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The European Union is intensifying its scrutiny of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, for allegedly failing to protect children on its platforms. The European Commission has launched a formal investigation to determine whether Meta has complied with its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This investigation underscores growing concerns about the harmful impact of social media on young users, particularly regarding addictive behaviours encouraged by these platforms. High daily engagement among teensAccording to Invezz research, a significant 93% of teens are activ...
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Maasai girls who go to school have long days that start with the struggle to get to class at all. Many have a 10-kilometre walk and occasionally, it is broken up by having to wait for elephants to move off the road so they can continue their journey. After school come chores like fetching water or collecting wood, leaving little time to study. One teacher saw how exhaustion made it hard for the children to learn. In one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & features desk, we hear about how a new boarding facility means the girls are better able to concentrate and perfor...
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The university student sits down next to a 12-year-old pupil in the classroom and he looks at her exercise book, then explains the task. "He helps me in many subjects," says Christelle, who has been living in Germany for about a year and attends the Neue Oberschule Gröpelingen, a secondary school in the north-western city of Bremen. Sargis Poghosyan regularly supports the girl, who is learning German as a second language, in German, English and math. "She's very hard-working," says the 28-year-old. Meanwhile, special education teacher Sabine Jungehülsing, who is supervising the class that day ...
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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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Esther doesn't seem to notice the expansive landscape, the distant line of mountains across the border in Tanzania or the thorn acacias dotting the savannah. Eyes shining, the 11-year-old in her blue and red school uniform gazes at the new dormitory building at her school, Ol Donyo Oibor Primary in Kimana in southern Kenya. The building was constructed by the German association Big Girls Foundation in cooperation with a Kenyan partner. For Esther and 95 other girls from the Maasai people, the start of the new school year marks a new era. They will live in the school during the school year inst...
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The university student sits down next to a 12-year-old pupil in the classroom and he looks at her exercise book, then explains the task. "He helps me in many subjects," says Christelle, who has been living in Germany for about a year and attends the Neue Oberschule Gröpelingen, a secondary school in the north-western city of Bremen. Sargis Poghosyan regularly supports the girl, who is learning German as a second language, in German, English and math. "She's very hard-working," says the 28-year-old. Meanwhile, special education teacher Sabine Jungehülsing, who is supervising the class that day ...
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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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Esther doesn't seem to notice the expansive landscape, the distant line of mountains across the border in Tanzania or the thorn acacias dotting the savannah. Eyes shining, the 11-year-old in her blue and red school uniform gazes at the new dormitory building at her school, Ol Donyo Oibor Primary in Kimana in southern Kenya. The building was constructed by the German association Big Girls Foundation in cooperation with a Kenyan partner. For Esther and 95 other girls from the Maasai people, the start of the new school year marks a new era. They will live in the school during the school year inst...
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The sound of Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" echoes powerfully through the Protestant Heiliggeistkirche church in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in south-west Germany. Singer Tine Wiechmann stands at the microphone at the front, accompanied by band members on piano, bass and drums. The church's pastor, Vincenzo Petracca, claps along enthusiastically. The visitors sway and dance in their seats, many of them singing along to the 34-year-old's global hit. About 1,200 people from all age groups attend two pop church services with live music by Taylor Swift. Almost all ...
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The sound of Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" echoes powerfully through the Protestant Heiliggeistkirche church in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in south-west Germany. Singer Tine Wiechmann stands at the microphone at the front, accompanied by band members on piano, bass and drums. The church's pastor, Vincenzo Petracca, claps along enthusiastically. The visitors sway and dance in their seats, many of them singing along to the 34-year-old's global hit. About 1,200 people from all age groups attend two pop church services with live music by Taylor Swift. Almost all ...
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