#political-unrest

#political-unrest

"We've been in contact with our guys and are trying to assist in any way we can obviously," Gomes told Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register. "I don't really care about the baseball side of it right now. I just want to make sure our guys are in a good place, and we're trying to help out where we can. "Everybody is in a good place right now seemingly. It's a little slower than anybody would like. Our goal is to stay in contact with them and do whatever we can to help them get out as soon as we can."

A wave of protests is sweeping across Iran, which is mired in a deep economic crisis marked by an unprecedented drop in the value of the rial and surging inflation. But the demonstrations, which began with a merchants' strike in Tehran on December 28 and have grown as students have joined the movement, go beyond the country's economic woes. Experts say the protests the most significant challenge to the Islamic regime since the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement of 2022 are a reflection of widespread and growing political discontent and anger at the government.

Trouble is fermenting in the febrile heat of Rome. Violent political struggles are breaking out between militant neo-fascist, far-left organisations and the Italian state. Amid this tense unrest, Federico Fellini makes his opulent masterpiece, Casanova, and Pasolini makes his final film, Salò, an eviscerating and prophetic parable about the dangers of fascism. Olivia Laing's novel The Silver Book is a compelling noir thriller and queer romance, taking us into the heart of Rome's famous Cinecittà studios - Italian cinema's dream factory.

This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I talk venue safety and dramatic substance, or the lack thereof. As I write this, I have SomaFM's "Jolly Ol' Soul" channel playing in the background. The local indie radio network starts broadcasting its Christmas channels soon after Halloween, because why wait 'til Black Friday when the entire economy is already geared up for the big day beyond it?

Election officials in Honduras have released updated voting results from the country's November 30 election, following a three-day pause in tallies amid allegations of fraud and inconsistencies. With 89 percent of ballots tallied on Monday, the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura held a slim lead of 40.21 percent over centrist contender Salvador Nasralla, who has 39.5 percent. list of 3 itemsend of list Rixi Moncada, a leftist candidate with the governing LIBRE party, is trailing in third place, with 19.28 percent.

The takeaway for leaders? Empathy and adaptability aren't soft skills; they're strategic imperatives. There is a growing recognition among leaders that stress triggered by external events is no longer peripheral. In today's world, it's a central management challenge. To explore these dynamics, we conducted a cross-national study to understand how leaders respond when external unrest threatens to destabilize the emotional and operational rhythm of their teams.

Nepal's prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, resigned on Tuesday after youth-led protests sparked by a government ban on social media in the Himalayan country left nearly two dozen people dead and hundreds injured, CNN reported. That ban has since been lifted, per Reuters. Protesters reportedly set government buildings, police stations, and the houses of politicians on fire Tuesday, a day after police fired tear gas at and used rubber bullets on protesters storming parliament in the capital, Kathmandu, per Reuters.

There is no denying that these are dangerous times, and it is all too easy to get sucked into the vortex of despair. From troops overrunning the streets of Washington, D.C., to the antidemocratic strongarm tactics of Governor Abbott in Texas, to Governor DeSantis ordering the Pulse Memorial rainbow walk to be painted over in Florida, to out-of-control ICE agents stealing people off the street, to starvation in Gaza, to whatever the heck is going on with the Ukraine negotiations,

A woman removes broken glass in a damaged apartment building after shelling, which local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in Donetsk.

Davit Giorgadze's new book, All the Love and None at the Same Time, is a ten-year emotional archive that documents his complex feelings toward Georgia.