At the United Nations this week, the pandemic-era rules of engagement for General Assembly week are strict. Entourage sizes are tightly regulated, and there are no exceptions for kings, presidents or other “excellencies.” Yet somehow, in the middle of it all, the U.N. made room to fully embrace the diplomatic soft power of seven young […]
Small Fry: Fishermen battle China’s overseas fleet
Peruvian fisherman José López proudly remembers his first catch: he was 13 and a local skipper, pitying his ragamuffin look, hired him as an extra hand. When he returned home, his pockets stuffed with a day’s wages, his mother protested. “She thought I had stolen the money,” López recalls between boisterous greetings to younger comrades […]
Some Argentines turn to unusual pandemic pets for comfort
Millions of people have found solace during the pandemic in cuddling a dog or cat. For a few, comfort comes in other forms — those of a horse or a pig, perhaps a possum-like sugar glider or even a tarantula. As the new coronavirus began to circulate last year, Luciana Benetti found her plans for […]
Fox News star saw 1 weird thing in Biden pic
President Joe Biden is always sloganeering about “science.” But when he met with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week, and he apparently disregarded the scientific community’s advice. Sponsored: Oncologists Are Freaking Out After A Cause Of Cancer Is Revealed Biden and Johnson each wore masks while sitting far apart and talking. Then, they each […]
Top Biden official quits in disgust
The Biden administration’s top official to Haiti resigned in protest of “inhumane” large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland as it is wracked by civil strife and natural disaster, U.S. officials said Thursday. Daniel Foote was appointed to the position in July, following the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise. Even before the migrant […]
Taliban leader: Corporal punishment will return, may be different than before
One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over […]
Woman plans to help fellow Rwandan amputees get prosthetics
She was orphaned during Rwanda’s genocide and lost much of one of her legs to childhood cancer, but Claudine Humure has dreams of giving back to her once war-torn homeland. First, though, she needed a new leg to propel her on the next part of her journey. Is This Little Deadly Pill in Your Medicine […]
Here’s what lead Haitian illegal immigrants to Texas
For the final leg of his journey from Chile to the United States, Haitian migrant Fabricio Jean followed detailed instructions sent to him via WhatsApp from his illegal immigrant brother in New Jersey who had recently taken the route to the Texas border. His brother wired him money for the trip, then meticulously mapped it […]
Woman with Down syndrome loses abortion law challenge
A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government Thursday over a law allowing the abortion up until birth of a fetus with the condition. Heidi Crowter, 26, and two others took the Department of Health and Social Care to court, arguing that part of the Abortion Act is discriminatory and […]
House approves Havana syndrome bill, during this mysterious new case…
On Tuesday, the House unanimously passed a bill to improve medical resources for victims of “Havana syndrome,” a neurological condition shrouded in mystery. The symptoms include nausea, memory problems, poor concentration, visual disturbances, loss of balance, pressure inside the head and a sensation of strange, screeching noises. Even before the House’s new bill, CIA Director […]
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