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Award-winning actor slammed for ‘completely insensitive’ response to abuse allegations

Lawyers representing two women who made sexual abuse allegations against actor James Franco have condemned “completely insensitive” remarks he made in an interview defending himself against the claims. In a statement released to US media outlets on Thursday, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal accused Franco of being “blind about power dynamics” and having run a […]

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‘Naive is an understatement’: German safety official tells RT that risk of electric vehicle fires is ‘completely unaddressed’

A series of fires involving electric buses is calling into question Germany’s reliance on these zero-emissions vehicles. “The risk of these fires,” safety regulator Heinrich Duepmann told RT, “is completely unaddressed.” Europe is experiencing a green transport boom. Sales have quadrupled since 2018, and one in every ten new vehicles sold on the continent is […]

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WATCH: Protests hit major European port of Trieste amid threats to block it completely over Italy’s mandatory Green pass

Several thousand people staged a rally at the port of Trieste on Friday to protest the Italian government’s decision to make coronavirus health passes mandatory for all workers, which went into force on that day. The port of Trieste, which is the seventh-largest in Europe and a key oil terminal in the Mediterranean, remained functional […]

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UNICEF urges schools to completely reopen, as millions of kids’ educations still disrupted by Covid after 18 months of pandemic

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic 18 months ago, the schools of millions of children worldwide remain almost totally closed, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said, urging institutions to reopen. In an urgent warning released on Thursday, the organization said schools for almost 77 million students in six nations are still nearly […]