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Chilean director Felipe Galvez’s feature film debut, “The Settlers” or “Los colonos” in its native Spanish, tells a brutal story from Chile’s past. Set in 1893, it follows three horsemen on an expedition in Chile’s southernmost region, the Patagonian archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. The three men, a young Chilean native, an American mercenary, and a reckless British lieutenant, are hired by a wealthy landowner to delimit and reclaim the land the state has given him. The men murder Indigenous people from the Selk’nam tribe — nomads who survive by hunting the colonizers’ sheep. The Indigenous tribe members fight back, and a…

A glass jar filled with fine-grained black powder that slides along the walls of the jar, shining as factory lights fall on it as I roll the jar in my hand. The label on the jar says “black mass,” which sounds kind of cool, even mysterious. The powder inside contains valuable battery metals such as lithium, nickel and cobalt sourced from shredded EV batteries. The black mass could be key to the EU’s electric vehicle ambitions and help it catch up with China, the world leader in electric vehicle battery manufacturing and recycling. I am at an EV battery recycling plant run by Duesenfeld in northern Germany, in Wendeburg, just…

A 38-year-old from Germany has been arrested by Russian authorities after cannabis-laced gummy bears were allegedly discovered in his luggage. The man was held at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport and had flown in from Hamburg via Istanbul. What Russian authorities have said Customs officials said on Tuesday that they had found a 20-gram (0.035 ounces) pack of “Fink Green Goldbears” containing six gummy bears. The Russian authorities noted the bears had a “sharp smell.”  A rapid test revealed that the sweets contained tetrahydrocannabinol — or THC, the main ingredient found in cannabis — which is prohibited in Russia. “The man explained…

Legally Blonde actress Selma Blair has apologised for a social media post condemned as Islamophobic which “resulted in hurting countless people”.The 51-year-old reacted to a post by a supporter of immigration reform, Abraham Hamra, who had criticised Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush for voting against a measure banning anyone who took part in the 7 October attack on Israel from immigrating to the US. In her previous comment, now deleted and which attracted strong criticism, she had written: “Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroy minds. They know…

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto appeared poised to win Wednesday’s presidential election in a single round, according to unofficial tallies. Independent pollster Litbang Kompas said that Prabowo was leading with 59.84% of the vote, based on 50.7% of the votes counted at a sample of polling stations across the country. Meanwhile, pollster Poltracking showed Subianto leading with 59.77% and Cyrus Network-CSIS had him with 58.62%. His rivals, Anies Baswedan, the former governor of Jakarta, and Ganjar Pranowo from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, had just under 23% and 17.3%, respectively, according to Kompas. Private pollsters count the votes at a…

Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian warship off the coast of Crimea, Ukraine’s military claims.The Caesar Kunikov large landing ship was attacked by naval drones on Wednesday, Kyiv says, as videos emerged showing a column of smoke rising over the water. Ukraine’s military intelligence, known by its Ukrainian acronym GUR, said its special operations unit “Group 13” sank the Kunikov. The Russian military did not immediately comment on the claim, saying only that it downed six Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea overnight.It comes after Moscow’s ambassador to the UK insisted on Tuesday that “Russia cannot be beaten” because of its…

I was often sad or gloomy as a kid growing up in northern England, so much so that friends often said: “Keep your pecker up.”  It turns out this was very good advice — they were talking about my courage, enthusiasm, good spirits. But “pecker” is also English slang for penis — and a new study shows that regular erections — keeping your pecker up — are important for maintaining erectile function. The study, published in the journal Science, found that the number of fibroblasts in the penis is linked to the frequency of erections. A higher number of fibroblasts means…

Indonesians voted for a new president, vice president and members of parliament and local legislative bodies on Wednesday with no major incidents reported across the archipelago. Early and unofficial results were expected by the end of Wednesday by quick-count outlets certified by the General Elections Commission.  The election was a massive undertaking, with over 204 million of the country’s 270 million people registering to vote across some 17,000 islands. The voters are spread across three time zones, from Papua in the east to the tip of Sumatra over 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) away in the west.Election officers used a boat to distribute ballot boxes to polling…

Polls have closed in Indonesia for the world’s biggest single-day election that will see a new president succeed Joko Widodo, also known as President Jokowi. The voters are also deciding on new lawmakers and parliamentarians. Voting took place across three times zones with polling stations opening at 7:00 a.m. (2200 GMT) in the easternmost region of Papua and closing at 01:00 p.m. (0600 GMT) at the other end of the country in jungle-clad Sumatra. Thunderstorms caused flooding in some parts of the capital, Jakarta, with Reuters news agency reporting that dozens of polling stations had been affected.Indonesia holds the world’s…

A car has crashed into an A&E department in Texas – killing one person and injuring five others.A child is in a life-threatening condition after the vehicle smashed into the lobby of the emergency room at St David’s North Austin Medical Centre shortly after 5.30pm on Tuesday. The driver received CPR but died at the hospital. Image: Pic: AP Four of those who were hurt – two adults and two children – have been transferred to other hospitals.One of the adults has “serious, potentially life-threatening injuries”, officials said. The crash is being investigated, with the Austin Police Department saying it…