In a video, thousands of people demonstrate outside Istanbul’s municipal building to mark the 100th day since the detention of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was suspended. After the Republican People’s Party (CHP)-led rally, riot police used pepper spray and detained protesters who refused to disperse.
Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, wowted fans in April 2024 when The Eras Tour made its way to Europe, which has been delayed by more than a year. The American star has since found love with Travis Kelce and left her ties to Matty Healy and Joe Alwyn.
Fans had hoped the romance would quickly inspire the 35-year old to pen new material, particularly as Tortured Poets Department came so soon on the back of her previous record, Midnights. However, nothing has been forthcoming since Taylor embarked on a well earned break after performing a staggering 152 dates around the world.
Now, however, fans believe they have spotted a number of “Easter eggs”, which point to the name of her 12th album and its imminent release.
Superfan Britton Rae took to Twitter to say that the Shake It Off singer’s album would be titled “Postcards” and would be released in August.
Taylor Swift’s website has undergone a bit of a rebrand, with new font, new color, and blue and white font, Britton explained in a video.
If you bought anything, you could get these postcards, two of which are in black and one of them is in color, according to Britton. The only music video we received from Tortured Poets Department was in black and white, which may be related to the fact that it is a double album. “
The color image, according to Britton, might represent the coming “new era,” which would leave the black and white behind and enter a new era of color into the day.
She also highlighted the new font on the back of the postcard, whilst a QR code takes you to the Bad Blood singer’s website, which states ‘Discover more’. “It could be saying discover more merch, but perhaps it’s literally saying ‘more’ is coming,” Britton said, before telling viewers she’d seen a Reddit discussion in which it had been proposed that ‘Postcards’ would be a collection of memories she had made on tour.
“Just think about what this could be mean – each postcard could be a letter to her fans back home and all of her listeners,” Britton added. “It makes perfect sense to me because there is some level of continuity that Taylor Swift maintains throughout all her eras.
She frequently refers to her songs as letters because “we can think of so many songs where she has said something similar to writing letters.” What if she continues to lean into that for the rest of her life after doing it before? “
For instance, Britton cited the fact that Midnights’ final song, Hits Different, ends with the lyrics, “Have they come come take me away? ” Following Fortnight’s, “I was supposed to be sent away, but they forgot to come and get me,” the Tortured Poets Department follows.
Who was the first artist to feature in “Fortnight”? Britton referred to Post-Malone. “Post. And in the final phrase of The Manuscript, it says, “The only thing left is the manuscript/One last souvenir from my trip to your shores,” which is a common souvenir? Postcards ! “
Briston concluded, “This just makes too many Easter eggs make sense to me. “
Another fan said, “THIS is an easter egg that makes sense, not the other ones that involve complicated and nonsensical math.” “
What if Postcards were the live performances of the acoustic surprise songs? “
One of the most vulnerable nations in the world is Suriname, the smallest nation in South America, due to rising sea levels.
According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nearly seven out of ten people in the former Dutch colony’s 600, 000 inhabitants reside in coastal low-lying areas.
A 56-year-old farmer who has lost 95 percent of his smallholding to the sea, Gandat Sheinderpesad said, “Every day I see a piece of my land disappear.”
Local authorities have been attempting to stop the tide for years.
According to Riad Nurmohamed, Minister of Public Works, “Some areas are not problematic because we have five, ten, or twenty kilometers (three, six, or twelve miles) of mangroves acting as a buffer between the waves and the shore.”
However, he continued, “there is only one kilometer in this area, which is very vulnerable,” close to Paramaribo, Suriname’s capital city.
A program to restore the capital’s mangroves was launched in 2020.
In 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dipped into the mud to personally plant seedlings in order to increase VIP power.
The project’s lead environmentalist, Sienwnath Naqal, surveys a desolation-stricken area five years later.
The wooden stakes to which he had attached hundreds of saplings are now mostly bare, and the sea is now sputtering at the edge of a road.
The roots were exposed because the sediment from the high seas was carried away.
According to Nurmohamed, “the water forcefully penetrated the mangroves, which were destroyed over the past two to three years.”
Naqal claimed that the erosion was also caused by the sand being dug at the entrance to the Paramaribo estuary to facilitate the passage of boats upriver to the port.
However, the destruction was deliberate in some places, with farmers removing mangroves to make way for crops, just like the Amazon rainforest in the nearby Brazil.
Suriname has taken a different approach and began building a dyke as the water is sputtering at the feet of Paramaribo’s 240, 000 residents.
Sheinderpesad has one last chance to survive on his land thanks to the levee.
I need nowhere to go, I tell myself. I’m not sure how long until the dyke is operational, but he said he will be safer.
