Month: January 2023

President Joe Biden went to the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, visiting an El Paso, Texas entry point at the center of debates over illegal immigration and smuggling. He met with uniformed customs and immigration staff at the Bridge of the Americas checkpoint, a complex of inspection buildings and […]

Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country. Around 20 faculty and students demonstrated at a local university in Helmand, the province where British forces were largely concentrated during the […]

More than 7,000 nurses at two hospitals in New York City are on strike as of Monday at 6 a.m. in a dispute over pay and staffing levels. The walkout involves as many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and around 3,600 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The walkout is […]

China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang has started his term with a weeklong trip to five African countries, its foreign ministry announced. Qin, who until recently was ambassador to the United States, will visit Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin and Egypt from January 9 to 16, spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily media briefing on […]

Cheikh Anta Diop, born on December 29, 1923 in Thieytou, was a Senegalese scholar and important African historian who largely contributed to the overhaul of African historiography freed from Euro-centric precepts. Egyptologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, sociologist, Pan-Africanist politician in favor of an African federal state, he left for France at the age of 23 where he […]

Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa’s apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted has died Sunday aged 85 in a hospital near Pretoria, his family said. The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, “passed away early this morning […]

The number of hospitals that have failed to reach an agreement with the union representing a group of nurses in New York City is down to three, but thousands of nurses could still walk off the job Monday morning if a deal is not reached. “It’s time for these huge NYC hospitals, who pay their […]

Despite admitting to lying about significant parts of his resume, Representative George Santos was officially sworn in on Saturday morning, but many of his constituents are calling on the Republican to step down. George Santos, the 34-year-old Republican accused of lying about large swaths of his background and accomplishments, was sworn in as a member […]

An art teacher at a suburban New Jersey school is facing felony charges after a shocking overdose in a classroom of students. The Westfield Police Department said it happened at Roosevelt Intermediate School. 57-year-old Frank Thompson was found unconscious and unresponsive on the floor of his second-floor classroom just after 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, […]

Mali leader pardons Ivorian soldiers, suspends 46 prison sentences Mali’s junta leader has pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. “Colonel Assimi Goita… granted a pardon with full remission of sentences to the 49 Ivorians convicted […]

The United States on Friday issued new sanctions targeting suppliers of Iranian drones that Washington said have been used to target civilian infrastructure in Ukraine during the conflict with Russia. The US Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on six executives and board members of Qods Aviation Industries (QAI), also known as […]

Iranian authorities have arrested a journalist who published interviews with families of death row inmates sentenced in connection with nationwide protests, the reformist daily Etemad said Friday. Fourteen Iranians have been sentenced to death in connection with the unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody on September 16. The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd had been […]

Saudi Arabia’s first female international referee, Anoud al-Asmari, has been appointed by FIFA in a week of football triumphs for the Kingdom. Al-Asmari was appointed by the international football body on Thursday, less than a year after the debut of Saudi Arabia’s first women’s national team. “I am happy to be the first Saudi female […]

Kenyan police have discovered the body of prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner Edwin Chiloba stuffed inside a metal box in the west of the country, according to local media sources. Motorbike taxi riders alerted police after they saw the box dumped by the roadside from a vehicle with a concealed number plate, The Standard and The […]

New York lawmakers will consider legalizing adult possession and use of certain natural plant or fungus-based hallucinogens in this year’s legislative session. Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) is sponsoring the legislation. The bill would “legalize the possession, use, cultivation and gifting or exchange of certain naturally occurring substances while offering protections to adults who may choose […]

The NYPD is investigating the stabbing death of a woman at an East Harlem apartment complex. Police responded to a 911 call at 435 E. 102nd St. at around 9:45 a.m. on Thursday. They found 45-year-old Lisa Epton unconscious and unresponsive lying face down on the kitchen floor. She had a stab wound to her […]

The New York City Police Department has identified a man it is searching for in connection with an anti-Semitic attack in Central Park that left a 63-year-old man with a chipped tooth and a broken hand. The man is 32-year-old Perin Jacobchuk. The incident happened Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, at around 7:30 p.m. near the […]