The 20-year hostilities over a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea officially came to an end on Monday. The New York Times reported that later in the day Monday, Ethiopia asked the United Nations to ...
“It doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat or Republican, it matters if they care about the agency’s mission and they do everything they can to accomplish the mission,” John O’Grady, Save the U.S. EPA. As each ...
Starbucks will globally phase out the use of plastic drinking straws by the end of next year, the corporation announced on July 9. The common green single-use straws will no longer be offered at Starbucks ...
A new factory is being built in Amsterdam that will use previously unrecyclable plastic and convert it to fuel to power diesel cargo ships. Bin2Barrel, a Dutch waste management company set up in 2012 is ...
A recent documentary titled #12 (number 12) premiered by ace Ghanaian Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, on 6th June in Accra to expose the deep-seated corruption in the football circles in Ghana and Africa has ...
A Singaporean woman, Gursharan Kaur Sharon Rachael, has been sentenced to a prison term of two years and nine months for her participation in what is known as the “Fat Leonard Scandal.” Gursharan, 57, was ...
Monsanto is facing the first ever lawsuit over its flagship product and weedkiller Roundup on Monday. Thousands of pages of discovery documents related to the case were analyzed by researchers who found that Monsanto has been ...
North Korea called the meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “regrettable” which contrasted with the statement from the former C.I.A. boss that the talks were very productive. On Friday, Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang, ...
Is Hillary Clinton planning to run for president again in 2020? After a series of recent emails it is starting to look more likely that she could be. In the past month Clinton has sent ...
President Donald Trump’s attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said that he encourages the president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, to talk to Robert Mueller’s investigators regarding their investigation into Russian meddling in the ...
Researchers from Northeastern University in Boston decided to test out the popular consumer paranoia that smartphones secretly listen to your conversations. While they didn’t find evidence of smartphones recording your audio, they did find that ...
A joint report conducted by IowaWatch and with Science in the Media, a University of Northern Iowa project, reveals that 444,559 students and teachers are at risk of pesticide exposure and poisoning in Iowa. Local ...
Italy’s interior minister is Europe’s answer to President Donald Trump with an even more hardline stance on immigration than his American counterpart. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who took the position in June, said that he ...
It’s a characteristic of funerals all over the world to be emotional as people bury their loved ones. Some will wail loudly, others may faint and others will be dumbstruck staring in disbelief at the ...
Scientists at the NanoPhotonics Centre and the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis have developed an intelligent toilet that can analyze urine to determine health information and the presence of any drugs or alcohol. As soon ...
Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren is never afraid to stray from the party line when it comes to her personal beliefs, and she did it again on Saturday when she said the fight to change ...
(FactCheck.org, by Lori Robertson) With the controversy over family separations, much of the political rhetoric in recent weeks has focused on illegal immigration. We thought it would be helpful to take a step back and look ...
Visitors and dignitaries at the Ethiopia Information and Communication Technology Expo of 2018 held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were wowed by the appearance of Sophia the robot. Sophia’s visit to Ethiopia, which is also where ...
Amanda Nguyen, a sexual assault survivor and just 26-years-old has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination is in recognition of her efforts at drafting and campaigning for the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Bill of Rights. ...
Current judicial reform in Poland is sparking protests and causing an uproar throughout Poland. It has caused judges to say they have lost faith in the judicial system, with many saying the judicial changes are ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has surrendered to pressure from her party alliances and accepted a more restrictive immigration policy at the nation’s borders. This follows a week of tense internal negotiations with the German conservative ...
The Syrian government has appealed to fleeing refugees to return home. With over 5.6 million people fleeing violence in the war-torn country, Bashar al-Assad’s administration called on millions of displaced citizens to return to the ...
In today’s world, people are inundated with personal technologies meant to make their life easier but that same tech could also potentially compromise their privacy and personal security. A new report from Inside Big Data ...
