The winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine shared their visions of a fairer world and denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine during Saturday’s award ceremony in the Norwegian capital. In October, Oleksandra Matviichuk of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties was named a co-winner of the 2022 peace…
Wellington, New Zealand — New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. The law states that tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. It means the minimum age for buying cigarettes…
It took more than a century, but scientists finally found it – the female snake’s clitoris. Click Here: A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal on Wednesday revealed that after years of scientists studying the genitalia of male snakes and incorrectly identifying the females’ sex organ, researchers proved that the…
Four teenagers were found alive on a small sand barrier island near Melbourne, Australia on Monday morning after setting out onto the water on a pair of paddleboards the previous evening, police said. The teenagers — who were described as two 18-year-old men, one 18-year-old woman and one 19-year-old woman by the Australian news station…
BANNING, CA —The Banning City Council voted to fill the District 4 vacancy at this week’s city council meeting. The seat was vacated by former Council Member Reuben Gonzales and will be filled through appointment, the council decided Tuesday. City Manager Doug Schulze spoke on the decision in a recent news release. Applications for the…
FRAMINGHAM, MA — Nurses at Framingham Union Hospital will vote in an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association and form a union on Wednesday. This comes after months of waiting for an election date after a group of nurses filed an election petition with the NLRB in…
A sudden jump in migrants in El Paso, Texas, who are seeking asylum is straining local resources. More than 2,000 people are arriving at the border a day to be processed – among them, a group who says they were held by armed kidnappers along the way and held in a warehouse. Ingrid Lopez was…
Italian police used a specially adapted Lamborghini supercar to deliver two kidneys to donor patients on Tuesday hundreds of miles apart, they announced. “Traveling on the motorway to deliver the most beautiful Christmas present: life,” they said in a statement posted on social media, alongside a picture of a medical cool box in a purpose-built…
Click: El Paso, Texas — A black S.U.V. stopped near the Greyhound bus station in this border city to deliver winter clothing to dozens of assembled migrants. Then, a red truck showed up carrying watermelon and other fruit for the migrants, many of whom had slept on nearby streets the night before. Later in the…
Le séisme survenu le 1er janvier dans le centre du Japon a fait 202 morts, selon un nouveau décompte provisoire diffusé par les autorités du département d’Ishikawa, mardi 9 janvier. Le nombre de personnes dont les autorités sont sans nouvelles a en revanche été revu à la baisse, et s’établit désormais à 102 disparus. Il s’agit de la catastrophe…
