Rhode Island – Senators from Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts are among the 28 legislators who are prepared to speak on the Senate floor every Monday night and Tuesday morning to demand urgent action be taken in relation to climate change. Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says «it’s time for Congress to wake up and […]readmore
Rhode Island – Brown University in Providence will begin celebrating their 250th anniversary that will last 15 months with fireworks, a giant cake in the shape of the first building where in 1765 the University started functioning at the time as Brown College of Rhode Island in Warren and it will be highlighted with a […]readmore
Rhode Island – Police have identified the man who was found dead on the beach in Charlestown on Saturday morning as Joseph W. Huston 53 of 65 Marietta Street in Providence. A person’s body was found partially submerged off a stuck vehicle which was found in the sand. The coroner determined the cause of death, […]readmore
A U.S. congressman accused the CIA of interfering in computer network created to help Congress to investigate allegations of abuses under President George W. Bush. The president of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein said that the CIA had improperly registered computers and secretly had removed hundreds of documents. Feinstein said she had serious concerns […]readmore
The World Health Organization (WHO ) wants you to stop eating too much sugar. Based on new guidelines proposed this week, WHO is encouraging people to consume less than 5% of their total daily calories from sugars. Current guidelines from the organization, published in 2002, recommend consuming less than 10% of total daily calories from […]readmore
Concerned about the increase in heroin overdose deaths , Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, called for increased efforts to fight what he considered an «urgent public health crisis.» In a video released Monday, Holder said the increased efforts include not only law enforcement, but also treatment and efforts to keep people away […]readmore
Malaysia Airlines plane turned west, deviating from its planned route, before disappearing, according to information of a military radar, said the Malaysian Air Force. The flight MH370 disappeared on Saturday with 239 people on board while covering the route between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing an hour after takeoff. Meanwhile, two Iranian citizens, ages 19 and […]readmore
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, will not attend the inauguration of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile, which will take place on Tuesday at the National Congress, according to confirmed sources of the Chilean Foreign Ministry. Maduro was scheduled to arrive in the early hours of Tuesday to the capital Santiago. However, they could […]readmore
Noting the positive results of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) response programme in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan, the agency’s chief today committed to long-term support for farming and fishing communities, earlier today during a visit to the region. Four months after the landfall of a typhoon that claimed over 6,000 lives […]readmore
The past year has been the worst for 5.5 million children in Syria in terms of humanitarian issues, said Tuesday the UN fund for children and childhood, Unicef. This figure, which is twice that reported a year ago, including nearly one million children who are trapped in places besieged by armies, without access to food […]readmore