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Miami Herald
19 hours ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
ICE App Launches in NY, Spreads Across Country
ICE's Deputy Director Warns of "violence." NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / July 22, 2025 / Coquí, a groundbreaking mobile app built by and for immigrant communities, has officially launched. Developed in partnership with Rapid Response Networks nationwide, the free app enables verified users to send and receive real-time alerts about nearby immigration enforcement activity. During a recent CBS interview, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan claimed concerns that Coquí "can cause users to go and cause violence." The backlash was immediate. Advocates, legal experts, and Coquí users swiftly condemned the remarks as inflammatory and baseless. Fact check: there is no evidence that Coquí has ever been used for incitement or interference of any kind. "When fear wins, they win," said the founder of Coquí. "If you love this country and its people, standing up for your neighbors isn't a threat - it's a duty." Named after the small but resilient Puerto Rican tree frog, Coquí is rooted in community strength and designed with safety in mind. As part of its ongoing rollout, the Coquí team announced two new features launching this week: Coquí Communities will allow users to create, manage, and join trusted private groups within the Allies will pin local businesses on the map, highlighting "safe spots" and those standing in solidarity with immigrant communities. The app is encrypted, collects no personal data, masks user locations, and employs anti-trolling protocols to protect users. "You have a choice," said the founder of Coquí. "Stand with us." ABOUT COQUICoquí is a secure, anonymous mobile app designed to help immigrant communities share and receive real-time information about immigration enforcement activity. Built by grassroots organizers, technologists, and advocates, Coquí supports safety, solidarity, and resistance through smart, community-first technology. Learn more at Related Video SOURCE: Coqui Related Images press release
See - Sada Elbalad
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Toronto Film Festival Adds Angelina Jolie's "Couture", "Good Fortune", "Christy", More
Yara Sameh It's a big news week for the 50th Toronto International Film Festival starting with announcement of their full Galas and Special Presentations section including world premieres of Aziz Ansari's Lionsgate Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen comedy "Good Fortune," Maude Apatow's feature directorial debut "Poetic License," Isabel Coixet's "Three Goodbyes," James McAvoy's feature directorial debut "California Schemin'," Succession star Brian Cox's feature directorial debut "Glenrothan," Romain Gavras' "Sacrifice," David Michôd's "Christy," Yeon Sang-ho's "The Ugly," James Vanderbilt's "Nuremberg," and Alice Winocour's "Couture," as well as movies from Mamoru Hosoda, Zacharias Kunuk, Baz Luhrmann, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Jafar Panahi, Benny Safdie, and Gus Van Sant. Before "Waiting for Godot" begins its Broadway run on September 13, both Bill and Ted will be in TIFF; Keanu Reeves starring in "Good Fortune" and Alex Winter with the world premiere of his Adulthood. "Good Fortune," which first dropped a trailer at CinemaCon 2024, follows an angel named Gabriel, played by Reeves, who meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Ansari) and a wealthy venture capitalist (Seth Rogen). "Poetic License" stars Method Man, Nico Parker, Andrew Barth Feldman, Cooper Hoffman, Maisy Stella and Leslie Mann. The movie follows Liz, a former therapist and soon-to-be empty nester, as she becomes the unexpected point of tension between two inseparable best friends and college seniors, Sam and Ari. Liz is forced to reexamine her life as the boys' friendship unravels in a fierce competition for her affection. Sony Pictures Classics' "Nuremberg" chronicles the true story of the eponymous post-WWII trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. The pic centers on American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), who is tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes. He finds himself in a complex battle of wits with Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), Hitler's right-hand man. Michôd's "Christy" stars Sydney Sweeney as 1990s female boxer Christy Martin. Merritt Weaver, Ben Foster, and Katy O'Brian also star. Winocour's "Couture" stars Angelina Jolie as an American filmmaker who arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey, facing challenges and self-discovery. Jolie was at TIFF last year with the world premiere of "Without Blood," which she directed. The Oscar winner was also lauded at TIFF's awards gala. McAvoy's "California Schemin" tells the story of two Scottish lads from Dundee who conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, bagging