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In 2018, the curator Catherine Taft began researching an exhibition on ecofeminism, assuming it would be a retrospective on a philosophy that had fallen out of fashion. Ecofeminism emerged from environmental, feminist, social justice and antinuclear activism in the 1970s.The movement resists traditional systems of patriarchy and capitalism that it contends subjugate women and exploit nature. It advocates for embracing collaboration, recognizing humanity’s dependence on ecosystems and respecting all life as sacred.But in the 1990s, critics accused ecofeminism of stereotyping and falsely equating women and nature. The backlash caused the movement to go dormant. Then Taft noticed a shift. The…

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities in New Mexico announced Friday, after the couple were found dead in their home earlier this week.The cause of death is still under investigation. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza told reporters Friday the “manner and cause of death have not been determined” and the official results of the autopsy and toxicology reports are pending. The couple were discovered Wednesday afternoon by a caretaker, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. One of their dogs was also found dead. The sheriff’s office has said there were no apparent…

The San Francisco 49ers have reportedly reached an agreement on the first major trade of the NFL offseason. According to ESPN, All-Pro Deebo Samuel will head east and play for the Washington Commanders in 2025.The 49ers are expected to receive a fifth-round draft pick in exchange for the star wide receiver, per the report. Earlier this week at the NFL Scouting Combine, 49ers general manager John Lynch confirmed reports stating Samuel requested a trade. Lynch said the team planned to “honor” the request. Deebo Samuel of the San Francisco 49ers warms up before a game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in London for a major summit today on European defence, as leaders seek to set the conditions toward a lasting peace in Ukraine as Washington pulls back. Trudeau will join numerous European leaders at the summit, which is aimed at sorting out how to prevent Russia from taking further aggression following its invasion of Ukraine three years ago.Canada’s High Commissioner to the U.K., Ralph Goodale, said Saturday that the goal is securing “long-term security guarantees, that can make sure that the people of Ukraine can count on peace as their normal way of life and…

Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype, the pioneering Internet telecommunications and video call platform it bought nearly 14 years ago for $8.5 billion. “We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub,” already used by hundreds of millions of people at work, school and home,” Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at the Redmond, Washington-based software company, said on Friday in a statement. Microsoft in late 2012 scrapped its own instant-messaging tool, Messenger, after buying Skype the prior year. But in the more than decade since, services including FaceTime, Messenger and WhatsApp…

Last Friday, Hunter Schafer, the trans actress who starred in the HBO series “Euphoria,” posted an eight-and-a-half-minute video on TikTok revealing that she had just received a new passport with a male marker — nearly a decade after changing her gender marker to female on identity documents.“I was shocked,” Ms. Schafer said in the video. “I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen.”President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 that directed the federal government to recognize people only by the “immutable biological classification as either male or female” that they were assigned at birth. For trans,…

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has declared his wealth to authorities as part of an ongoing corruption and money laundering probe, the anti-graft agency said on Sunday (Mar 2), following the seizure of nearly US$40 million in assets allegedly linked to him. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said its investigation is focused on government publicity expenditure and procurement during the premiership of Ismail Sabri, who served as premier from August 2021 to November 2022. A representative for Ismail Sabri did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Anti-graft investigators questioned Ismail Sabri in January last year as…

In SummaryDigital transformation across Africa is accelerating e-governance. Verified data remarkably highlights South Africa’s 0.86 EGDI, Mauritius’s streamlined services, Tunisia’s rigorous reforms, and Rwanda’s innovative Irembo platform. Nations like Kenya, Egypt, and Morocco drive progress through extensive broadband, digital identity, and interoperable systems. Automation, digital identities, and interoperability are reducing bureaucracy and improving service efficiency across Africa’s digital governance systems.Deep Dive!!Governments across Africa are rewriting the playbook on public service delivery, and they’re doing it with digital power. Billions are flowing into broadband expansion, cybersecurity, and streamlined e-governance, accelerating a shift that once seemed decades away. This isn’t just modernization—it’s a digital takeover.…

European leaders scrambled on Sunday to salvage Ukraine’s relationship with the United States, after a bitter rupture last week between President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump. They pledged to assemble a European “coalition of the willing” to develop a plan for ending Ukraine’s war with Russia, which they hope could win the backing of a skeptical Mr. Trump.Gathering in London at the invitation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, the leaders vowed to bolster support for Ukraine. But they also expressed hope that Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Trump could repair their breach, underscoring Europe’s reluctance to cast off a…