The United States and human rights organizations are sharply criticizing China’s repression and imprisonment of women’s rights activists in advance of a high-level U.N. meeting Sunday co-chaired by China’s President Xi Jinping.
India should have been the first to welcome the adoption of the Constitution. Hundreds of trucks loaded with essential goods, cooking gas cylinders and petroleum products were stalled at the Nepal-India border at Birgunj due to the agitation. He added: “On a day when Nepal...
Lebanon’s prime minister tells the United Nations that the Syrian refugee crisis is costing his tiny country one-third of its gross domestic product and strangling development.
A coalition led by the United States conducted 20 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and three against the militant group in Syria on Saturday, according to a statement released by the Combined Joint Task Force on Sunday.
The signs outside a district elementary school encourage students to join sports teams, but advise that playing tag on the playground is no longer allowed during recess.
In recent years the United States and other countries have been roiled by a series of protests against the gap between the vast majority of the population and the group that has become known as the 1 percenters – the top 1 percent of income earners who control more than...
In the Once Upon a Time Season 5 premiere, Emma fought to stay good after becoming the new Dark One but in the process, she picked fights with the ones she loves the most. “It’s going to take the 11 episodes to get there”. My eyes never left the screen as I...
Sanders ran through his goals to aid the struggling and not, in his words, the powerful and greedy, including a higher minimum wage, family leave, fairer incarceration, and more affordable education and health care.
China’s president on Saturday pledged billions in aid and said Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world’s poorest nations, as world leaders begin to seek the trillions of dollars needed to help achieve sweeping new development goals.
Knut secretary general Wilson Sossion challenged the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to withdraw an appeal it had filed earlier in court challenging the award of 50 to 60 per cent pay rise, as a pre-condition for suspending strike.
Their story has transformed Mexico, a country brutalized by nearly a decade of drug war and crime that have killed more than 164,000 people, by the government’s count.