a record deal and appearing on MTV until their scam unraveled. "Glenrothan" also stars its director Cox, as well as Alan Cumming, Alexandra Shipp, and Shirley Henderson in a tale about two brothers, who following a violent exchange with their father on the day of their mother's funeral, sees the younger of the two leaving their Highland home for America. After forty years they reunite in the land of their birth. Rachel Lee Goldenberg's world premiere of 20th Century Studios' "Swiped" is inspired by the real-life story of the visionary founder of online dating platform Bumble. It introduces recent college grad Whitney Wolfe (Lily James) as she uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry, launching an innovative, globally lauded dating app – two, actually, and paving the way to becoming the youngest female self-made billionaire. The movie was written by Bill Parker, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, and Kim Caramele. It also stars Jackson White, Myha'la, Ben Schnetzer, Pierson Fodé, Clea DuVall, Pedro Correa, Ian Colleti, Coral Peña, and Dan Stevens. The movie is produced by Jennifer Gibgot, Andrew Panay and James. It premieres on Hulu on September 19. "Train to Busan" filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho's new movie, the mystery thriller, "The Ugly," centers around a man's investigation into his long-lost mother's death. In a full reveal that other big fall and awards season movies are world premiering elsewhere, TIFF announced that Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is getting a North American premiere as well as Dwayne Johnson's movie "The Smashing Machine" from Benny Safdie and starring the former WWE wrestler as mixed-martial arts and UFC champion Mark Kerr. Meanwhile, Edward Berger's Colin Farrell, Tilda Swinton psychological drama thriller, "Ballad of a Small Player," is making its Canadian premiere at TIFF. It follows a high stakes gambler who is laying low in Macau whose past and debts start to catch up with him. He encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation. In addition, the closing night movie is "Peak Everything" from Canadian director Anne Émond playing on the last night of the fest on Saturday, September 13. TIFF, presented by Rogers, takes place September 4–14. The festival invited movies from 30 countries. 2025 Galas (in alphabetical order): *previously announced *A Private Life | Rebecca Zlotowski | France North American Premiere Adulthood | Alex Winter | USA World Premiere Driver's Ed | Bobby Farrelly | USA World Premiere Eleanor the Great | Scarlett Johansson | USA North American Premiere Eternity | David Freyne | USA World Premiere Fuze | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom World Premiere Glenrothan | Brian Cox | United Kingdom World Premiere Good Fortune | Aziz Ansari | USA World Premiere *Hamnet | Chloé Zhao | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere *Homebound | Neeraj Ghaywan | India North American Premiere *John Candy: I Like Me | Colin Hanks | USA World Premiere Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery | Ally Pankiw | Canada World Premiere | USA Nuremberg | James Vanderbilt | USA World Premiere Palestine 36 | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine/United Kingdom/France/Denmark/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Jordan World Premiere Peak Everything | Anne Émond | Canada | Closing Night Gala Toronto Premiere *Roofman | Derek Cianfrance | USA World Premiere *She Has No Name | Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Hong Kong/China North American Premiere Sholay | Ramesh Sippy | India | 50th Anniversary Restoration North American Premiere Swiped | Rachel Lee Goldenberg | USA World Premiere *The Choral | Nicholas Hytner | United Kingdom World Premiere Two Pianos | Arnaud Desplechin | France World Premiere 2025 Special Presentations (in alphabetical order): *previously announced A Pale View of Hills | Kei Ishikawa | Japan/United Kingdom/Poland North American Premiere A Poet | Simón Mesa Soto | Colombia/Germany/Sweden North American Premiere Bad Apples | Jonatan Etzler | United Kingdom World Premiere Ballad of a Small Player | Edward Berger | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere California Schemin' | James McAvoy | United Kingdom/USA World Premiere Calle Malaga | Maryam Touzani | Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium North American Premiere Charlie Harper | Tom Dean, Mac Eldridge | USA World Premiere Christy | David Michôd | USA World Premiere Couture | Alice Winocour | USA/France World Premiere Dead Man's Wire | Gus Van Sant | USA North American Premiere Degrassi: Whatever It Takes | Lisa Rideout | Canada World Premiere Easy's Waltz | Nic Pizzolatto | USA World Premiere EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert | Baz Luhrmann | Australia/USA World Premiere Eternal Return | Yaniv Raz | United Kingdom/USA World Premiere Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | USA