Fed holds interest rates at 23-year high as inflation continues to push back timing of a
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McGill encampment: Court rejects request for injunction against protesters | Globalnews.ca
A Quebec judge denied the request for a provisional injunction to remove protesters at McGill University on Wednesday as the encampment by pro-Palestinian activists stretched into its fifth day.
The decision comes after a lawyer…
China’s third aircraft carrier starts sea trials: state media | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Chinese media say the country's third aircraft carrier has set out for its first sea trials. The move will likely increase the wariness of the United States and put pressure on Taiwan's incoming government, observers…
Germany’s antisemitism schtick has outlived its usefulness
The state-sponsored persecution of Jews in Germany in the name of combating antisemitism has punched holes in the nation’s own mendacious narrative of antisemitism being something that is imported from the Arab and Muslim world by way of…
UK government drawing ‘suspicious lines’ around iconic English literature
Author Douglas Murray has criticised a government anti-terrorism unit in the United Kingdom for drawing “suspicious lines” around iconic English literature. The list featured Douglas Murray’s ‘The Strange Death of Europe’ as well as the…
Arizona Legislature Will Consider Repeal of 1864 Abortion Law
Arizona lawmakers seemed poised on Wednesday to repeal an abortion ban that first became law when Abraham Lincoln was president and a half-century before women won the right to vote.The expected vote in the Arizona State Senate could be…
Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died on…
Sunak rules out asylum seeker returns from Ireland – BBC News
By Chas GeigerBBC politics reporter1 May 2024, 14:22 BSTUpdated 1 hour agoImage source, UK Parliament/PA MediaThe UK will not accept the return of asylum seekers from Ireland, the prime minister has told MPs.The Irish government has…
Wildlife populations in China show significant growth | TV BRICS, 01.05.24
The population of giant pandas in the wild has grown from about 1,100 individuals in the 1980s to nearly 1,900 today, marking a remarkable turnaround in the fortunes of this iconic species.
Similarly, the numbers of…