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18 Sep

Faces of transgender people adorn an artwork in London’s Trafalgar Square

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LONDON -- An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people went on display Wednesday in London’s Trafalgar Square, where their features will be worn away by London’s wind and rain over the next 18 months.Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ “Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)” is a 3.3-metric-ton (3.6-US-ton) cube covered in face masks of 726 trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people. It's the latest artwork placed atop the “ Fourth Plinth, ” a large stone pedestal in the central London square.Margolles, who trained as a forensic pathologist and once worked in a…
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17 Sep

Festival season starts in Nepal with devotees honoring a living goddess

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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal’s monthslong festival season began on Tuesday with tens of thousands of devotees pulling a wooden chariot with a young girl revered as a living goddess. Families gathered for feasts and lit incense for the dead at shrines. Men and boys in colorful masks and gowns representing Hindu deities danced to traditional music and drums, drawing throngs of spectators to Kathmandu's old streets.The Indra Jatra festival marks the end of the monsoon and rice farming season and signals the dawn of fall. It's celebrated mostly by the Newar community, the native residents of Kathmandu. It is also…
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06 Sep

Autoworkers learn sign language hoping connection with deaf colleagues improves work and lives

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LONDON -- One doesn’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the barriers posed by his deafness.When asked what he thought of his teammates’ decision to learn British Sign Language, the 45-year-old autoworker at the Nissan plant in Sunderland, England, grinned and flashed a universal symbol: Two thumbs up.Connolly loves having the chance to banter with his workmates, to talk about everyday things — the kids, vacation plans, a TV program. And now he can, because the entire 25-member bumper-paint team at Sunderland started learning BSL at the beginning…
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05 Sep

Italy approves new rules to put beach concessions up for bidding by 2027

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ROME -- Italy approved new rules late Wednesday to put lucrative concessions for beach clubs up for bidding by June 2027, responding to pressing demands from the EU to open up the sector to new players.Under the new legislation by the right-wing government led by Giorgia Meloni, existing beach licenses would remain valid until September 2027.The deadline could be further postponed to March 2028 if there are “objective reasons” to delay the tender process, the government said.The compromise seeks to address complaints by existing operators who risk losing their concessions and would be entitled to compensation paid by the new…
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04 Sep

Wearing prosthetics, Ukraine war veterans take to the runway as fashion week returns

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KYIV, Ukraine -- Fashion shows have returned to Ukraine with a striking statement: war veterans — both men and women — walking the runway with prosthetic limbs.Ukrainian Fashion Week is being held for the first time since the start of the full-scale war in February 2022, with the headline event on Tuesday in Kyiv featuring these veterans.As attendees applauded the models, dressed by Ukrainian designers Andreas Moskin and Andriy Bilous, news broke that dozens of people were killed in a Russian missile strike at a military training facility and a nearby hospital in Poltava, about 350 kilometers (200 miles) southeast…
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01 Sep

AP PHOTOS: Beijing’s imperial palace bustles with throngs of visitors in Qing dynasty costumes

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BEIJING, China -- In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of visitors wearing historical costumes pose for portraits, in a fashion of centuries gone by. It’s a phenomenon seen around heritage sites across China, inspired by comic book conventions and the Japanese passion for cosplay, but with additional nationalistic and cultural dimensions. Though the historical veracity of the frocks and cloaks may not be guaranteed, they draw their inspiration from Chinese painting, theater and art, especially that of the Qing, China’s last dynasty that…
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29 Aug

AP PHOTOS: Partial reopening of the Rubens House in Antwerp gives glimpse of painter’s life

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ANTWERP, Belgium -- The city palace of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens is partly reopening this weekend, allowing Antwerp to show off the life and work of perhaps its most famous citizen. The Rubens House may not have as many paintings as Madrid's Prado museum or the canvas surface spread around the port city's Cathedral of Our Lady. But if there is any place that Rubens himself felt more at home, it was his own house in Antwerp looking out over his garden. While the core of the house remains closed until at least 2030 for ongoing renovations, the dazzling…
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National Dengue Day 2024: Date, History, Significance, and Essential Information.
15 May

National Dengue Day 2024: Date, History, Significance, and Essential Information.

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National Dengue Day 2024: Raising Awareness and Combating Dengue FeverThe History of National Dengue DayUnderstanding Dengue FeverThe Significance of National Dengue DayGlobal Impact and StatisticsPrevention and Control StrategiesThe Role of Technology and InnovationLooking Ahead: The Future of Dengue ControlConclusion National Dengue Day 2024: Raising Awareness and Combating Dengue Fever Every year on May 16, National Dengue Day is a noteworthy occasion dedicated to promoting public awareness of dengue fever, a virus spread by mosquitoes that is particularly dangerous for public health in tropical and subtropical areas. This day is devoted to spreading awareness among the public regarding dengue prevention, symptoms,…
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