Macklemore has announced that he is cancelling one of his upcoming shows. The 41-year-old “Thrift Shop” rapper was scheduled to perform at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on October 4, 2024. However, on Saturday (August 24), Macklemore announced that he was cancelling the show due to the UAE’s involvement in the Sudan War. Keep reading to find …
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Here are the main developments as the war enters its 911th day. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 24, 2024. Diplomacy and aid: The United States has announced a new round of military assistance to Ukraine, following a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden. The package would be worth $125m and Biden said …
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Polio has resurfaced in Gaza for the first time in 25 years, thriving in the same conditions in which people are dying. The first case was confirmed Friday in a 10-month-old unvaccinated child in Deir al-Balah, the enclave’s health authorities have said; the World Health Organization announced last month that the virus had been initially detected in wastewater in the …
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When operating at its best, war cinema is the most powerful and arresting film genre on account of its enormous spectacle, its inherent moral ambiguity, and the urgency it attains by exploring real events. Such is the scope and thematic heft of many war movies, a lot of the major stars can sometimes go, if not unnoticed, then overshadowed at …
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If you’re planning to return to Azeroth when the new World of Warcraft expansion The War Within launches on August 26 (or you’ve already jumped into the early access period this week), you should consider equipping yourself with an MMO mouse. To be clear, almost every mouse will work for general MMO gameplay, and most devices marketed as “MMO mice” …
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic legendarium is back on the big screen this December, in a way that we’ve never seen Middle-Earth before — as an anime film. Finally, we’ve now got the first trailer for “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” Kenji Kamiyama‘s bold new vision of that sword-and-sorcery universe, executive produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, …
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 22nd, 2024. In today’s article, we continue to bear witness to the slow yet clear decline of Switch releases in this eighth year. It’s Thursday, but we don’t even have a dozen games worth mentioning today. Even among the ones we have, there isn’t anything that is jumping out. …
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out accepting a ceasefire proposal that includes ending the war in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday. The report comes after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Israeli leader on Monday to discuss efforts to reduce tensions and reach an agreement on a ceasefire and release of hostages. Blinken claimed …
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A Pro-Palestine protester confronts police at Park #578 outside of the United Center as the Democratic National Convention (DNC) takes place in Chicago, Illinois. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP) Thousands of protesters demonstrated the Gaza war outside the Democratic convention. They called for the party to change its platform of supporting Israel. They broke through a security barrier. Thousands of mostly peaceful …
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As the war enters its 906th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 19, 2024. Fighting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time stated the aim of Ukraine’s August 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the operation was necessary to create a buffer zone. Ukrainian Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said the …
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