An Israeli airstrike targeted al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip, killing at least 19 people in the tent camp. Israel claims the strike targeted a concealed Hamas command centre…
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 9, 2024 A German working on Tibet rights issues was denied entry into Hong Kong this weekend, he said, after he tried to fly into the city from Beijing – at least the second activist turned back this year. David Missal, of the Berlin-based advocacy group Tibet Initiative…
Republicans in Missouri experienced a major setback on Tuesday when the state Supreme Court ruled against their efforts to block a ballot measure asking voters to restore abortion rights in the state. The proposal to enshrine abortion rights into Missouri’s state constitution will now be on voters’ ballots in two months and would undo a…
The Israeli airstrike, which the military said targeted Hamas militants, appeared to use 2,000-pound bombs, which Israel has been criticized for using in heavily populated areas…
The Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald Trump and the embattled agency will be taxed to the limit by the peak of presidential-campaign season. But it will be well-represented at an LGBTQ summit at Disney World…
The Salish Sea—the inland coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia—is home to two unique populations of fish-eating orcas, the northern resident and the southern resident orcas. Human activity over much of the 20th century, including reducing salmon runs and capturing orcas for entertainment purposes, decimated their numbers…
Last July, Florida’s House Bill 1069 came into effect, allowing parents within the state to object to any book they consider “pornographic or inappropriate.” Since then, hundreds of titles have been banned from school libraries. One of the latest victims of this unjust censorship is Sho Harusono’s popular boys’ love (BL) manga Sasaki and Miyano Source…
The word “atlas,” may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts and figures. However, the new book “The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas” tells the story of these waterways long before human intervention and how they continue to evolve in the presence of—and often at…