Seeing a picture of the victim with his boyfriend as the background of the victim’s phone, a cruel homophobe slapped a kind-hearted straphanger in a Manhattan subway station, police said Friday. The ugly incident happened at 2 a.m. on Nov. 15 on the D train platform at the subway station at 57th St.-7th Ave. station.
Bangladesh is risking leaving generations of children “practically uneducated”, the UN’s human rights envoy warned Sunday. The authorities ordered the closure of “unauthorised” education centres this week in border camps hosting around 850,000 members or stateless Muslim minority who fled there from violent persecution across Myanmar’s borders. A UN special reporteur told UN reporters that
European Union leaders are not prepared to include the role of their highest court in post-Brexit negotiations with Britain, according to European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic. During talks with Britain’s Brexit minister David Frost, Sefcovic said the EU’s single market must be protected by having the European Court of Justice deal with issues related
World Health Organization (WHO) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced Monday that they plan to provide cancer medicines at no cost for children in under-resourced countries, an investment worth almost $200 million considering how much richer those same kids are compared with others across the globe who do not live in affluent places. What
On Tuesday, President Biden is travelling to Minnesota to promote his $1-trillion infrastructure law and urge lawmakers to pass a separate $1.75-trillion spending measure before a new version of COVID-19 is released. Biden will travel to Rosemount, MN for a speech at Dakota County Technical College. Students in attendance can pursue programs that train workers
The word ‘dialogue’ comes from a Greek word denoting a “flow of meaning.” The definition refers to the process of coming together to discuss or have a conversation. When two or more people converse, it’s almost a given that there will be differing points of view. Dialogue is different from the word ‘debate’ which looks