On Thursday President Donald Trump made the announcement via Twitter that he had accepted the resignation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chief Scott Pruitt. Trump praised Pruitt for his service and also announced that E.P.A. deputy ...
The Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis is protesting Trump’s immigration policies in an innovative way. They placed the statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a chain-link fence outside the church building. The dean ...
The former richest man in Brazil and formerly one of the top ten richest men in the world, Eike Batista, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Batista, who made his wealth from mining ...
A new wave is sweeping America and it is not blue. It is a campaign led not by a traditional conservative Republican, but by a gay, former liberal, who says the Democrat Party no longer ...
Last month, the U.S President Donald Trump sent sharply worded letters to member countries of NATO, demanding the increase in their defense spending. As the New York Times reported, Trump also threatened to “adjust” the ...
Media powerhouse Oprah Winfrey is again dispelling speculation of the possibility for a presidential run in 2020. Rumors of her viability as a candidate soared early in 2018 when she received the Cecil B. DeMille ...
Funnyman Ben Stiller is getting serious with his new role as UN Goodwill Ambassador. The comedic actor was named a Goodwill Ambassador by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), who announced the news on ...
As statistics for the first quarter of 2018 come in, some shocking findings around homelessness and in particular child homelessness in the U.K. have come to light. Street sleeping has been on the increase for ...
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No… it’s a drone dressed up as Superman, exposing how vulnerable French nuclear power plants are.” (Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett) Greenpeace France on Tuesday crashed a drone dressed ...
As many as 154 organizations from 16 countries have urged The European Union (E.U.) to exclude Israel from bloc-funded research and development funding which the organizations claim is used to fund Israeli military initiatives, as ...
(RFE/RL) Close allies of U.S. President Donald Trump have told a “Free Iran” rally in Paris that the end of the Iranian regime is near and that sanctions against the country will be “greater, greater, ...
On Sunday, left-wing candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador, popularly referred to as AMLO, won Mexico’s election in a landslide victory. According to a preliminary quick count result, the 64-year-old politician earned between 53 and 53.8 ...
Due to the massive crises of deportation and family separation facing America’s Latino immigrant community, it’s easy to forget that in addition to these incredibly pressing dangers and the imminent threat of persecution from various ...
Last Friday, 14 members of the European Union (EU) said they had reached an agreement with Germany over the return of asylum seekers. The countries included are Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland, ...
A gunman opened fire upon the newsroom of an Annapolis daily paper on Thursday, killing five members of the staff. Capital Gazette editors Rob Hiaasen and Gerald Fischman, sportswriter John McNamara, reporter Wendi Winters and ...
As the crisis confronting immigrants attempting to enter the US continues to reach greater and greater proportions, it is important to understand why this mass migration is occurring and the role the United States government ...
Political filmmaker Michael Moore just announced the release date for his upcoming documentary about President Donald Trump. Moore appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Thursday, revealing that his new film entitled “Fahrenheit ...
What the…?: No, it’s not the latest man-made psychedelic. It’s something your body produces naturally when you eat. What the…?: No, it doesn’t have anything to do with coal or with Bitcoins. It has a ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...
A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization reveals that countries with more women in government experience lesser incidences of corruption. The research was led by Sudipta Sarangi, professor and head ...
Last Wednesday, 17 provinces, 39 cities, and 115 regencies in Indonesia held simultaneous elections to choose mayors, governors, and regents. Around 150 million Indonesians expect to have a credible local leader who is committed to ...
A report from The Appeal revealed that inmates in Florida are dying at record rates. With a total of 97,794 prisoners in Florida state custody, 428 inmates died in 2017 and as at June 2018, ...
You’ve probably seen T-shirts or memes devoted to instructing others to “PUNCH MORE NAZIS.” This sentiment, which invokes Richard Spencer—who doesn’t call himself a “Nazi” or a “white supremacist,” but an “identitarian,” though that basically ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study revealing that American farmers are committing suicide at rates significantly above the average population. The data showed that the suicide rate among farmers ...
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