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Macklemore has announced a series of European concerts, called the Free Palestine Tour, after he was controversially dropped as Ed Sheeran's support act.
Proceeds from the tour, which begins in Dublin next month, will go to organisations supporting Palestinians, he says.
Sky News – UK Macklemore has announced a series of European concerts, called the Free Palestine Tour, after he was controversially dropped as Ed Sheeran's support act.
BBC News – World The US rapper, removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after voicing support of Palestine, has convened a charity show that will visit Dublin, Paris and London, with a North American run to be announced Macklemore has announced a “Free Palestine” tour, a series of live shows that will feature the US rapper performing alongside musicians and friends to raise funds for humanitarian causes in Palestine. The news come…
Sky News – UK Macklemore has announced a series of European concerts, called the Free Palestine Tour, after he was controversially dropped as Ed Sheeran's support act.
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BBC News – World A Ukrainian former military officer, identified as Serhii Kuznietsov or Serhii Kuznetsov, went on trial in Hamburg, Germany, accused of involvement in the September 2022 sabotage of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines. His lawyers argued the pipelines were a lawful military target as "an aggressor's infrastructure" and said he is sworn to secrecy. Supporters waving Ukrainian flags rallied outside the court as the trial opened.
NYTimes – World Russia's FSB security agency has arrested a Japanese journalist from Hokkaido Shimbun on the far-eastern island of Sakhalin on suspicion of espionage. Russian authorities allege he gathered information on Moscow's defence capabilities, military readiness, and mobilised troops and volunteers for the war in Ukraine, before transferring him to Moscow.
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