North American Premiere *Franz | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic/Germany/Poland World Premiere *Good News | Byun Sung-hyun | South Korea World Premiere *Hedda | Nia DaCosta | USA World Premiere If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Mary Bronstein | USA Canadian Premiere It Was Just an Accident | Jafar Panahi | Iran/France/Luxembourg Canadian Premiere It Would Be Night in Caracas | Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás | Mexico World Premiere Kokuho | Lee Sang-il | Japan North American Premiere Ky Nam Inn | Leon Le | Vietnam World Premiere Lovely Day | Philippe Falardeau | Canada World Premiere Meadowlarks | Tasha Hubbard | Canada World Premiere *Mile End Kicks | Chandler Levack | Canada World Premiere Monkey in a Cage | Anurag Kashyap | India World Premiere Nouvelle Vague | Richard Linklater | France Canadian Premiere Poetic License | Maude Apatow | USA World Premiere Primavera | Damiano Michieletto | Italy/France World Premiere Project Y | Lee Hwan | South Korea World Premiere *Rental Family | HIKARI | USA/Japan World Premiere Rose of Nevada | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom North American Premiere Sacrifice | Romain Gavras | United Kingdom/Greece World Premiere Scarlet | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan North American Premiere Sentimental Value | Joachim Trier | Norway/France/Denmark/Germany/Sweden/United Kingdom Canadian Premiere Silent Friend | Ildikó Enyedi | Germany/Hungary/France North American Premiere Sirāt | Óliver Laxe | France/Spain North American Premiere Sound of Falling | Mascha Schilinski | Germany North American Premiere *Steal Away | Clement Virgo | Canada/Belgium World Premiere *The Captive | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Italy World Premiere *The Christophers | Steven Soderbergh | United Kingdom World Premiere *The Lost Bus | Paul Greengrass | USA World Premiere The Secret Agent | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany Canadian Premiere The Smashing Machine | Benny Safdie | USA North American Premiere The Testament of Ann Lee | Mona Fastvold | UK North American Premiere | Presented in 70mm The Ugly | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea World Premiere Three Goodbyes | Isabel Coixet | Italy/Spain World Premiere Train Dreams | Clint Bentley | USA International Premiere Tuner | Daniel Roher | USA Canadian Premiere Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada North American Premiere *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | USA World Premiere You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution… | Nick Davis | USA World Premiere 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India.com
2 days ago
- General
- India.com
4 MK-108 guns, 24 rockets, and a speed of 870 KM/h, THIS country built world's first fighter jet, its not America, Russia, China, the name is...
Messerschmitt Me 262 First Fighter Jet: Did you know that the world's first fighter jet wasn't made by America, Russia, or France—it was developed by Hitler's Nazi Germany? Nazi Germany introduced a combat aircraft in the final phase of World War II. The aircraft laid the foundation for modern aerial warfare. This fighter jet was called the Messerschmitt Me 262. The Messerschmitt Me 262 was first engaged in war in the year 1944. As soon as it entered the war, the Allied forces were taken aback with its speed and firepower. It was the first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Here are some of the key features of Germany's Me 262: The Me 262 was equipped with four 30mm MK-108 cannons It could be fitted with 24 R4M air-to-air rockets—an advanced combat technology for that era. The aircraft could fly at a speed of 540 miles per hour (870 kilometers per hour), which was 100 miles per hour faster than the fastest piston-engine fighter of the Allies, the P-51 Mustang. The Me 262 could reach an altitude of 37,500 feet and had a climb rate of 3,900 feet per minute. The Me 262 earned its place in history due to the strategic shifts it brought to warfare. This fighter jet attacked with such speed that Allied pilots often couldn't even react in time. For the first time, it became clear that advanced technology could change the course of a war. The Me 262 demonstrated that in aerial combat, it was no longer just numbers that mattered—technological superiority would now be the deciding factor. How Did Germany Develop the Me 262 Fighter Jet? It took Germany a considerable time to develop Me 262. The country also faced many challenges. It began in 1938, but due to various technical problems and limitations in Germany's war resources, it only became fully operational by 1944. Issues such as the reliability of its engines (Junkers Jumo 004), shortage of fuel supply, and the vulnerability of runways prevented its full potential from being realized in the war. Nonetheless, it marked a major shift and shaped the future design of combat aircraft.
