Posts by Riah Stelmack
Arian Moayed’s Waterwell Teams With Nonprofit Nimruz on Grant Program to Uplift Iranian Artists
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways Arian Moayed’s Waterwell has teamed with nonprofit Nimruz to launch a grant program to support emerging Iranian creatives to tell their stories. Under the…
Read MoreThree Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S., and fatally high heat across Europe. This series of events points to the increasing ferocity of extreme weather—the storms, droughts, floods, fires, and heat waves that, as global warming accelerates, have become more severe and…
Read MoreThis Colorful Mountain in Peru Was Once Hidden by Snow—Now It’s One of the World’s Most Popular Hikes
Hidden beneath layers of snow until just a few years ago, this colorful mountain in Peru is now one of the most popular and photogenic hikes in the world. Known as Rainbow Mountain, its natural stripes of red, gold, turquoise, and purple look almost unreal in person. I’ve been fortunate enough to hike to Rainbow…
Read MoreGermany’s BASF and Canada’s AltaGas agree deal to provide butane
A logo of the chemical company BASF is seen on a large storage container at the main plant. Uwe Anspach/Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH/dpa A subsidiary of German chemical company BASF and Canada’s AltaGas have signed a butane-gas deal, the companies said on Wednesday. BASF Intertrade and AltaGas said they have signed a long-term commercial agreement for…
Read MoreMore than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza
More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups are warning of mass starvation in Gaza and pressing for governments to take action. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam are among the signatories of a joint statement that says their colleagues and the people they serve are “wasting away”. Israel, which…
Read MoreIt’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam
This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas. Source link
Read More“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man
Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas, their attitudes, their tones than anything from Eastwood’s life. So I didn’t expect that Shawn Levy’s new biography, “Clint: The Man and the Movies” (Mariner), would add much to the familiar view…
Read MoreAl Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists
Al Jazeera Media Network has urgently called upon the journalistic community, press freedom organisations, and relevant legal bodies to take decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals in Gaza. For more than 21 months, the Israeli bombardment and the systematic starvation of the nearly two million people of…
Read MoreOld clip falsely linked to fatal tour boat accident in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay
An old video of a ferry capsizing after being battered by strong winds and waves has been recirculated by social media users who falsely claim it shows a deadly tourist boat sinking during a storm in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay on July 19, 2025. The clip was published earlier in Vietnamese media reports about the…
Read MoreWomen Playwrights Lose the Limelight
In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of shows including the Pulitzer Prize winners “Sunday in the Park with George” and Annie Baker’s “The Flick,” announced its programming for 2025-26. It was, in…
Read MoreMossad infiltration? IRGC warns Iranians against growing recruitment by foreign spies
“There are many dissatisfied people in Iran. Large parts of society are impoverished,” former Israeli intelligence officer Oded Ailam said. The intelligence service ofIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned Iranian citizens of an increase in recruitment attempts by enemy intelligence agencies, state media reported on Tuesday. Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel,…
Read MoreHamas, ISIS and Al-Qaeda: Indictment filed against alleged terror-supporter in northern Israel
The suspect was reported to police after his social media account posted a statement from Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida. Israel Police filed an indictment against a 65-year-old resident of Tuba-Zangaria on suspicion of incitement to terrorism and identification with three different terrorist organizations. The man allegedly made posts on social media in support of Hamas,…
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