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Washington (AFP) - A leading American university was sued Wednesday over a disinformation campaign allegedly financed by the United Arab Emirates, accused of seeding false narratives that linked academics to a radical group in the Middle East. Farid Hafez, an Austrian political scientist, filed the $10 million lawsuit against George Washington University and Lorenzo Vidino, the director of its program on extremism. It's the second such case in US courts this year that sheds light on what researchers call a lucrative "disinformation for hire" industry that peddles false information and influenc...
AFP
Tl;drLe proviseur du lycée Maurice Ravel à Paris quitte ses fonctions.Il avait été menacé de mort sur Internet suite à un incident concernant un voile.La raison officielle de son départ n’est pas confirmée par le rectorat.Deux hommes ont été interpellés dans le cadre de l’enquête sur les menaces.Menaces de mort : le proviseur du lycée Maurice Ravel à Paris contraint de quitter son posteLe proviseur de la cité scolaire Maurice Ravel à Paris, dont l’identité n’a pas été révélée, a récemment quitté ses fonctions suite à une série de menaces de mort reçues sur Internet. Il faut noter que ces menac...
24 Matins FR
Under the proposal, presented on Wednesday, universities from EU countries would team up to offer joint study programmes at Bachelor, Master or Doctoral levels that would then result in EU-branded degrees recognised across the bloc. The scheme would be open to private and public institutions in EU member states, with the potential for universities in Erasmus+ partner countries to also join. European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas said while unveiling the plans that he was "convinced" the European Degree was the "next big thing" in terms of making the benefits of European integrat...
Euronews (English)
UK-born, Jamaica-based educator, writer and theatre director Brian Heap. Photo previously supplied by Heap; used with permission. On March 24, England-born educator and stalwart of Jamaican theatre Brian Heap died at the age of 73. The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reported that he “had been quietly ailing since September last year [and] passed away while in hospice care.” Heap is being mourned by many in Jamaica’s theatre world and beyond. In 2020, he was selected as the Caribbean regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his powerful story of grief and family entitled...
Global Voices
Tl;drUne enquête a été ouverte par le parquet de Saint-Etienne pour menaces de mort et port d’armes dans une école.Un enfant de huit ans est soupçonné d’avoir proféré des menaces de mort.Deux couteaux à steak ont été retrouvés dans son cartable.L’enfant, qui nie les accusations, sera soumis à des expertises psychologiques et psychiatriques.Un acte consternantLa ville de Saint-Etienne a été le théâtre d’un déplorable incident. Le parquet de la ville vient d’ouvrir une enquête pour ” menaces de mort, port d’armes et introduction d’armes dans une enceinte scolaire”, a indiqué David Charmatz, le p...
24 Matins FR
An art teacher in Quebec, Canada has been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit for allegedly selling his students' homework online. Parents of 10 junior high students are suing the instructor, Mario Perron, as well as the school board in Saint-Lazare, for $1.5 million dollars, Knewz.com has learned. In January, Perron assigned 96 classmates at Westwood Junior High School to draw each other in the style of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for an assignment titled "Creepy Portraits." After turning in their projects in February, some of the students stumbled upon Perron's website and alle...
Knewz (UK)
An art teacher in Quebec, Canada has been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit for allegedly selling his students' homework online. Parents of 10 junior high students are suing the instructor, Mario Perron, as well as the school board in Saint-Lazare, for $1.5 million dollars, Knewz.com has learned. In January, Perron assigned 96 classmates at Westwood Junior High School to draw each other in the style of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for an assignment titled "Creepy Portraits." After turning in their projects in February, some of the students stumbled upon Perron's website and alle...
Knewz (CA)
An art teacher in Quebec, Canada has been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit for allegedly selling his students' homework online. Parents of 10 junior high students are suing the instructor, Mario Perron, as well as the school board in Saint-Lazare, for $1.5 million dollars, Knewz.com has learned. In January, Perron assigned 96 classmates at Westwood Junior High School to draw each other in the style of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for an assignment titled "Creepy Portraits." After turning in their projects in February, some of the students stumbled upon Perron's website and alle...
Knewz
After its launch was aborted seconds before schedule on Thursday, March 21, the Russian Soyuz Capsule took off on Saturday, March 24, bound for the International Space Station with three crew members on board. Knewz.com has learned that the Soyuz Capsule blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 5:36 p.m. local time and slipped into orbit eight minutes and 45 seconds later. Onboard the spacecraft are two short-duration crew members, namely, Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy and Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, along with NASA veteran astronaut Tracy Dyson, who is bound ...
Knewz
After its launch was aborted seconds before schedule on Thursday, March 21, the Russian Soyuz Capsule took off on Saturday, March 24, bound for the International Space Station with three crew members on board. Knewz.com has learned that the Soyuz Capsule blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 5:36 p.m. local time and slipped into orbit eight minutes and 45 seconds later. Onboard the spacecraft are two short-duration crew members, namely, Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy and Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, along with NASA veteran astronaut Tracy Dyson, who is bound ...
Knewz (UK)
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