Airline
Wheelchair-bound flyer slams airline for losing special cushion: ‘Indigo left me disabled in truest sense’
DECEMBER 9, 2023
A wheelchair-bound woman claimed that Indigo Airline forgot that she was on the flight and made her wait for 40 minutes to deplane. Virali Modi shared her disappointment in a lengthy post on X that has gone viral online.
Modi, who is a disability activist, mentioned that she has been paralyzed from the waist down since 2006 and...
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China's Hebei province, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India, a team of scientists...
Asia
‘If Other Parts Of World Try To Force-Feed India…’: Jaishankar Stresses Building ‘Bharat Narrative’
DECEMBER 4, 2023
New Delhi, INDIA - The world will find it difficult to grasp what is happening in India if it tries to "force feed" the country into certain constructs, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday.
Addressing an event, Jaishankar said that society in the country is "deeply democratized today" and a lot of its leadership and its...
DECEMBER 4, 2023
FILE - A trading post sports the Spotify logo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Spotify said Monday, Dec. 4, 2023 it's axing 17% of its global workforce, in the music streaming service's third round of layoffs this year as it tries to slash costs while focusing on profitabilty. (AP...
DECEMBER 2, 2023
Hours after a Sikh community leader was assassinated by two masked men in the parking lot of his temple in Canada, a senior Indian security officer sent a drug trafficker he knew a video of the blood-covered victim slumped over in his truck. An hour later, he followed that up with the New York address of another...
Asia
Forget the ‘tripledemic.’ The U.S. is headed for a ‘syndemic’ this winter—and experts warn we’re not prepared
DECEMBER 2, 2023
EMTs transfer a patient in the busy ambulance bay at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Md., on Dec. 12. The hospital is operating at above its normal capacity because of a surge in a variety of illnesses like RSV, flu, and COVID. - Suzanne. Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
COVID will likely reach levels this winter...
Agriculture
President Biden rule aims to reduce methane emissions, targeting US oil and gas industry for global warming
DECEMBER 2, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming as President Joe Biden seeks to advance his climate legacy.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the new rule will sharply reduce methane and other harmful air pollutants...
DECEMBER 1, 2023
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks during an interview with Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler at the 92nd Street Y in New York March 15, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, whose centrist views and shrewd negotiating skills allowed her to...
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
People pass by part of a road which was washed away at the Kilometro 42 community, near Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, after the passage of Hurricane Otis, on October 25, 2023. Nearly four in 10 people believe that they will be displaced in the next 25 years because of the effects of climate change according to a...
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Palestinians inspect the destruction caused by Israeli strikes in Wadi Gaza, in the central Gaza Strip, Nov. 28, 2023, amid a truce in battles between Israel and Hamas. - Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images
A four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel has been extended by two days, Qatari officials announced on Monday.
Dozens of the more than 200 people...