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UNESCO declared Manx Gaelic extinct in 2009. Years later, a letter from a primary school on the Isle of Man proved them wrong, so the organisation took a step back and set up a new category: revitalised languages.
When 97-year-old fisherman Ned Maddrell died in 1974, his native language, Manx Gaelic, died with him.
US First Lady Jill Biden arrived in Kenya on Friday, kicking off a visit aimed at focusing attention on the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in decades.
Five straight seasons of poor rainfall have killed millions of livestock, destroyed crops and left some 22 million people at risk of hunger in Ethiopia,
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain and the European Union are inching towards concluding talks on revising post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and an agreement is possible, but by no means guaranteed, in the coming days, Ireland’s prime minister said on Saturday. “I think the talks on reforming the (Northern Ireland) protocol are inching towards a conclusion.
Four people were arrested for the murder and dismemberment of model and influencer Abby Choi after parts of her body were found in a Hong Kong rental unit, local police said Saturday. Choi’s ex-husband, 28-year-old Alex Kwong, was arrested early Saturday afternoon at a ferry terminal on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Philippine protesters rallied on Saturday to mark the 37th anniversary of the “People Power” revolution, which ousted President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s dictator father and sent the family into exile.
It was the first commemoration of the uprising since Marcos Jr took office in June 2022. He has praised his father’s 20-year regime, which critics describe as a dark period of human rights abuses and corruption that left the country impoverished.
By William James LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is on the cusp of a deal with the European Union to tackle trade and political disruption in Northern Ireland caused by Brexit, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday, but it is unclear whether that will satisfy eurosceptic critics. More than a year of stop-start and sometimes rancorous negotiations between London and Brussels on an overhaul of the 2020 EU exit deal look to be coming to a conclusion,
The lack of women nominees was a talking point on Friday at the Cesar Awards, France’s answer to the Oscars, despite the top prize going to a film focusing on femicide.
Best Film went to “The Night of the 12th”, a thriller based on the true story of a young woman’s murder.
There was a spot of Hollywood glitz thanks to a surprise cameo by Brad Pitt,
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Thousands gathered in cities throughout Mexico on Sunday to protest against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s drive to shrink the independent electoral authority, arguing the changes threaten democracy – an accusation he vigorously denies.
Mexico’s Congress last week approved a major overhaul of the National Electoral Institute (INE), which Lopez Obrador has repeatedly attacked as corrupt and inefficient.
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain and the European Union are inching towards concluding talks on revising post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and an agreement is possible, but by no means guaranteed, in the coming days, Ireland’s prime minister said on Saturday. “I think the talks on reforming the (Northern Ireland) protocol are inching towards a conclusion.
ROME (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants died on Sunday after they were shipwrecked off southern Italy, the latest such disaster. The United Nations has registered more than 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Mediterranean since 2014, making it the most dangerous migrant crossing in the world. Here is a timeline of some of the worst shipwrecks in the zone over the past eight years,
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