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Sometimes when musician Hesham Hamra plucks the strings of his oud, he is flooded with images of his homeland, Syria. "Every now and then I close my eyes and go from our house in Damascus to a friend's flat in my head," he says. "Then I smell the scent of jasmine on the streets." "Jasmine" is also the name of a virtuoso piece he composed for the Ensemble Colourage from Ludwigshafen, a German city located roughly between the French border and Frankfurt. Colourage is a poetic play on words made up of colour, courage and collage. The group chose it as they sought to bring together music from the ...
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Ukraine has once again called for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics. In an open letter on Friday, the country said some of the athletes competing under a neutral flag, who have qualified for the Games, support Russia's war in Ukraine. The letter was addressed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United World Wrestling (UWW). Ten wrestlers were named in the letter - including Russian freestyle specialists Zaur Uguev and Zaurbek Sidakov, who each won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Several links to videos and social media posts as a...
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Turkey's election authority on Wednesday reversed a local body decision to block a newly elected pro-Kurdish party mayor from taking his post following a party appeal, the state news agency Anadolu reported. The decision followed demonstrations and arrests in several Turkish cities. Police used force to disperse protesters in certain places, according to local media, including the Cumhuriyet newspaper. The Supreme Election Council (YSK) in Ankara decided that Abdullah Zeydan, from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), get his mandate as mayor of south-eastern Van provinc...
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Turkish authorities detained a total of 89 people across the country for joining "unauthorized" demonstrations Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter. The protests in south-eastern Turkey and the Aegean province of Izmir followed an election authority decision to prevent a newly elected mayor from the pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) in the south-eastern city of Van from taking his post. DEM's Abdullah Zeydan was denied his mayoral mandate even though he was elected mayor in Sunday's local elections with around 55% of the vote, the part...
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The 2025 European championships in artistic gymnastics will not be held in Tel Aviv, Israel as originally planned, organizers European Gymnastics said on Monday. The organization's executive committee has decided to withdraw the tournament from country "due to the current situation in Israel," amid the war between the nation and Palestinian extremist organization Hamas, a statement said. European Gymnastics said it's reopening the bidding process for the event and bids can be sent until April 23. "We acknowledge the efforts done by the Israeli Gymnastics Federation, the excellent host of sever...
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Germany and Malaysia must both use their influence to reach an amicable solution to the war in Gaza, despite their opposing views on the conflict, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday. Anwar credited German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for being “very accommodating” in seeking to understand the position of Malaysia – a predominantly Muslim country - towards Gaza and the Islamist Hamas organization, which Kuala Lumpur refuses to recognize as a terrorist group. “I don’t buy this propaganda,” Anwar said in an interview with dpa, adding: “We see freedom fighters. The West see terrorists...
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“Vote blue no matter who” was Madelyn Shick’s mantra before she could even vote after former US president Donald Trump's rise in 2016. She argued with people supporting third party candidates, but now she’s on the other side of that dispute. Shick, 22, said she can’t vote for any candidate who hasn’t already called for a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, including President Joe Biden. “It’s hard to say that Trump will be much worse, and that’s coming from someone who wore Biden shirts, wore Biden pins, and really, really, really, thought we had to keep Trump out,” said Shick, a rece...
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