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The Office of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) who represents parts of The Bronx and Queens is reminding Bronxites that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced recently that it is extending the re-registration periods for the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations of several countries, including Nepal, Nicaragua and Honduras.

Latest figures for 2023 show tourists are flocking back to South Africa, with exciting new markets unlocking all the time.

The Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation-USA published an open letter calling on Schindler’s List director Steven Spielberg to condemn Hamas’s massacre.

A. Palestinian flag. Photo from Flickr by M. Mansour on January 11, 2009. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams As Israeli forces waged what al-Shifa’s director described as a “war against hospitals” in Gaza on Friday, United Nations officials, human rights groups, and doctors demanded the protection of medical facilities and renewed calls for a cease-fire. “Half of the Gaza Strip’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary healthcare centers are not functioning at all,” World Health O...

There are seven grounds (or reasons) for divorce in Texas.

<p>Amazon used to be a large river in South America - but that was before the world wide web. This month the web is 15 years old and in that short time it has revolutionised the way we live, from shopping to booking flights, writing blogs to listening to music. Here, the Observer's Net specialist charts the web's remarkable early life and we tell the story of the 15 most influential websites to date.</p>

By not acting against Israel's collective punishment of Palestinians, the U.K., U.S. and European Union are failing an obligation in international law spelled out in a 2004 ruling by the International Court of Justice.  By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk Israel does have the right of self

Philippine Canadian Inquirer Cranberries can bounce, float and pollinate themselves: The saucy science of a Thanksgiving classic Food

With the Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer raking in millions at the box office this past summer, Americans are being transported back to the dawn of the atomic age, weapons of devastating power were being tested and built and tested. The first two finished products each ended a world war in horrific fashion and signaled the […]

Peter Oborne reports from Hebron in the southern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where illegal settlers, backed by Israel’s military, are forcing Palestinians off their land with impunity. By Peter Oborne Declassified UK It is the same story in every village in the South Hebron Hill