The first song Rostam Batmanglij ever learned to play on guitar was Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode, the quintessentially American rock’n’roll hit about being an American rock’n’roll star. “It doesn’t get more American than that,” he says, with a smile. The 42-year-old superproducer (Frank Ocean, Charli xcx, Carly Rae Jepsen) and former Vampire Weekend member…
In Euronews Culture’s review of the film Kneecap, the award-winning biopic about the rise to fame of the Belfast rap trio, we called the comedy “fun, raucous and heartfelt”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The same could be said about their new album, ‘Fenian’ – but we’d add ‘scathing’, ‘layered’, and ‘very foul-mouthed’. Indeed, if Martin Scorsese’s The…
(RNS) — More Muslim women across the United States are turning to the courts to challenge prison and police policies that force them to remove their hijabs for booking photos, arguing the practice violates their religious freedom and leaves them exposed to lasting harm. In the last two months, at least five such cases have…
Published on 28/04/2026 – 15:26 GMT+2 What a difference a few hours make… ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Following calls for his firing from The White House and Melania Trump, US talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel has defended a joke he made, in which he called the First Lady an “expectant widow” just days before the recent shooting incident…
Published On 23 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 Three professors at Atlanta’s Emory University in the United States have filed a lawsuit over their arrests during a 2024 campus protest over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Their lawsuit on Thursday argued that the university broke its own free-speech policies when it called in police and state…
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Shorouk Express Protesters flooded Spain’s southern city of Seville on Sunday as public outrage grows over failings that led to hundreds of women not receiving the results of breast cancer screenings. The southern Andalusia region’s conservative-run government said the scandal affected at least 2,300 women who had mammograms in public hospitals in recent years. All…
Shorouk Express Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Spain’s eastern city of Valencia on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of floods that killed 229 people, and to denounce the handling of the disaster. Demonstrators, many carrying photos of the victims, called on regional leader Carlos Mazon to resign over what…
Shorouk Express Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barcelona and other Spanish cities on Thursday to denounce Israel’s interception of a pro-Palestinian aid flotilla bound for Gaza. Columns of demonstrators, many waving Palestinian flags, converged on the central Plaza de les Drassanes from multiple parts of Spain’s second-largest city. Protesters chanted slogans including…
