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Maxime Lucu to replace Antoine Dupont for France’s Six Nations opener

[ad_1] Paris – Scrumhalf Maxime Lucu will start France's Six Nations opener against Ireland this week, as the French begin the campaign without talismanic captain Antoine Dupont, head coach Fabien Galthie said on Wednesday. Lucu will stand in for Dupont as the former World Rugby Player of the Year misses the tournament in order to prepare to play Rugby Sevens at this year's Paris Olympics. The 31-year-old will partner Bordeaux-Begles […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

‘Everything, Everywhere’: Contemplative drama speaks to lonely drifters

[ad_1] Japanese filmmakers have been shooting abroad for decades but typically on studio projects that use their foreign settings as exotic backdrops.Kah Wai Lim, a Malaysian director who has long been based on Osaka, makes indie films that are the very definition of borderless, including his Balkan trilogy: “No Where, Now Here” (2018), “Somewhen, Somewhere” (2019) and his latest, “Everything, Everywhere.”Shot with a skeleton crew and using local non-professionals to […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

‘Sono Kodo ni Mimi o Ateyo’: An absorbing dive into pressures of the ER

[ad_1] Television dramas have been an effective recruitment tool for hospitals — and emergency rooms in particular. From George Clooney in “ER” to Ryohei Suzuki in “Tokyo MER,” successive generations of TV doctors and nurses have brought an aura of glamor to a profession more often defined by endless night shifts, impossible workloads and lousy pay.Early on during Takuro Adachi’s “Sono Kodo ni Mimi wo Ateyo” (which translates to “listen […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Africa

How surfing is challenging tradition in a Ghanaian town

[ad_1] Sandy Alibo is the founder of Surf Ghana,, external an organisation which uses action sports to empower and educate young people and supports the building of a sustainable surfing infrastructure.However beautifully Busua's story is told, she says Ghana's surf scene depends on cold, hard numbers."In the village, they see money first," she says."Life is really difficult. People can earn 400-500 cedis (£26-£32) a month. The priority of every parent […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

Japan Times 1924: Rescue workers toiling to save eighteen lives

[ad_1] 100 YEARS AGOTuesday, Feb. 12, 1924Strenuous efforts are being made by willing workers to reach the eighteen men trapped a mile in from the entrance by the caving of the Tanna railway tunnel on Sunday. It is the hope of the rescue workers that the men are still alive and will be reached in time to snatch them from death, although the best that can be hoped for that […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

Developing countries should reject American-style protectionism

[ad_1] Project Syndicate – For nearly 50 years after the end of World War II, the United States led the effort to liberalize global trade through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.In 1994, the U.S. rallied 123 countries to sign a multilateral treaty establishing the World Trade Organization, which subsumed GATT while expanding its scope to cover services trade and intellectual property.Paradoxically, America’s current industrial policy poses an existential […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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