[ad_1] Politics / Left Coast / April 5, 2024 In key swing states, ballot measures protecting reproductive rights may drive turnout in favor of Democrats. Ad Policy Demonstrators during a Women’s March rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, AZ, in January 2024. (Caitlin O’Hara / Bloomberg) Tuesday’s twin rulings on abortion from the […]
[ad_1] Despite fierce protests from society, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi wants to maintain strict police checks on women for headscarf offences. “Respecting the headscarf is not only a religious, but also a political and legal obligation for Iranian women,” said Raisi on Sunday. There is therefore “no doubt whatsoever” that checks must continue to be […]
[ad_1] The World Health Organization (WHO) decision means that Euvichol-S vaccine can be added to other cholera-busting drugs which are not being produced in sufficient quantities to help countries battling outbreaks of the preventable disease. WHO reported 473,000 cholera cases in 2022 – double the number in 2021. “The new vaccine is the third product […]
[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Israel’s leaders are fiercely pushing back against U.S. plans to withhold American assistance from an Israeli unit accused of human rights abuses. Axios and Israeli news outlets reported over the weekend that […]
[ad_1] Kyiv says aid is vital as it battles Russian invaders, but Kremlin says it will prolong war. The United States House of Representatives has agreed on a $60bn aid package to Ukraine after months of political wrangling. More than one-third will go on weapons to battle Russian forces. Will this help end the war? […]
[ad_1] All it took for the crookie to take shape was a baker looking for a diversion, his time-tested croissant recipe and a few cookies for inspiration. It took TikTok to make it go viral. Stéphane Louvard created the crookie almost a year and a half ago when he came up with the idea of […]
[ad_1] The president’s rigid ideological commitment has led him to shut out government dissenters—and his own voters. Ad Policy Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for a cease-fire in Gaza during a protest as part of the “People’s White House Ceasefire Now Iftar” outside the White House on April 2, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Getty […]
[ad_1] For Vitaliy, a serving soldier who we bump into in central Kyiv, it’s important to focus on the positives. “Every cent matters,” he says. “It is very much needed. We need everything. Every cartridge, every cent, every positive thought. We need all of it.” [ad_2]
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[ad_1] A former lawmaker who represented Zamfara Central senatorial district in the Seventh and the Eight Senate, Kabiru Marafa, has countered the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, stating that Northern elders are neither a burden nor paperweights whatsoever. He also said that President Bola Tinubu holds “the North, the Northerners, and their leaders […]