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Austria’s Islamic headscarf ban in force as under-14s go back to school

Some teachers have expressed concerns about having to enforce the ban. The Green Party’s Sigi Maurer accused Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr, from the liberal NEOS, of “creating new conflicts and offloading them onto the teachers”. She said teachers were “already under enormous strain” and that Wiederkehr wanted to “foist the role of police officers onto…

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Ram Dass: Quote of the day by Ram Dass: “The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all…” What does the Harvard psychologist advise on stop chasing and start living

Quote of the day by Ram Dass (Photo: Ram Dass/ @BabaRamDass/ X) Ram Dass, who was born Richard Alpert, was a Harvard psychologist and a follower of Neem Karoli Baba, who became one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the modern era.In his discourses and talks, he encouraged people to move from an ego-driven…

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Indonesia fires: The volunteer firefighters risking their lives to defuse ‘carbon bombs’

Indonesia is in the throes of a wildfire catastrophe. Amid a so-called “Super El Niño” that has supercharged local drought conditions, thousands of active fire hotspots are spreading and multiplying across the country, fuelling a transnational haze crisis that is the region’s worst in more than a decade. But what makes Borneo’s fires particularly worrying…

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‘I climbed out of the emergency exit’: Woman recalls how she survived the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking that killed 20 and injured more than 100

Four decades later, the survivor says the memories of the hijacking remain vivid. Forty years ago, she was a 15-year-old girl travelling alone, returning to the US after a vacation in India. She had no idea that the flight home would become one of the most terrifying experiences of her life- or that the memory…

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Voters in key midterm races push back on data centers, and the U.S. strikes Iranian oil tankers: Weekend Rundown

Dawn Vogel, a Republican county supervisor in rural Iowa, doesn’t have a lot in common with the leading democratic socialists in Congress. But on this bit of policy they agree: Data centers are proliferating across the American landscape too fast. Vogel voted earlier this year for a moratorium that temporarily bans data centers from setting…

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