Two men embracing on a magazine cover was more than risqué for Indonesia, thought LGBT+ researcher Ais, when he first discovered a trove of retro LGBT+ zines in Bali last year.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Ndukwe Ekekwe was furious when he heard how much compensation a judicial panel had awarded him after finding that members of an elite Nigerian police unit tortured him in custody following a raid on his phone accessories shop: 7,500,000 naira ($18,000).
Ndukwe Ekekwe, a victim of the Nigerian police brutality, uses crutches as he stands in his home in Lagos, Nigeria November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
The night after his arrest, he said, officers took him back to the store and pushed him from a second floor balcony, leaving him paralysed from the waist down and struggling to make ends meet.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The world’s thirstiest beer drinkers finally clinked their pilsner mugs in the drizzle on Monday, as beer gardens opened despite unseasonably cold grey weather in the Czech Republic, a landmark event after five months of COVID-19 lockdown.
FILE PHOTO: People cheer with beers at an outdoor seating section of a pub, as the Czech government lifted more restrictions allowing restaurants with outdoor areas to re-open amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Prague, Czech Republic, May 11, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny
“Finally I am sitting here as a human,” said Martin Krisko, savouring his cold beer with a meal served hot, on a plate, rather than lukewarm in a plastic takeaway container, at the Beer Time pub in Prague’s former industrial quarter Smichov.
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TARFAYA, Morocco (Reuters) - In a small fishing town in Morocco’s south, wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and the Sahara, a group of idealistic young surfers are teaching local children to brave the crashing waves.
Students surf during a free surfing lesson in front of La Casa del Mar, in Tarfaya, Morocco, April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Imane Djamil
A day’s drive from the cities of northern Morocco, and on the fringe of the world’s greatest desert, the group has set up a beachfront cafe where young people can gather, learn and have fun in the sleepy port of Tarfaya.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Pompoms rustle and silver shoes flash as “Japan Pom Pom” practices, moving to a lively cheer dance beat. With members ages 60 to 89, they’re no ordinary squad.
Fumie Takino, 89, founder of a senior cheer squad called Japan Pom Pom, and other members pose for commemorative photos before filming a dance routine for an online performance in Tokyo, Japan, April 12, 2021. It s dancing; moving your body is nice, Takino said. And the costumes are unbelievably showy. Some people join just so they can wear them. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
But don’t you dare call them grannies.
“Right at the start, we weren’t very happy about being called ‘granny cheer dancers,’” says Fumie Takino, the bubbly, energetic 89-year-old who founded Japan Pom Pom - average age, 72 years - more than 25 years ago.