Belarus’s Lukashenko becomes second only leader to visit Myanmar since coup

Mark Kelly, a veteran and Democrat targeted by Trump over military comments, says he is ‘not going to be intimidated’ Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional Republicans to publicly reject Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who stated that military personnel are not obligated to follow illegal commands. “We’ve heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of Congress,” Kelly, of Arizona, said on CBS’s Face the Nation. Continue reading… Source link India Passing-out parade held at Indian… 17-Year-Old UP Boy Creates…

The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts have announced a new fiction award celebrating writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, offering a £15,000 prize and a publishing deal for the winner. The Footnote x Counterpoints prize for fiction, launching on Thursday, marks the second time the two organisations have collaborated on a prize. In 2023, writers were invited to submit narrative nonfiction, but now the prize will focus on fiction for the first time. Continue reading… Source link India Passing-out parade held…

Nationals senator Matt Canavan says One Nation leader ‘debased’ parliament while independent Fatima Payman says she is ‘disrespecting Muslim Australians’ Pauline Hanson has again worn a burqa into the Senate, repeating a previous widely-condemned stunt as she sought to ban the Muslim face covering on national security grounds – despite being unable to name a single safety incident linked to the burqa. Hanson, the One Nation leader, was ejected from the Senate on Monday, forcing the the suspension of the chamber as she refused to take off the burqa, in violation of a parliamentary ruling. She was condemned by…