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The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, the group said.... Read more »

A woman was found stabbed to death, and an officer saw the suspect hitting his 15-year-old son in the head with a rock, police said.... Read more »

Russia is in the midst of the largest crackdown on the free press and political dissent since the Soviet era.... Read more »

It's unclear whether the incident caused an oil spill this month in Southern California.... Read more »

The school canceled its homecoming events Sunday and classes on Monday, offering counseling services to students and staff members.... Read more »

James Bond actor Daniel Craig made headwinds this week when he revealed that he is a big fan of gay bars.... Read more »

Bryant, 39, sued Los Angeles County last year alleging that county employees “showed off” photos of the crash that killed her late husband, Kobe Bryant, and their daughter Gianna.... Read more »

Clinton's stay in the hospital was extended because he was receiving his medication intravenously, not orally, a spokesman said.... Read more »

Buttigieg says it's time for the U.S. to join "pretty much every other country in the world" on paid family leave.... Read more »

Russia is reporting its largest daily number of new coronavirus infections, more than 70 percent up on the number a month ago.... Read more »

Melbourne, which has spent more time under Covid-19 lockdowns than any other city in the world, is set to lift its stay-at-home orders this week.... Read more »

In 2001, the Bush administration was focused on China and tensions had spiked. The 9/11 attacks were a "geopolitical gift to China,“ says one expert.... Read more »

“Succession” may be from a different era, but its story of flawed people in a mad dash for power will always feel current.... Read more »

Who has the power to define Black narratives? Too often, it’s non-Black celebrities who play with images of Blackness and then discard them.... Read more »

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has received his Covid-19 booster shot, his press chief said on Sunday. After two doses of Sinopharm, Orbán was given the Moderna vaccine as his third dose, Bertalan Havasi told MTI. The prime minister also uploaded a video to his Facebook page in which he is... Read more »

Péter Márki-Zay of the Everyone’s Hungary Movement (Mindenki Magyarországa Mozgalom, MMM) won the opposition’s primary election with 371,560 votes (56.71 percent), the primary’s Facebook page said late on Sunday. His opponent, Klára Dobrev of the Democratic Coalition (DK), garnered 283,677 votes, or 43.29 percent, the page said. The first round... Read more »

The final round of the opposition primaries was concluded Saturday evening. The winner, DK’s Klára Dobrev or Péter Márki Zay of Everyone’s Hungary Movement, will be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the opposition parties’ coalition against Fidesz’s Viktor Orbán in next year’s elections. The opposition primaries have brought forward noticeable... Read more »

27 years at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and also political reporting on Hungary- this is how Reinhard Olt’s personal history with our country began. As he admitted to us, he had no expectations of Hungary when he became, among other things, a Hungarian correspondent for the German magazine. But he... Read more »

The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide. The post The John Deere Strike Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A college administrator pressured the campus paper to take down a pro-union article and revise it to feature management-friendly talking points. The post Bates College Administration Censors Student Reporters Covering Staff Unionization appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Baseless claims of antisemitism and allegations of hypocrisy have been leveled for decades at anyone who rejects the fiction that Israel is a normal state. The post Lies Are Being Told About Sally Rooney Because She Refuses to Ignore Israeli Apartheid appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Daniel Baker’s calls for armed defense against possible far-right attacks led to a much harsher sentence than that facing most insurrectionists. The post A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Corporate interest groups linked to the Koch brothers and the Trump administration seek to turn the public against the Build Back Better plan. The post Conservative Dark-Money Groups Push Deceptive Ads Against Biden’s Agenda appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The former House Democratic leader’s new Wall Street client, SIFMA, opposes Biden’s plans to increase taxes on the ultrawealthy. The post Joe Crowley Is Lobbying Against Biden’s Tax Hikes on the Rich appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

It’s the first time the Civilian Complaint Review Board has recommended discipline against an NYPD lawyer for conduct at a protest. The post NYPD Lawyer Who Oversaw Violent Arrests of Legal Observers Should Be Disciplined, Watchdog Says appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Lots of factors are aligning to allow the reestablishment of diplomatic ties, but Donald Trump’s departure is a huge one. The post Saudi-Iran Rapprochement Was Unthinkable Under Trump’s Blank Check to the Kingdom appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The veteran investigative journalist discusses the CIA’s assassination plan as well as his portrayal in the FX series “American Crime Story.” The post Michael Isikoff on Julian Assange and Monica Lewinsky appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The EPA announced the creation of two internal scientific advisory panels after whistleblower accounts of internal corruption. The post EPA Plans to Clean Up Troubled Chemical and Pesticide Programs appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

