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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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, […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have voiced deep concern about the escalation of violence and its impact on civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region, and urged an immediate halt to hostilities. Since late February, fighting between rebel groups and local militia in South Darfur has left thousands of people […]Load more...
The White House reiterated Monday that the arrest of American businessman Alan Gross in Cuba prevents a more constructive relationship between Washington and Havana. So said the White House spokesman, Jay Carney during the daily briefing at the U.S. capital. «We continue working to secure their release,» Carney said. «Gross is a husband of 64 […]Load more...
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