Twitch video gamers rise up against ‘hate raids’
SAN FRANCISCO - Night after night, video game streamer RekItRaven watches as their feed is inundated with abusive messages. Hate raided, yet again.In recent...
Pandemic pushes new homeless onto Sao Paulo streets
SAO PAULO - When Monica's landlord suddenly doubled the rent on the room where she lived with her three daughters in Sao Paulo, she...
Thousands protest curbs on minority voting rights in US
WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Washington, Houston, Atlanta and other US cities to protest against laws in...
Covid: Delta doubles hospital risk vs Alpha variant
PARIS - The Delta variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 doubles the risk of hospitalisation compared to the Alpha variant it has supplanted...
Bobby Kennedy’s assassin granted parole in California
LOS ANGELES - The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole...
US aims to complete Kabul airlift despite fraught security risk
WASHINGTON - US military officials say it is nearly impossible to eliminate the threat of another attack on the Kabul airport airlift, and that...
Islamic State suicide bombers kill scores at Kabul airport
KABUL: Twin suicide bombs ripped through crowds outside Kabul airport on Thursday, killing scores of people including 13 US troops and deepening panic in...
Nigerian gunmen free dozens of kidnapped seminary pupils: teacher
KATSINA (NIGERIA) - Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly...
Israeli PM promises ‘new spirit’ in Biden meeting
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday to reboot ties with the Democratic administration...
ISIS branch biggest immediate terror threat to evacuation in Kabul
WASHINGTON: The United States has been battling the Taliban and their militant partners in Afghanistan, al-Qaida and the Haqqani network, for 20 years. But...
