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After hosting World Cup, Qatar praised by UN rights body for labour law reforms but urged to do more
1 month, 1 week ago

After hosting World Cup, Qatar praised by UN rights body for labour law reforms but urged to do more

The Hindu  

Qatar was praised at the United Nations’ top human rights body on Tuesday for improving labour laws before the 2022 World Cup, though it was urged to fully abolish its employment system for migrant workers. Qatar “highly appreciated” the contribution of migrant workers who are “true partners,” said Hend Abdulrahman Al Muftah, its permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, …

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After hosting World Cup, Qatar praised by UN rights body for labor law reforms but urged to do more
1 month, 1 week ago

After hosting World Cup, Qatar praised by UN rights body for labor law reforms but urged to do more

Associated Press  

GENEVA — Qatar was praised at the United Nations’ top human rights body on Tuesday for improving labor laws before the 2022 World Cup, though it was urged to fully abolish its employment system for migrant workers. Qatar was urged — or “recommended,” in the formal diplomatic language of the UN rights body — by French delegate Claire Thuaudet to …

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Is Britain about to relinquish the vestiges of its empire?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Is Britain about to relinquish the vestiges of its empire?

The Independent  

The transfer of sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius has highlighted the sometimes complicated relationship of the UK with its vestigial imperial possessions, now known as British overseas territories. The inhabited territories enjoy democratically elected governments and internal self-rule, and include Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint …

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Tupperware’s pop culture legacy will outlive its parties
3 months ago

Tupperware’s pop culture legacy will outlive its parties

Salon  

Everyone knows that a good party can’t last forever, and such is the case for Tupperware, the iconic food storage brand, whose leadership announced on Wednesday that the company had voluntarily initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Laurie Ann Goldman, the company’s president and CEO, assured customers in a statement that they would continue producing “the high-quality products they love and …

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Black rights activists convicted of conspiracy, not guilty of acting as Russian agents
3 months, 1 week ago

Black rights activists convicted of conspiracy, not guilty of acting as Russian agents

The Independent  

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Florida jurors deliberate about activists accused of helping Russia sow political division, chaos
3 months, 1 week ago

Florida jurors deliberate about activists accused of helping Russia sow political division, chaos

The Independent  

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Water is still flowing for tourists on this Italian holiday island. A record dry year could alter that
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Water is still flowing for tourists on this Italian holiday island. A record dry year could alter that

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Nobody can cope with water shortage better than southern Sicilians,” said Salvatore Cocina, head of the local civil protection, who …

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India-UK ties: Dump the old baggage and focus on trade and multilateralism
5 months, 2 weeks ago

India-UK ties: Dump the old baggage and focus on trade and multilateralism

Live Mint  

Keir Starmer finally has the mandate and credentials to shake off the historical burden which has dogged ties between India and Britain’s Labour Party since the 1930s, a long arc that began with the jaundiced view taken of Mahatma Gandhi by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour’s first elected prime minister, and terminated in former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent positions on Indian …

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Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers: Sri Lanka pitted alongside Australia, India; debutant Scotland paired with England, WI
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers: Sri Lanka pitted alongside Australia, India; debutant Scotland paired with England, WI

The Hindu  

Women’s cricket has grown exponentially around the world. The recently concluded T20 World Cup Qualifiers added to this massive surge ahead in the women’s game while also offering an unsavoury reminder of the vestiges of past handicaps that continue to haunt the game. Sri Lanka, led by veteran allrounder Chamari Athapaththu, and Scotland, led by the sprightly Bryce sisters Kathryn …

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How large fires are altering the face of California’s Mojave Desert
9 months ago

How large fires are altering the face of California’s Mojave Desert

LA Times  

The Kousch House stood in the Mojave Desert for nearly a century — first as the residence of a prominent homesteader, then as testament to humanity’s ability to survive harsh and forbidding environments. But the York fire — and several large fires that preceded it — burned in a remote area in the center of the preserve that ecologist Joseph …

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Schools say dress codes promote discipline. But many Black students see traces of racism
10 months ago

Schools say dress codes promote discipline. But many Black students see traces of racism

Associated Press  

For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Under pressure, many schools in Texas have removed boys-only hair length rules, while hundreds of districts maintain hair restrictions written into their dress codes. Schools that enforce strict dress codes have …

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In Modi 3.0, India will be free from terrorism, separatism, Naxalism: Amit Shah
10 months ago

In Modi 3.0, India will be free from terrorism, separatism, Naxalism: Amit Shah

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah spoke at the BJP's National Convention 2024 at Delhi's Bharat Mandapam on Sunday. During his address at the event, Shah exuded confidence that the Narendra Modi-led government will come to power for the third consecutive time and promised that in Modi 3.0, India will be completely free from terrorism, separatism, and Naxalism. Union …

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Inside the plot to replace elderly Joe Biden
10 months ago