AllAfrica
5 days ago
- Business
- AllAfrica
Fragmented Europe faltering in the multipolar moment
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European decision-making has become dominated by the conflict. It has even distorted our vision of what Europe is, along with the considerable discomfort of an eroding transatlantic security partnership and multiple other foreign dependencies in areas such as industry, digital infrastructure and energy. Taken together, these developments present an extraordinary set of threats and opportunities for a series of European policies that must begin to look beyond Ukraine, without discarding the vital role that Ukraine has played in the security landscape. Confronted by a bold American long-term vision, including President Barack Obama's 'Pivot to Asia' announced in November 2011, the US is increasingly viewing Europe as only a peripheral American concern. Europe risks being left behind in the future, stuck between a burgeoning US and China, if it does not get its act together and concentrate on building state and regional capacity. For now, it is only starting to advance its readiness and resilience. The EU's feeble approach to the Gaza conflict stands in sharp contrast with the staunch support extended to Ukraine. Even NATO's 2022 strategic concept, which clearly defines Russia as a threat and outlines Ukraine's general path toward NATO, remains at best elusive in the absence of formal US endorsement. Competing individual responses by EU members or heads of EU institutions and sometimes divergent responses to external shocks are unlikely to favor a new European moment, much less a common project. If Europe is now urged to 'arm itself' and invest in growing its defense capabilities, as advocated by the president of France and the chancellor of Germany in a recent opinion piece, it must also set a geopolitical ambition and roadmap that extends beyond its present boundaries. The ambition must be bold enough to reinforce Europe's autonomy and capacity of action long after the Ukraine war ends. Much of this year's NATO summit discussion has centered around the push to raise EU members' defense spending to 5% of GDP, or 3.5% of direct defense spending. The Hague pledge, signed by most Allies, holds only as long as there is no ceasefire in Ukraine. Should the Russian threat diminish or political will to support Kyiv weaken, European publics may become reluctant to sustain such high levels of defense spending. It also assumes that the US direct financial contribution to NATO will stay at approximately 16% of the budget, which is not guaranteed. According to the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, the goal is for non-US NATO allies to deliver 70% of the alliance's total capabilities by 2032, up from 56% today. For European countries such as Spain, Belgium, Slovakia or Luxembourg, which lack Germany's fiscal flexibility or Poland's and the Baltic states' acute threat perceptions, this objective is already a significant challenge. Long-term security cannot rest on the European defense industrial base and fiscal efforts alone. Without the necessary scale, and despite the recent rollout of its Readiness 2030 white paper to support the EU defense industry and deepen the single defense market, and the adoption of the $170 billion Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative, Europe is unlikely to make a meaningful impact in the near term. A recent report indicates that Europe's defense industry will not be able to fully replace key US capabilities in the air and maritime domains within the next decade. In the interim, the risk of capability or deterrence gaps must not be overlooked. Efforts to develop formats like the E3+1 initiative – France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Poland – represent temporary solutions aimed at regionalized defense coalitions until a unified European defense leadership emerges. As the war in Ukraine has demonstrated, without cooperation, partnerships, co-production and joint development to maintain interoperability and efficiency, Europe alone is not equipped to meet its current defense production needs. This is likely due to fragmentation within its defense industry and this situation is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. Beyond Russia, and beyond the goal of transitioning to a more balanced alliance, Europe's other major vulnerabilities include its political division and its broader geopolitical marginalization. Both are in part the result of EU member states' ongoing struggles to overcome narrow national interests. Recent events could indeed catalyze deeper European economic and financial integration through a new single market strategy, a scenario that, while challenging, remains attainable. To enhance its hard-power capacity and economic independence, the world's largest single market must address serious inconsistencies in capital markets, energy, and technology. Expanding the international role of the euro could also help reduce financing costs and help attract investments, thereby boosting Europe's resilience. In a world increasingly defined by a contest between Beijing and the West, where economics is seen as subordinate to geopolitics, the optimal strategy may lie elsewhere. While keeping Russia in check, Europe must also find ways to continue engaging with both China, as a potential off-ramp to its ongoing trade war with Washington, and the US, by adding a European signature to a Trump-compliant tariffs and trade deal as a concession to the America First agenda. This should be done without allowing either power to gain undue influence over the continent's political systems and economies. Whether this strategy can be implemented fast enough to meet rising expectations remains one of the defining questions Europe will face in the coming years. As global power becomes multipolar, being more adept at negotiation and compromise is not a trait reserved for rapidly rising powers. Economic prowess, diplomatic weight and global reach remain invaluable when urgency is driven by necessity. Eric Alter, a former UN civil servant, is dean and professor of international law and diplomacy at the Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.
AU Financial Review
16-07-2025
- Politics
- AU Financial Review
Chalmers' reform summit will be 3 days of nothingness
Summits have gone downhill since the Tehran Summit of 1943 committed the Allies to two military fronts in the Second World War, paving the way for eventual victory over Nazi Germany. Its successor, the Yalta Conference of 1945, kicked off the Cold War and the takeover of half of Europe by the totalitarian Stalinist regime of the Soviet Union. Grown men put away their philosophical differences and Joseph Stalin walked away with, well, everything. Winston Churchill, the great warrior of democracy, together with Franklin Roosevelt, traded off peace for communism and what would be decades of misery for half of Europe.
