The Caribbean immigrants were honored Wednesday for their "profound contribution" to the United Kingdom's recovery post-war. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge led the ceremony at the Waterloo train station in London where the monument called The National Windrush Monument is erected. The statue depicted a
UN NEWS—Indigenous women and girls face grave, systematic, and continuous acts of violence that permeate every aspect of their lives, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said on Wednesday in a hard hitting report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva “This violence is rooted in historic and unequal
The EU is preparing to take action against the spread of fake accounts and false news by ordering social media companies to impose stricter measures or companies may face the risk of paying hefty fines. Google, Facebook/Meta, Twitter, and other technology companies will be required to show they
The rising energy prices has prompted Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne to call out the trade embargo of the United States to Venezuela, saying that the sanctions on Venezuela are also hurting other nations in the Caribbean region. In a report by the Caribbean
UN NEWS—Amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Haiti, discussions about the country’s future governance remain deadlocked, UN Special Representative Helen La Lime said in a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday. She called for greater support for the Caribbean nation as protracted insecurity and
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin and an outspoken opponent of his invasion of Ukraine, has been reportedly transferred to a high-security facility farther from Moscow. Navalny was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he
Michael Lollo is departing his role as the National Kidney Donation Organization (NKDO) President to become the Chief Operating Officer of the National Kidney Registry. Matthew Cavanaugh will become the next NKDO President. He is a non-directed kidney donor who donated his kidney in 2021
France has begun voting in the first round of parliament elections key to Emmanuel Macron’s second term. Less than two months after reelection, Macron faces a strong challenge from a united left-wing bloc that polls show could deprive the president of an outright majority even if it does
Defence ministers discussed the security threat posed by climate change during the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier security summit. Maldives and Fiji made powerful portrayals of the existential threat posed by climate change to their countries, which could be submerged by the end of the century if
U.S. President Joe Biden introduced his administration's migration plan to cap off the five-day convention in Los Angeles in hopes of re-establishing U.S. influence among its neighbors in the Americas. Dubbed as the Los Angeles Declaration, the "pact" will foresee a series of migrant programs agreed upon by