An independent commission is trying to fix Michigan’s gerrymandered congressional map — but conservative groups are organizing to stop them. The post Groups Linked to Betsy DeVos Seek to Undermine Michigan Redistricting Commission appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

An internal Verizon email asked its employees to tell Congress to oppose Democrats' reversal of Trump-era tax cuts. The post Verizon Asks Employees to Help Kill Corporate Tax Increase appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Former Democratic lawmakers now earn a living as drug company lobbyists. The post Drug Industry Hires Its Former Critics as Lobbyists Against Medicare Price Negotiations appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Hacked data shows the lucrative operation promoted by a prominent far-right organization. The post Far-Right Health Care Companies Made Millions Prescribing Unproven Covid Remedies appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

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The spokesman for the Polish government has said he had lost some optimism about Poland getting EU recovery funding soon as "some EU politicians have radicalised" their conflict with Warsaw over judicial reforms.... Read more »

Poland recorded 2,523 new confirmed coronavirus cases and one death over the past 24 hours to Sunday morning, against 3,236 cases reported on Saturday, data released by the Health Ministry shows.... Read more »

A new SW Research survey revealed that 42.6 percent of Poles back a referendum on their country’s presence in the European Union.... Read more »

In this episode of The Debrief, a look at the rise of quantum computing in Poland with Polish-American scientist and investor Dominik Andrzejczuk.... Read more »

Poland should have a new legal regulation regarding the situation at its border where there has been a surge in numbers of migrants crossing into the country from Belarus, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, has said.... Read more »

Poland recorded 3,236 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 44 deaths over the past 24 hours to Saturday morning, against 2,771 cases reported on Friday, data released by the Health Ministry shows.... Read more »

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, said on Saturday that Polexit was fake news and an invention of the opposition to increase its support base.... Read more »

Poland's prime minister has vowed to press ahead with changes to the judicial system, saying they were necessary to improve efficiency and root out old communists.... Read more »

Over 887,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine donated by Poland have arrived in Vietnam, the Polish embassy in Hanoi announced on Friday.... Read more »

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it will take "appropriate action" after a group of masked intruders disrupted the screening of an Agnieszka Holland film on Thursday at the Moscow Memorial Society.... Read more »

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party is using public funds to subsidise a nationalist organisation that wants the country out of the EU, two opposition MPs have claimed.... Read more »

On the Belarusian-Polish border there are Cuban citizens, together with other immigrants from Middle East and Africa, attempting to enter European Union territory by crossing from Belarus into Poland, claims the independent Cuban portal 14ymedio.... Read more »

A senior Polish security official has accused the Belarusian government of earning millions of dollars from sending hundreds of migrants into Poland.... Read more »

Described by many critics as “freakish”, the re-release of Andrzej Żuławski’s psychological horror Possession for its 40th anniversary has again cast the spotlight on artist Barbara ‘Basha’ Baranowska.... Read more »

TRONDHEIM, Norway / DENVER, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) - As we honored women and girls last week, on the annual International Day of Rural Women on October 15, we want to highlight how a community is coming together to change the lives and livelihoods of rural women and girls in... Read more »

The process of drafting a new constitution for Syria will begin this week, the UN Special Envoy for the country, Geir Pedersen, said on Sunday at a press conference in Geneva. Read the full story, “Process to draft Syria constitution begins this week”, on globalissues.org →... Read more »

Anastasie Obama, a Cameroonian woman who set up her own smoked shrimp business, has been recognized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) as a Food Hero, for her contribution towards unlocking the potential of selling shellfish locally and abroad. Read the full story, “Food Heroes: Cameroon’s shrimp entrepreneur”, on... Read more »

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the declaration of a unilateral ceasefire in the Central African Republic (CAR), his spokesperson said in a statement issued on Saturday. Read the full story, “Ceasefire in Central African Republic a ‘critical step’: UN chief”, on globalissues.org →... Read more »

An Ethiopian farmer has been talking about how avocados have transformed the lives of not just his family but also of people living in his community. Read the full story, “Food Heroes: Ethiopian avocado farmer’s ‘transformational’ crop”, on globalissues.org →... Read more »

The UN Food Systems Summit demonstrated the huge imbalances in the way we grow, produce, and consume food. But, as the UN Development Programme (UNDP) shows, we can farm and eat in a sustainable way that is good for us, and the planet. Read the full story, “From the Field:... Read more »

The United Nations has condemned the deadly suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the largest Shia mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens more.  Read the full story, “UN condemns deadly suicide attack at mosque in southern Afghanistan”, on globalissues.org →... Read more »

