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The gaunt frames of hunger-striking women are images that should belong to history. Yet 100 years after the suffragettes’ bravery won the vote for some women, other women incarcerated in Britain are on hunger strike. Inside Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, 18 women are still refusing food and water after around 120 people began a hunger…
Enlarge / Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, seen here in 2010. OAKLAND, Calif.—A local city council member is beginning to float the idea of taxing ridehailing companies like Uber and Lyft as a possible way to raise millions of dollars and help pay for local public transportation and infrastructure improvements. If the effort is successful,…
A group of nongovernmental organisations called on the Trump administration to clarify its policy on drone use, saying they are concerned about reported changes to US rules and a lack of transparency in the decision-making process. « We are deeply concerned that the reported new policy, combined with this administration’s reported dramatic increase in lethal operations…
Hussain Khanwala, Punjab – The brick lanes of Hussain Khanwala are narrow and dark. Three years ago, the largest child abuse scandal in Pakistan’s history shattered this rural Punjabi village, home to a poor farming community. It is fewer than 20km from where seven-year-old Zainab Ansari was raped and murdered in January. Little more than…
« Gefühlte Champions League » sei dieses Spiel, sagte der BVB-Trainer Peter Stöger. Nun denn. Das Spiel im Liveticker Dortmunds Trainer Peter Stöger © Sascha Schürmann/AFP/Getty Images Seitennavigation Startseite
Under shelling and mounds of rubble, Um Diab moves between underground shelters, where thousands of Syrians live to escape the constant bombardment in Eastern Ghouta. Um Diab embodies one of the many roles that women have embraced during the war in Syria. As she walks through the shelters, she helps the wounded and the sick.…
Everything else In addition to camera-related upgrades, Samsung introduced a new audio setup this year. The S9 has stereo speakers — one firing down from the bottom edge and one forward from the screen. This boosts the S9’s volume, making it easier to hear what people are saying in your videos and games. It definitely…
« We are changing that phrase to be ‘Alexa, can you laugh?’ which is less likely to have false positives, and we are disabling the short utterance ‘Alexa, laugh.’ We are also changing Alexa’s response from simply laughter to ‘Sure, I can laugh,’ followed by laughter, » the company said. OK, but what about when Alexa laughs…
Questions on journalism ethics and trauma have shadowed journalists’ coverage of wars and conflict for a long time. Where do we draw the line between ethical and unethical journalism practices, when interviewing people suffering from trauma, let alone interviewing women taken hostage, raped and tortured? While preparing for a course I’m teaching at City, University…
Pyeongchang, South Korea – Interest in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, which start on Friday, is gaining momentum on the ground. Organisers have managed to sell more than 285,000 tickets, which is nearly 130 percent of their target of 220,000. These Games will be the largest in history, with 570 athletes from 49 countries taking part.…
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