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Salman Rushdie was issued a fatwa - a death sentence - in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini after his book, the Satanic Verses, sparked and outcry with Muslims in Britain.
>> reporter: in tokyo, people go about their daily lives. japan was looking forward to a rise in tourism during the summer months, as its economy struggles to get back to prepandemic levels. but a recent uptick in covid-19 cases is spoiling those plans. out of the country's 47 prefectures, 30 reported daily new highs. this is japan's seventh wave of coronavirus, and the government says it doesn't plan to bring back any covid rules. >> translator: as for the rapid spread, i think maybe since the spring everyone has calmed down and gone back to normal. so it was predictable to a certain extent. ...
Two unions representing 70,000 hospital workers in Ontario say an “all-hands-on deck-approach” is needed now to address the ongoing hospital staffing crisis, which is leading to the closure of emergency rooms across the province.
No Fun At All have announced their first new album since 2018. Titled Seventh Wave, it will be preceded by a new single this week called "It's Not A Problem." Vocalist Ingemar Jansson had this to say about the new song: I live on an old farm that's been owned by my family since the 1850s. 20 ye...
Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer from Evanston, currently based in Seattle. She serves as Events Director for The Seventh Wave and works at the University of Washington. Her poems and essays are featured/forthcoming in Waxwing, Ninth Letter, Catapult, Poetry Northwest, Hayden's Ferry Review, Passages North, and elsewhere.