What connects an Iranian novelist exploring women’s lives, a British children’s author creating imaginary worlds and an Azerbaijani writer preserving her country’s cultural identity? The answer is stories that cross borders, connect continents, and blend cultures through books.
Brazil’s defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro posted a video message on social media late Friday to declare he fled to the US because he was a victim of ‘persecution’. Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday’s election runoff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, gave no details of how he left the country.
BoM predicts hail, damaging winds and possible flash flooding across Victoria, NSW and parts of Queensland into Sunday Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastStorm warnings are in place for multiple capital cities across Australia’s east and south-east as a severe weather front sweeps across the country.Heavy rain, winds and thunderstorms…
Sellers in areas such as Belgravia and Mayfair face hundreds of thousands of pounds in losses as property prices fallEight out of 10 properties in London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods – such as Mayfair, Belgravia and Knightsbridge – now sell below asking price, according to research by Coutts, which provides private banking services to wealthy clients.Property…
Activists see meeting as opportunity to demand UK confront role in transatlantic enslavement“The royal family enslaved us! Apologise now! Reparatory justice now!”King Charles and the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, will be greeted with messages as they travel through Antigua’s capital, St John’s, to attend meetings at the Commonwealth leaders’ summit next week. On billboards,…
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At least 12.5 million Africans were abducted and sold into slavery
The 2026 Youth Olympic Games, the first Olympics ever to be held on African soil, open Saturday in the Senegalese capital marking an historic moment for the continent.Signs proclaiming “Africa welcomes, Dakar celebrates” are abundant across Dakar, which is hosting some 2,665 young competitors aged 14 to 17 from around the world.The event marks the…
France’s top court on Saturday overturned a Paris court’s decision authorising a protest route from Bastille to Place de la Nation in the heart of the French captial, which was proposed by rally organisers. The approved route now runs through the outskirts of Paris. Security has been tightened as authorities warn of rioters using Halloween masks to…
The Spanish PM is hit by a succession of crises just weeks before a snap general election.