🎲  OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ

What do you keep in mind from the information this week?

1. Moscow’s FSB safety service arrested a reporter from which main U.S. publication?

2. Where did King Charles III go on his first abroad journey as monarch?

3. What nation awoke in two completely different time zones amid a clock change dispute?

4. Amsterdam led an advert marketing campaign aimed to maintain away…: Noisy geese / Rowdy Brits / Garish garments / Smelly fish

[Answers at the bottom of this newsletter]

#️⃣  TRENDING

A pretend tweet from a Twitter Blue verified account raised fears on-line after the capturing in Nashville Monday that killed six folks, together with three youngsters. The tweet reveals an obvious screenshot of one other tweet despatched out by Nashville’s WSMV-TV station, attributing a quote to the daddy of one of many youngsters who was killed Monday.

The quote is fake, and WSMV by no means despatched out the tweet. The pretend quote claims the dad or mum of a sufferer stated they might “fight with every fiber of my being” to finish “trans evil.” The tweet was seen over 130,000 instances earlier than it was eliminated.

🎭  5 CULTURE THINGS TO KNOW

• In memoriam: This week the tradition world has mourned the deaths of outstanding Ethiopian composer and nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a.ok.a. “the piano queen,” who died at 99; British TV presenter and comic Paul O’Grady; American artwork patron Emily Fisher Landau, who had began one in every of United States’ premier collections of up to date artwork, and British lyricist Keith Reid, the songwriter behind Procol Harum’s famed “A Whiter Shade of Pale.”

• Agatha Christie’s novels edited to take away doubtlessly offensive language: Several novels by the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie, have been revised to take away references to gender and race that might be thought-about offensive, in new editions revealed by HarperCollins. These are the newest traditional works, after Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming’s books, to bear such modifications.

• Paris garbage strikes encourage French avenue artist: National strikes in France brought on by President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform have impacted public companies, together with rubbish assortment in Paris. Street artist Bisk has discovered a solution to make the most effective of the piles of garbage accumulating within the streets by turning them into monsters with graffitied eyes, polystyrene or picket smiles or a repurposed pink slide for a tongue.

• BLACKPINK Jisoo’s 1st solo single hits document preorders: South Korean singer and actress Jisoo, a member of woman band BLACKPINK, has set a new record for a Okay-pop feminine soloist by promoting greater than 1.24 million pre-ordered copies of her first single.

• Priyanka Chopra on why she left Bollywood: Indian actress Priyanka Chopra has revealed for the primary time in an interview that she left Bollywood to pursue a profession within the U.S. as a result of she felt she was “pushed into a corner” and had “a beef” with folks within the Indian movie trade, which meant she was not getting forged for roles.

🐋 BRIGHT IDEA

Getting caught in fishing gear is likely one of the major threats to the survival of Atlantic wales. A Quebec invention could now reduce this risk of mortality. Quebec University and the Merinov utilized analysis middle, specializing within the area of fishing, have developed a “weak link” system that causes the cable connected to the snow crabs fishermen’s crates to interrupt if a whale will get entangled.

“What is innovative with this technology is that these weak links can withstand high tensions when fishermen raise their traps, but when the whale puts tension on the rope when it is stuck, the India has welcomed its first newborn cheetahs, almost 70 years after the big cats were declared extinct in India, back in 1952. The birth of the four cubs, which took place at Kuno National Park wildlife sanctuary, was hailed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, who called it “wonderful news” on Twitter.,” explains Jérôme Laurent, industrial researcher at Merinov.

⏩  LOOKING AHEAD 

• Following his indictment by a New York grand jury in reference to an alleged hush cash fee to porn star Stormy Daniels, former U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday.

• French unions have known as for an eleventh day of national strikes on Thursday to protest in opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform.

• NASA will announce on Monday the names of the 4 astronauts who will participate in Artemis II — the primary Moon mission in additional than 50 years.