Category Archives: Social
Spanish rights groups denounce child deportations to Morocco
MADRID (AP) — Human rights groups on Saturday denounced Spain's expulsion of unaccompanied children to Morocco, calling the deportations illegal and urging an immediate halt to the process.
Back of the line: Charity only goes so far in world vaccines
LONDON (AP) — When global health officials created COVAX, a U.N.-backed effort to share coronavirus vaccines, it was supposed to guarantee the world’s most vulnerable people could get doses without being at the mercy of unreliable donations.
Lithuanian migrant crisis enters new phase as influx ceases
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — An influx of migrants from Iraq and elsewhere into Lithuania allegedly abetted by neighboring Belarus appears to have stopped, but with a pile of asylum applications to process and local communities angry about nearby migrant ...
Report: Hong Kong police investigating protest group
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police are reportedly investigating the group that organizes an annual protest march marking the semiautonomous territory's handover to China for possible violation of the national security law.
The Latest: Poland sends 1 million vaccines to Australia
SYDNEY — Poland has sent one million COVID-19 vaccines to Sydney where the delta variant continues to spread, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday.
Secretive Israel-UAE oil deal endangers prized Eilat corals
EILAT, Israel (AP) — The Red Sea reefs off the Israeli resort of Eilat host some of the greatest coral diversity on the planet.
Census data puts target on rural, Rust Belt House districts
While suburban congressional districts are swelling with new residents, lawmakers in large swaths of rural America and some Rust Belt cities are in need of more people to represent.
Police: School shooting victim went to aid boy being bullied
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's only a few days into the new school year, but New Mexico’s largest district is reeling from a shooting that left one student dead and another in custody after, according to police, the victim tried
NY Legislature won’t try to impeach Cuomo after he quits
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York state Assembly will suspend its investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo once he steps down after its leader concluded the Legislature didn't have the clear authority to impeach a departed official, the chamber's top
James Hormel, first openly gay U.S. ambassador, dies at 88
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — James Hormel, the first openly gay U.S. ambassador and a philanthropist who funded organizations to fight AIDS and promote human rights, has died. He was 88.