Tue 11 July 2023: Nearly four out of ten students at Brown University, one of the most famous universities in America, now identify as LGBTQ sexual orientations, which has increased over the past ten years. The Brown Daily Herald, a newspaper for an Ivy League campus, conducted a poll last month and discovered that 38% […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that if the European Union begins long-stalled membership discussions with Ankara, he will support Sweden’s NATO candidacy. “First, open the way for Turkey’s membership in the European Union, and then we will open it for Sweden, just as we had opened it for Finland,” […]
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Vladimir Putin and Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. File Photo: RIA Novosti Mon 10 July 2023: The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 29, five days after the group marched towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin invited […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to applicants with familial ties to wealthy donors and alumni. The lawsuit, filed by the Lawyers for Civil Rights group on behalf of the Chica Project, the African Community Economic […]
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Sun 09 July 2023: A BBC presenter at the centre of claims he paid a teenager for explicit pictures allegedly appeared in his underwear in a video call, British tabloid The Sun has reported. The newspaper said the unnamed BBC star has been accused of paying a teenager more than £35,000 ($45,000) in exchange for […]
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy with the freed Ukrainian commanders returning from Turkey. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Twitter Sat 08 July 2023: Turkey has violated agreements by releasing detained commanders of a unit that for weeks defended a steelworks in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Peskov, quoted by RIA news agency, said under […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: Scotland announced plans on Friday to decriminalise the possession of all drugs for personal use, with the goal of addressing the worrying drug fatality rate, which is now the highest in Europe. According to Reuters, the Scottish devolved government stressed that these measures should be imposed by the British government in […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: Caribbean leaders criticized economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Venezuela, according to media reports Friday. The criticism emerged in reports about the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Conference in Trinidad and Tobago on July 3 – 5. Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt criticized the sanctions […]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, at the end of a joint news conference following their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, early on July 8, 2023. Sat 08 July 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called for a return to peace talks saying, ‘a fair peace creates […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced his resignation, after almost 13 years in government. The differences among the four coalition parties on migration policy were irreconcilable, he said in The Hague on Friday evening. “It is no secret that the coalition partners have very different views on migration policy,” Rutte […]
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