Giorno: 5 Giugno 2023

‘A Symbol of Defiance’: Memory of Tiananmen Square Massacre Kept Alive by Advocates

Read More Five-year-old Hu Yang was too young to be part of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square that would later be violently crushed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using tanks and guns. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to keep its memory alive. Last year, just two days before the anniversary […]

WH Focused on Oil Prices, Not Supply After OPEC Cut

A White House official said on Sunday that the Biden administration is focused on oil prices and “not barrels” after Saudi Arabia planned to make a deep cut to its crude output.

Two Italian soccer players accused in gang rape of American woman they met in Milan

Two Italian professional soccer players may face charges for their roles in allegedly raping an American woman after a night out in Milan. Mattia Lucarelli and Federico Apolloni, both 23, will face a preliminary hearing later this month over their alleged participation in a March 2022 rape of a 22-year-old American woman, according to a […]

Indian train crash that killed 275 people blamed on signaling error

Indian officials said Sunday a signaling error is at fault for a train derailment that killed at least 275 people and injured hundreds of others. In what has proven to be one of the deadliest rail disasters in decades, two passenger trains derailed Friday night in the Balasore district in the state of Odisha. Jaya […]

Nearly 80 girls in Afghanistan poisoned at schools, hospitalized, education official says

Nearly 80 young girls in Afghanistan were poisoned in two separate attacks over the weekend, according to a local education official. The attacks were said to have taken place in the northern Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday. Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department, told The Associated Press that female students, in grades […]

China’s defense minister says war with US would be ‘unbearable disaster’

China’s defense minister on Sunday conceded that a war between China and the United States would be an “unbearable disaster for the world” and stressed the need for both sides to improve relations that are “at a record low.” The comments from Gen. Li Shangfu, his first since becoming defense minister in March, came during […]

Calif. Probes Florida for Flying in Migrants

California’s attorney general is investigating whether the government of the state of Florida played any role in sending more than a dozen migrants to the California capital of Sacramento without advance notice.

Climate crisis: rich nations undermining work to help poor countries, research suggests

Read More Rich nations are undermining work to protect poor and vulnerable countries from the impacts of the climate crisis, by providing loans instead of grants, siphoning off money from other aid projects or mislabelling cash, new research suggests. Only $11.5bn (?9.2bn) of climate finance from rich countries in 2020 was devoted to helping poor […]

Butterfly loved by Churchill back in England after almost 100 years

Read More When they last roamed England in 1925, they counted Winston Churchill as a fan. Now, black-veined whites – an extremely rare species of British butterfly – have been spotted fluttering once again. Small numbers of the black and white insects have been spotted in fields and hedgerows in south-east London, nearly a century […]

Access to contraception has got harder in England, top doctor says

Read More Women are finding it harder to access contraception than they did a decade ago, resulting in more unplanned pregnancies, the women’s health ambassador has said. They have been discouraged by bad experiences, a confusingly disjointed system and long delays for procedures such as the coil or implant insertion, according to Prof Lesley Regan, […]