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Crowds protest near Vermont resort where Vance planned family vacation
Protesters line Main Street in Waitsfield, Vt., to protest Vice President JD Vance’s visit on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Erin Minichiello via AP).WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Crowds protesting US Vice President JD Vance the day after an Oval Office blowout over Ukraine lined roadways Saturday near a Vermont ski resort where he planned a weekend vacation with
PSA Members Protest WorkSafe Job Cuts | Mirage News
More than 50 PSA members, MPs, other union representatives and health and safety experts staged a 'flash mob' picket outside WorkSafe's head office this morning as the agency confirms plans to cut a further 54 jobs.The jobs being axed include the disestablishment of the health team, who work to prevent health-related harm and deaths in
Protest sponsorship allegation: Utomi asks Bayo Onanuga to provide evidence or face legal action
Pat Utomi, a renowned professor of political economy, has challenged Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, to provide evidence to back up his protest sponsorship allegation against him or face legal action.Recall that Onanuga had in his post on X accused the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter
Portable’s fans set to protest arrest of singer
Hours following the arrest of the controversial rapper Portable, his fans are set to mobilize and protest for his release, terming the arrest as unwarranted. It would be recalled that the singer who is also known as Tony Montana was forcefully arrested after he ran when invited over unpaid bills for a car. A fan
Convoy protest class action lawsuit adds to list of defendants, expands roster of included residents
A Superior Court justice also ordered plaintiffs to serve the amended statement on defendants within 90 days Published Mar 15, 2023 • Last updated Mar 15, 2023 • 2 minute read Ottawa lawyer Paul Champ said that the area covered by a proposed class-action suit against organizers of the convoy protest has expanded. Photo by
Iraqis Protest After Father Kills YouTuber Daughter
Iraqi activists protested Sunday to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that has outraged the conservative country. Tiba al-Ali, 22, was killed by her father on January 31 in the southern province of Diwaniyah, interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan said on Twitter on
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And on Tuesday evening, at a packed and boisterous COP27 side event organized by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International at the German Climate Pavilion, el-Fattah’s sister Sanaa Seif—an activist previously imprisoned for protesting a law that bans unauthorized demonstrations—gave a moving speech, quoting her brother. “We need to reclaim the arena of local action
Protest forces Libya’s national oil firm to close Al-Fil field
National Oil Corporation forced to halt production after unidentified protesters entered Al-Fil oil field.Published On 17 Apr 202217 Apr 2022Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced the suspension of production at a major oil field in the country’s south, declaring a “force majeure” due to a protest at the site. Located some 750km (466 miles)…
Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference
As Ukrainian researchers have feared for their lives and careers after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, mathematicians have been grappling over what to do about a prominent mathematical conference that was set to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in July. The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is “the largest and most significant conference on pure and…
Racist Protest ‘Threatened’ Patient Care, Massachusetts Medical Society Says
The Massachusetts Medical Society said it was "angered" over the recent neo-Nazi protest outside Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston that targeted two doctors whose work focuses on health equity. "Not only was the demonstration built on a false narrative and dangerous misinformation, but the act also threatened to interfere with delivery of health care,…