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Chambers named Disney EMEA president in regional revamp

Telecompaper.com 

(Telecompaper) The Walt Disney Company has announced the appointment of Tony Chambers as its new president in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) under a region-wide restructure of its entertainment businesses...

11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of "Extreme Deprivation." Will Biden Close Guantánamo for Good?

Democracy Now! 

Eleven Yemeni men imprisoned without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention center for more than two decades have just been released to Oman to restart their lives. This latest transfer brings the total number of men detained at Guantánamo down to 15. Civil rights lawyers Ramzi Kassem and Pardiss Kebriaei, who have each represented many Guantánamo detainees, including some of the men just released, say closing the notorious detention center “has always been a question of political will,”... Читать дальше...

Japan Art: Despair and Sadness (Earthquakes and Buddhism)

Modern Tokyo Times 

Japan Art: Despair and Sadness (Earthquakes and Buddhism) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Early 2024 witnessed Japan being hit by a brutal earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture. Hence, the recent…

Mecha Comet is a handheld everything machine

Boing Boing 

The Mecha Comet is a modular handheld computer, which is to say you can connect different controller bits to the bottom for different purposes: "Snap In, Snap Out, Repeat." There's a joypad controls turn it into a Gameboy-style game machine, a hardware keyboard turns it into a Blackberry-like handheld computer, and a GPIO breakout board promises things both exotic and primitive alive. — Read the rest

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NBA: Heat bounce back, roll past Warriors

Sports.inquirer.net 

SAN FRANCISCO — Bam Adebayo had 19 points, nine rebounds and five assists with two timely dunks down the stretch, and the Miami Heat snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Golden State Warriors 114-98 on Tuesday night. Stephen Curry scored 31 points, Trayce Jackson-Davis added 19, and Draymond Green contributed seven points, 10

Vacancy – Media and Communications manager

Queen's Park Football Club 

Queen’s Park Football Club is currently seeking applications for an experienced Media and Communications individual to join our media team based at the city Stadium at Lesser Hampden. Reporting to the Head of Administration, the Media and Communications Manager is an important position, responsible for overseeing and directing the club’s media activities. This position involves […]

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Antarctic sea ice rebounds from record lows: US scientists

France24.com (en) 

The rate of sea ice loss during the warmer spring months of November and December slowed to well below average, the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said in a statement on Tuesday. This followed a "prolonged period of record to near-record daily lows" in 2023 and 2024 -- the hottest years in the history books for global temperature rises driven by climate change. By the end of 2024, Antarctic sea ice extent had recovered to 7.3 million square kilometres (2.8 million square miles) -- very close to the 1981 to 2010 average... Читать дальше...

Aku Sorainen: Estonian residents could hold a lot more guns

Err.ee (en) 

Compared to other European countries that operate under the principle of total defense, Estonia has the fewest firearms and shooting ranges. Total defense in Estonia would require a different approach, allowing citizens to possess significantly more firearms and providing more opportunities to practice shooting, writes Aku Sorainen.