A vocal pro-democracy website in Hong Kong has been shut down after police raided its office, froze its assets and arrested senior staff. Stand News said in a statement that its website and social media were no longer being updated and would be taken down. It said all employees have been dismissed. The outlet was
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter has joined those paying tribute to the late anti-apartheid hero, recalling the day he saved a young man from being burned alive as her “proudest moment”. Nontombi Naomi Tutu said she was shown video of a funeral on the outskirts of Johannesburg in July 1985, where mourners were beating and kicking
Two Save the Children staff members were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in Myanmar on Christmas Eve during an attack blamed on government forces. The charity said both men were new fathers who were “caught up” in the rampage in Kayah state while on their way back to their office
More than 100 British tourists have been denied entry to Austria after COVID rules were not updated before they left for their holiday, it has been reported. Some 110 Britons, most of whom are thought to have been going on a ski trip, flew into Innsbruck on Sunday, believing they only needed to have had
India’s government has blocked a charity founded by Mother Teresa from receiving foreign funds. The Missionaries of Charity, which runs schools, clinics, hospices and homes for abandoned children in India, had applied to renew its foreign-funding licence. But on Christmas Day, India’s home ministry said it had rejected the application due to “adverse inputs”. Image:
Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s most prominent human rights group to be liquidated. The court ruled that the group Memorial must be closed for breaking the law on foreign agents. The group says the lawsuit was politically motivated and has announced it will appeal the ruling before the European Court of Human Rights.
The year began with a promise. “America is back,” proclaimed Joe Biden, taking its rightful place at the vanguard of the free world, making up for the sins of his predecessor. The Trump presidency had ended with a desecration. Americans had turned on their holy of holies, the high temple of their democracy on Capitol
By Howard Bloom Wednesday December 15th, the National Archives released close to 500 new documents on the Kennedy assassination. Within hours of that release, CNN yawned that “JFK researchers [are] underwhelmed by [the] latest release of assassination documents.” The New York Post disagreed. It pointed to new evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who
2021 was the year that warnings on climate change went into overdrive. It was the year that scientists seemed to run out of patience. And it was the year that the consequences of climate change finally, indisputably, arrived at the doorstep of the western world. By summer, the UN’s special climate panel declared global warming
By Howard Bloom Covid is making people depressed, lonely, drug-addicted, and suicidal. According to a new ABC-Washington Post poll, covid has had a dramatic impact on the way you and I lead our lives. Says the Post, “Roughly 9 in 10 say they are staying home ‘as much as possible’ and are practicing social distancing
By Howard Bloom Why did nature allow you, the gaudiest and most wasteful plants in history, you flowering plants, you angiosperms, to thrive? Why did she favor you despite your sins, your sins of materialism, consumerism, waste, and vain display? Because your sins were blessings in disguise. With your sins, you harnessed two opposites joined at the
Three weeks ago, Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, blasted billionaires for joyriding “to space while millions go hungry on Earth.” His spokesman reaffirmed that complaint October 13th after William Shatner’s flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, Texas, to the edge of space 65.8 miles high. Guterres’ complaint was
Every relationship goes through its rough patches. You just can’t decide to spend the rest of your life with someone and not get bored with everything. On the flip side, sometimes you also want to just start a brand new relationship with someone. Both situations can have the same solution and that’s what makes phone
Who invented showing off? Who invented flashing your bling, spending vast sums to flaunt, dazzle, and to grab attention? And hopefully to get sex? Was it greedy capitalists? Was it the rich trying to suck blood and money from the masses? Was it the advertising industry trying to shove consumerism down the throats of the proletariat? No, it was plants. As
Nigeria has one of the highest burdens of childhood malnutrition, thus a large number of children are at risk of its far-reaching long-term consequences. The Executive Secretary of the State Primary Healthcare Board Plateau State, Dr Livinus Miapkwap said it is already alarming that children between six (6) to 59 weeks are experiencing stunting and
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