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Drugged orangutan found in Russian’s airline luggage

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Police at Indonesian airport also found two live geckos and five lizards in suitcase

A Russian tourist attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase to bring home and keep as a pet has been arrested in Bali, police said on Saturday.

Andrei Zhestkov was detained in Denpasar airport late on Friday while passing through a security screening before a planned flight back to Russia.

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Pittsburgh braced for protests after acquittal of officer who shot black teen

The river of racism rolls on and on and on…

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  • Michael Rosfeld found not guilty of homicide
  • Antwon Rose II, 17, ran from unlicensed taxi

The family of an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer expressed anger and sadness over a jury’s decision to acquit, as Pittsburgh braced for protests.

Former East Pittsburgh officer Michael Rosfeld was charged with homicide for shooting Antwon Rose II in the back as the 17-year-old ran away from a traffic stop last June. But Rosfeld walked out of the courtroom a free man on Friday after jurors rejected the argument that he acted as “judge, jury and executioner”, in the words of an assistant district attorney.

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Who anointed Beto O’Rourke to be our political saviour? He did | Moira Donegan

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Is grandiose narcissism required of anyone who wants to run for president?

Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso Congressman and failed Texas Senate candidate who announced his presidential run last Thursday, named his first son Ulysses. It’s a Latinized name for the hero, Odysseus, in the Homeric epic The Odyssey. This is typical of Beto: he likes heroes, and the stories of their discovery, trials, and triumphs.

One of Beto’s favorite books is The Hero’s Journey, an overview by the literary theorist Joseph Campbell of Campbell’s theory of heroic myth. In Campbell’s work, the hero story, or “monomyth,” can be broken down into component parts, genre conventions that reappear in myth after myth: The hero ventures forth from the common world into a more significant world of wonder; he is tested, but wins a decisive victory. Then, he returns, with the power to bless and lead the little people who stayed behind.

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As a musician I’m shocked there’s opposition to a new EU copyright law | Debbie Harry

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This directive will help artists’ futures with protection from video-streaming services like YouTube. Why lobby against it?
• Debbie Harry is the lead singer of Blondie

In 2016, I joined a campaign with the music community and other creative sectors to fight to ensure that video-streaming services, such as YouTube, pay fairly for music and other creative content that they profit from. Now, in 2019, we have made great progress, but we are not there yet.

The EU is on the verge of adopting a law that will significantly improve the ability of the creative community to secure fair deals for the use of their work by user-uploaded content services such as YouTube. This legislation, namely article 13 of the proposed copyright directive, would fix a fundamental flaw in the music market known as the “value gap”, where fair revenues are not being returned to those who make the music by these platforms.

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