Palestinians in displacement camps in the Gaza Strip resorted to basic means to cool down themselves and their children amid soaring summer heat on Saturday. Women were bathing their children outside their tents due to the absence of adequate showers in most of the coastal enclave. Displaced residents lack air conditioning and fans amid an […]
EL AMRA, Tunisia (AP) — For many migrants who’ve long dreamed of Europe, one of the last stops is an expanse of olive trees on North Africa’s Mediterranean coastline. But in Tunisia, less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the Italian islands that form the European Union’s outermost borders, for many that dream has become […]
The News Progressive and Hispanic Democrats vented their frustration Monday night as they prepared for President Biden to unveil a far-reaching executive action aimed at blocking off the Southern border to asylum-seekers. “I think it’s really disappointing,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal told Semafor, adding that she’d been briefed on the new order’s contents […]
By Ellen Zhang and David Kirton GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Wu Huazhan’s Chinese television factory used to impose minimum orders to manage production efficiently. Times are now so bleak, it will take any order. Foshan Top Winning Import & Export’s profit margin has dropped to a wafer-thin 0.5% from 2% some 3-4 years ago, according […]
A large global survey issued on Friday showed a surge in despair and disillusionment with established politics, particularly among young American men, the only US population group to turn more conservative over the past decade. The study by the international research agency Glocalities, shared with Reuters, offered context for November’s US presidential poll and a […]
Russians have seen many images of Alexei Navalny — a firebrand protest leader with a bullhorn. A government critic whose face was splashed with green dye by an attacker, which he joked turned him into the Hulk. A smiling political prisoner making a heart with his hands as he gestured to his wife in a […]
The critical metal used to make electric vehicle batteries, once described as “the new oil,” has been crashing in price amid a slowdown in EV demand. Lithium prices are down more than 80% from their 2022 peak — the same year in which Tesla’s (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk noted the metal has gone to “insane […]
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman informed Russians this week that the “special military operation” that Putin launched in Ukraine in February 2022 was set to go on much longer because it is now “a war against the collective West.” That’s right: a war. It was remarkable to hear that word from Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Journalists […]
As a teacher and trainer in early years education, Kym Scott never imagined that she herself would one day have a child who would refuse to attend school. Scott’s daughter Libby, now 16, began struggling soon after starting at the local comprehensive secondary school. “Attendance wasn’t a problem at primary school because I was happy […]
Dec. 25—As we wrap up the Christian season of Advent and celebrate Christmas, let’s not confuse the current crisis in Israel with the land of Judea in Jesus’ time. Certainly, there are comparisons between the deaths of innocents in the Israel-Hamas war and the massacre of innocents ordered by King Herod. Such deaths are to […]