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The Czech Foreign Ministry has announced that it will set up a diplomatic office in Jerusalem that would make it the second country in the European Union (EU) to have diplomatic representation in the city, although it does point out that it will not be an embassy.
The Beijing L.G.B.T. Center said in a post, “We are all gay tonight,” alongside photographs of young men and women. While some posts were censored, the hashtag that translates to #Iamgaynotapervert was viewed more than 1.35 million times. Many activists had harsh words for Sina Weibo, saying that its attempts to limit free speech had…
ROME, Aug. 20 (EUROPE PRESS) – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Tuesday that he will present his resignation to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, as a result of the government crisis opened by the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, whose “irresponsibility” has criticized harshly in the Senate. “At the end…
RICHMOND, Va. — Dean Turner never voted before he went to prison. But his right to cast a ballot was the last barrier to rebuilding his life once he got out. Released in February 2016, after more than a decade behind bars for selling drugs, the 50-year-old Virginian worked his way up from dishwasher to…
The Iranian authorities have provisionally released 36,283 inmates as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the country’s prisons. “Since July 8, 36,283 prisoners have been released,” said Iranian prison service chief Mohammad Mehdi Haj-Mohammadi, quoted by the Iranian news agency Tasnim. This number includes both recently released prisoners and those…
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Hundreds of buildings have been tested following the Grenfell Tower fire last June The standard UK fire safety test of building materials fails to properly assess risk, a study conducted after the Grenfell Tower blaze has suggested. Research for insurance industry experts says the simulations in the British Standards Institution (BSI)…
WASHINGTON — The CEO of the Democratic National Committee is leaving after less than a year on the job, NBC News has learned. Veteran Democrat operative Jess O’Connell took the helm of the DNC last May with a mandate to help newly installed Chairman Tom Perez turn around a troubled party organization that was struggling…