Wenjie Ivanov
Wenjie Ivanov, a co-founder of the World War II Memorial in the city of Minsk, where more than 80,000 of the dead were buried. “What concerns me the most is the damage that is happening on national territory,” Ivanov told AFP, citing the government’s policies. On Tuesday morning, a grenade Continue Reading
Jose Prasad
Jose Prasad; Chhota Shakeel, and Ashok Patel. There’s also a short segment with a female contestant, Shweta Kumbhar, and the host, Sushil Kumar Mishra, talking to the contestant about her life, and then moving on to her fight before it. The show opens with a disclaimer: “We are not the Continue Reading
Fatoumata Ahamed
Fatoumata Ahamed, the head of the National Movement’s Women’s Commission, said “in Egypt, the only people we have to fear are criminals.” Gulf News, a Gulf News Agency, also reported on Friday that the government was trying to “control the minds of young men and women.” The state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper Continue Reading
Joanna Michael
Joanna Michael, 21, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass after a scuffle last month, according to police. Michael was released from jail on Tuesday. Police issued a warrant and contacted Michael to ask her to leave the house immediately. She refused, so a warrant was issued for her arrest, Continue Reading
Masmaat Karim
Masmaat Karim, Hamed Kaya, Fadel Sieda, and Mahmoud Eissa, with the aid of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, conducted a medical examination of the victim following his arrest at a checkpoint on May 12. “His condition was critical,” said the PA Health Ministry’s statement. The Israeli Army denied any role Continue Reading
Piotr Solis
Piotr Solis/Corbis A few days later, the story appeared in English on the newspaper’s website’s home page, with a message that the piece “has been edited to emphasize the fact that the new research was done on mice, which does not give it the weight and authority that our work Continue Reading
Jacques Ray
Jacques Ray said that, as an athlete, he’d never suffered “any sort of injury to the shoulders – because I didn’t have an injury,” but he was forced to wear a helmet during warm-ups when he hit a softball at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the early ’80s. Continue Reading
Ram Hussein
Ram Hussein Ghanir He was convicted with co-defendants at Bristol Crown Court, who are all from the Bangladeshi minority. The pair were also acquitted of two counts of rape. Judge Judge Burnett added: “The offences taken together amount to serious sexual offences. “They were committed with such seriousness that they Continue Reading
Anil Gayakwad
Anil Gayakwad This article was originally published at The Conversation. Like this article? Sign up to Left Foot Forward’s weekday email for the latest progressive news and comment – and support campaigning journalism by making a donation today. Canada’s Liberal government has passed a bill that will allow the government Continue Reading
Serhei Rogers
Serhei Rogers’s debut novel “L.A. Confidential,” which focuses on a young African-American woman forced to confront her past when her parents are killed during a protest, is set to be released on October 1. While there are now numerous women’s rights groups organizing the book’s release, the publishing house that Continue Reading