Một vụ việc gây xôn xao tại Pháp đang khiến nhiều người choáng váng khi cơ quan khí tượng nước này nghi ngờ cảm biến nhiệt độ tại sân bay Charles de Gaulle đã bị can thiệp nhằm thao túng các kèo cược trên nền tảng Polymarket, nơi người chơi có thể cá cược cả… thời tiết.This portrait of everyday life in an Istanbul neighbourhood buffeted by change has far wider relevance
Thankfully, the attack left only black eyes and bloodied faces. It was in Karagümrük, a tough neighbourhood in Istanbul’s old city, once known for mafia types and Turks on the hard right. But, as Suzy Hansen explains, it had been transformed by an influx of Syrian refugees – until the locals apparently decided they’d had enough, and came for them with sticks, baseball bats and knives for carving doner kebab.
So begins From Life Itself, in which Hansen traces a story that illuminates a politics of mass migration and nationalist backlash that has resonances far beyond Turkey. It is a more ambitious book than that, too. An American who lived in Istanbul and visited Karagümrük for more than a decade – during which Turkey’s enfeebled democracy came under ever more sustained assault – she hoped to convey “how ordinary people experience authoritarianism in the 21st century – how our era feels”.
Một phụ nữ mất tích tại Mexico suýt khiến công tác tìm kiếm đi vào ngõ cụt chỉ vì những bức ảnh mạng xã hội đã bị chỉnh sửa quá "ảo".