The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have said that they will review the competition after some delegations “didn’t respect the spirit of the rules”. The event at Malmo Arena in Sweden, where Nemo of Switzerland took home the trophy with the song The Code, was plagued by a number of controversies. The European Broadcasting […]
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California, New York in danger of seeing House delegations shrink further
California and New York could see their House delegations shrink on the basis of population trends, while delegations in the South could grow, according to an analysis of recent U.S. census data. The analysis by the Brennan Center projected that California would lose four of its 52 congressional districts in reapportionment, the once-in-a-decade process in […]
Ukraine at UN fires back at Russian delegation’s false claim of ‘repression’ of Russian language
The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, responded on Twitter on Dec. 19 to a fake claim spread by the Russian delegation after he addressed the UN in Spanish. “‘Es que no estoy curada*…,’ says Lucía, the heroine of the film by the outstanding Spaniard, Pedro Almodóvar, ‘Women on the Verge of […]