Tag: Social issues
French government dissolves anti-migrant group
PARIS — French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced the dissolution of the anti-migrant group Generation Identity during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, saying the group...
Ban Ki-moon asked to act on complaint against Beijing Games
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is being asked to rule on an ethics complaint filed against the International Olympic Committee by a human-rights group...
Prosecutors seek validation of South Carolina abortion ban
<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two of the prosecutors named as defendants in a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions have argued...
Man gets 17 1/2 years in fatal Indiana workplace shooting
<p>JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a co-worker in 2019 at their southern Indiana workplace has been sentenced to...
Spain: 8 jailed for burning police van amid rapper protests
BARCELONA, Spain — A judge in Spain on Wednesday denied bail to eight people following their arrest for violent clashes with police during protests...
San Francisco paying $16.1 million for homeless tent camps
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is paying $16.1 million to feed and house people in tent villages as the city struggles with a swelling...
Iran: Militants attack Revolutionary Guard unit in southeast
<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An armed separatist group in Iran’s restive southeast assaulted a vehicle carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard paramilitary force...
Mississippi close to putting limits on transgender athletes
<p>JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls' or women's sports teams in the state's schools...
Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron has met with four grandchildren of an Algerian independence fighter to tell them that Ali Boumendjel had been tortured...
Chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela leaves country
<p>CARACAS, Venezuela — The chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela left the country on Tuesday, a week after the government of Nicolás Maduro ordered...