The World Health Organization is looking into whether the breakout of monkeypox should be of international concern.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced during a Tuesday media briefing that the international agency will be convening shortly to discuss whether monkeypox is the next “public health emergency.”
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to address Twitter employees at an all-hands meeting on Thursday. Musk’s contentious potential buyout of the social media platform has caused plunging employee morale, with one survey finding 78 percent of employees do not believe he has the company and its shareholders’ best interests at heart.
ISIS bride Shamima Begum is said to be ‘very frightened’ that she will be executed if found guilty of terrorism offences.
The 22-year-old, whose British citizenship was removed in 2019, is reported to be facing the prospect of being prosecuted after officials requested an investigation into her links to ISIS, also known as Islamic State.
Offending a small minority is no justification for censoring a film
Protesters have spent the last week calling for a film to be pulled from cinemas in the UK. These were not blue-haired students upset over a new Dave Chappelle biopic, but Muslim activists calling for Cineworld to remove what they labelled a “blasphemous” film.
BONN, Germany — A second Donald Trump presidency would be a killer blow for efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, said the outgoing U.N. climate chief.
Speaking to POLITICO on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Patricia Espinosa was asked whether she believed a Trump return to the White House — or another Republican with similar climate policies — would end any hope of hitting the Paris Agreement’s lower climate change target.
A spate of recent legislation in Republican-controlled states has brought the topic of transgender sports competition to the forefront of the national conversation.
Now, a new poll conducted by The Washington Post and University of Maryland found the majority of Americans, 55 percent, are opposed to allowing transgender female athletes to compete with other women and girls in high school sports. A higher proportion, 58 percent, reported the same opinion at the college and professional sports levels.
Boston-area Jewish groups are sounding the alarm about a “truly vile perpetration of hate against the Jewish community” as a new pro-Palestine website puts a bullseye on local Jewish organizations, schools and others.
The “Mapping Project” interactive map went live last week, naming and listing the addresses for scores of Jewish groups — including the Anti-Defamation League, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, JCRC of Greater Boston, Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, Jewish Arts Collaborative, Jewish Teen Foundation of Greater Boston, and many more.
OUAGADOUGOU, June 13 (Reuters) – Armed men killed at least 100 civilians in a rural district of northern Burkina Faso close to the border with Niger over the weekend, a security source said.
The attackers targeted men but appeared to spare women and children in Seytenga district on Saturday night, the security source and two other sources said, all speaking on condition of anonymity.
No group immediately claimed responsibility, but the assault happened in borderlands where militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are waging an insurgency.
On June 6, President Joe Biden, declaring a national emergency, granted a 24-month tariff exemption for solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
The biggest beneficiary of Biden’s move is none of those countries. It is China. The biggest victim is America.
Biden’s executive order essentially suspends a Commerce Department investigation, initiated by a California maker of solar panels, into blatant Chinese tariff evasion. Biden’s declaration of emergency does not formally end the investigation, but no tariffs during the 24-month period can be collected, even if Auxin Solar, the complainant, ultimately prevails.
PFLP-tied “Canadian” Khaled Barakat complained that Hezbollah, Hamas and PFLP were seen by Canada as terrorist organizations.
Canada’s list of terrorist organizations should be abolished, said Khaled Barakat — The subject of controversy in Canada for his alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization — at the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) in Canada’s 5th assembly at the Ottawa city-owned Foster Farm Community Centre on June 3.
“It has to be abolished,” Barakat said at the event. He complained that Hezbollah, Hamas and PFLP we officially recognized by Canada as terrorist organizations.
“Canada is listing Palestinians and Arab organizations on the so-called terrorist list,” he said.
Patrick Brown: Dual loyalties trope has no place in our politics
… The problematic tropes of “dual loyalties” or “ulterior motives” are two that regularly and unfairly follow members of various groups, fuelling bigotry and discrimination against some of the most marginalized. Unfortunately, the commentary around the Chinese community’s political engagement is no different. That should be a concern for Canadians because the reality is that when one group is maligned, we all are.
It is no secret that the Chinese-Canadian community had serious reservations about the current brand of conservatism in Canada, and particularly in the United States, which struggled to balance justified critiques of the Chinese government with sincere stakeholder engagement in the Chinese community and acknowledgement of anti-Asian racism.
I say he’s a slimy useful idiot for the CCP.
ROME – Pope Francis has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious, while praising “brave” Ukrainians for fighting for survival.
But in the text of a conversation he had last month with editors of Jesuit media and published on Tuesday, he also said the situation was not black and white and that the war was “perhaps in some way provoked.”
The Canadian flag is now offensive to some of the powers that be in Ontario’s education system. Last week, a school principal sent home a letter warning parents that their child was about to be offered a free Canadian flag and if they didn’t want to receive one, they should send the attached form back.
Parents of grade one students at an Ontario public school warned in writing that their child will receive a Canadian flag from a local Lion's Club, offered chance to opt out, and invited to share their "concerns" pic.twitter.com/IcPLmcXqeO
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) June 10, 2022
Toronto police are set to release race-based statistics on officer use of force and strip-searches on Wednesday; the results will “lead some people to question the hard work you do every day,” an internal memo warns.
On the eve of the release of race-based statistics on police officer use of force and strip-searching — findings that “reaffirm the existence of systemic racism” within the force — Toronto police is warning its employees that “challenging” days are ahead.
Two major Toronto police reports are set to be released Wednesday: race-based statistics on the use of force and strip-searching by officers, and the results of an external review into workplace harassment within the force.
In an internal message sent Saturday and obtained by the Star, Toronto police informed its employees that the race-based data will prompt discussion “about the extent to which systemic racism has led to differential treatment of racial groups by our service.”
I bet the Star has a call in to Chesa Boudin.
The federal government is set to announce Tuesday an end to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for domestic travel on planes and trains, as well as outbound international travel, CBC News has learned.
The government may reinstate the vaccine requirement if there’s a new variant of the virus, according to sources with direct knowledge of the decision who spoke with CBC News on condition they not be named.
