MELBOURNE, Australia — The government of southeast Australian state Victoria has established a new fund to cover funeral expenses for members of the stolen generations. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gabrielle Williams,…
Month: April 2021
MELBOURNE, Australia — New rules will come into effect in southeast Australian state Victoria next week, requiring motorists to give cyclists a wide birth when passing them…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — There is a new Christ statue in Brazil, and it is bigger than the one in Rio de Janeiro. In southern Brazil, the…
KOLKATA, India — Amid reports of daily Covid-19 cases crossing 300,000 and vaccines going out of supply in India, hundreds of vaccines were stolen from a hospital…
CHENNAI, India — In Facebook’s largest market, India, the national cybersecurity agency has asked users to change profile settings to ‘private’ from ‘public’ and limit the kind…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brasil — Hay una nueva estatua de Cristo en Brasil, y es todavía más grande que la de Río de Janeiro. La estatua, bautizada como…
Covid-19 has shaken up the job market worldwide. Some jobs in tourism and hospitality have disappeared while others, like cybersecurity and food delivery, are booming. With…
KOLKATA, India — The Bangladesh police have arrested hundreds of members and supporters of a hard-line Islamist group over the past week after violent protests erupted against…
MUMBAI, India — Twenty-year-old Arishfa Khan’s TikTok account had 26.8 million followers, and her content had over 1.1 billion likes. But towards the end of June 2020,…
After passing in the House for the second time, statehood for Washington, D.C., has never been closer to reality. But a Republican Party armed with the…