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With millions of people in the United States at risk of losing access to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – also known as food stamps – from November 1, a viral chart has claimed to show the majority of the nation’s food stamp recipients are non-white and noncitizens. The chart, titled Food Stamps…
A crackdown by armed forces in Cameroon has killed at least four opposition supporters amid protests over the declared re-election win by President Paul Biya. Protesters calling for fair results from the African country’s contested presidential election held on October 12 have hit the streets in several cities as 92-year-old Biya prepares for an eighth…
President Donald Trump says US military strikes on eight vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, mostly targeting boats from Venezuela, were legal because they carried drugs being delivered to the United States. But Republican Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky, who is also chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said maritime law enforcement…
The mass-produced COVID-19 vaccines built using the mRNA model – which were rapidly manufactured during the global pandemic – could also help the immune system recognise and attack cancer tumours, new studies have shown. Studies in mice and an analysis of medical records of cancer patients – who received mRNA shots for COVID-19 before starting…
Nearly two dozen world leaders are descending in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur for a three-day summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from Sunday to Tuesday, and multiple other meetings on the sidelines. This will be the 47th summit of the ASEAN. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Here’s…
Nearly two dozen world leaders are descending in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur for a three-day summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from Sunday to Tuesday, and multiple other meetings on the sidelines. This will be the 47th summit of the ASEAN. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Here’s…
If the United States federal government shutdown continues, millions of low-income Americans could lose access to a monthly benefit that pays for food. About 42 million people receive money through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), sometimes called food stamps. The Department of Agriculture told states in an October 10 letter that if the shutdown…
United States President Donald Trump’s campaign against “narcoterrorists” has transformed the Caribbean into a new battlefield. Since August, Washington has deployed thousands of troops, warships and aircraft across the region, and reopened military bases in Puerto Rico and conducted drills, in what analysts describe as the largest US presence in Latin America in decades. In…
An advertisement released in the United States by Canada’s biggest province featuring former US President Ronald Reagan has set off new tensions between Washington and Ottawa, which already had icy relations over President Donald Trump’s tariff policy. In a post on Truth Social on Thursday night, Trump claimed that the advertisement – which shows Reagan,…
Frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa faced off in the final debate of the New York City mayoral race on Wednesday, in a final push to woo voters before the November 4 vote. But the attack lines they deployed against each other, and their defences, were mostly along predictable lines,…
