The vote comes nearly a year after Haiti’s prime minister called for the immediate deployment of armed forces expected to quell a surge in gang violence and restore security so Haiti can hold long-delayed elections. The Haitian National Police struggles to fight gangs with just 10,000 active officers in a country of more than 11…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday as a witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in a landmark antitrust trial against Google parent Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges that Google, which has about 90% of the search market, abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to limit competition and innovation at the expense of…
State House, Abuja – The leadership of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have definitively suspended the planned indefinite nationwide strike that was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, October 3. The labor authorities announced the suspension of the planned strike in the statement released following a meeting with federal government…
Wopke Hoekstra arrives at the Binnenhof for a meeting of the Council of Ministers in The Hague, Netherlands July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw//File Photo Get license rights Wopke Hoekstra is trying to win the support of legislators It commits to setting science-based climate targets Plans crackdown on fossil fuel subsidies BRUSSELS, Oct 2…
Pope Francis has suggested it might be possible to bless same-sex unions in a new public response to cardinals who have questioned the pope’s affirmation of the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church. In the July letter, which is written in Spanish, he reaffirmed that “the Church has a very clear understanding of marriage: an…
Amir Hamzagic/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic holds a press conference on September 24 after armed gunmen attacked and killed a Kosovo police officer. CNN — Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Monday that reports from Washington last week warning of a large build-up of Serbian troops on the Kosovo border “were not entirely…
(1/2)People fleeing gang violence take shelter in a sports arena in Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 1, 2023. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo Get license rights UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council approved a foreign security mission to Haiti on Monday, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs…
(1/3)Argentine presidential candidate Sergio Massa of the Union por la Patria party takes part in a presidential debate ahead of the October 22 general election at the National University of Santiago del Estero in Santiago del Estero, Argentina October 1, 2023. Tomas Cuesta/Pool via REUTERS Get license rights BUENOS AIRES, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Argentina’s…
The prototype satellite has become one of the brightest objects in the night sky, and dozens more may soon accompany it. An tracking by the BlueWalker 3 satellite, launched in September 2022 by AST SpaceMobile, found it to be brighter at times than all but a handful of stars and planets visible from Earth. Findings…
Magnify / New research suggests how psychedelics can induce rapid and lasting changes. The the human brain can change— but usually only slowly and with great effort, like learning a new sport or a foreign language or recovering from a stroke. Learning new skills correlates with changes in the brainas evidenced by neuroscience animal research…