The government has promised to pay $11 million from state funds for the 4.5 km-long barrier.
“It takes years before you can begin building if you go see donors.” We will be flooded because there is no time left,” Nurmohamed said.
However, stifling the nation’s maritime defenses will not be enough to stop the mighty Atlantic.
The entire network of dykes that line the nation’s 380 km of coastline is being planned by the government.
Simply put, it’s not sure where to find the money.
Nurmohamed remarked, “It’s a colossal investment.”
The solution might be found in the newly discovered offshore oil deposits of the nation.
Queensland Reds: (12) 12
Flook Con: McLaughlin-Phillips, Toomaga-Allen,
British and Irish Lions (21), 52
In a comprehensive victory over the Queensland Reds in Brisbane, Tommy Freeman scored twice as the British and Irish Lions ran in eight tries.
The Lions opened the scoring with a 21-12 lead at the break, with Jeffery Toomaga-Allen and Josh Flook adding goals for the hosts, who had already started strong.
The Lions dominated the following game, but the Reds won the ball with Toomaga-Allen’s try and then regained it with Flook’s score.
Maro Itoje, the captain, put in a strong performance, and Jac Morgan, who put in the fifth, saw a significant improvement. Huw Jones broke away on his own, and Freeman added six more.
Six of the eight conversions were scored by Finn Russell (44) and his replacement Fin Smith (22) for the Lions, who won two games from two on Australian soil.
Elliot Daly, who suffered an arm injury in the second half, experienced some discomfort.
Hugo Keenan withdrew before kick-off with a medical condition, and Daly, one of the players for the trip, had joined the team.
The Lions struggled in the opening fight, while the Reds resurrected them with avengeance, with outstanding centre Hunter Paisami leading the charge.
Before the floodgates opened, The Lions had their issues, but they completely dominated the game from the beginning and were completely dominant from the beginning.
The tourists dropped the ball left, right, and center, wasting their time and letting them find their range.
There were forced passes and hesitant defense, as the saying goes. There was a botched restart reception. It wasn’t very good. In the first forty minutes, they knocked on the Reds eight times, some of which the hosts struggled to hold on to hold them.
The Reds received first blood when Paisami’s bust through the Lions’ midfielder gave them position, while some of his deep carries extended the Lions’ reach even further. Toomaga-Allen lunged and scored as the line arrived.
The Suncorp sounded like Reds on the march as Harry McLaughlin-Phillips banged over the extras.
When Daly turned Freeman over and Russell tied the deal, the Lions did not attempt to take control.
Instead, it served as the catalyst for another Reds try, which Porter had started by performing on the ground. Before Josh Flook’s grubber kick for Kalani Thomas down the left, Paisami was involved once more.
Flook stole the ball after Van der Merwe paused to deal with it, which Reds won 12-7.
The Lions game had plenty of missed opportunities, but eventually they started to make things stick and the desperation was apparent.
Ronan Kelleher, Porter’s Leinster and Ireland front-row pal, tipped him over after a close-range tap penalty. Russell reverted.
With the assistance of Jack Conan and Ollie Chessum, Van der Merwe then completed a fantastic move in the corner. Russell started the conversion from Caxton Street, about an hour away. a pearler
The Lions had a 21-12 lead at the break. Better or worse, perhaps.
When Jamison Gibson-Park’s smart work drew the heat and then slipped an inside pass for Itoje to crash over, things started to get better in the first half.
Russell, who had his eyes closed, could have kicked them over. Lions won, 28-12. Getting there
At that point, Farrell made significant adjustments, reversing both his half-backs and his front-row.
The Russell-Gibson-Park axis produced more than enough fireworks to get people excited, but not many.
The rest is red in the sea. Morgan ran over from an Alex Mitchell pass, making his strongest statement, which he did. The Reds could not handle the Lions’ intensity at this point.
Morgan and Freeman both had a significant lead at the start of that play, but Jones jumped out after him with a daft chip and ran more than half the pitch to score.
Ringrose scampering over to bring up the half-century in the final breath.
The Lions had a good night’s work, but Daly’s image of him in pain came afterward was troubling.
Replacements: Henry, Blake, Fa’agase, Smith, Blyth, Vest, and Nasser.
Daly, Freeman, Jones, Aki, Van der Merwe, Russell, Gibson-Park, Porter, Kelleher, Stuart, Itoje (capt), Chessum, Curry, Morgan, Conan, and other Irish Lions.
Paul Williams (New Zealand) is the assistant referee.
