If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere. That is a feeling shared by many residents in Burlington, Vermont, a small city in the northeastern United States where three Palestinian college students were shot late last year while walking down a residential street.
The festival of Nowruz marks the conclusion of an old year and the beginning of a new one, traditionally celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox.
What will cities look like a decade from now? Utrecht offers clues as it takes green living to the next level. Ducklings swim in convoy behind their mum along Catharijnesingel canal in Utrecht. It’s the only tailback you’ll see here these days, now the motorway has gone.
Israeli forces launched an operation early Monday in and around Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, with witnesses reporting air strikes and tanks near the complex crowded with patients and displaced people.
In 2020 a coroner’s court in Rochdale found that two-year-old Awaab Ishak had died as a result of living in a mould-infested home. New housing standards, devised as part of the social housing regulation bill in response to this tragedy, are now set to come into force in England.
In the dairy industry, cows are repeatedly inseminated to stay pregnant in order to produce milk. Their calves are considered by-products, and are taken from their mothers to be reared in lonely environments. Each year, over 300,000 calves are raised and slaughtered in Belgium.
Chief Commissioner of Research in Barcelona stated, “If poppy isn’t cultivated in Kabul, thousands in Europe will die.”
The International Day to Combat Islamophobia (15 March) is happening at a time when anti-Muslim hate and bigotry are on the rise globally, warns the UN Secretary-General. This trend is part of a wider pattern of attacks against religious groups and vulnerable populations. We need to confront and root out all forms of bigotry, condemn inflammatory discourse, safeguard religious freedom, moderate hateful content on digital platforms, and combat intolerance and stereotypes. Let’s promote mutual respect and understanding, foster social cohesion, and build peaceful and inclusive societies for all.
The killing of a stray cat in Turkiye’s Istanbul has triggered petitions, protests and death threats, pushing the president to intervene and the courts to retry the culprit.
Vaughan Gething has been elected the head of Welsh Labour and will become the first black leader of a European country when he is confirmed as first minister next week. Gething, who has worked as the health and the economy minister in the Labour-led government, succeeds Mark Drakeford after beating the education minister, Jeremy Miles.