NAIROBI, Oct 15 (IPS) - Pascaline Chemutai’s five acres of land located in the country’s breadbasket region of Rift Valley recently produced 115 bags of maize, each weighing 90 kilograms. She tells IPS that of these, 110 bags will be transported to traders in Nairobi and neighbouring Kiambu County at... Read more »

Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year. He shares the prestigious award with Maria Ressa, another campaigning journalist from the Philippines.  Read the full story, “Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov won’t keep ‘a single cent’ of his prize money”, on globalissues.org →... Read more »

More earthquakes and the strongest recorded yet, registering 4.5 on the Richter scale, have continued to cause alarm on La Palma in the Canary Islands this week, where the volcano continues to erupt.  On Thursday, the cone on the Cumbre Vieja volcano could no longer contain the quantity of lava flow,...... Read more »

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was booed and jeered by members of the public on Tuesday, when he arrived for Spain’s National Day parade in Madrid. A grand military parade of more than 2,600 troops took place in front of king Felipe VI, along the flag-lined Paseo de la Castellana, also...... Read more »

Report updated in Spain at 19.30h on Fri 15 Oct  CORONAVIRUS in SPAIN – latest Health Ministry figures The latest official figure released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Friday 15 October for the number of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus since the start of the pandemic is now 4,984,386. This is an...... Read more »

Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (15 Oct) Spain has now received a total of 75,642,021 doses of Covid-19 vaccines (53,616,591 from Pfizer-BioNTech, 10,752,860 from Moderna, 9,111,010 from AstraZeneca and 2,161,560 from Janssen). Based on total figures collated up to the end of Thursday 14 October, a total of 70,982,052 jabs have now been administered across Spain,...... Read more »

The Sitges Carnival Commission and the Town Council are already working to ensure that the Carnival will return to the streets in 2022, by adapting the parades traditionally planned for the Sunday and Tuesday in order to combat the Covid pandemic. The ‘reactivation of popular culture plan’ will guide how...... Read more »

The Sitges Town Council’s department of social rights, citizenship and equality is offering a ‘New Citizenship Service’ for newcomers to Sitges, and has produced a new welcome guide. The guide, written in four languages (Catalan, Spanish, English and French), provides information, guidance and advice on the services, resources and entities of the...... Read more »

Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (15 Oct) Sign up for the FREE Weekly Newsletter from Spain in English. Report below updated in Spain at 19.30h on Thurs 14 Oct  CORONAVIRUS in SPAIN – latest Health Ministry figures The latest official figure released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Thursday 14 October for the number of...... Read more »

Spain has this week assisted in evacuating a further 160 Afghans via Pakistan, continuing its efforts to help those who had been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August. It included 28 families and 50 children. The evacuation follows the 83 Afghans who had been flown into an...... Read more »

Two hotels in Sitges will have to pay around 250,000 euros in the property tax known as IBI (‘Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles’) next year. Although the Sitges Town Council has frozen the municipal section of this tax, the increase in cadastral value will mean that the bill that hotels will receive, as...... Read more »

In early May of 2007, nearly 900 people packed into a ballroom at the Saratoga City Center for one of the most anticipated business gatherings in years. The Saratoga Economic Development Corp., the nonprofit that owns the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta, was holding its annual dinner. But this night wasn't... Read more »

 Now that they’ve secured a charter to open up in Schenectady, the board for the fledging Destine Preparatory (Destine Prep) School is already focused on enrollment and recruiting teachers and burnishing its image for when the institution opens with 116 kindergartners and first graders in August.... Read more »

 A concert version of the "Don Giovanni" opera opens the new season of the Schenectady Symphony on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 24, at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs.  The performance will include eight short episodes of new dialogue written from a contemporary perspective. ... Read more »

What is safe to do this holiday season and what isn’t? Has the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines this year changed the picture at all? And how does the delta variant and rising number of breakthrough cases factor into things?... Read more »

Union College gives up a pair of power-play goals and settles for a 3-3 tie with Colorado College on Saturday.... Read more »

A momentum-changing penalty proves costly as RPI men's hockey falls to Canisius in overtime on Saturday.... Read more »

The Saratoga Springs girls' cross country team, the nation's No. 1-ranked team, easily prevails in the star-studded Division III race at the Burnt Hills Invitational.... Read more »

Villanova took advantage of two UAlbany mistakes to hand the Danes a 17-10 setback Saturday, dropping the Danes to 0-6 for the first time in the football program's history.... Read more »

