‘If we don’t win, we will be a slave to the military forever’
Yangon, Myanmar – As protests against the recent Myanmar military coup continue to rage across the country, the police response has grown more severe. In Mandalay and Naypyidaw – the nation’s second-largest city and capital respectively – security forces have deployed tear gas, water cannon, rubber-coated bullets and even live rounds. Naypyidaw police shot one […]
‘Dad, I Don’t Want to Come Back to the Capitol’: Raskin Speaks of the Horror of Jan. 6
WASHINGTON — The speech, delivered before a rapt Senate chamber on Tuesday, will be remembered at the Capitol, probably for a long time, for its appeal to the still-raw emotions after the mob attack on the jurors’ workplace and courtroom. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the lead prosecution lawyer in the second impeachment trial of […]
Goats Don’t Vote
One moment a herd of goats is milling around, casually browsing the scrubby grass. The next, their long ears twitch and their wide golden eyes stare as they trot off purposefully, picking up speed as they appear to rush intently to a specific destination. They’re exhibiting a behavior that scientists have long watched in herding, […]
‘Don’t feel sorry for Suu Kyi’: Rohingya refugees on Myanmar coup
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have condemned the military coup in Myanmar but say they do not “feel sorry” for de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s removal from power. Speaking to Al Jazeera at the sprawling Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, Rohingya community leader Mohammad Yunus Arman said the […]
‘I don’t feel like I’ve said goodbye to my dad. How is he gone?’
London, United Kingdom – When Ozel Ekrem last saw her father alive on March 8 last year, a brisk spring day, he was in the garden, tending to a barbecue. Arif Niyazi, a British-Cypriot restaurateur from Birmingham was a happy-go-lucky character and known to regularly defy the cold English weather. “I told him: ‘Come inside dad, […]
‘Bills don’t lie’: Pop megastar Shakira sells 145-song catalogue
Shakira has sold over 80 million records and has a strong following on music streaming platforms Spotify and YouTube. Colombian pop superstar Shakira has become the latest artist to sell the rights to her catalogue of 145 songs to London-listed Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the investment firm said on Wednesday, as the coronavirus crisis crushes concert earnings. The […]
Will the pro-Trump riot change US politics? Don’t count on it
It was months after a disputed election and charges of an “illegitimate” president were dominating an era of deep political divisions that were growing deeper by the day. Then terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. Hours after planes were flown into buildings in New York City and Washington, DC, and nearly 3,000 […]
Video: ‘I Don’t Like It’: Rome Reacts to Nativity Scene
The Vatican’s new Christmas Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square has prompted much criticism — and some head-scratching, with some trying to understand exactly what they were looking at. . Source link
Don’t Get Between a Caterpillar and Its Milkweed #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
“Some would just roam off and eat,” said Elizabeth Brown, a biologist in Dr. Keene’s lab. But if an insect spotted a morsel of food that was being monopolized by another, it would “rear up and, with their head, make a lunge onto the body of the other caterpillar,” she said. Sometimes the strikes landed […]
‘They don’t accept you’: Afro-Greeks struggle to be seen #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Athens, Greece – “It’s a victory for the Greek nation in general,” said 29-year-old Eirini Ontoul, as she considers the recent verdicts against the far-right Golden Dawn party. “Even if it was out of political correctness, all parties finally condemned the actions of this organisation and this was not the case in the past – […]
Call It Friendsgiving, Call It Podsgiving, Just Don’t Forget the Green Beans #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Emily Gordon, 49, who works in media relations for the Yale School of Management, is joining her friend, the writer Annie Murphy Paul, and Ms. Paul’s two sons for dinner at their house. Everyone invited has been asked to take a coronavirus test first. The plan had originally been to crack the windows open wide, […]
‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls. Mohammad Yusuf voted in almost every Myanmar election from 1974 until 2010 – the last time ethnic Rohingya were allowed to vote in the country he still calls home after fleeing three years ago in the wake […]
WHO urges world ‘don’t give up’ as COVID-19 pandemic resurges #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging people around the world not to give up in the fight against the coronavirus as cases surge once again, stressing the need for mask-wearing, physical distancing and other measures to avoid the kind of full-scale lockdowns that were imposed earlier this year. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told […]
Google: From ‘don’t be evil’ to target of DOJ antitrust lawsuit #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
In Google’s infancy, cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin reviled Microsoft as a technological bully that ruthlessly abused its dominance of the personal computer software market to choke off competition that could spawn better products. Their disdain for Microsoft spurred Google to adopt “don’t be evil” as a corporate motto that remained its moral compass […]
Analysis: Don’t be fooled by high early US voting numbers #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Early vote totals are historically not a good predictor of the outcome of the presidential race. This is the point in a presidential campaign where people want to know, “Who’s going to win?” Rarely is there a certain answer to that question at this juncture, yet many still look for facts and figures to try […]
Symptoms, recovery, aftermath: What we don’t know about COVID-19 #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Across the globe, doctors, researchers and scientists are working around the clock to investigate the ways COVID-19 affects the human body – and there is a lot we are still learning. Mild vs severe cases: Rate of recovery Recovery time for those with COVID-19 varies. This is due to a number of factors, including whether […]