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Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesChristopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon are the top nominees for the 96th Academy Awards. Oppenheimer received 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Scorsese’s…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 4 minutesChapter 1: The Celestial Awakening In the quiet solitude of the night, when the stars were shining their brightest, an otherworldly presence began to stir. Unknown to the world, a celestial being had come to…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the Ivory Coast for taking a less militarized approach to security during his visit to rally African democracies. Blinken applauded the Ivory Coast’s stance against the coup in…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 2 minutesMore than 4,000 paintings were destroyed in a fire that engulfed the Central Exhibition Hall in Abkhazia’s capital, Sukhumi. The fire started on the roof and was likely caused by an electrical fault. The acting…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesIsrael has approved a plan to send taxes earmarked for Gaza to Norway instead of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The taxes have been frozen by Israel since November, and now they will be sent to…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesChina’s human rights record was criticized and defended during a United Nations review meeting. Western countries criticized Beijing for its treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang and restrictions in Hong Kong, while non-Western states agreed with…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesUkrainian officials are proposing additional terms and conditions to resolve the conflict with Russia, including the complete liberation and restoration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders. They believe that only after these conditions are met can preventive…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesGermany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that state funding can be cut off from the far-right Homeland party (Die Heimat) even though it is not banned. The court justified its decision by stating that Die Heimat…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 3 minutesLeaders in the European Union are divided on how to interpret the preliminary verdict from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Staunch allies of Israel, such as Germany,…
Reading Time (200 word/minute): 2 minutesMembers of the Russian Communist Party gathered at Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square on January 21 to commemorate the first leader of the Soviet Union, who died a century ago on that day. The…