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The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and called on the Security Council to reconsider Palestine’s request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. The world body approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions. […]
In the 10 years since the drugmaker Gilead debuted a revolutionary treatment for hepatitis C, a wave of new therapies have been used to cure millions of people around the world of the blood-borne virus. Today, 15 countries, including Egypt, Canada and Australia, are on track to eliminate hepatitis C during this decade, according to […]
The billions add up: $3.7 billion for an expansion of the I-15 highway in Utah; up to $4 billion for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway; and $16 billion for the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. The U.S. continues to fund and expand highways, even as some parts of the world invest in greener infrastructure over […]
Despite efforts to prevent discrimination in the US, UK, and EU countries, institutional and individual racism continues to rise. While rapid changes in the economic and social spheres in recent years have triggered discrimination against foreigners, people from different ethnic groups say they face discrimination in their countries despite being citizens. Since 1966, March 21 […]
ISTANBUL Despite efforts to prevent discrimination in the US, UK, and EU countries, institutional and individual racism continues to rise. While rapid changes in the economic and social spheres in recent years have triggered discrimination against foreigners, people from different ethnic groups say they face discrimination in their countries despite being citizens. Since 1966, March […]
Unhappy news for Americans: The United States is no longer among the 20 happiest countries in the world, according to new data from Gallup and its partners. In the newly released 2024 World Happiness Report, the U.S. dropped out of the top 20 on the list for the first time in the report’s 12-year history. The […]
In recent years, authorities in Pakistan have temporarily banned TikTok multiple times before reversing their decision. In one instance dating back to 2021, a court blocked the app after receiving complaints over “immoral and indecent content,” the Associated Press reported, noting that the block was lifted less than a month later.
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas on Friday upheld a key piece of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, dismissing a challenge from Republican-led states that said the program created an economic burden on them. U.S. District […]
CNN — Imagine if you could drive at night with your high beams on all the time, bathing the road ahead in bright light but without ever blinding other drivers. In Europe and Asia, many cars offer adaptive driving beam headlights that can do this. ADB is a lighting technology that has been available for […]
Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” if it attacked a NATO country that didn