down -161 (-4.04%). Coffee prices today are sharply lower after updated weather forecasts removed the chance of frost in Brazil’s coffee-growing regions of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais. Coffee…
Read MoreFrance ordered to compensate family of jogger killed by toxic algae
A French court on Tuesday ordered the state to compensate the family of a 50-year-old man who died in 2016 during a run after inhaling poisonous gas emitted by rotting green algae piled along the country’s western coast. The Nantes appeals court found France liable for the death of Jean-Rene Auffray, citing its “negligence” in…
Read More“The Gilded Age” Is a Poor Man’s Period Drama
In the HBO drama “The Gilded Age,” the characters are keenly aware that they live in interesting times. Early in the series, which is set in the eighteen-eighties, an estate lawyer observes that million-dollar fortunes are made and lost by the day in the railway business. One of its titans, the robber baron George Russell…
Read MoreA German court lifts a government ban on a far-right magazine
BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday lifted a ban imposed by the government last year on a far-right magazine, ruling that the case against it didn’t clear the high bar required to outlaw its publisher. Germany’s previous government banned Compact magazine and the company that publishes it, Compact-Magazin GmbH, in July. Then-Interior Minister…
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