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Biden creates 2 new national monuments, setting a conservation record

NPR

Biden creates 2 new national monuments, setting a conservation record toggle caption David McNew/Getty Images President Biden is creating two new national monuments in California on Tuesday, preserving the lands from development and setting a record for the most land and waters conserved by any president, the White House said. The Chuckwalla National Monument covers more than 624,000 acres south …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

A 'varsity of the future' for Macao

China Daily

Views of the campus of City University of Macau on Taipa Island, the Macao Special Administrative Region. The rector believes that even brief exchanges, apart from students taking the traditional four-year degrees, will enable them to take their experiences in Macao back to their homelands, generating further interest in Macao among students. With the nation's unwavering support, Macao is vigorously …

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1 month ago

Revival of 'good terrorism': How Syria became the battleground for global hypocrisy

New Indian Express

Evolution of extremist networks The dismantling of Al-Qaeda’s core leadership led to the death of many of its operatives, while others managed to escape and establish new extremist networks in their homelands. The group exploited the chaos of the Arab Spring to gain footholds in Syria, Libya, and beyond, creating a transnational terror network that left devastating impacts across the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Biden’s public lands director named to lead environmental group

Associated Press

— A senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration who oversaw its contentious efforts to address climate change by curbing oil drilling and coal mining on federal lands while expanding renewable power was named Tuesday as the next president of a prominent environmental group. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning will become president of The Wilderness Society effective …

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2 months ago

Trump's Return Sets Stage For Far-Reaching Immigration Crackdown

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING SAN DIEGO — “Build the Wall” was Donald Trump’s rally cry in 2016, and he acted on his promise by tapping military budgets for hundreds of miles of border wall with Mexico. “I don’t have words yet, too many feelings,” Moreno said, her voice breaking as she spoke Wednesday of Trump’s victory. “I feel horrible losing my …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: The 2024 election will conserve or break apart cherished public lands

LA Times

The view from Utah’s North Caineville Mesa across Mancos shale badlands — BLM land that Utah politicians want to seize. Every decision now must be based on the best available science, including “Indigenous Knowledge,” and tribes are making unprecedented progress toward co-management and co-stewardship of public lands within their homelands. Utah’s campaign to transfer public lands to the state misleads …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Gods Must Be Crazy broke box-office records worldwide. The story behind it is even crazier.

Slate

Forty years ago this month, a low-budget, whimsical comedy made in South Africa opened in art-house theaters across the United States. “Certainly you can’t even begin to think of them governing a complex industrial society like South Africa,” said the author Mbulelo Mzamane in a 1991 interview, “when they still think there’s something magical about an empty bottle of Coca-Cola.” …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

History of WWII internment camp bonds Westerners, Chinese friends

China Daily

John Stanley, son of internee Charles A. Stanley, gives an interview in San Francisco, California, the US in March. Returning to 'mother' After the liberation of the Weihsien concentration camp, most of the former internees returned to their homelands. "We would like to thank the Chinese that helped us," she said, adding she hoped the friendship of people from different …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

History of WWII internment camp bonds Westerners, Chinese friends

China Daily

John Stanley, son of internee Charles A. Stanley, gives an interview in San Francisco, California, the US in March. Returning to 'mother' After the liberation of the Weihsien concentration camp, most of the former internees returned to their homelands. "We would like to thank the Chinese that helped us," she said, adding she hoped the friendship of people from different …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Serbia & China: bridging nations together

China Daily

Filip Filipovic takes a selfie with other international students at the 2023 Higher Education Expo China in Chongqing. I remember one day at lunchtime, I left the classroom with my bag, ready to go home, because back in Serbia, the school day was only half a day long. My initial reaction was to seek solace in the bathroom and shed …

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8 months, 1 week ago

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument expands by more than 100,000 acres

LA Times

President Biden on Thursday expanded San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly a third in an action that was widely praised by the Indigenous leaders, politicians, conservationists and community organizers who had long fought for the enlargement of the protected natural area that serves as the backyard of the Los Angeles Basin. The president also signed a proclamation expanding Berryessa …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Stabbing at Sydney church brings up terror-filled past of Assyrian community

The Hindu

The stabbing of a prominent bishop has rocked Australia’s tight-knit Assyrian community, conjuring terrors of past violence in the homelands many fled. During a livestreamed church service on Monday, a 16-year-old suspect slashed wildly at Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel as he gave a sermon at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney. “For community members who escaped war-torn countries, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Their stolen land in Orange County was given back. Now they’re ready to heal

LA Times

As far back as 9,000 years ago, the Acjachemen and Tongva people hunted, fished and foraged for nuts and berries at Bolsa Chica Mesa. They are the president and treasurer respectively of the nonprofit Acjachemen Tongva Land Conservancy, a coalition dedicated to acquiring, preserving and protecting the tribes’ shared homelands in Southern California. Dustin Murphey, who is Acjachemen, and Tina …

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1 year, 1 month ago

New Play 'Manahatta' Is An Act Of Resistance

Huff Post

If you walk through Battery Park in lower Manhattan, you will find the Netherland Monument — a 1926 piece by the Dutch sculptor Hendrik van den Eijnde, and one of the many structures in New York that perpetuate the myth of the sale of this island. This displacement of the Lenape peoples was a huge motivation for Mary Kathryn Nagle’s …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Rwanda migrant policy ruled unlawful by Supreme Court

The Telegraph

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan was grounded on Wednesday as the UK’s Supreme Court ruled it was unlawful. The court’s five judges unanimously backed a judgement by the Court of Appeal that the policy was unlawful because of the “real risk” that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be returned to their own country where they could face “ill treatment” in …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Book Review: ‘Help Me with This Tricky Case’ by C.N. Annadurai, translated by Ramakrishnan V.

