Milan Cortina Gears Up to Host the 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics, hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, are set to begin, promising a widespread celebration of athletic competition and international unity. The opening ceremony, designed around the theme of "armonia," or harmony, will feature performances by artists like Mariah Carey and Sabrina Impacciatore, according to Time.
The Games mark a uniquely distributed event, with competitions spread across the Milan Cortina region, as noted by NPR. Marco Balich, the producer of the opening ceremony, described the theme of "armonia" as a convergence between the two host cities, city and mountain, the harmony between man and nature, between cultures, people and different ways of thinking, according to Time. The Dolomite ski resort of Cortina previously hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956.
In other news, Syria has taken steps to return property to Jews, according to NPR. The Syrian government transferred control of Jewish sites in December to Henry Hamra's Jewish heritage organization, according to NPR. Hamra is a Syrian-American cantor at the Central Synagogue of Aleppo, which was once the center of a thriving Jewish community in the northern Syrian city.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its annual World Report 2026, claiming that the United States has taken a shift toward authoritarianism, according to Time. The report singles out immigration, health, the environment, labor, disability, gender, criminal justice, and freedom of speech as areas of human rights in which the Administration had taken "significant steps backward," according to Time. The report also criticizes what it describes as "unnecessarily violent and abusive raids" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across the country, according to Time.
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