Churchill Downs, home racetrack of the Kentucky Derby, announced new safety measures on Thursday following 12 recent equine deaths, including limiting horses to four starts...
#averts #firstever #default #11thhour #debt #deal US senators voted to suspend the federal debt limit Thursday, capping weeks of fraught negotiations to eliminate the...
Avant garde street performance, politically charged theatre, pro-democracy music and poetry — powerful works of art dealing with China’s bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown that...
When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka’s holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo’s cash-strapped government pulled out...
#Dehumanising #migrants #deeply #troubling #incoming #IOM #chief The incoming head of the United Nations’ migration agency decried a tendency to demonise vulnerable migrants for...
Dollar-wielding foreigners living it up in Buenos Aires while locals scrape by; Argentina’s sky-high inflation and weakening currency has yielded a schizophrenic rental market...
#Spike #boats #smuggling #meth #Myanmar Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ketamine...
New houses that rely on dwindling groundwater supplies around one of the United States’ biggest cities are to be banned, officials said Thursday, in...