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Ukraine-US talks in Geneva on Thursday ‘preparation for trilateral meeting with Russia’, Zelenskyy says – Europe live

Ukrainian president says trilateral meeting with with Russia expected in early March

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Am I listening to the Sanremo playlist on loop though?

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Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’

Davidson said he was distraught over slurs he shouted during the award ceremony but stressed outbursts are a ‘neurological misfire’ and no reflection of his values
With N-word incident, Bafta has shot itself in the foot
Why the Baftas must pivot to broadcasting live

John Davidson, the Tourette syndrome (TS) activist at the centre of the Baftas N-word controversy, says that Bafta and the BBC “should have been aware of what to expect” from TS, and that he had been told that any offensive words would be removed.

In an interview with Variety, Davidson said that Bafta had told him and the film’s backers StudioCanal “that any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast”. He said: “I have made four documentaries with the BBC in the past, and feel that they should have been aware of what to expect from Tourette’s and worked harder to prevent anything that I said – which, after all, was some 40 rows back from the stage – from being included in the broadcast.”

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COO of Atlanta museum featured in ‘Black Panther’ and ‘The Resident’ resigns after $600K allegedly stolen: reports

The chief operating officer of the High Museum of Art – an institution that featured in “The Resident” and “Black Panther”  – has resigned after $600,000 was allegedly stolen, according to reports. Brady Lum allegedly stole the funds over three to four years and a probe into the missing money was launched in early December...

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Carson Jerema: Canada too polite to tell Alberta separatists to quit it

EDMONTON — The last time there was a declaration of independence in the West, Canada sent the military in to squash the violent rebellion, whose leader, Louis Riel, was justly hanged for treason. This is how a serious country, governed by serious people, deals with threats of its dismemberment. Though the consequences of Riel's execution in 1885 are felt to this day, most acutely in the cleavages between Canada's founding peoples, Sir John A. Macdonald could hardly have acted differently. A fledgling country, not 20 years old at the time, would not have survived if it did not assert its sovereignty. Read More
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