Photo credit: YouTube In 1985, a group of forty-seven artistes led by the late Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie formed the United Support of Artistes (USÀ) for Africa. The group sang a song that became a ‘numero uno’ in most countries. They sang the song basically for famine relief in Ethiopia and also to help…
Photo credit: BBC The centre-left government in Germany has decided to impose temporary land border restrictions aimed at controlling irregular migration due to a knife attack and electoral gains made by a far-right party. Aljazeera reports that the government announced the new restrictions on Monday. The announcement came some days after the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany…
Photo credit: AP News Nada Al-Nashif, the United Nations Human Rights Deputy High Commissioner, has said the warring parties in the Sudan conflict are acting with “total disregard for international law.” She spoke at the 57th UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva. The event addressed various global issues, including political unrest, regression on women’s…
Change begins with individual. Mmmm! Dasorai!!! A riot act, isn’t it? Now, it has to begin with you and I since our rulers have put the enabling environment in place. To begin with every unemployed youth is given a tidy sum to tide him over until he gets a fitting employment. In any case, the…
Photo credit: The Independent As talks with the pilots’ union reach a near deadlock over “inflexible wages,” Air Canada (AC TO) is finalizing plans to suspend most of its operations. Air Canada is Canada’s largest airline. The airline and its low-cost subsidiary, Air Canada Rouge, operate nearly 670 daily flights. If they disagree with the…
Photo credit: NPR The US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP)app, CBP One, has some challenges. The Times of India reports that an independent report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General has found that 358 immigrants used a single California address as their destination in the US. For over eight months,…
