Maputo, Mozambique – At 7pm on November 4, Maputo’s streets fell into an eerie silence. Public transportation was at a standstill, adhering to opposition leader Venancio Mondlane’s call for a shutdown. Then, a steady clanging began. Residents in affluent high rises and inner-city apartment blocks alike joined in a coordinated chorus of a pot-banging protest. Known as a “panelaco”, this form of protest has emerged as a powerful way to voice frustrations over Mozambique’s disputed general election results, allowing citizens to express dissent without facing the immediate risk of police retaliation. The clatter and clang echoed across the city’s skyline,…
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The Eagles needed that sort of performance as quarterback Jalen Hurts and the passing game were unable to really find a rhythm at any point in the game.Here are four other takeaways from Thursday’s game. Eagles defensive turnaround continuesThe Eagles are officially on a roll, and one of the biggest factors in their climb back to the top of the NFC East has been the remarkable one-year turnaround of their defense.After finishing 30th in the NFL a year ago and playing a significant role in their second half meltdown, the Eagles entered play on Thursday night with the No. 5 defense…
Mark Zuckerberg recently hit the studio to set the bar higher for anniversary gifts.In a post on Instagram on Wednesday, the 40-year-old Meta founder and CEO announced a surprise for his 39-year-old wife Priscilla Chan. The song “Get Low” by T-Pain was playing when Zuckerberg and Chan first met at a Harvard party, and Zuckerberg mentioned in the post that they listen to it every year on their dating anniversary.This year, though, the musical soundtrack sounded a little different — Zuckerberg recorded his own version of “Get Low,” and released it on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, and Deezer too, as…
Quantum loving The Netflix show Love Is Blind had rather passed Feedback by. It’s a dating show in which participants aren’t allowed to see each other face to face and only communicate by voice. Only if they get engaged are they allowed to meet in person. Like so many reality shows, it bills itself as a “social experiment”, which is an interesting way to describe televising something so personal for entertainment, but we are sure Netflix’s consent forms are impeccable. We bring this up because season seven, released in October, featured a quantum physicist. Garrett Josemans is a technical program…
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s high court on Thursday sentenced a man to 23 years and 10 months in prison for being the mastermind of an alleged plot to attack police with explosives during the city’s pro-democracy and anti-China protests in 2019.The man, Ng Chi-hung, 28, had been charged with “prohibitions against bombing of prescribed objects” under the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Ordinance and a conspiracy to use explosives and firearms to endanger life.Another defendant, Wong Chun-keung, the leader of a group known as the “Dragon Slayers” that was active during the 2019 protests, was sentenced to 13 years and six…
WASDOne of the main showcases for UK gaming has been cancelled, reflecting the wider struggles of an industry which has seen a series of job cuts and studio closures.The WASD expo – which is usually held in London in April – is a shop window for British talent, with a particular emphasis on smaller, independent game-makers.But its organiser has now gone into liquidation.Co-founder David Lilley told the BBC “increasing costs and less demand for stand space means running events is just not viable for us anymore.”There had been speculation about the event’s future after the WASD website disappeared from public…
The neocons are working overtime to release countless aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump takes over in January. Bloomberg has reported that the Biden Administration The Biden administration is committed to ensuring “every dollar we have at our disposal,” in a message championed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken rushed to Brussels after Trump’s victory to discuss how NATO and the EU can drain America for additional funding ahead of Trump’s term. “The purpose of this visit is to focus our efforts on ensuring that Ukraine has the money, the munitions, and the mobilized forces to fight effectively…
Longtime Democrat strategist and former Bill Clinton staffer James Carville recently ripped his own party for the loss they suffered in the 2024 election. In a bizarre twist of fate, Carville offered some common sense commentary here. He suggested that the liberal elitists in the Democrat party skewed their view of the country and made them out of touch. Mediaite has details: Democratic strategist James Carville unleashed on Democrats after Vice President Kamala Harris’s election defeat to President-elect Donald Trump and slammed Washington-based Democrats for what he claimed was a misguided embrace of identity politics… He said: “What you’ve done…
Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue of 2024 has just been unveiled and a lot of people are asking the same thing: Who is Lisa – or rather, who is Lalisa Monobal?Social media has been in a tizzy over the inclusion of the young starlet, best known as one-fourth of K-Pop’s BlackPink, sharing space alongside major players in the acting game, such as Nicole Kidman and Jonathan Bailey. So, who exactly is Lisa and why is she on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue?Article continues below advertisementLisa From BlackPink Is One Of The Biggest Names In Music At The MomentMEGALisa of…
TOKYO: An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan’s struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism. Japan welcomed nearly 27 million visitors through September, a record pace, and their spending added 5.86 trillion yen (US$37.5 billion) to the economy. But incidents of vandalism, public drunkenness, and “overtourism” at popular sites have sparked debate about how to handle the flood of visitors and those who flout the rules. Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 65-year-old American on Wednesday (Nov 13) on suspicion of carving alphabetical characters into…