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Coming soon to a cinema near you? The return of the bed bug

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 3 minutes | 451 words | Chauncey Koziol

Pass notesParisFrench movie-lovers are struggling with a plague of insect bites. Bed bug infestations are up 65% in the UK. Is anywhere safe? Name: Bed bugs Age: The first ancestors emerged 115m years ago, so older than beds. Appearance: Coming to a cinema near you. Where exactly? Paris. Ah, Paris – the City of Lice! These aren’t lice, they are bed bugs – Cimex lectularius – and the movie houses of Paris are infested with them. [Read More]

Donald Trump wanted daughter Ivanka to be running mate in 2016, book says | Ivanka Trump

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 3 minutes | 621 words | Kary Bruening

Ivanka Trump This article is more than 3 years oldDonald Trump wanted daughter Ivanka to be running mate in 2016, book saysThis article is more than 3 years oldEx-campaign deputy Rick Gates quotes Trump as saying: ‘Ivanka should be vice-president’ in book out in October US politics – live coverage Trump’s taxes: Ivanka named in New York Times report Donald Trump wanted to name his daughter, Ivanka Trump, as his running mate in 2016, according to a new book by former campaign deputy Rick Gates, reported by Bloomberg News. [Read More]

Fame finally calls for British painter John Craxton, friend of Lucian Freud and lover of all things

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 7 minutes | 1367 words | Valentine Belue

The ObserverArtShows in Athens and Istanbul have brought belated recognition for an artist long championed by David Attenborough. But why, 14 years after his death, is London still immune to his talents? He was louche, larger than life, a lover of all things Hellenic and in his early years on the London art scene inseparable from the equally rakish Lucian Freud. For decades John Craxton, viewed as a giant in the pantheon of painters of modern Greece, an unrivalled portraitist of the country he would come to adopt, languished in relative obscurity. [Read More]

First Thing: police killings will continue until system changes, grieving family says | US news

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 10 minutes | 1956 words | Valentine Belue

First Thing newsletterUS news This article is more than 11 months oldFirst Thing: police killings will continue until system changes, grieving family saysThis article is more than 11 months oldTyre Nichols’ death reopens wounds felt by family of Steven Askew, who died 10 years ago at hands of Memphis police. Plus, wave of ‘sushi terrorism’ grips Japan Good morning. More than 200 miles away from Memphis, as Tyre Nichols’ family mourned the beating to death of their son at the hands of police, Sylvia Askew was at home in Nashville taking care of her ailing husband, write Edwin Rios and Oliver Laughland. [Read More]

My life was in Ukraine, but my daughters and I had to leave: their future is everything | Alina Andr

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 5 minutes | 959 words | Kary Bruening

A year of war in UkraineRefugees This article is more than 10 months oldMy life was in Ukraine, but my daughters and I had to leave: their future is everythingThis article is more than 10 months oldAlina AndriiakoOur sponsors in England could not have been kinder. But when the app on my phone buzzes, I know the Russians are attacking back home My family and I didn’t expect to end up in the UK. [Read More]

Sideways tool use earns Rishi Sunak hammering on social media | Rishi Sunak

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 2 minutes | 297 words | Chauncey Koziol

Rishi Sunak This article is more than 1 month oldSideways tool use earns Rishi Sunak hammering on social mediaThis article is more than 1 month oldPrime minister mocked for unusual technique at craft session, but video shows he was following teacher’s instructions It may not be the most complicated of tools to master, but Rishi Sunak was mocked on social media for ostensibly having difficulty handling a hammer, after being told to use it sideways as part of a craft session. [Read More]

The Portable Door review Harry Potter-ish YA fantasy carried by hardworking cast

Posted on June 10, 2024 | 2 minutes | 392 words | Kary Bruening

MoviesReviewJeffrey Walker’s adaptation of the young-adult fantasy novel retains its edge thanks to its performances, but gets stuck on the whole door thing Adapted from Tom Holt’s 2003 young-adult fantasy novel, this is a passable attempt at kickstarting a new Harry Potter-style franchise set in a fusty-quirky institution, dosed up with extra Gilliamesque grotesquery. Co-produced by the Jim Henson Company, the production design is poky and intense, and the cast – with Christoph Waltz and Sam Neill larking it up – give it their all. [Read More]

Backers of Honduran dam opposed by murdered activist withdraw funding | Honduras

Posted on June 9, 2024 | 4 minutes | 675 words | Valentine Belue

Honduras This article is more than 6 years oldBackers of Honduran dam opposed by murdered activist withdraw fundingThis article is more than 6 years oldInternational investors withdraw completely from Agua Zarca project Dam was one of hundreds of projects sanctioned after 2009 military coupThe international funders behind the hydroelectric dam opposed by murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres are withdrawing from the project, the Guardian can reveal. Three financial institutions had pledged loans worth $44m for the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque river, which is considered sacred by the Lenca people and which Caceres campaigned against before her death. [Read More]

Carlos Alcaraz shows tennis is still not a land only of giants

Posted on June 9, 2024 | 7 minutes | 1342 words | Chauncey Koziol

TennisFor years we’ve been told the sport will be dominated by leviathans. But nimbleness and all-round skills are still valuable When Daniil Medvedev took the court against Novak Djokovic on Sunday afternoon in New York, he was not only attempting to beat the Serb in the US Open final once again; he was also trying to replicate his feat of being tied for the tallest man to ever claim a grand slam title. [Read More]