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"The acquisition, announced Monday, is intended to give Alphabet’s Google access to more electricity for its data centers as aging US grids struggle to meet power demand that’s booming for the first time in decades thanks in part to artificial intelligence."

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Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant to dramatically expand its ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#PulseEurope #FGM

For French pioneer healers, female genital mutilation is part of the ‘continuum of sexual violence’

Reportage at the Réparons l’excision unit, near Paris: an experimental project that takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to the issue of FGM

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December 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The European Cartoon Awards marked the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Prize-winning cartoonists & journalists warned that satire is increasingly being perceived as a security threat, both by authoritarian regimes and within democracies. Photo: PhotograVera
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European Cartoon Award 2025 highlights rising threats to cartoonists and free expression
As the European Cartoon Awards marked the tenth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack, prize-winning cartoonists and journalists warned that satire is increasingly being perceived as a security thre...
voxeurop.eu
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Yumi, le documentaire qui a porté la voix des étudiants du Vunuatu jusqu'au prix Nobel alternatif
Yumi, le documentaire qui a porté la voix des étudiants du Vunuatu jusqu'au prix Nobel alternatif
En juillet 2025, un mouvement étudiant des îles du Pacifique a remporté le prestigieux prix pour avoir obtenu un avis consultatif de la Cour internationale de justice de La Haye sur l'obligation légale des États membres de l'ONU de prévenir et d'atténuer le changement climatique.
fr.euronews.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Eastern European memory politics today: why numbers wars are bad diplomacy; the commodification of communism; Russia’s civic memory cult; Lukashenka’s ahistorical limbo. Review of @neweasterneurope.eu 6/2025 www.eurozine.com/between-comm...
Between commodity and cult
Eastern European memory politics today: why numbers wars are bad diplomacy; the commodification of communism; Russia’s civic memory cult; Lukashenka’s ahistorical limbo.
www.eurozine.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hebert Valley, and those from Bale Verte to Caraquet differ subtly in scope and function. Dykes built within river valleys to cope with spring floods were not the same as those built to face the daily onslaughts of Fundy tides.»

- The Contexts of Acadian History, Naomi Griffiths
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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«The techniques of marsh agriculture were part of Acadian life from beginning. As early as 1635 colonists who knew something about farming estuaries were sought out for Acadie & skills recorded in their contracts of migration.
While lands around Annapolis Royal were dyked,
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.

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Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Do we have a sovereign cultural policy or don’t we. That’s what this comes down to. The federal gov’s shrug faced with Alberta violating the Health Act with new private stream is not a good sign. Everything may be for sale.
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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🚨 High-risk #AI can impact #FundamentalRights in areas like education, jobs & social benefits.

Stronger assessments & oversight are needed to protect people & foster innovation.
Our latest report shows how!

🔗 See: link.europa.eu/KVQ4p3
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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More than 1,600 people have been killed in attacks on medical facilities and health care centers in war-torn Sudan so far this year, the UN health chief says.
Over 1,600 people have been killed in attacks on health centers in Sudan this year, WHO chief says
The WHO said gunmen killed at least 460 people at a hospital in el-Fasher, and abducted doctors and nurses.
nbcnews.to
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. Translation can be an antidote to this nihilism of borderlessness, writes @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/encounters-i...
Encounters in the borderlands
We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. As a reminder of difference and an op...
www.eurozine.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Ukrainians are rediscovering marginalized landscapes, histories and stories through grassroots resistance founded on loss, where language and naming reclaim cultural foundations. Kateryna Botanova via the Green European Journal www.eurozine.com/learning-fro...
Learning from erasure
Despite the uncertainty of recovery from ongoing war, Ukrainians are confronting Russian destruction and de-construction with daily acts of reconstruction. Marginalized landscapes, histories and stori...
www.eurozine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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If real progress on poverty is to be made in Canada, we must ensure that work pays enough to live with dignity, which includes increasing minimum wages and strengthening employment standards. #CDNpoli #CanadaSky #Poverty
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The key finding is that the working poor are the largest group among those in poverty, making up 42% of people who live in poor families. This suggests that work alone is not enough to escape poverty in Canada.
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the group’s founders, said the move was intended to “erase Pussy Riot from the minds of the Russian people.”
Moscow Court Labels Pussy Riot ‘Extremist’ Organization - The Moscow Times
Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday designated the exiled feminist protest group Pussy Riot an “extremist” organization, effectively banning its activities in Russia and putting anyone associat...
www.themoscowtimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Why inflation angst may temper Trump’s trade threats to Mexico, Canada
Why inflation angst may temper Trump’s trade threats to Mexico, Canada
As Trump floats pulling out of a trade deal with Mexico and Canada, officials on both sides of the border are betting the president won’t risk quashing a deal that has helped keep prices in check.
dlvr.it
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Of 111 measles cases reported in the state's northwest region, 105 people were unvaccinated and 3 were partially vacinnated, health officials said.
At least 254 quarantined in SC over 'accelerating' measles outbreak
Of 111 measles cases reported in the state's northwest region, 105 people were unvaccinated and 3 were partially vacinnated, health officials said.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM