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Photos: How South Korean Protesters Filled Streets to Demand Yoon’s Ouster

Photos: How South Korean Protesters Filled Streets to Demand Yoon’s Ouster

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Tens of thousands of South Koreans from across the country gathered in the streets outside the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday, demanding President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster. Mr. Yoon briefly imposed martial law on Tuesday, reopening old wounds and plunging the country into political chaos. An attempt to impeach Mr. Yoon failed to garner the required number of votes, prolonging the political upheaval and uncertainty that has roiled the country this week. Photographs and composite image by Pablo Robles Protests in the city and around the country have intensified since Mr. Yoon’s audacious move on Tuesday. The rally at the National Assembly ahead of the impeachment vote on Saturday was the largest one yet, despite freezing temperatures. By 3 p.m. the areas in front of the National Assembly were filled. People waved flags representing labor unions, human rights groups and smaller political parties. The police, wearing neon jackets, were lined up along the crowds to keep order. Photographs by Chang W. Lee; composite image by Pablo Robles As the grand boulevard facing the National …

MI5 transcripts reveal exploits of Fleet Street’s ‘murder gang’ of reporters

MI5 transcripts reveal exploits of Fleet Street’s ‘murder gang’ of reporters

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Picture: Shutterstock From the late 1930s until the mid-1960s, Percy Hoskins, longtime stalwart of the Daily Express who became its highly influential chief crime correspondent, had a contact list like nobody else in Fleet Street. It was said of him: “If you are in trouble, you should call Percy before your lawyer.” Hoskins had long-term friendships with people as diverse as the film director Alfred Hitchcock and the FBI head J. Edgar Hoover. He knew everyone, and could get things done, and fast. This facility was certainly initially enabled and then enhanced by Hoskins’s close personal friendship with his newspaper’s proprietor, the formidable and powerful Lord Beaverbrook. Like all great reporters, Hoskins built his reputation the hard way, producing scoop after scoop on the crime beat, allowing him to send titbits to other reporters in Fleet Street’s ‘Murder Gang’ group of crime reporters, who were given that moniker by Hilde Marchant in her 1947 feature article covering their crime-news-gathering activities in the Picture Post, with photographs by Bert Hardy. It’s long been known that Hoskins …

Play Streets for Kids Are Magic—For Adults

Play Streets for Kids Are Magic—For Adults

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the summer of 2009, Amy Rose and Alice Ferguson, two mothers living on Greville Road in Bristol, a midsize city in southwest England, found themselves in a strange predicament: They saw entirely too much of their kids. “We were going, like, Why are they here?” Rose told me. “Why aren’t they outside?” The friends decided to run an experiment. They applied to shut their quarter-mile road to traffic for two hours after school on a June afternoon—not for a party or an event but just to let the children who lived there play. Intentionally, they didn’t prepare games or activities, Rose told me, as it would have defeated the purpose of the inquiry: “With time, space, and permission, what happens?” The results were breathtaking. The dozens of kids who showed up had no problem finding things to do. One little girl cycled up and down the street “3,000 times,” Rose recalled. “She was totally blissed out.” Suddenly, …

Wall Street’s lull stretches to a second day as indexes finish mixed

Wall Street’s lull stretches to a second day as indexes finish mixed

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NEW YORK —  Wall Street’s lull stretched into a second day as U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close on a quiet Wednesday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 finished virtually unchanged after flipping between modest gains and losses through the day. It edged down by 0.03 of a point to 5,187.67. It was coming off a slight gain from Tuesday, which followed a big three-day winning streak. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 172.13 points, or 0.4%, to 39,056.39, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 29.80, or 0.2%, to 16,302.76. Uber Technologies slumped 5.7% after reporting worse results for the first quarter of 2024 than analysts expected. The ride-hailing company also gave a forecast range for bookings in the current quarter whose midpoint fell below analysts’ estimates. Shopify tumbled 18.6% despite reporting better profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company, which helps businesses sell things online, said that its revenue growth would probably slow this quarter and that it would probably make less profit off each $1 in revenue. Match Group sank …

Chaos in famous Italian city as huge far-Right torch bearing protest takes over streets | World | News

Chaos in famous Italian city as huge far-Right torch bearing protest takes over streets | World | News

