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There’s something Aristotle said in his Poetics about the effective use of metaphor. Boiling it down, he observed that while coming up with metaphors takes genius, overstuffing your story with beautiful — but confusing — symbols doesn’t leave you with a timeless piece of art. Instead, you end up with “nothing but riddles or gibberish.”…

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States needs to get out of the war in Ukraine and that U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and U.S. President Joe Biden had no plan to do so. “Biden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can’t get us out. They…

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Premier Danielle Smith says she plans to reinforce the right to decide whether to receive a vaccination or other medical treatment in changes to the Alberta Bill of Rights. In an online video posted Tuesday, Smith said her government is to soon introduce legislation amending the document to ensure the right to make informed medical…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the United States to set out a “victory plan” to his closest ally this week, in an urgent attempt to influence White House policy on Ukraine’s war with Russia no matter who wins the U.S. elections in November. The Ukrainian leader has said he wants to present the plan to U.S. President Joe…

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At podium after podium during Sri Lanka’s presidential election campaign, Anura Kumara Dissanayake talked of the change he would bring to his debt-ridden country, which is mired in a fragile economic recovery. “We will defeat those who use the influence of their family, their wealth, the influence of government,” he told a large crowd on…

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Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli troops live on its…

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Three months after it was tabled in Parliament, the Liberal Party of Canada’s national director says he still hasn’t read a bombshell report that concluded one of his party’s nomination races had been affected by foreign interference by China. Testifying before the public inquiry into foreign interference Friday, Azam Ishmael initially told the inquiry he…

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Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country. As the country prepares for its first election since then, many say they’re still waiting for change. When Sri Lanka sank into economic collapse in 2022, people from various walks of life rallied to change a long-entrenched government they saw as responsible. The unprecedented island-wide public uprising they led was a…

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Israeli security services said on Thursday they had arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of involvement in an Iranian-backed assassination plot targeting prominent people, including the prime minister. A statement said the person was a businessman with connections in Turkey who had attended at least two meetings in Iran to discuss the possibility of assassinating…

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While addressing a crowd at the Eurasian Women’s Forum in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed government policy geared toward helping women achieve the ultimate balance — professional success while being the linchpin “of a large, large family.” He went on to joke that Russian women can manage it easily, and still remain “beautiful,…

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