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2026-02-26 05:10:29 (4 days ago)

Senegalese PM Ousmane Sonko submits tougher anti-LGBT law

Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko unveiled legislation on Tuesday (February 24) that would double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

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2026-02-26 05:04:24 (4 days ago)

Netflix or Paramount: who would be the best new owner of Warner Bros?

The ongoing battle over who will own the iconic film studio is set to have a major impact on what we, the viewers, get to watch in the future

It’s not unusual for a corporate merger to take months and months to actually finalize, but even by those standards, the bidding for ownership of Warner Bros Discovery has been drawn out. Netflix made a deal to buy the Warner Bros side of the company – its studio and streaming businesses – late last year, but Paramount Skydance has been undeterred, aggressively pursuing what it claims to be a better offer for the entire WBD operation. After several failed attempts at a hostile takeover, WBD is considering a final Paramount offer, to which Netflix will have the opportunity to counter. What we have is what learned cinema scholars might refer to as an Alien v Predator situation, in honor of Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox: whoever wins, we lose.

That is to say that for cinema devotees, casual viewers and people working in the film industry, the ideal outcome would be for Warner Bros to continue as its own entity: an entertainment company making movies and TV series. But that’s clearly not going to happen – nor are any number of relatively superior options floated last year, like the idea of Apple, who worked with the studio on the global smash and Best Picture nominee F1, buying Warner instead. They’re still a massive corporation, but they’ve shown a willingness to spend on major (and theatrically released!) projects like Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, and have such a thriving business in other areas that they could afford to run Warner as a real studio, trying to continue the company’s recent hot streak.

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2026-02-26 05:03:53 (4 days ago)

'Israel is promised only to the Jewish people' | In search of Palestine: episode 2 – video

In the second episode of a new series, reporter Matthew Cassel travels across the West Bank to document what daily life looks like under deepening Israeli occupation. In this episode he travels from Bethlehem to Nablus, to ask those living there if a Palestinian state is possible amidst an increasingly entrenched settler network.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-02-26 05:00:59 (4 days ago)

Why capping credit card interest rates will kill credit for working families

Price controls on credit cards could create shortages like President Nixon's 1971 gasoline controls, forcing consumers toward payday lenders and reducing credit access.

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2026-02-26 05:00:58 (4 days ago)

Dem voters were less enthusiastic when Trump touted crackdown on cartels and fentanyl, SOTU dial reveals

Real-time voter data showed a partisan split when Trump praised his cartel offensive during the State of the Union address, with Dems showing very little enthusiasm.

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2026-02-26 05:00:54 (4 days ago)

Mamdani's rent freeze, tax hikes a 'one-two wealth destruction punch,' economists warn

Economists warn New York's proposed rent freeze and property tax hikes could create a "one-two wealth destruction punch" for the city's housing market.

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2026-02-26 05:00:35 (4 days ago)

New York's Mayor Mamdani promised change — now he’s gutting the NYPD

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's decision to halt NYPD hiring contradicts campaign promises, raising questions about his commitment to New York City public safety.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-26 05:00:25 (4 days ago)

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. Added to which, Silicon Valley’s leaders seem all too keen to cosy up to the Trump administration, to shower the president with bribes – sorry, gifts – and remain silent about his worsening political overreach. And that’s before we get to the rampant “enshittification”, as the tech writer Cory Doctorow describes it, which means that by design many big tech products have become less useful and more extractive than they were when we originally signed up to them.

We’ve entered into a Faustian pact with these companies: “While it’s brilliant to have access to high-quality products and software, very often for ‘free’, it’s important to remember that there is a trade-off involved – often of our personal data and privacy,” says Lisa Barber, tech editor at Which? We give these companies our attention and our information, which they then turn into big bucks and apparently unassailable monopolies.

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2026-02-26 05:00:25 (4 days ago)

Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize

Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’

From “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” to “one touch of nature made the whole world kin”, some of the most famous lines in William Shakespeare’s works are about the relationship between humans and the environment.

It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it says will harness the skills of storytellers and artists to “inspire societal shifts towards a restorative relationship with nature”.

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2026-02-26 05:00:24 (4 days ago)

Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs

Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely

Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work.

Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40% of jobs around the world. Its head, Kristalina Georgieva, has said: “This is like a tsunami hitting the labour market.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-26 05:00:24 (4 days ago)

My friend was killed for telling you the truth. Now the powerful are even more desperate to silence us | Janine di Giovanni

Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targets

A friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” he wrote. “Nothing sinister.”

In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, Syria, I met with the now-disgraced Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen was a renowned fixer who had negotiated the 1993 Oslo accords.

Janine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and the executive director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza. She is the author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

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2026-02-26 05:00:21 (4 days ago)

Trump’s Iran ultimatum enters decisive stretch after State of the Union

Trump sets 10 day to 15 day deadline for Iran nuclear deal, backed by massive U.S. military buildup in Middle East. Negotiations continue as tensions escalate.