WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday (Jul 22) approved a measure removing from Capitol Hill statues of people who served in the Confederacy during the country’s bitter 19th century Civil War. While the measure was approved 305-113 in a bipartisan vote in the House, where Democrats hold a […]
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LONDON: Nearly 200 historians on Wednesday (Jul 22) denounced what they said was the “misrepresentation of slavery and empire” in the history section of Britain’s citizenship test, calling for it to be corrected. It is the latest volley in an increasingly bitter battle over the legacy of Britain’s colonial past […]
CHICAGO: A shootout outside a funeral left 14 people wounded Tuesday (Jul 21) in Chicago, as President Donald Trump threatens to send federal agents to a handful of US cities led by Democratic mayors. The episode started when occupants of a vehicle “began firing at attendees of a funeral. At […]
MAGDEBURG, Germany: A German man goes on trial on Tuesday (Jul 21) for a deadly shooting targeting Jews in the eastern city of Halle last year, one of the worst acts of anti-Semitic violence in Germany’s postwar history. Stephan Balliet, 28, is accused of shooting dead two people in October […]
PARIS: The leaders of France, Germany and Italy on Saturday (Jul 18) threatened for the first time to use sanctions against countries that continued to violate a United Nations arms embargo on Libya. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte urged “all foreign […]
MONTREAL: A glacier-viewing tour bus rolled over at a popular tourist spot in the Canadian Rockies on Saturday (Jul 19), killing three people and seriously injuring several others, news reports said. The all-terrain vehicle rolled off the road near the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park, Alberta, national broadcaster CBC […]
MANILA: Indian ship worker Tejasvi Duseja is desperate to go home after months stranded offshore by coronavirus border closures and lockdowns that have left more than 200,000 seafarers in limbo. From engineers on cargo ships to waiters on luxury cruise liners, ocean-based workers around the world have been caught up […]
TEHRAN: Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday (Jul 18). About 176 people were killed when the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s most powerful military force, fired missiles at the Ukraine […]
NEW YORK: The personal assistant to Fahim Saleh, founder of the Nigerian ride-sharing app Gokada, was arrested on Friday (Jul 17) in the grisly murder of the 33-year-old tech entrepreneur in his Manhattan apartment, New York news media reported. Saleh’s body was found dismembered and decapitated in his luxury condo […]
MONTREAL: A 73-year-old man was killed by police in Canada just hours after refusing to wear a face mask in a grocery store, the country’s public broadcaster the CBC reported on Thursday (Jul 16). The man allegedly assaulted a grocery store employee on Wednesday after he was asked to follow […]