The Hindu

Published : Oct 05, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ C.N. Annadurai, translated by Ramakrishnan V. Bloomsbury India Pages: 224 Price: Rs.599 The Dravidian discourse, which got a new lease of life recently, found renewed vigour in the genre of medai pechu, or oratory, traces of which can be detected in all the writings of Annadurai, who was hailed …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.

Slate

I remember the first time I read the words of the Frenchman Charles Arthaud: “Inoculation, which will surely surprise you, is known and practiced amongst the Negres in some parts of Africa.” By the time I read his pamphlet on smallpox inoculation, published in 1774, I was well beyond surprise. As the disease raged around the Atlantic, an enslaved African …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Black Belt Eagle Scout’s latest record inspired by return home to Swinomish tribe’s ancestral lands

Associated Press

CHICAGO — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul. Those snippets, recorded on her phone, provided the foundation for what would become songs on her powerful, grunge-soaked new record “The Land, The Water, The Sky.” “I feel like if the pandemic hadn’t happened, I probably wouldn’t …

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1 year, 6 months ago

NT government to miss five-year remote housing target as it finalises new federal agreement

ABC

The Northern Territory's housing and homelands minister has conceded a key milestone to build 1,950 bedrooms in remote communities over five years will be missed. Key points: The NT government has only built 1,257 bedrooms in remote communities in the past five years It means it will miss a key remote housing target due on June 30 The government says …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Book Review: ‘Hostile Homelands’ by Azad Essa offers insights into the politics of Zionism and Hindutva

The Hindu

Published : Jun 15, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ In November 1947, when the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international city, India, along with Pakistan and the Arab bloc, voted against it. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Photos: Memories of Nakba inspire Palestinian artist’s work

Al Jazeera

Wadi Nisnas, Haifa – Visual artist Abed Abdi was expelled from Haifa – a major port city on the Mediterranean Sea – along with tens of thousands of fellow Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948. I remember the suffering of the people.” On April 22, 1948, three weeks before Israel was declared a state, Abdi was forced to flee from …

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1 year, 9 months ago

UK home secretary says Rwanda is safe for asylum seekers

Al Jazeera

Suella Braverman declines to set any deadline for the first deportations to the East African country. Britain’s interior minister, Suella Braverman, says she is convinced Rwanda is a safe country for the resettlement of asylum seekers, but she has declined to set any deadline for the first deportations there. Braverman said she was not familiar with that case but was …

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1 year, 9 months ago

New Mexico tribe keeps title to portion of national preserve

Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Native American tribe has been granted title to a portion of a national preserve in northern New Mexico following a yearslong court battle against the federal government, a ruling that could provide hope to other tribes seeking to regain rights to their traditional homelands. “That point was not at all clear in the past.” The appellate …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya

Associated Press

ROME — Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the lower parliamentary house whip for the Brothers of Italy Party, told television channel Tgcom24 the Italian …

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Biden creates 2 new national monuments, setting a conservation record

A 'varsity of the future' for Macao

Revival of 'good terrorism': How Syria became the battleground for global hypocrisy

Biden’s public lands director named to lead environmental group

Trump's Return Sets Stage For Far-Reaching Immigration Crackdown

Opinion: The 2024 election will conserve or break apart cherished public lands

The Gods Must Be Crazy broke box-office records worldwide. The story behind it is even crazier.

History of WWII internment camp bonds Westerners, Chinese friends

History of WWII internment camp bonds Westerners, Chinese friends

Serbia & China: bridging nations together

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument expands by more than 100,000 acres

Stabbing at Sydney church brings up terror-filled past of Assyrian community

Their stolen land in Orange County was given back. Now they’re ready to heal

New Play 'Manahatta' Is An Act Of Resistance

Rwanda migrant policy ruled unlawful by Supreme Court

Book Review: ‘Help Me with This Tricky Case’ by C.N. Annadurai, translated by Ramakrishnan V.

How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.

Black Belt Eagle Scout’s latest record inspired by return home to Swinomish tribe’s ancestral lands

NT government to miss five-year remote housing target as it finalises new federal agreement

Book Review: ‘Hostile Homelands’ by Azad Essa offers insights into the politics of Zionism and Hindutva

Photos: Memories of Nakba inspire Palestinian artist’s work

UK home secretary says Rwanda is safe for asylum seekers

New Mexico tribe keeps title to portion of national preserve

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya