Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pressed the Federal Trade Commission to enforce a 2016 law against ticket scalpers using bots after Ticketmaster blamed the software for troubles selling tickets to pop superstar Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour. Ticketmaster canceled planned ticket sales to the general public for[Read More…]
KYIV, Nov 24 (Reuters) – More than 15,000 people have gone missing during the war in Ukraine, an official at the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) said on Thursday. The Hague-based organization, created in the wake of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, opened an office in Kyiv in[Read More…]
Memorial Hermann, one of Sugar Land’s biggest hospitals, has recently announced an expansion of $231 million, according to the Fort Bend Star. The campus expansion responds to the increasing population of the county and the necessities that a higher population requires. The investment will include a whole new building that[Read More…]
Nov 22 (Reuters) – Updated COVID-19 boosters offer increased protection against new variants in people who have previously received up to four doses of the older vaccine, a real-world study in the United States showed. The study of over 360,000 people, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, offers the[Read More…]
LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – A single dose of the monkeypox vaccine provides 78% protection against the virus, according to data from England released on Tuesday that health officials said was the strongest evidence yet of its effectiveness. Monkeypox cases have remained low but the World Health Organisation continues to[Read More…]
Nov 14 (Reuters) – Brazil’s democracy prevailed under attacks by far-right social media militias that sought to discredit the voting system during elections in October, the head of the national electoral authority said on Monday. Allegations that electronic voting machines were vulnerable to fraud were aimed at changing the political[Read More…]
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Donald Trump defeated his niece Mary Trump in a lawsuit where she accused the former U.S. president and two of his siblings of defrauding her out of a multimillion-dollar inheritance. In a decision on Monday, Justice Robert Reed of a New York state court[Read More…]
Last weekend, city officials and the owners of the company Talyard Brewing, announced they will open a 15,000-square-foot brewery in Sugar Land. The work has just started and if everything happens as expected, it will be finished by 2024. “We are very excited to welcome Talyard Brewing Co. to Imperial,”[Read More…]
Fort Bend County made a $345,000 deal with the Houston-based firm Next Wave Strategies to provide outreach on the coronavirus vaccine. Nevertheless, according to the Fort Bend Star, a recent county audit asserted that the firm should repay $25,000 out of questionable expenses. Thus far, the county has paid $102,200[Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Every morning, Mary’s eight-year-old daughter Paige walks into school in the Texan city of Austin with a legal letter in her rucksack, neatly packed with her schoolbooks and her lunch, just in case she gets stopped by state family protection officials. The[Read More…]