Month: November 2021

The National Symphony Orchestra of Lebanon is feeling the effects of the financial crisis in the country. The crisis has left many people in Lebanon suffering from poverty and struggling…

American officials are visiting countries around the world to identify 50 projects for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better World effort. The B3W, as it is called, is an international…

Parents in the Philippines are finding some creative ways to get their children outside to play as pandemic restrictions continue. One of those children is two-year-old Nathania Ysobel Alesna. On…

Jebel Ali Village, in Dubai, is a group of homes built in the late 1970s for European port workers. It has largely stayed the same over the years. Foreign residents…

An 89-year-old man from the American state of Rhode Island has reached a goal he spent 20 years working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about. He earned his doctorate,…

Nigerians have been lining up to buy Adunni Abdul’s black-eyed peas called moimoi in a market in Lagos for more than 10 years. Five years ago, she started to cook…

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president who oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died. A spokesman for the former president’s organization said Thursday that…

China recently announced a new Land Borders Law that permits the use of weapons to stop “illegal” border crossings. The law also lists reasons for Chinese officials to ban those…

Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. Congress have proposed an addition to President Joe Biden’s climate and social spending legislation. The addition would permit Medicare to negotiate with drug companies over…

Kriti Tula is a fashion designer in New Delhi, India. Here she stands next to the clothes made from repurposed unused fabric at her factory on November 3, 2021. (REUTERS/Adnan…

As leaders meet in Scotland for the United Nations conference on climate change, a real time battle to defend Mexican forestland continues. There, on the Yucatan Peninsula, people are working…

The European Union is blaming the government of Belarus for a group of migrants seeking to cross over into Poland. Polish police published a video showing hundreds of migrants –…

FILE – The General Electric logo appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, June 26, 2018. General Electric, a company known simply as…

A United States travel ban on foreign visitors from many countries was lifted on Monday. The action permitted many international travelers to take passenger flights to America for the first…

FILE – Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, asked his Twitter followers Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, if he should sell 10 percent of his…