Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. By night, he tossed and turned in his bunk on the aging Al-Maha, he said, thinking of the unpaid wages he feared […]
Your letters to the editor for May 5, 2024: Farmers understand Noem‘s puppy plight Well, the story of the day is that Kristi Noem shot a dog that was causing problems in the neighborhood. I suspect the dog was killing chickens, sheep or other livestock. That, for years, was the fate of a dog that. […]
Fighting between the Shiite militia Hezbollah and Israel is plunging tens of thousands of children and young people and their families into misery in southern Lebanon, aid workers say. Almost daily airstrikes from Israel are destroying the livelihoods of the people, many of whom were already living in precarious conditions, said the UN’s aid organization […]
Floodwaters in southern Russia on Sunday threatened to submerge thousands more homes in the Kurgan region, where the governor predicted a “very difficult situation” in the coming hours. There is widespread flooding in the Russian Urals regions and neighbouring Kazakhstan, caused by melting ice swelling rivers, exacerbated by heavy rainfall. In some places, only the […]
Opinion editor’s note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. ••• Seconds and minutes matter when there’s a medical emergency. It’s imperative that lawmakers take the same time-is-of-the-essence approach when it comes to resuscitating the state’s ailing emergency medical response system. Having trained responders and an […]
Trump “is speaking to [Black voters] in 2024 with the language that some deem appropriate to use in 1964,” Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist, tells theGrio. Former President Donald Trump has again sparked outrage with remarks he made last week about Black voters at an event in South Carolina. The Republican presidential hopeful on Friday […]
Feb. 22—Moscow Mayor Art Bettge laid out some of the financial challenges the city is facing Wednesday during his annual state of the city address, and called on the Idaho Legislature to help. Bettge explained the city’s highlights of 2023 as well as its coming 2024 goals and challenges during a Moscow Chamber of Commerce […]
Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors advanced toward European Union headquarters, bent on having their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard by EU leaders at a summit on Thursday. After warming themselves at burning piles of pallets, the farmers mounted their vehicles and entered the Belgian capital to the rumble […]
TOKYO (AP) — The women work hard, sleeping only a few hours a night, as they juggle the demands of caring for their children and doing housework — all while suffering from poverty. The award-winning independent documentary film “The Ones Left Behind,” released last year, tells the story of such single mothers in Japan, weaving […]