36 minutes ago About sharing Jung Kook, V, RM and Jimin are set to begin their mandatory military service, perhaps next week By Zoya Mateen BBC News, London Four BTS band members have urged their fans not to turn up at army camps when they begin mandatory military duty. The K-pop stars’ label announced that…
6 minutes ago Comments About sharing By Michael Race & Simon Jack Business reporter and Business editor, BBC News Tariffs on electric vehicles traded between the UK and EU will be delayed for three years, the European Commission has proposed. It comes after carmakers on both sides of the Channel warned they were not ready…
1 minute ago About sharing Taylor Swift told Time she is “the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt” By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Taylor Swift has capped off a stellar 2023 by being named Time Magazine’s person of the year. The star, whose Eras tour broke box office records and provoked an inquiry into…
6 minutes ago About sharing Lianne Gordon has been described as loved by the community By Adriana Elgueta BBC News A woman who was shot dead in east London on Tuesday evening has been named locally as Lianne Gordon. She was killed in Lower Clapton, Hackney, where a man, 20, and a 16-year-old boy also…
2 minutes ago About sharing The government hope the Rwanda plan will deter people arriving in the UK on small boats By Sam Francis Political reporter, BBC News Splits have emerged in the Conservative Party over Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda legislation, ahead of its publication in the coming days. Home Secretary James Cleverly signed a…
December 6, 2023 The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All While experts warn about the risk of human extinction, the Department of Defense plows full speed ahead. Michael T. Klare Ad Policy Attendee interact with a SoftBank Group Corp. Pepper humanoid robot at the COP28 Climate Conference. (Annie Sakkab…
Books & the Arts / December 6, 2023 Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists In Well-Kept Ruins, a key example of her late style, a hybrid and dreamlike form of social theory comes into focus. Rebecca Ariel Porte Ad Policy Hélène Cixous, 2019. (Photo by Sophie Bassouls / Sygma via Getty Images) Hélène Cixous has…
Culture / Books & the Arts / December 6, 2023 Siddhartha Deb and the Politics of Fiction A conversation with the novelist and journalist about India, colonialism, the Union Carbide catastrophe, science fiction, solidarity, and his novel, The Light at the End of the World. Feroz Rather Ad Policy Siddhartha Deb is an accomplished novelist…
Politics Today 5:00 am A Trump Dictatorship Is Not “Inevitable”—as Long as We Step Up Now A Trump Dictatorship Is Not “Inevitable”—as Long as We Step Up Now The disgraced former president almost surely has a lock on the GOP nomination. But that doesn’t mean he’ll win in 2024. Joan Walsh December 6, 2023 Former…
42 minutes ago About sharing Danish authorities accuse Sanjay Shah of participation in “cum-ex” fraud schemes The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extradited British trader Sanjay Shah to Denmark over tax fraud charges worth £1.46bn, his lawyers say. Mr Shah, who lives in Dubai, is accused of participating in fraudulent share trading schemes. He was…