This imaginative attempt to reconfigure humanity’s roots contends that early people were free to shape their own livesIn the wake of bestselling blockbusters such as Jared Diamond’s Collapse and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, that backwater of history – prehistory – has been infused by a surge of popular interest. It’s... Read more »

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsChina’s growth slowed to 4.9% over last yearQuarterly growth drops to just 0.2%Beijing: Domestic and overseas risks and challenges have increasedFull story: Power cuts, property woes and Covid take tollCop26 corporate sponsors condemn climate summit as ‘mismanaged’End to China’s estate market boom... Read more »

New Zealand’s biggest city will remain in lockdown for another two weeks; cases of psychosis have soared in England amid stresses of pandemicAustralia could see Covid surge from new variants when border reopensFormer UK prime minister urges Covid vaccine airlift to AfricaEngland to open walk-in Covid clinics for children aged... Read more »

Frank Herbert’s novel, now adapted for cinema with Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, is finally getting the recognition it deserves, agree authors including Neil Gaiman and Jeff VanderMeerIf science fiction has an answer to fantasy’s The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien’s epic saga of the battle to defeat the... Read more »

Autumn’s orange and purple plenty fills pies, tops tarts and sings roasted to go in main dishesThe market stalls are a tapestry of ochre and dark green. There are fat pumpkins and bunches of cavolo nero; early parsnips and chard entwined with late peaches and blackberries. There are apples for... Read more »

After receiving hundreds of thousands of calls, the poet’s project almost broke the New York telephone exchange – leading to an FBI investigation. Will it cause similar chaos in the Instapoet era?In 1968, the poet and visual artist John Giorno was on the telephone when he was hit with an... Read more »

When it comes to addressing the sorry state of the world, there’s been a huge shift of responsibility away from governments and corporationsNothing in this world can be said to be certain except death, taxes and that women will regularly be told they should not forget to have children. That... Read more »

Newcastle fans need to take a look at themselves, Tuchel is not getting the best from Lukaku and Manchester City are under pressure To bang on about selections, formations and substitutions just a few days after Newcastle were taken over by a new regime in a move branded as “sportswashing”... Read more »

Expert warns new crash barrier height limits are too lowConcerns also raised about rail seating configurationsThe introduction of safe standing areas could create new safety problems in football grounds, according to Noel Jeffs, an expert in stadium operations and a former general manager of Wembley Stadium.This month the Sports Ground... Read more »

The NFL now has 30 medical professionals at each game as it grapples with rule changes and greater head-injury awarenessWe are high above the plush seats in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the NFL’s chief medical officer and I, watching the Atlanta Falcons’ Cordarrelle Patterson getting dumped on his back. “As... Read more »

Governor signals central bank is preparing to raise interest rates amid surge in energy pricesThe governor of the Bank of England has warned it will “have to act” to curb rising inflation, sending a new signal that it is gearing up to raise interest rates.Bailey said he continued to believe... Read more »

Boxing helped prizefighter Arifonso Zvenyika overcome real hardship. Now he teaches the sport he loves to aspiring fighters in a Harare ghettoBeneath a corrugated iron roof in the crowded Harare suburb of Mbare, a group of boys darts back and forth across a smooth concrete floor, firing a series of... Read more »

This north-eastern corner of Italy has bounced back from Covid, as a short food and wine break revealsThe Picech family’s cosy B&B, known simply as Casa Picech, sits at the top of the sleepy winemaker hamlet of Pradis. It looks down over the historic Mitteleuropa town of Cormons, unofficial capital... Read more »

Whittle down subscriptions on services such as Netflix, Apple TV, Spotify and Amazon Prime Video and find the best dealsWith household bills climbing, it is time to start looking at cutting back on those unnecessary subscriptions. Streaming services are a godsend to keep you entertained when the winter nights draw... Read more »

AS stated in the General State Budgets for 2022,  the Spanish government wants to introduce changes to tax relief on contributions to individual and occupational tax-qualified pension plans. They have proposed plans to reduce the maximum limit on contributions to a supplementary pension from €2,000 to €1,500.  If these plans... Read more »

I LONG had a feeling Christian Brueckner – the current prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann mystery – would have links to Orgiva, with its little-checked, free-spirited community of international travellers tucked away in a string of hidden valleys. The Alpujarras is a region I know well having come across... Read more »

AS the sun sets on summer, mushroom hunters across Spain take up the challenge of tracking down their favourite wild and wonderful edible fungi, found in far flung forested areas across the country. Mushrooms are an essential ingredient in any traditional Spanish kitchen. They are often at the centre of... Read more »

