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[ad_1] More than 20 people are believed to have died in a fire at a building in Osaka, western Japan, and police are investigating a domestic fire as a possible cause. Per MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press December 17, 2021, 8:27 AM • 3 minutes of reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article TOKYO – More than 20 people were feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in Osaka, western Japan on…

[ad_1] In 1999, I took a week-long vacation with a friend in Mazatlán, Mexico, and it was love at first sight. I was so in love with the beach town that the next day I went to a real estate agent and bought a small house for $ 28,000. My plan was to turn it into a second home for when I wanted to flee California. But in 2002, at the age of 49, I…

[ad_1] The Foreign Minister of the Group of Seven (G7), the industrialized nations gathered in the British city of Liverpool have tried to demonstrate “a show of unity against global aggressors”, with the host, the United Kingdom, expressing the his deep concern over the accumulation of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border. The UK is seeking a dodgy consensus from the club of rich nations in response to what it calls Russia’s “malicious behavior” and…

[ad_1] Randy Brooks / AFP via Getty Images Sandra Mason, President of Barbados, receives the New Colors during the ceremony to declare the country a republic on Tuesday in Bridgetown. Barbados on Tuesday declared itself the newest republic in the world, officially breaking ties with Queen Elizabeth II and the British royal family. In the a midnight ceremony in its capital Bridgetown, the Caribbean island nation installed Dame Sandra Mason as its new president and…

[ad_1] Credit: Albert Oppong-Ansah / IPS Opinion Thursday, December 9, 2021 Inter Press Service Dec 09 (IPS) – Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It appears on beaches, fish and even in the Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine makes it clear that the United States is a big part of the problem. As the report shows, the US produces…

[ad_1] This analysis was presented in Critical State, a weekly foreign policy bulletin for Inkstick Media. Subscribe here. Last week, we examined the investigation into how members of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan interpreted the idea of ​​a “government-wide” counterinsurgency in that war. This week, we’ll look at what the WOG obsession approaches the U.S. wars in the mid-aughts has produced in modern public policy: an insistence on using WOG approaches to all sorts of…

[ad_1] Activists of the Bangladesh General Council for the Preservation of Student Rights organized a protest rally to demand justice for Abrar Fahad. (Photo by Mamunur Rashid / NurPhoto via Getty Images) One student was beaten by 25 classmates for criticizing the Prime Minister of Bangladesh on social media. Twenty students were sentenced to death while five were sentenced to life in prison. The 21-year-old college student had posted a post on Facebook that went…

[ad_1] LEBANON (AP) – Lebanese authorities should release a self-employed American journalist who was arrested in Beirut last month and remains in custody even after a prosecutor decreed her release, two said on Wednesday. International human rights groups. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reported Nada Homsi’s arrest without a court order on November 16. It is not clear why he was beaten up and his arrest is now arbitrary, the groups said. Diala Chehade,…

“I myself am convinced that the guidelines have been complied with at all times,” said the Prime Minister on Tuesday before another insistence. However, on Wednesday morning AEDT, commercial broadcaster ITV News aired video footage of Johnson’s then-spokeswoman joking about the party in a mock press conference just four days after the event while she practised answering questions about the event being illegal.   Allegra Stratton, herself an ITV presenter, was poised to become a…