In good news for those headed to Italy’s shores this summer, a environmental survey has shown an improvement of water quality in various Italian waters. The annual analysis from the foundation FFE has awarded almost 500 Italian beaches with the blue flag, which stands for clean water and environmental protection. That’s 14 more than last […]
One Minnesotan couple elevated the unveiling of the state’s new flag Saturday with a shindig. Erik Nelson and Wesley Noble held a Statehood Day celebration in St. Paul to recognize the new banner and honor their home. The invitation requested that guests dress in costumes reflecting the state and that the potluck in state themed […]
One Minnesotan couple elevated the unveiling of the state’s new flag Saturday with a shindig. Erik Nelson and Wesley Noble held a Statehood Day celebration in St. Paul to recognize the new banner and honor their home. The invitation requested that guests dress in costumes reflecting the state and that the potluck in state themed […]
The Eurovision song contest continued to spawn unprecedented controversy days after the winner was crowned, with the 27-nation European Union criticising organisers for their “incoherence” in banning its flag from the concert hall during the final. In an unusually sharp letter, EU Commission vice president Margaritis Schinas wrote to the Swiss-based European Broadcast Union, which […]
Over the weekend, Minnesota unveiled its new state flag. It features a stylized outline of the state with an eight-pointed star and a field of light blue. The new Minnesota flag replaces one that showed native peoples being driven off their land. “The new flag and seal reflect all Minnesotans and showcase the features of […]
Minnesota raised its new state flag over its capitol on Saturday. The flag was unfurled on the state’s “Statehood Day” holiday and features a stylized outline of the state, an eight-pointed star and a field of light blue. The unveiling is the culmination of a competition to redesign the flag and state seal to replace […]
A new state flag rose over the Minnesota Capitol at dawn Saturday, May 11, marking its official adoption after a decades-long push to change the state’s emblems. The new design, inspired by one of more than a thousand public submissions considered by a state panel last year, replaces the state’s old flag, which has existed […]
In a solemn, pre-dawn ceremony, the flag that’s been flying over Minnesota’s Capitol for decades was lowered for the last time. Voices hushed in a crowd of more than a dozen onlookers at 5 a.m. on Saturday as the flag with Civil War-era imagery was carefully carried from the darkened Capitol rooftop to the building’s […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — On Saturday, more than 10,000 runners are expected to compete in the Amway River Bank Run, and it can be easy to get lost in the crowd. One runner has found a way to stand out. “Running inspires me. If I can get out in the nice weather and just […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A campaign video for South Africa’s opposition party showing the country’s flag in flames has stoked tensions just weeks ahead of national elections that are seen as the most pivotal since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation 30 years ago. The opposition Democratic Alliance says the […]
Sak pase? Haitian Flag Day is May 18, but you don’t have to wait until that Saturday to celebrate 220 years of Haitian independence. Gov. Kathy Hochul proclaimed May to be Haitian Heritage Month in New York last year. There’s lots to do in honor of the occasion in Rockland County and beyond. Read on […]
A crowd of anti-Israel protesters waving Palestinian flags on the Upper East Side were filmed shouting down a lone dissenter proudly waving an Israeli flag. A man who was one of the few visibly Jewish people in the crowd pointed and shouted at the protester, prompting the others to start in with chants of: “Shame!” […]