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(Fom left to right) Siti, Marsya and Widi were encouraged by their school counsellor to express their emotions through music
Indonesia’s hijab-wearing metalheads play Glastonbury
JAKARTA — The three girls started making metal music at high school, but they never thought they could make history for Indonesia at Glastonbury.The band they formed — Voice of Baceprot — are playing at the festival this year and when they found out they'd been invited they were “confused”.“Because we didn’t know how exciting [the festival] is... We didn’t know what to do next,” the band’s lead singer Firdda Marsya Kurnia said.The pressure was on after the trio realized they would be the first Indonesian band to play at Europe's largest music festival. Headliners at this year’s five-day festival include Coldplay and Dua Lipa.Voice of Baceprot — made up of Marsya, drummer Euis Siti Aisyah and bassist Widi Rahmawati — are performing on Friday. Baceprot...
June 28, 2024

Indonesia’s hijab-wearing metalheads play Glastonbury

Hu Youping tried to restrain a knife attacker who also injured a Japanese woman and her son
China honors woman who died saving Japanese family
BEIJING — A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou province when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of "Righteous and Courageous Role Model".The Japanese embassy in China also lowered its flag to half-mast to honor Ms Hu. In a statement on Weibo, the embassy said it was "saddened" to hear of her death."We believe [Ms Hu's] courage and kindness also represent that of the Chinese people. We pay tribute to her righteous deeds. May she rest...
June 28, 2024

China honors woman who died saving Japanese family

Thousands of people have protested against the foreign agents law
EU warns Georgia's NGO law is blocking its path to joining
BRUSSELS — Georgia's path to EU membership is being blocked by the passing of a controversial foreign influence law, European leaders have said at a summit in Brussels.The passing of the law represented "backsliding" on steps laid out to enable the country to join the bloc."The European Council calls on Georgia’s authorities to clarify their intentions by reversing the current course of action which jeopardizes Georgia’s EU path," the leaders said in a document released on Thursday.They added that they maintained their "steadfast solidarity with the Georgian people" and expressed a "readiness to continue supporting Georgians on their path towards a European future"."The European Council calls on Georgia’s authorities to clarify their...
June 28, 2024

EU warns Georgia's NGO law is blocking its path to joining

Growing crowds have attended reformist Massoud Pezeshkian's rallies
Reformist doctor running for presidency gives new hope to young Iranians
TEHRAN — A snap election was called after a deadly helicopter crash. A candidate promising a different approach both at home and abroad. And suddenly there’s an element of suspense and unpredictability in Iran, as voters go to the polls to choose a new president.Elections in the Islamic Republic are tightly controlled affairs — the candidates are all vetted by an influential committee of clerics before they can stand. And recently voter apathy has been widespread.But this time there is a wild card: a reformist former heart surgeon and health minister, Massoud Pezeshkian, who has declared “immoral” the actions of Iran’s morality police, who enforce strict dress codes on women.The rules on wearing the hijab are now being regularly flouted by women and Pezeshkian, 69, has said:...
June 28, 2024

Reformist doctor running for presidency gives new hope to young Iranians

Germany's Interior Ministry has introduced new citizenship requirements, including recognizing Israel's right to exist
Germany demands new citizens accept Israel’s right to exist
BERLIN — People applying for naturalization in Germany will now be required to affirm Israel’s right to exist, under changes to the country’s citizenship law.The legislation, which came into effect Thursday, is part of a larger citizenship overhaul from Berlin as the government grapples with rising antisemitism, a surge in popularity for the far right, and fierce debate over its response to Israel’s war in Gaza.The country’s naturalization exam will now include a number of new questions, according to a statement from the interior ministry.“In response to increasing antisemitism in Germany, the list of questions in the naturalization test has been expanded. New exam questions have been added on the topics of antisemitism, the right of the state of Israel to exist and Jewish life...
June 28, 2024