SPAIN’S DGT have issued a new plea to drivers in Spain to learn how to navigate around roundabouts safely after it emerged one in ten accidents that cause injuries occur on them. Roundabouts have proliferated on a huge scale since the first one was built in 1976 and there are... Read more »

MPs in Spain could receive a pay rise of just 0.9%  a year from next April under new proposals included in the General State Budgets for 2022.  The draft law, which was sent to the Congress of Deputies at the start of October, revealed the predicted salaries of the Prime... Read more »

OPERATION SENTINEL was launched this week, October 15, by Europol in a bid to combat an anticipated wave of fraud as almost 807 billion euros of Covid-19 relief funds are distributed. And Spain is one of the key contributors in the multinational task force of 19 countries. Launched at Europol... Read more »

THE MILD out of season climate on Orihuela Costa means the region popular with expats and Spanish alike can enjoy a ‘Winter Beach’ programme. Starting today, October 16, a new schedule starts over weekends at Cala Cerrada (La Zenia) and La Caleta (Cabo Roig) beaches. Orihuela Costa also includes the... Read more »

ENGLAND legend and top TV pundit Gary Lineker has become the most recent signing to the latest project from La Liga. The former Leicester, Spurs and Barcelona player, who won the Golden Boot at the World Cup in Mexico in 1996, has joined the team of presenters at LaLiga TV,... Read more »

SPAIN’S government has proposed a controversial change to the autonomo system which would see self-employed workers in Spain pay an average of €8 more per month in social security contributions.  The draft General State Budgets for 2022 has outlined a plan to increase both the monthly quotas and the contribution... Read more »

Spain celebrated its first ever Spanish Cinema Day on October 6 to recognize the important role of filmmakers in the country’s cultural and social life. Activities from special film screenings at cinemas across Spain to marathon film streaming on national TV will mark the occasion on what will become an... Read more »

THE Spanish Government has announced additional funding that the minister of Social Rights hopes will help tackle child poverty in Spain.  The support package includes a direct payment to all families with children who are scraping by on the Minimum Living Wage (IMV). Ione Belarra, leader of junior coalition party Unidas Podemos... Read more »

SPANISH National Police, with the support of EUROPOL, stopped an imminent terror attack on Wednesday after detaining five suspected terrorists in Barcelona and Madrid.   Police swooped on the homes of the suspects and recovered numerous machetes and several rounds of 9-millimeter-caliber ammunition. They also seized equipment used to forge official... Read more »

WITH a network of crooked politicians, dirty cops, wiretaps and secret bank accounts, it might be the plot of a blockbuster Hollywood crime thriller. But these are just some of the astonishing accusations that have come to light in the ongoing ‘caso Kitchen’, that  saw  former National Police chief Jose... Read more »

MOST Spanish men lose their virginity at 19 according to a study that has pinpointed the average age for first-time sex in 35 countries. Icelandic teens are apparently the first to slip between the sheets with the average boy losing their virginity at 15.3 in the notoriously liberal country.  According... Read more »

Lex Bakker heeft een zeldzame vorm van kanker. De kosten voor behandeling zijn torenhoog, dus is er een crowdfunding actie opgezet.... Read more »

Online aankopen zijn populair bij zakelijke bestellers. Uit de B2B E-commerce Markt Monitor 2021 blijkt dat ruim 90% van de zakelijke bestellers online koopt.... Read more »

Een voetballer van een High School in Michigan, Amerika, heeft een nieuw record gevestigd door 16 doelpunten in één wedstrijd te scoren.... Read more »

De hond van de Engelse premier Boris Johnson heeft last van romantische driften. Geen been is veilig in Downing Street als de het hondje wordt uitgelaten.... Read more »

In New Mexico, Amerika, is een 12-jarige jongen aangehouden die in een gestolen SUV rondreed. Tijdens de achtervolging gooide hij een pistool uit het raam.... Read more »

Een politieachtervolging in Amerika zorgde er voor dat een 12-jarige jongen, die in een gestolen auto reed, er met snelheden van boven de 190 km/u vandoor ging.... Read more »

De strengste abortuswet van Amerika is er bijna doorheen in Texas. Iedereen kan aanklager worden en een premie van 10.000 dollar krijgen.... Read more »

Een tv-host is voor 30 dagen geschorst nadat hij in zijn tv-show een gast een verkrachting liet nabootsen met behulp van een paspop.... Read more »

Een koppel heeft de langste rechte lijn in Engeland gelopen, zonder dat ze een verharde weg kruisten. Het was een uitdaging om de natuur te overwinnen.... Read more »