Inside the plot to replace elderly Joe Biden

The Telegraph  

Mr Trump’s gaffe about beating her husband likely betrayed a subconscious bias; some of the Right believe the conspiracy that Mr Biden is merely Mr Obama’s puppet. They’ve seized upon the criticisms of the president by David Axelrod, one of the architects of Mr Obama’s 2008 campaign, who described the special counsel report as “another log on a raging fire” …

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Supreme Court Served Up Another Chance to Kill Voting Rights Act
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court Served Up Another Chance to Kill Voting Rights Act

Slate  

The end of January brought two momentous decisions from two very different courts. First, on Jan. 29, the left-leaning Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared that abortion restrictions constitute sex discrimination under the state’s Equal Rights Amendment, rendering them “presumptively unconstitutional.” Then, on Jan. 30, the hard-right U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit refused to reconsider an earlier opinion by …

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Police In A Small Mississippi Town Brutalized Its Black Population, Lawsuit Alleges
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Police In A Small Mississippi Town Brutalized Its Black Population, Lawsuit Alleges

Huff Post  

The police department in Lexington, Mississippi, is the target of multiple lawsuits by residents who say that they have been unjustly targeted and arrested by the law enforcement agency. Timothy Ivy for HuffPost A lawsuit filed this week by Julian, a civil rights organization based in Mississippi, alleges that the city of Lexington, a predominantly Black rural town, and its …

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How a sniper’s bullets utterly shattered the last vestiges of sanctuary in Gaza’s only Catholic church
1 year ago

How a sniper’s bullets utterly shattered the last vestiges of sanctuary in Gaza’s only Catholic church

The Independent  

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Opinion: Coomaraswamy and shedding the vestiges of colonial past
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: Coomaraswamy and shedding the vestiges of colonial past

India Today  

The Tamil leadership is currently dedicated to defending the Sri Lankan Tamils and abolishing the ‘Sanatana Dharma’. On this issue, his son Dr Rama Coomaraswamy said, "He was exiled from the British Empire, and his home, Norman Chapel, was confiscated and made part of the English National Park Service." Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, …

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Priceless connections to Hawaii's ancient past were lost when cultural center burned
1 year, 4 months ago

Priceless connections to Hawaii's ancient past were lost when cultural center burned

NPR  

Priceless connections to Hawaii's ancient past were lost when cultural center burned Enlarge this image toggle caption Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPR Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPR MAUI, Hawaii — It could be a long time before the full extent of human loss is known after the wildfires. toggle caption Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPR For Kapu, the center meant even more than …

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Keep an eye on the turbulence in Pak
1 year, 4 months ago

Keep an eye on the turbulence in Pak

Hindustan Times  

With the appointment of first-time senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, as a caretaker premier of Pakistan to oversee the upcoming polls, the government of the neighbouring country has officially transitioned into an interim arrangement that will hold before the national polls likely early next year. The reasons for the new administration — agreed mutually by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Opposition leader …

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Fear of the ‘Big Melt’ turns to big relief along California’s Eastern Sierra
1 year, 4 months ago

Fear of the ‘Big Melt’ turns to big relief along California’s Eastern Sierra

LA Times  

Although a state of emergency remains in effect throughout much of the Eastern Sierra Nevada — a region where epic snowpack had threatened to unleash catastrophic flooding on small valley towns — local officials and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are finally breathing a collective sigh of relief: The worst days of the “Big Melt” are over, …

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Light at the edge of darkness
1 year, 5 months ago

Light at the edge of darkness

China Daily  

Zhang Lian in front of his little house in his native hamlet, where he lived between 1993 and 2005. Fully aware of the pitfalls of her task, during what she called "the most intense period" of the three years between 2018 and 2021 that she spent translating Zhang's poems, Liu was engaged in frequent WeChat exchanges with the poet on …

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Opinion: What is the Southern Baptists’ problem with women?
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: What is the Southern Baptists’ problem with women?

LA Times  

Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, makes an appeal at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday to reinstate his church. “Messengers” of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination ratified the expulsion of two congregations — one of them Saddleback Church in Lake Forest — for condoning the ordination of women. Founded in 1980 …

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With the consecration of new Parliament and installation of Sengol, sun sets on Nehru’s India
1 year, 6 months ago

With the consecration of new Parliament and installation of Sengol, sun sets on Nehru’s India

Firstpost  

As the red sandstone of the new Parliament House in India gleamed under the bright Indian summer sun, the symbolic act of its consecration on May 28, 2023, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked a significant milestone. In a historic move, Prime Minister Modi consecrated the new Indian Parliament with the installation of the Sengol, a symbol of power transfer …

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OPINION | Renaming 21 Andaman islands: Modi’s quest for removing symbols of slavery
1 year, 11 months ago

OPINION | Renaming 21 Andaman islands: Modi’s quest for removing symbols of slavery

India TV News  

On the occasion of birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, observed as ‘Parakram Diwas’ on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi named 21 largest unnamed islands of Andaman & Nicobar after the 21 recipients of Param Vir Chakra, the nation’s highest military honour. Through video conferencing, the Prime Minister unveiled a model of the national memorial dedicated to Netaji on …

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