Germany demands new citizens accept Israel’s right to exist

Joe Biden, 81, and Donald Trump, 78, are the two oldest major party candidates for the US presidency
Stumbling debate performance worsens age fears for Biden
WASHINGTON — Before Thursday evening, many Americans had expressed concerns about Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office. To say that this debate did not put those concerns to rest may be one of the greatest understatements of the year.The president came into the debate with a low bar to clear, and he stumbled. He was flat. He was rambling. He was unclear.Roughly midway through the debate, the Biden campaign told reporters that the president was battling a cold — an attempt to explain his raspy voice. That may be so, but it also sounded like an excuse.For 90 minutes, more often than not, Joe Biden was on the ropes. Particularly early in the evening, some of his answers were nonsensical. After losing his train of thought he ended one answer by saying, “We finally beat Medicare”...
June 28, 2024

Stumbling debate performance worsens age fears for Biden

Activists like Mathys Auger (left) are campaigning hard for the far right in Brittany
Once France's moderate region, Brittany is flirting with the far right
AURAY, France — Earlier this week, two earnest teenagers walked down a narrow, cobbled lane in the ludicrously pretty medieval market town of Auray.As they handed out leaflets for their party, the far-right National Rally, you could hear the angry mutterings – the soundtrack of France’s unexpected and acutely polarising parliamentary election campaign – spluttering to life in their wake.“Go to Moscow,” declared a man sitting in the shade beside the town’s church.“Fascists. It’s horrible. We just hate them,” said Solène Jambou, 50, watching the two young men pass in front of her clothes stall.But many other people in the market came over to collect leaflets from the young campaigners.“Things have to change in France. We’ve tried everything else, so why not this? We...
June 28, 2024

Once France's moderate region, Brittany is flirting with the far right

President Joe Biden during the debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024
Biden’s debate performance sets off alarm bells for Democrats
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s debate performance has set off alarm bells among top Democrats, leaving some to openly question whether Biden can stay atop of the Democratic ticket.“He seemed a little disoriented. He did get stronger as the debate went on. But by that time, I think the panic had set in,” longtime Democratic operative and CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod said.Axelrod also gave voice to a conversation happening among many Democrats on Thursday night: “There are going to be discussions about whether he should continue.”After a rocky start to the night, campaign and party officials pointed to Biden’s rebuke to former President Donald Trump on the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as a moment where the president hit his stride. They also...
June 28, 2024

Biden’s debate performance sets off alarm bells for Democrats

Former Defense Ministers Li Shangfu and his predecessor Wei Fenghe have both been expelled from the Communist Party
China expels two former defense ministers from Communist Party as military purge deepens
BEIJING — China on Thursday expelled its former Defense Minister Li Shangfu and his predecessor from the ruling Communist Party over corruption allegations, state broadcaster CCTV reported, deepening a sweeping purge within the top ranks of the military.Li was removed in October last year without explanation after he vanished from public view for two months, amid a series of high-level shakeups that have roiled the world’s largest military.Li’s mysterious disappearance and drastic ouster just months into his job fueled intense speculation, coming after the surprise sacking of two top generals of the PLA Rocket Force, an elite unit overseeing China’s nuclear and ballistic missiles, also without explanation.Thursday’s announcement is the first official confirmation from Chinese...
June 27, 2024

China expels two former defense ministers from Communist Party as military purge deepens

This photo from the National Transportation Safety Board shows the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 Max
Boeing blames missing paperwork for Alaska Air incident
RENTON, Washington — For months, missing paperwork has hindered the investigation into how a door plug blew off a 737 Max on an Alaska Airlines flight in January, making it difficult to find out who made the near-tragic mistake. This week, Boeing disclosed that the paperwork may have caused the problem in the first place.It was already well known that no documentation was found to show who worked on the door plug. At a briefing for journalists at Boeing’s 737 Max factory in Renton, Washington, Boeing said that lack of paperwork is why the four bolts needed to hold the door plug in place were never installed before the plane left the factory in October. The workers who needed to reinstall the bolts never had the work order telling them the work needed to be done.Without the bolts, the...
June 27, 2024

Boeing blames missing paperwork for Alaska Air incident

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