Justice Roberts condemns Schumer’s comments targeting Gorsuch, Kavanaugh
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Nov. 22 (UPI) — A draft finance deal Friday at the U.N. COP29 climate and environment talks proposed wealthy nations give $250 billion a year to poorer nations in climate funding. Developing countries, however, called for more money with negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan, and expected to push talks into the weekend. “A new…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (Reuters) – The Ukraine Black Sea grain deal has been extended for two more months, in what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed as “good news for the world,” a day before Russia could have quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertiliser exports. Turkish President Tayyip…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄A section of the Samsen Road in Bangkok, Thailand, collapsed on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 24 A huge sinkhole measuring 98 square feet has opened up on a road in Bangkok, Thailand, disrupting traffic and prompting evacuations. Part of Samsen Road in the Thai capital — which is in the midst…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Jan. 18 (UPI) — The European Union Parliament Thursday adopted a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war if a pair of conditions are fulfilled. The non-binding measure demanded that all hostages be released and that Hamas be dismantled to call for a cease-fire and a return to efforts to…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄 Greece has become the first Christian Orthodox-majority country to legalise same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples will now also be legally allowed to adopt children after Thursday’s 176-76 vote in parliament. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the new law would “boldly abolish a serious inequality”. But it has divided the country, with fierce…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄The Supreme Court unanimously revived a straight woman’s “reverse discrimination” case against her former employer Thursday, lowering the legal hurdle for white and straight employees to bring such lawsuits. The 9-0 decision rejects that members of a majority group must show “background circumstances” in addition to the normal requirements to prove a…