Referee 2 assistant: New Zealand’s Ben O’Keeffe
New Zealand’s Glenn Newman TMO
Queensland Reds: (12) 12
Flook Con: McLaughlin-Phillips, Toomaga-Allen,
British and Irish Lions (21), 52
In a comprehensive victory over the Queensland Reds in Brisbane, Tommy Freeman scored twice as the British and Irish Lions ran in eight tries.
The Lions opened the scoring with a 21-12 lead at the break, with Jeffery Toomaga-Allen and Josh Flook adding goals for the hosts, who had already started strong.
The Lions dominated the following game, but the Reds won the ball with Toomaga-Allen’s try and then regained it with Flook’s score.
Maro Itoje, the captain, put in a strong performance, and Jac Morgan, who put in the fifth, saw a significant improvement. Huw Jones broke away on his own, and Freeman added six more.
Six of the eight conversions were scored by Finn Russell (44) and his replacement Fin Smith (22) for the Lions, who won two games from two on Australian soil.
Elliot Daly, who suffered an arm injury in the second half, experienced some discomfort.
Hugo Keenan withdrew before kick-off with a medical condition, and Daly, one of the players for the trip, had joined the team.
The Lions struggled in the opening fight, while the Reds resurrected them with avengeance, with outstanding centre Hunter Paisami leading the charge.
Before the floodgates opened, The Lions had their issues, but they completely dominated the game from the beginning and were completely dominant from the beginning.
The tourists dropped the ball left, right, and center, wasting their time and letting them find their range.
There were forced passes and hesitant defense, as the saying goes. There was a botched restart reception. It wasn’t very good. In the first forty minutes, they knocked on the Reds eight times, some of which the hosts struggled to hold on to hold them.
The Reds received first blood when Paisami’s bust through the Lions’ midfielder gave them position, while some of his deep carries extended the Lions’ reach even further. Toomaga-Allen lunged and scored as the line arrived.
The Suncorp sounded like Reds on the march as Harry McLaughlin-Phillips banged over the extras.
When Daly turned Freeman over and Russell tied the deal, the Lions did not attempt to take control.
Instead, it served as the catalyst for another Reds try, which Porter had started by performing on the ground. Before Josh Flook’s grubber kick for Kalani Thomas down the left, Paisami was involved once more.
Flook stole the ball after Van der Merwe paused to deal with it, which Reds won 12-7.
The Lions game had plenty of missed opportunities, but eventually they started to make things stick and the desperation was apparent.
Ronan Kelleher, Porter’s Leinster and Ireland front-row pal, tipped him over after a close-range tap penalty. Russell reverted.
With the assistance of Jack Conan and Ollie Chessum, Van der Merwe then completed a fantastic move in the corner. Russell started the conversion from Caxton Street, about an hour away. a pearler
The Lions had a 21-12 lead at the break. Better or worse, perhaps.
When Jamison Gibson-Park’s smart work drew the heat and then slipped an inside pass for Itoje to crash over, things started to get better in the first half.
Russell, who had his eyes closed, could have kicked them over. Lions won, 28-12. Getting there
At that point, Farrell made significant adjustments, reversing both his half-backs and his front-row.
The Russell-Gibson-Park axis produced more than enough fireworks to get people excited, but not many.
The rest is red in the sea. Morgan ran over from an Alex Mitchell pass, making his strongest statement, which he did. The Reds could not handle the Lions’ intensity at this point.
Morgan and Freeman both had a significant lead at the start of that play, but Jones jumped out after him with a daft chip and ran more than half the pitch to score.
Ringrose scampering over to bring up the half-century in the final breath.
The Lions had a good night’s work, but Daly’s image of him in pain came afterward was troubling.
Replacements: Henry, Blake, Fa’agase, Smith, Blyth, Vest, and Nasser.
Daly, Freeman, Jones, Aki, Van der Merwe, Russell, Gibson-Park, Porter, Kelleher, Stuart, Itoje (capt), Chessum, Curry, Morgan, Conan, and other Irish Lions.
Paul Williams (New Zealand) is the assistant referee.
Referee 2 assistant: New Zealand’s Ben O’Keeffe
New Zealand’s Glenn Newman TMO
Loum Tchaouna, a France Under-21 winger, has been signed by Burnley from Lazio.
The 21-year-old, who competed in the European Under-21 Championship this summer, has signed for a five-year deal for a reportedly estimated £13 million.
Axel Tuanzebe, Quilindschy Hartman, and goalkeeper Max Weiss have already joined Scott Parker’s side since winning the Premier League, making Tchaouna their fourth summer signings.
Tchaouna said, “I spoke with the manager during the Euros this summer, and we had a really good conversation.
Tchaouna made his senior Rennes debut in September 2021, before spending time at Salernitana, Lazio, and Dijon.