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Local News More than 400 trans flags removed from Boston Common; advocates call for hate crime investigation “It’s discouraging that we can’t celebrate our dead, and especially this week,” an organizer who helped place the flags said.

A memorial honoring Transgender Day of Remembrance on Boston Common was “deliberately taken down” this week, and LGBTQ advocates are calling for the incident to be investigated as a hate crime.

The group condemned the “hateful act of vandalism” against the Trans Flag Memorial, which was installed legally with a permit from the city. »

The artist previously went viral for his $6.2M banana duct taped to a wall.

'America,' the toilet cast from more than 100 kilograms of solid 18-karat gold, by Maurizio Cattelan is displayed during a press preview at Sotheby's, November 7, 2025 in New York City.

An 18-karat gold working toilet sculpture titled "America" by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold Tuesday evening for a whopping $12,110,000, according to Sotheby's. »

Official Chinese data shows that India had a trade surplus with China from 2003 to 2005, but this reversed thereafter.

How India Can Reduce Its Reliance on China To mitigate its geoeconomic vulnerability to China, India should undertake three efforts.

Conclusion China benefits from India's increasing trade dependence, creating a strategic vulnerability for India and potentially harming its Western partners. »

Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.

It seeks to prevent forest degradation, river contamination and biodiversity loss that threatens the continent’s climate balance,” Vélez said.

She also called on other Amazonian nations to adopt similar protections, highlighting that Colombia controls just 7% of the Amazon biome. »