Tens of thousands of civil rights advocates have gathered to protest police brutality against black Americans at the commemoration of a historic 1963 march in Washington. Huge crowds of activists came together at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday – exactly 57 years after Martin Luther King Jr delivered his iconic ‘I Have […]
BRASILIA (REUTERS) – All operations to combat illegal logging in the Amazon will be halted on Monday due to insufficient funds, Brazil’s Environment Ministry said on Friday (Aug 28). The move comes despite rising deforestation and growing criticism of Brazil’s environmental policy from both environmentalists and international investors, many of whom have threatened to pull […]
Thousands of people have gathered to commemorate the historic 1963 civil rights March on Washington, channelling those who took part back then to demonstrate police brutality against black Americans. The rally saw dozens speak passionately about ongoing violence against black citizens in the US at the hands of white people or law enforcement, most recently […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Jacob Blake is shackled to his hospital bed even though he is paralysed after US police shot him repeatedly in the back, his father said on Friday (Aug 28). “Why do they have that cold steel on my son’s ankle?” Blake Sr, who visited his son in the hospital on Wednesday, said […]
A protestor who turned up at an anti-Trump rally in blackface was punched in the head during chaotic scenes outside the White House. Black Lives Matter activists and Democratic Party supporters gathered in Washington DC last night as President Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for the upcoming presidential elections. In scenes filmed by cameraman […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (Aug 27) that if he was re-elected, his administration would impose tariffs on any company that leaves the United States to create jobs elsewhere. “We will impose tariffs on any company that leaves America to produce jobs overseas,” Mr Trump said in his acceptance speech […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States on Wednesday (Aug 26) blacklisted 24 Chinese companies and targeted a number of individuals it said were part of construction and military actions related to disputed islands in the South China Sea. The US Commerce Department said the two dozen companies played a “role in helping the Chinese military […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Fernando de Noronha, a tropical island off Brazil known as one of the world’s most coveted travel destinations, said Thursday (Aug 27) it is reopening to visitors, with a catch: they have to have had Covid-19. The island, part of a pristine volcanic archipelago that limits tourism to several hundred […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Water covers 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding scientific debate. The puzzle was a step closer to being solved Thursday (Aug 27) after a French team reported in the journal Science they had […]
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN (REUTERS) – The white police officer who shot Jacob Blake, paralysing the black man and setting off civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has served on the city’s police force for seven years and once told a local newspaper he had always wanted to be a policeman. Wisconsin officials have identified Rusten Sheskey, 31, […]