International News (Page 919)

A person carries a banner during an anti-war protest in Moscow, Russia, February 24, 2022. The banner reads “No war. Freedom for political prisoners.” (Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters) Beware the temptation to damn an entire country of 140+ million people and its culture for the actions of Putin’s tyrannical regime. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D uring the First…Continue Reading

(paulaphoto/Getty Images) New York City students ages five-and-under will be required to continue wearing masks in school even if Mayor Eric Adams lifts the school mask mandate for all other students in the coming days, a City Hall official told Gothamist. The official said the city’s youngest students will keep wearing masks because children in…Continue Reading

Breanna M. Roque, Joan K. Salwen, Rob Kinley and Ermias Kebreab | Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 | Article”Inclusion of Asparagopsis armata in lactating dairy cows’ diet reduces enteric methane emission by over 50 percent”First ever paper that showed that enteric methane emissions in dairy cows can be reduced by up to 67 percent. This…Continue Reading

NEW DELHI, March 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said.The eight assailants, including two women, who had accused him of…Continue Reading

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Kentucky’s attorney general has the legal right to defend a statewide abortion restriction even after the governor refused to do so.Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican elected in 2019, had asked a federal court to let him defend a new state law that bans an abortion…Continue Reading

The Penn State Nittany Lions will meet the Illinois Fighting Illini in college basketball action on Thursday night from the State Farm Center.  Penn State has struggled lately while losing five of their last eight games and is in search of a win while Illinois is prepping for the tournament and has split their last…Continue Reading

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A stunning federal indictment this week all but ensures that one of the more prominent politicians in this fall’s election won’t be on the ballot. But that likely won’t stop Republicans from using Michael Madigan’s grim-faced likeness in an effort to taint Democrats after the ex-House speaker was charged with 22…Continue Reading

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Climate scientists in the U.S. Pacific Northwest warned Thursday that much of Oregon and parts of Idaho can expect even tougher drought conditions this summer than in the previous two years, which already featured dwindling reservoirs, explosive wildfires and deep cuts to agricultural irrigation.At a news conference hosted by the National…Continue Reading

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A South Carolina mother has traveled to New Orleans hoping to learn more about the death of her daughter, a college senior who was dropped off at a hospital by an unidentified driver after she attended suburban Carnival parades.Police have released few details about the death the morning of Feb. 19…Continue Reading