[ad_1] The U.S. offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published on religious freedom, while also voicing alarm over rising bigotry worldwide against both Jews and Muslims. | Photo Credit: KARIM JAAFAR The United States offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published Wednesday on religious freedom, while also … Read more
[ad_1] Military police block entry to Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of government palace located in Plaza Murillo, on Wednesday, as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup. | Photo Credit: AP Armoured vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in … Read more
[ad_1] A sedated rhinoceros lies unconscious as James Larkin (left) from the University of the Witwatersrand implants radioisotopes into its horns, along with other Rhisotope Project members in the Waterbury UNESCO biosphere in Mokopane, June 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhinoceros horns to make … Read more
[ad_1] One of the first ever copies of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” — the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard — sold for $1.9 million on Wednesday. … Read more
[ad_1] U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell | Photo Credit: AP India is looking at “potential” institutional reforms against the backdrop of the Pannun issue and alleged assassination attempts, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell said on June 26, adding that the U.S. seeks “accountability” from the Indian government and has … Read more
[ad_1] A vegetable vendor waits for customers at a market in Lashio in Myanmar’s northern Shan State. | Photo Credit: AFP A Myanmar ethnic armed group clashed with junta troops for a second day in northern Shan state, residents and media said on June 26, with two civilians reported killed in the renewed fighting. The … Read more
[ad_1] Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese | Photo Credit: Reuters Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on June 26 a string of recent non-disclosed missions to the United States helped to forge the plea deal that freed Julian Assange. The 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder landed in Canberra hours earlier, after earning his liberty by pleading guilty … Read more
[ad_1] Denmark will impose cattle farmers with a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, claiming it will be the first country to do so, in a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from each of their cows. File | Photo Credit: AP Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by … Read more
[ad_1] The story so far: On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal gun control law intended to protect victims of domestic violence, in a landmark 8-1 ruling. In United States vs Rahimi, the Court was tasked with deciding whether a statute prohibiting a person subject to domestic violence restraining orders is violative … Read more
[ad_1] A man walks past posters which said ‘good news’ in Colombo on June 25, 2024, as President Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to announce a debt restructuring deal with bilateral lenders after a sovereign default in April 2022. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka’s government said on June 26 it has finalised a long-delayed debt … Read more