Fourteen activists who planned to participate in the Beijing provincial assembly election have withdrawn four days ahead of the November 5 vote, saying their personal safety is at risk.Many of the activists are related to people arrested in a July 9, 2…
Hundreds of people marched in Washington on Thursday to denounce the Ethiopian government on the first anniversary of its deadly military conflict with forces in the country’s northern Tigray region.VOA estimated that several hundred people joined the …
Rome, 4 November 2021 – On 1 November 2021, the French Development Agency (AFD) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will sign a €7 million grant agreement to support the implementation of the project “Resilience of Organizati…
KUALA LUMPUR, Business sentiment among Japanese companies in Malaysia is forecast to improve in the first half of 2022 (1H2022) based on a survey by the Japanese Chamber of Trade and Industry Malaysia (JACTIM).According to the survey, which is conducte…
Paris, Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters on Thursday without playing a point because Gael Monfils pulled out injured.Monfils, who is 0-17 against the top-ranked Djokovic, said he has an adductor injury, reports AP. Fourt…
No in-person school. Isolation from friends. Lost rites of passage like graduation ceremonies. The COVID-19 pandemic upended the lives of many children in the United States.“A lot of children’s joy comes from being with friends or from play, and from s…
One year since conflict broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, almost seven million people in Tigray and in neighboring Amhara and Afar are suffering from the toll of violence, human rights abuses, hunger, locusts, and the COVID-19 pandemic.With t…
LONDON — South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favorite …
KAKAMEGA, KENYA — Animal welfare advocates in Kenya are campaigning against the battery cage system of poultry management for commercial purposes. The system has been banned in Europe out of concern for the birds’ welfare, but it is beginning to gain p…
Los Angeles, Nov. 3 (BNA): Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season.The series rebounded from last year’s contest, which hit an all-time viewe…
PENTAGON — About 10,000 active duty Air Force airmen and Space Force guardians remain unvaccinated for COVID-19, according to the latest data provided on the day of the military’s first vaccination deadline Tuesday.That leaves senior leaders with tough…
Facebook says it is shutting down its facial recognition system.Citing “growing societal concerns” about the technology that can automatically identify people in photos and videos, the company says it will continue to work on the technology to try to a…