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It was a special evening for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in New York City tonight. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry both received the Ripple of Hope Award, presented by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights nonprofit organization. The couple was honored for the humanitarian work they do through their own Archewell Foundation, where they’ve focused on creating awareness around issues relating to racial justice, sexism, mental health, and more. (Past recipients of the Ripple of Hope Award have included former President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Stacey Abrams.)For the special honor tonight, Markle chose a custom…

The revelation that  Vancouver has at least one secret police station operated by Chinese authorities is a cause of great concern, say local experts. A Spanish civil rights group, Safeguard Defenders, revealed in a report that there were Chinese police operations around the world, including three in Toronto and at least one in Vancouver.Victor Ho, the former editor of the Sing Tao Daily – Canada’s largest Chinese-Canadian newspaper – and a Hong Kong democracy activist, said he was not surprised to hear the news and it has created a lot of insecurity in the Chinese-Canadian community.The report looked into how these police…

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Sky News Darwin Bureau Chief Matt Cunningham says the Northern Territory government has dropped a proposal to ban teachers from calling students boys and girls. Mr Cunningham said the government has released new draft guidelines which have “taken out” the controversial ban.“It’s also taken out another quite controversial proposal in the original document which was that schools could help students as young as 14 transition their gender without their parents support,” he added. Source: Sky News

A young man was rushed to a hospital after he was shot in the abdomen in south Harlem on Monday afternoon, cops said. The 22-year-old was at West 114th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard — about four blocks north of Central Park — when he was blasted with gunfire around 3:30 p.m., according to police.  Police were looking for a man and woman dressed in black who fled the scene on foot. A 22-year-old man was shot in Harlem in broad daylight on Dec. 6, 2022. LoudLabsNYC Police are looking for a man and woman dressed in black…

In the heart of Gautam Adani’s infrastructure empire, engineers slot steel pieces together to make wind turbines. Nearby, workers operate machines in a factory spitting out solar panels, overshadowed by four candy-striped cooling towers of India’s largest private coal-fired power station.The three facilities are part of the 37,000-acre Mundra port and special economic zone, the showpiece of Adani’s sprawling conglomerate and the destination for billions of dollars in new investments, from a copper smelter to a coal-to-plastic factory.Asia’s richest man is embarking on a fundraising effort to manage his debt and continue his rapid expansion, as he confronts questions about…

SEOUL: North Korea’s parliament will hold its next session in January, when it will make plans for the coming year, including on the country’s budget, state media said on Wednesday (Dec 12). The country’s rubber-stamp legislature meets only once or twice a year, usually for day-long sessions to approve decisions deemed necessary by the ruling Workers’ Party. “The 8th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK will be convened in Pyongyang on January 17,” the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The session is set to include a review of the work of 2022, plans…

The UK and US have pledged to maintain high levels of liquefied natural gas trade between the two countries as part of a new “energy partnership” that aims to reduce reliance on Russia and accelerate the push to net zero.Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, and Joe Biden, the US president, announced the initiative on Wednesday, which aimed to double the amount of LNG the US sends to the UK compared with 2021 levels — a target that has already been met this year as European countries scrambled to secure alternatives to Russian gas supplies following the invasion of Ukraine.Neither…

Five women, including two actors who appeared on “The Cosby Show,” filed a lawsuit in New York on Monday, accusing disgraced comedy legend Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them.The plaintiffs named the actor, Kaufman Astoria Studios Inc., The Carsey-Werner Company and NBCUniversal Media as defendants in the 34-page lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.”The Cosby Show,” which ran from 1984 to 1992 on NBC, was filmed at studios now controlled by Kaufman Astoria and produced by Carsey-Werner, according to the civil action.All the defendants are “culpable and liable because they knew and/or should have known that Bill Cosby was sexually…

Consumer choice group Which? has revealed that supermarket own-label products and budget ranges have rocketed in price by 175 per cent in the past year The prices of supermarket own-label and budget ranges have risen faster than big-brand products during the cost of living crisis. Consumer choice group Which? found that some store-owned products have rocketed by up to 175% in price in the past year. It came as figures out yesterday from industry number-crunchers Kantar revealed grocery price inflation had dipped for the first time in 21 months. Groceries are still 14.6% costlier than a year ago, but this…