[ad_1] For nearly a year, Delaram Pouyabahar planned her next academic step around a postdoctoral position at Harvard University. Interviews, fellowship applications, visa paperwork and a consular interview in Toronto were all completed. Then, in early June 2025, a new US travel ban quietly brought those plans to a halt.The policy, announced on June 4, […]
[ad_1] Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has been hiding for months, and even she didn’t go to collect her award, but her daughter went on stage. Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, accepted Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize on her mother’s behalf at a ceremony in Oslo City […]
[ad_1] The US tech giant Meta — formerly Facebook — dodged a bullet on Tuesday when US District Judge James Boasberg ruled in its favor in a major antitrust case filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2020 and ending in May.The case posed an existential challenge to the company, charging that it […]
[ad_1] An H-1B visa holder from India has sued his US company, led by an Indian-origin CEO, for forced labor. Amrutesh Vallabhaneni, an H-1B visa holder in the US, has brought a lawsuit against his employer, accusing the company of forced labor, labor trafficking and withholding visa documents, Breitbart News reported. Jay Palmer, Vallabhaneni’s consultant […]
[ad_1] The Abu Jarad family moves their belongings into a newly built tent in Khan Younis (Imagw credits: AP) KHAN YOUNIS: Exhaustion, despair and anger are grinding away at Ne’man Abu Jarad. Once again, for the 11th time, he and his family have been forced to uproot and move across the Gaza Strip. “It’s a […]
[ad_1] Passengers on a Virgin Australia flight from Bali to Brisbane faced an unprecedented mid-air crisis when all the plane’s toilets failed, forcing travellers to improvise in humiliating and unsanitary conditions. Flight VA50 departed Denpasar International Airport on 28 August with only two functioning lavatories, as a rear toilet was already out of service. Midway […]
[ad_1] Donald Trump (left), PM Narendra Modi (Agencies) US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that he personally intervened to stop a nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan during heightened tensions between the two neighbours, while Operation Sindoor was underway in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, earlier this year.Speaking during a cabinet meeting […]
[ad_1] A Sacramento elementary school teacher who preyed on his students for years has been sentenced to 215 years to life in prison after admitting to sexually abusing children and recording the assaults, prosecutors announced, as reported by US Today.Abuse hidden behind ‘broadcasting club’Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, a longtime teacher at Del Paso Heights Elementary […]
[ad_1] A Breeze Airways flight bound for Los Angeles was diverted to a Colorado airport after an unruly passenger, waving a skateboard and shouting racial slurs, clashed with fellow passengers and flight attendants and twice escaped his restraints, as per airline and local authorities.Breeze Airways Flight 704, which departed Norfolk, Virginia, at 9.17 am (local […]
[ad_1] More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forced out of Iran since January amid a governmental crackdown. Elian Peltier, an international correspondent at The New York Times, reports from the Afghanistan-Iran border. There, he met with Afghans grappling with an uncertain future, as they return to a country with widespread poverty and severe restrictions […]