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Around 1,500 fascists descended on the streets of Milan, sparking an investigation by the city’s prosecutor and drawing widespread condemnation. The group, dressed mainly in black, marched through the city on Monday before standing together in a military style and delivering fascist salutes. Leading the marchers, six of the group carried a black banner with white typeface that read: “Honour fallen comrades”. The demonstrators were out in force to mark the death of a 19-year-old far-right radical, who was killed by a group of leftists in 1975. Sergio Ramelli, a member of the student wing of the Italian Social Movement, a party formed by supporters of Benito Mussolini, was beaten to death by two members of the hard-left paramilitary group Avanguardia Operaia in Milan. Since Ramelli’s death, far-right groups have marked the anniversary with marches and shows of strength.  In video footage circulated online, two far-right demonstrators stood in front of a mural dedicated to Ramelli. Later in the clip, which has been viewed more than 3.2 million times, fascists shouted and raised their hands in …

Tribeca Festival 2024 Sets ‘Footloose,’ ‘Mean Streets’ Screenings

Tribeca Festival 2024 Sets ‘Footloose,’ ‘Mean Streets’ Screenings

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The Tribeca Festival has set its talks, reunions and retrospective screenings for its 2024 edition. The festival’s Storytellers series will feature talks with Judd Apatow, Andy Cohen, Kieran Culkin, Michael Stipe, Laverne Cox, Kerry Washington in conversation with Nicole Avant and Jon Batiste celebrating Nat King Cole with author and music journalist Marcus J. Moore. And its Directors series will feature a conversation between director Gus Van Sant and Vito Schnabel, whom Van Sant recently directed in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans. Tribeca will also celebrate the 50th and 40th anniversaries of Mean Streets and , respectively, with screenings of both films followed by conversations with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Nas after Mean Streets and Kevin Bacon after Footloose. Steven Spielberg is also bringing a 50th anniversary screening of his theatrical debut, The Sugarland Express, to Tribeca and will participate in a conversation after the screening. And the festival will continue this year’s 25th anniversary celebration of the premiere of The Sopranos with a Beacon Theatre screening of the documentary Wise Guy directed …

Wall Street’s ugly April gets even worse at the finish

Wall Street’s ugly April gets even worse at the finish

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NEW YORK —  More worries about inflation and interest rates staying high knocked U.S. stocks lower on Tuesday as the market closed out its worst month since September. The Standard & Poor’s 500 tumbled 1.6% to cement its first losing month in the last six. Its momentum slammed into reverse in April, falling as much as 5.5% at one point, after setting a record at the end of March. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 570 points, or 1.5%, and the Nasdaq composite lost 2%. Stocks began sinking as soon as trading began, after a report showed U.S. workers won bigger gains in wages and benefits than expected during the first three months of the year. While that’s good news for workers and the latest signal of a solid job market, it feeds into worries that upward pressure remains on the economy and inflation. It followed a string of reports this year that have shown inflation remains stubbornly high. That has caused traders to largely give up on hopes that the Federal Reserve will deliver multiple …

How an ancient water tunnel design is cooling 21st-century streets | Water News

How an ancient water tunnel design is cooling 21st-century streets | Water News

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Last summer, temperatures in the southern Spanish city of Seville hit more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The heatwave was so intense it earned itself a name: Heatwave Yago, the city’s second named event in two years. Seville, among other cities in Europe and around the world, is facing temperatures that it was not built to handle. In the summer of 2022, extreme heat melted railway lines and airport tarmac in London, England. In July 2023, Germans started considering midday siestas to escape the sweltering heat. As temperatures soar, cities accustomed to cooler temperatures are seeking ways to adapt that avoid relying on energy-intensive solutions like air conditioning. A small research group in Seville is taking inspiration from ancient Middle Eastern cultures that learned to live with the heat before electricity could provide respite. Some see their efforts as honouring the wisdom of ancient thinkers, while others say that these old systems are far more than a technology – they reflect a mindset of sustainability that today’s world is desperately trying to resurrect. …

Real life of Coronation Street’s Bernie Winter actress Jane Hazlegrove

Real life of Coronation Street’s Bernie Winter actress Jane Hazlegrove

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Bernie Winter’s past is set to come back to haunt her in Coronation Street as she deals with the decline of her son Paul Foreman. As viewers of the ITV soap know, the character, played by Jane Hazlegrove, is heartbreaking witnessing the deterioration of her son following his Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis last year. Paul discovered the heartbreaking news that he had the fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, in scenes aired in April 2023. The former builder, who only discovered anything was wrong after he was accidentally knocked over by Carla Connor in her Underworld van when she had been unknowingly drugged with LSD by Stephen Reid, kept the news from his loved ones. However, the devastating news soon came spilling out and the family have since been rallying around Paul as the symptoms of the life-limiting disease progress. Soon, Paul’s dad, Denny, will come back into their lives after hearing his son is dying via a radio interview he does with Amy Barlow. READ MORE: Coronation Street fans …