The Spanish town of Terrassa in north-eastern Catalonia has temporarily banned the adoption of black cats from animal shelters to prevent potentially sinister “rituals” during Halloween.
All requests for the fostering or adoption of the felines…
Category: 2. World
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How ex-Grand Theft Auto boss grand vision became a £200m flop
Build a Rocket BoyIn July this year workers at Build a Rocket Boy, a video game studio in Edinburgh, were called to an all-staff meeting.
Their first ever game, a sci-fi adventure called MindsEye, had been released three weeks earlier – and it had…
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Bloomsbury PublishingFor South Koreans, tteokbokki is more than a snack. It’s soul food.
This sweet and spicy dish made with chewy rice cakes is a staple of Korea’s street food culture and beloved by people of all ages.
It’s the food students turn…
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Mystery deepens after missing schoolgirl found dead in pop star’s Tesla
Nardine Saad and Christal HayesBBC News, Los Angeles
Getty ImagesD4vd performed at Coachella music festival months before a body was discovered in the trunk of his car The day after a body was found in his car in Hollywood, singer D4vd was belting…
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‘I saw my Gaza homeland rebuilt before but this time’s different’
Tim WhewellPresenter of A People’s History of Gaza
BBC“I rode away on a camel with my grandmother, along a sandy road, and I started to cry.” Ayish Younis is describing the worst moment of his life – he still regards it as such, even though it…
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Bali-fication comes for a laidback surfers’ island
Koh EweSingapore,
Tri WahyuniJakarta and
Abdul Latief ApriamanLombok
Getty ImagesIndonesia is on a mission to turn Lombok island into another Bali – and put it on a tourist bucket list Damar, one of the best surf guides on the Indonesian island of…
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Iran, China, Russia affirm termination of Resolution 2231, UNSC focus on Iranian nuclear file
Iran, China, and Russia have written a joint letter to the United Nations secretary-general, affirming termination of UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2231 concerning the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear energy…
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Thousands attend anti-Trump protest across the US
Huge crowds gathered to protest against President Donald Trump’s policies in cities across the US – among them New York, Washington DC, Chicago and Miami.
The No Kings coalition, which organisers describe as comprising roughly 300 groups, first…
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Red Cross receives two bodies that Hamas says are Gaza hostages
ReutersHamas says it has been working to recover the remains of dead hostages beneath the rubble left by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip The Red Cross has received two bodies in Gaza that Hamas says are hostages, the Israeli military has said.
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US to repatriate survivors of strike on ‘drug-carrying submarine’, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said the US will return two people who survived a strike on what he called a “drug-carrying submarine” to their countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia.
Writing on social media, Trump said two other people were killed…
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