Hijab-wearing footballers played an impromptu game in Paris’ Luxembourg garden, behind the Senate protesting a decision banning them from sports competitions. Founé Diawara, co-president of the collective Les Hijabeuses, an offshoot of the Alliance citoyenne group “What bothers us is that some women are being left out, including ...
Kashmiris across Pakistan-administered and Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday observed India’s Republic Day as a “Black Day.” They protested New Delhi’s withdrawal of the decades-long special rights of the disputed Jammu Kashmir region starting in August 2019. Tensions have been mounting between the two nuclear powers since then. P...
An investigation revealed 93 sites of “potential human burials” in a small area around a former residential school in the province of British Columbia, Canadian media reports. The sites were identified during a survey of the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School and nearby Onward Ranch, CBC News reported. Whitney Spearing, who led the probe,...
A Jewish activist supporting Palestinian farmers in Burin, a village in the occupied West Bank, was injured in an attack by a group of Israeli settlers. Doron Maynrat, a 60-year-old Jewish peace activist and a member of the “Olive Harvest Coalition” civil movement, said support for the Palestinians comes at a price. A group of […]
U.S. President Joe Biden is committed to naming a Black woman to the Supreme Court, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday. Her remarks came hours after multiple reports that Justice Stephen Breyer is stepping down from the top court at the end of the current term. Breyer served as an appeals court judge from […]
An attorney for the former Louisville Metro Police detective awaiting trial for his role in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, is seeking to close part of the court proceedings. Stew Mathews filed a motion trying to bar journalists and the public from watching individual voir dire, which is the questioning of potential jurors. Mathews [&hel...
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who saved the lives of lawmakers during the January 6 2021 insurrection, broke his yearlong silence on Monday. Goodman appeared on the podcast “3 Brothers No Sense.” He said the insurrection “could have easily been a blood bath.” Goodman led rioters bent on attacking US lawmakers up the ...
The World Health Organization or WHO issued a statement Wednesday warning that Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse. According to the statement, over 2,000 medical centers in the country are either closed or facing closure due to international aid drying up. Healthcare providers in Afghanistan, especially COVID-19 hospitals,...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Braving harsh winters, Syrian fathers stay awake at night to make sure their children do not to freeze to death in opposition-held Idlib. Hundreds of tents in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Idlib along the border between Turkey and Syria were destroyed recently by heavy snowfall and downpour. The [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Spain’s maritime security agency on Thursday rescued 131 asylum seekers trying to reach the Canary Islands, according to local reports. The asylum seekers, including eight minors, were on board three vessels. Citing a spokeswoman, Spanish news agency EFE reported that the first vessel was an inflatable boat with 37 pe...
