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Mexico demands Paris auction house halt sale of pre-Colombian artifacts

Today at 04:35 AM, via Daily Maverick

MEXICO CITY, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Mexico’s government said on Thursday it has launched legal action to compel Millon, an auction house in the French capital, to halt this week’s planned sale of 40 pre-Colombian artefacts Mexico considers its cultural heritage.

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California woman suing Meta, YouTube testifies social media took toll on mental health

Today at 04:31 AM, via Daily Maverick

LOS ANGELES, Feb 26 (Reuters) – A young California woman suing Meta Platforms’ Instagram and Google’s YouTube testified on Thursday in a landmark trial that her childhood social media addiction left her anxious, depressed and insecure of her own looks, yet unable to give up her cellphone without feeling further angst.

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Cuba slams US for ‘impunity’ on speedboat attack suspects

Today at 04:29 AM, via Daily Maverick

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Cuba criticised the US government for allowing anti-Cuban groups to operate with impunity on Thursday, as Cuban exiles wounded in an apparent attack aboard a Florida-registered speedboat convalesced at a provincial Cuban hospital.

Politics

ANC Free State leaders accused of milking troubled municipality

Today at 00:15 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The ANC provincial working committee in the Free State has been accused of defying the party’s deployees in government, resulting in the near collapse of the Matjhabeng local municipality. Sources say provincial chairperson Mxolisi Dukwana and secretary Polediso Motsoeneng have used their political power to undermine premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae’s intervention in the municipality, which is […]

Politics

Dlabathi falls in wake of EFF exit

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The EFF has rejected a renewed partnership, leading to ANC Ekurhuleni regional secretary Jongizizwe Dlabathi stepping down as finance MMC

Sport

Klopp exit talk ‘nonsense’ – Friday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:41 PM, via BBC News

Speculation around Jurgen Klopp’s role with Red Bull is dismissed, Chelsea remain in pole position to land Murillo, Wolves’ asking price for Mateus Mane puts off Liverpool and Manchester United, plus more.

Education

How to Measure Real Progress in Education

Yesterday at 19:54 PM, via New York Times

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and others respond to a Nicholas Kristof column. Also: Reagan’s warning about nuclear weapons; aging doctors.

Education

‘Very Republican, very patriotic’: right-leaning civic centers now offer courses at US public colleges

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via The Guardian

Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools

This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a non-profit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

One glossy insert stuck out from the orientation packet handed to hundreds of Ohio State University freshmen last August. It advertised a...

Science/Tech

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer

Today at 03:00 AM, via The Guardian

Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancers

Vegetarians have a substantially lower risk of five types of cancer, a landmark study on the role of diet has revealed.

The research, using data from more than 1.8 million people who were tracked over many years, found that vegetarians had a 21% lower risk of pancreatic cancer, a 12% lower...

Science/Tech

Four Convicted Over Spyware Affair That Shook Greece

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

A Greek court has convicted four individuals linked to the marketing of Predator spyware in the wiretapping scandal that shook the country in 2022. The BBC reports: In what became known as “Greece’s Watergate,” surveillance software called Predator was used to target 87 people — among them government ministers, senior military officials and journalists. The four who had marketed the software...