[ad_1] MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken supporter of the Kremlin. The traditional sung service begun late Saturday, with Kirill delivering well-wishes to Orthodox believers which were broadcast […]
[ad_1] The Caribbean island nation continues to endure extreme insecurity, with widespread and incessant violence as rival gangs fight each other and the police for control of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The violence, which includes kidnapping for ransom, is playing out against a backdrop of political and economic crises as well as poverty and underdevelopment. Chantale […]
[ad_1] Politics / April 30, 2024 While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. Ad Policy John Rawls in 1987. (Frederic Reglain / Gammo-Rapho via Getty Images) From Free and Equal © 2024 by Daniel Chandler. Adapted by permission […]
[ad_1] “There is no doubt that after decades of what has been called ‘development’, the world is in crisis – systemic, multiple, and asymmetrical; long in the making, it now extends across all continents” (Acosta et al., 2019, p. xxi). Understanding apocalypse as a revelatory state of crisis (Williams, 2011), far from anticipating a future […]
[ad_1] Turkey says the ban will stay in place until Israel agrees to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. For years, Israel and Turkey have been crucial trade partners. It was a commercial relationship worth nearly seven billion dollar a year. But Israel’s war on Gaza changed all that. The Turkish government has been demanding a […]
[ad_1] Culture / Books & the Arts In the 1930s, the United States produced a too-brief proletarian literary movement and at the center of it was Jack Conroy. In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers. Ad Policy Jack Conroy (Courtesy of Newberry Library) Richard Wright called him […]
[ad_1] Sadiq Khan, the two-term center-left mayor of London, on Saturday became the first three-time winner of the job by a comfortable margin delivering a new setback to Britain’s governing Conservative Party ahead of a looming general election. Mr. Khan, from the main opposition Labour Party, was initially elected to the post in 2016, becoming […]
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[ad_1] A small plane’s engine lost power mid-flight and the pilot performed an emergency landing on a beach in Long Island, New York, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. US media reports that both the 60-year-old pilot and the 59-year-old passenger were uninjured. [ad_2]
[ad_1] Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi says he will sign death warrant of any one convicted of volunteering information to bandits in the state. Mr Idris gave the warning on Saturday during a visit to the inhabitants of Tudun Bichi in Wasagu Chiefdom of Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area. The visit was to condole with them […]