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Welcome to Monday, where more deadly strikes are reported in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, Russia launches a massive attack on Ukraine's power grid, and speculation swirls around a reunion of the bickering Gallagher brothers of Oasis. Meanwhile, Ana da Cunha for independent media Mensagem speaks with members of the Theater of Immigrants, a company recently formed by Brazilian immigrants who took the concept of “nationhood” to Lisbon’s stage.
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"Standing together against hatred and violence." After the deadly knife attack in the city of Solingen on Friday that killed three, German newspaper Tageszeitung dedicates its front page to the people's plea for peace. With the far right (AfD) eyeing a historic victory in regional elections, the Berlin-based daily writes that some fear the stabbing could be used to feed anti-immigration and racist propaganda. Prosecutors say the 26-year-old Syrian who turned himself in after the rampage in the western German city shares the ideology of the Islamic State group and was acting on those beliefs when he attacked.
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• Russia launches major Monday morning strike on Ukrainian power system. At least five were killed after Moscow launched more than 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine early Monday, targeting energy infrastructure across the country, causing power cuts and water supply shortages. Meanwhile, Reuters news team’s safety advisor Ryan Evans has been killed in a strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, said the agency in a statement. Two other journalists of the six-person team are still being treated in the hospital. Follow our international coverage of the Ukraine-Russia war here.
• Violence escalates between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel and the Iran-backed armed group exchanged heavy fire on Sunday, after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel. The Israeli military retaliated by firing strikes in Lebanon and reported the death of one soldier. Meanwhile, at least 71 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza over the weekend. In Cairo, the Hamas delegation rejected the new conditions put forward by Israel in the ceasefire talks.
• China increases military patrols on Myanmar border. China has stepped up its army and police patrols along the western border amid raging civil war in the neighboring country. The Chinese government has expressed concern over potential fallout from the fighting opposing Myanmar’s military regime and ethnic armed groups.
• Gunmen kill 31 in Pakistan. At least 31 people were killed in two separate attacks by gunmen in the Balochistan province, after days of violence in the area. Gunmen forced people off vehicles in the Musakhail district. The insurgent groups also blew up a railway bridge in nearby Bolan, stormed a hotel and attacked a police station. To know more about the situation in Balochistan, here's a piece by Badya Fahs for Daraj.
• Tourist killed in ice cave collapse in Iceland. A tourist died and two are missing after an ice cave collapsed during a tour of the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in Iceland. A group of 25 tourists were exploring the ice caves when it collapsed, killing one and injuring another who was transported by helicopter to the hospital.
• Telegram CEO arrested in Paris. French authorities have extended the detention of Pavel Durov, the CEO of the messaging app Telegram. Durov was arrested at Le Bourget airport on Saturday for alleged offenses including drug trafficking, organized crime, fraud and promotion of terrorism on his platform. The Russian embassy has demanded access to Durov and reported that “the French side is refusing to cooperate.” Does Russia control Telegram ? Read all about it in this article by Ukrainian outlet Livy Bereg.
• “Don’t look back in anger,” we heard them say. The Gallagher brothers teased an Oasis reunion on social media over the weekend, sharing a short clip on Liam and Noel’s respective social media account, as well as on the band’s, hinting at an announcement on “27.08.24” at “8 am”. The famously quarreling Manchester brothers have not played together since 2009.
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In Lisbon, a Brazilian theater troupe explores a unique migrant experience
A new group theater in Lisbon — made up by a majority of Brazilian migrants — has set out to explore the idea of migration through plays. They started with putting in scene a story about the concept of nationhood: because every migration story looks different, but it also has some universal basis, the artists tell Ana da Cunha for independent media Mensagem.
🦈 A shark. That's how it all began seven years ago when Brazilian actor, director and playwright Marcelo Andrade came across an image on Instagram of a shark in the Mediterranean. The migration crisis was very much in the news at the time, and Andrade couldn't keep quiet about the drama that was (and still is) being played out on the high seas. He started writing a play. But he couldn't finish it. He felt he lacked the personal experience to put himself in the shoes of a migrant arriving from afar in a new place. But in seven years, a lot has changed: Andrade has also become a migrant. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal. And he too, in his own way, has come to know what it means to be a foreigner in a country other than his own.
🇧🇷🇵🇹 Finally, he managed to finish Na boca do tubarão, or "In the Mouth of the Shark", a drama about the migratory crisis in the Mediterranean, which was performed for the first time in May. The play led to the birth of Teatro do Imigrante, or Theater of Immigrants, a company recently formed by Brazilian immigrants: in addition to Andrade, Lorena Garrido, Alexandra Marinho de Oliveira, Tiago Braz, Gabriela Hedegaard and Geraldo Monteiro, but also an internal migrant, Gonçalo da Costa Ramalho, who is from Santiago de Riba-Ui, in the Aveiro District in the north of Portugal. They met in community theater groups, in the colleges where they studied, in training sessions.
🎭 By sharing their experiences in theatrical spaces, they realized how the theater is, in fact, a welcoming space. Hence the idea of forming a company together to tackle immigration issues. The play opens with a scene of a father and daughter fishing one afternoon. He's a candidate for a nationalist political party, she's rebelling against her father's ideals until a shark steals her father's arm. All this while, from afar, rescue boats arrive with immigrants looking for a new life. The show does not, therefore, explore the personal experiences of each of its actors. "The political issue linked to immigration involves personal issues but also a macro issue. The show portrays macro issues," Marinho de Oliveira says. "We're not interested in representing a nation, but in discussing the concept of nation."
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