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[...] @elonmusk – whose attacks on the British prime minister and senior politicians have become more scathing over the past week – has amplified or responded to a handful of X accounts that have posted extensively about the handling of historic sex crimes in the country.
@elonmusk 3).
They include [i.a.] @Visegrad24 [1] – an account with more than 1.2mn followers run by British-born South African-Pole @StefanTompson”
@realDonaldTrump is set to be sentenced Friday, after a jury convicted him of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to an adult-film actress during the 2016 election [1].”
@spectatorindex @arash_tehran @realDonaldTrump 2).
„The court turned down Trumpʼs last-minute bid to prevent his sentencing, scheduled for Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 in New York state court in Manhattan 10 days before his inauguration for his second term as president [2].”
@spectatorindex @arash_tehran @realDonaldTrump 3).
„Trump is now virtually certain to make history as the first convicted felon to become president [3].”
@Reuters @Shayan86 1).
„As harrowing details emerge of the last moments of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432, which crashed on Wednesday in Aktau, the flight crew who did their best to save the passengers until the last moment are being hailed as heroes.
@Reuters @Shayan86 2).
Azerbaijan Airlines published the names of the five crew members, identifying Igor Kshnyakin and Aleksandr Kalyaninov as pilots and Hokuma Aliyeva, Zulfugar Asadov and Aydan Rahimli as flight attendants.
@Reuters @Shayan86 3).
Captain Igor Kshnyakin, co-pilot Aleksandr Kalyaninov and purser Hokuma Aliyeva lost their lives in the crash landing, while the other two flight attendants, Zulfugar Asadov and Aidan Rahimli, reportedly survived and were being treated in hospital on Thurs.
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„Carol of the bells” [1] („Shchedryk” [2]) (c. 1901). Music by Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych (1877–1921) [3]. English text arranged by Peter Joseph Wilhousky (1902–1978) [4]. A 2016 performance of the piece by Canterbury Cathedral Choir (@CanterburyChora) [5] [6].
@ragipsoylu @azelin 1).
„Sources in the region say the Syrian [dictatorʼs] plane took off towards a Russian base in Syria, with US officials saying they believe he was heading for refuge in Moscow.
@ragipsoylu @azelin 2).
However there has been no confirmation of what happened after the flight took off, raising questions of his whereabouts.
@ragipsoylu @azelin 3).
A Syrian aeroplane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken by rebels, according to data from the Flightradar website.
@GrzegorOryginal 1).
„Tedd Got, a senior curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, has suggested that the work by August Friedrich Schenck (1828–1901) [1] may have taken inspiration from the 1872 book »The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals«,
@GrzegorOryginal 2).
in which Charles Darwin (1809–1882) argued emotions have biological originals, and that animals have similar emotions to humans. It has also been interpreted as a commentary on the cruelty of society, represented by the crowd of opportunistic crows [2].”