The fast food worker mobilizations that have rocked the United States since late 2012 are headed for the international stage, with walk-outs and protests slated to sweep McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, KFC, and other restaurants in 33 countries on six continents next week, workers announced Wednesday. Gathered outside of a McDonald’s restaurant in New York […]
Read MoreFor years now, the Fashion Green Hub association (ex-Nordcrea) has played a key role in the responsible fashion landscape, working on topics including eco-design and new business models in the industry. Fashion Green Hub is notably at the origin of the Fashion Tech Days. Experts and brands meet to advance on “green” innovation in fashion, […]
Read MoreA federal judge on Tuesday brought “the freedom to marry to the entire Northeast” in declaring Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. “In the sixty years since Brown was decided, ‘separate’ has thankfully faded into history, and only ‘equal’ remains,” U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III wrote in his ruling. “Similarly, in future generations […]
Read MoreAccording to a source close to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the U.S. government went behind his back as it made a deal to exchange Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners held at the Guantanamo prison. Karzai is angry, according to reporting by Reuters, because the deal proves that intense behind-the-scenes efforts were made for […]
Read MoreOnly 13 out of 28 states have complied with a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling to abolish mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles, a report released this week by the Sentencing Project finds. A majority of states have done nothing to pursue statutory reform, while others use loopholes to continue sentencing minors to long-term […]
Read MoreViolent evidence of civil war and atrocities surfaced in Iraq on Sunday as explosions claimed lives in the nation’s capital of Baghdad and released images claimed to show captured Iraqi Army soldiers in northern cities being executed by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). According to the Associated Press: SCROLL […]
Read MoreAmid deep skepticism and fears of expanding war, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to authorize President Barack Obama’s plan to train and arm “moderate” rebels in Syria in opposition to the extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. House leaders inserted the approval into a broader […]
Read MoreDaniel Ricciardo’s podium in the Eifel GP was but a start but Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul wants the Enstone squad’s members to become “addicted to success” in the future. Ricciardo’s third place finish at the Nürburgring was Renault’s first podium since its return to F1 as a works outfit in 2016. The achievement logically […]
Read MoreThe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) took part in a spying operation against Germany that led to the arrest of a double agent and has jeopardized its alliance with the U.S., Reuters reports. German authorities last week arrested an alleged “double agent” who confessed that he was paid by U.S. agents to spy on the parliamentary […]
Read MoreIn what has become the bloodiest period since the attack on Gaza commenced on July 8, dozens of men, women and children were killed overnight as Israeli forces besieged the Gaza City suburb of Shuja’iyya. According to Palestinian health ministry spokesman Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, upwards of 60 bodies have already been removed from the rubble […]
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