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Month: April 2021

Myanmar junta orders internet blackout as more pro-democracy protesters are detained

Myanmar’s military junta has cut all wireless internet services until further notice, in what appears to be part of a concerted effort to control communications and messaging in the Southeast Asian country. Pro-democracy demonstrators have repeatedly filled streets across the country for nearly two months in protest after the military overthrew the elected government over

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Canadian families struggling to access autism therapy as they wait for a national strategy

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO (CTV Network) — While Friday marks World Autism Awareness Day, some Canadians say the federal government’s long-promised national strategy isn’t coming fast enough with affordable and accessible support varying drastically between provinces. Tiffany Baker, who’s seven-year-old son Kameron has autism, says she has faced heartbreaking roadblocks in

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Corea del Norte registra un éxodo masivo de extranjeros debido al covid-19, según la embajada de Rusia

(CNN) — Diplomáticos y personal humanitario extranjero han huido en masa de Corea del Norte en los últimos meses debido a la escasez de suministros y a las restricciones «sin precedentes» en la vida cotidiana impuestas para detener la propagación del coronavirus, según la embajada de Rusia en Pyongyang. La embajada dijo en un comunicado

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An 8-year-old cancer survivor sold over 30,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. She’s using proceeds to help ‘fellow childhood cancer warriors’

An 8-year-old cancer survivor in San Bernardino, California, is using some of the proceeds from her Girl Scout cookie sales to give back to others fighting cancer. Lilly Bumpus, who has been a Girl Scout for four years, said she sold 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, crushing the previous record of roughly 26,000 boxes

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John Boehner is right about the GOP before Trump

During Donald Trump’s presidency, many of his critics argued that he was the cause of so many problems plaguing the country and the Republican Party. While Trump was far from innocent, as a former member of Congress and lifelong Republican, I have never bought the simplicity of that argument. Instead, Trump was a consequence of

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The gates were locked, a boy dying in a woman’s arms inside. This is what police have learned about the mass shooting in Orange, California

When police were finally able to enter the courtyard of the business complex in Orange, California — where four people were fatally shot Wednesday — they found a woman holding a wounded 9-year-old boy. “It appears that a little boy died in his mother’s arms as she was trying to save him during this horrific

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