Photo credit: Mainichi Japan’s internal affairs ministry has started surveying its municipalities on the collection of the individual resident tax from foreign workers who left Japan in 2024. The Japan Times reports that the resident tax is collected every fiscal year based on the previous year’s income. In the most recent regular session of parliament, problems were highlighted regarding some of foreign…
Photo credit: Al Jazeera The Sudanese city of al-Fashir has been cut off from the world by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than 15 months. SBS News reports that no food or aid delivery has been allowed in. Civilians now worry that the only thing awaiting them is death. A woman told in…
We won’t need fireworks; With various wars; Every day getting worse; In our crazy wild world: Year approaching embers; Climaxing in December; If we’re lucky; We’ll get turkey: Otherwise; We’ll be war-weary! Conflicts – here there near, and hither: Farms are vandalized; Homes are ravaged: People out to refugeedom – When not into martyrdom – Into…
Umaru Dikko wey be Transport Minister for Sheu Shagari go dey laugh and fall yakata where e dey now as im prediction for Nigeria don come true. No be him talk say Nigerians go dey eat from dustbin because of hunger? Sebi na one paper like dat say Nigerians dey hungry. Dat paper must be…
Photo credit: AP News Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City. AP reports that the Prime Minister’s office confirmed it. The decision was taken early Friday, and it marks another escalation of Israel’s 22-month offensive launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The war has already killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed much of…
Photo credit: CNN Dean Cain, who starred as the Man of Steel in the 1990s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman said, “So many patriots have stepped up, and I’m proud to be among them.” AP reports that the US government is deploying patriotic icons and increasingly warlike rhetoric to recruit…
Photo credit: AP News Laurent Saint-Cyr, a wealthy businessman, on Thursday became the head of Haiti’s transitional presidential council. AP reports that the council is tasked with restoring order in the beleaguered country. Meanwhile, a top gang leader has vowed to overthrow the government. Saint-Cyr’s appointment at the council’s heavily guarded office in the capital marked the…
