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2026-02-17 04:09:44 (1 day ago)

Russia-US-Ukraine peace talks: Who is facing off in Geneva?

Russia, Ukraine and the US have sent their top negotiators to attempt to broker the end to the four-year Ukraine conflict
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2026-02-17 04:06:39 (1 day ago)

GUTFELD! - Monday, February 16

Marco Rubio, AOC, AI

RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-17 04:05:01 (1 day ago)

New US ambassador arrives in South Africa

US Ambassador Brent Bozell has said he will use his post to challenge South Africa’s ties with Russia, China and Iran
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The Guardian - World News

2026-02-17 04:03:24 (1 day ago)

Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw?

Wuthering Heights is inseparable from its landscape – but northern actors seldom get the lead role, instead are pigeonholed as stereotypical or supporting characters. This Bradford-born actor objects

Emerald Fennell’s casting choices for her new version of Wuthering Heights have already been much scrutinised. As well as the apparent “whitewashing” of Heathcliff by casting Jacob Elordi in the part, there’s the fact 35-year-old Margot Robbie is playing a woman 20 years her junior.

Plus, of course, they’re both Australian, not British – and certainly not from Yorkshire. Fennell has offered a defence of her casting choices as a “personal fantasy” – but amid all the scoff and chatter surrounding the film and its myriad deviations from the book, the erasure of regional authenticity risks going under-discussed.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 04:00:09 (2 days ago)

Year of the Fire Horse: Can Lunar New Year festival boost China’s economy?

China looks to boost domestic consumption during holidays as 1.4 billion people usher in the Year of the Fire Horse.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-17 04:00:04 (2 days ago)

Dear Beautiful Beloved review – a powerful message from the Ukrainian frontline

Film-maker Juri Rechinsky documents moments of kindness and compassion among the death and grief that surrounds evacuation and forensics teams

“My son, my sunshine, my beloved child.” A mother is overwhelmed by grief as she strokes the face of her son, a soldier lying in a coffin, killed on the frontline. Another week, another Ukrainian film about the terrible toll of the war. This documentary from film-maker Juri Rechinsky follows two evacuation missions in Ukraine: teams of volunteers transporting the elderly and frail from their homes to safety away from the front; and the operation to return the remains of fallen soldiers to their families. It’s a painful film, haunted by death, but also tender and moving, with a powerful message that compassion, love and resilience can be acts of defiance.

It opens with the evacuation of the elderly from their homes to a processing centre in a former hospital (where one volunteer addresses them “comrade grannies”). From here they will be relocated to more permanent housing. As she prepares to leave her flat, one woman frets: “My hair is a mess.” An English volunteer called Elizabeth is all gentleness, smiles and patience as she clasps the woman’s hands in her own. Rechinsky also films women and children getting on to trains leaving Ukraine, tugging along wheelie cases, babies bundled into their warmest onesies.

CBC News - Top Stories

2026-02-17 04:00:00 (2 days ago)

Paid out of pocket for a fender-bender? Fine, but the law says you have to tell your insurer

For some reason, not a lot of people know that the law in Canada requires them to report a car crash to their insurer, experts told CBC. If they don't, drivers leave themselves exposed to personal injury lawsuits, voiding their insurance policies and significantly higher premiums in the future.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-17 03:59:57 (2 days ago)

Commentator calls out IOC hypocrisy over Israeli athlete

Swiss commentator Stephane Renner has accused the IOC of double standards over Israeli participation at the Winter Olympics
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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 03:55:14 (2 days ago)

Tyson Fury says Anthony Joshua’s car crash motivated his boxing return

Joshua accident in Nigeria that caused two deaths was 'biggest turning point' in Fury's decision to return to the ring.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 03:45:18 (2 days ago)

Bangladesh PM-to-be and lawmakers sworn into parliament

Bangladesh’s prime minister-to-be Tarique Rahman and newly elected lawmakers have been sworn into parliament.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-02-17 03:45:09 (2 days ago)

Bnei Brak riot shows that to integrate Haredim, Israel should expect strife

A recent study found that by 2050, nearly one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox; leaders have only started to grapple with how that will change the country

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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 03:40:15 (2 days ago)

Once a popular wartime leader among Ukrainians, Zelenskyy’s shine fades

Russia's full-scale invasion saw Ukrainians rally around the president but a corruption scandal has dimmed his appeal.