Providence – In an ongoing effort to strengthen child protection policies, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General have established an enhanced protocol for reporting allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. Under this strengthened protocol, the Diocese of Providence has agreed to notify the Attorney General’s […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo has ordered all Rhode Island flags to be flown at half-staff at all state facilities and buildings beginning at sunrise on Thursday, September 1, 2016. The flags will remain at half-staff until sunrise on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, in memory of former Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle, who […]Load more...
WOONSOCKET, RI: Today, Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt announced plans for the City of Woonsocket to dedicate the new Little League field at World War II Veterans Memorial Park in honor of Woonsocket native and National Baseball Hall of Famer, Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie at a ceremony scheduled for 3 pm on September 5. Monday’s dedication ceremony on […]Load more...
Voz de América Carlos Melo, el político detenido, es dirigente del partido Avanzada Progresista. Otro dirigente de oposición venezolano fue detenido este martes, a dos días de una marcha pacífica conocida como «La Toma de Caracas», que busca exigir al gobierno la realización del proceso revocatorio contra el presidente Nicolás Maduro. El consejal Luis Somaza, […]Load more...
Washington todavía no ha confirmado la muerte que sería uno de los golpes más fuerte y reciente contra el grupo terrorista. El grupo Estado islámico confirmó la muerte de su portavoz y uno de sus comandantes de alto rango mientras supervisaba operaciones militares en Siria. La agencia de noticias de ISIS, informó que Abu Muhammen […]Load more...
MOSCOW — United Russia, the ruling political party best known for its loyalty to President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, has essentially become a tool of political legitimization for organized crime, according to an opposition party report published Tuesday titled «The Criminal Russia Party.» «I think that the title of the report quite accurately reflects its […]Load more...
VOA News Reports from Syria say the Islamic State group’s second-ranking leader, who served as the extremist group’s chief propagandist and also was linked to recruiting activities and attacks in Europe, has been killed in Aleppo province. Islamic State announced Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s death Tuesday, saying only that he was killed «while surveying the operations […]Load more...
U.S. officials suspect Russian hackers were responsible for breaking into two state election databases earlier this month. «This is the closest we’ve come to tying a recent hack to the Russian government,» one official told NBC News on Monday. The FBI has not identified the two U.S. states whose data bases were attacked, but Yahoo […]Load more...
GENEVA — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein is calling on all French seaside towns to rescind «discriminatory bans» on the burkini and other forms of dress worn by Muslim women. In weighing in on this controversial issue, the U.N.’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, did not disguise his disdain for […]Load more...
Luis Ramirez VOA News ST. ETIENNE DU ROUVRAY, FRANCE —France’s controversy over the full-body swimsuit known as the burkini has exposed the country’s battle between its secularist society and its Muslim minority — at 7.5 percent of the population, the largest in Europe. Those tensions, some subtle and some not, have grown in the wake […]Load more...