Salvation Army

A Minneapolis police supervisory sergeant who was on duty the night George Floyd died testified that he believes the officers who restrained Floyd could have ended it after he stopped resisting.

It turned out that Covid-19 vaccines manufacturers cannot not cope with the flood of deliveries, they even warned that they might be late. But each country should get vaccines population-proportional. Israel pays USD 30 per dose, so they arrive there first. Not only Israel, but many Middle Eastern countries have purchased vaccines as a priority, at a higher cost.

Normally they make tutus and elaborate costumes for some of the greatest opera and ballet stars in the world.     

But the costume makers from opera houses across France are now turning their considerable talents to making masks.    

About 200 immigrants, most of the men from Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, have been used for slave type labour on a Cornwall flower farm. This was established after a police action in cooperation with the labour office to combat labour violations, the BBC reported on Thursday.

Rights group has called for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against the Myanmar military in response to an offensive that has sent 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing.

The United Nations' top human rights official on Sept. 11 slammed Myanmar for conducting a "cruel military operation" against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, branding it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

Greeks who scoff at Halloween, saying it has nothing to do with the traditional Greek way of life, should think again. While much of the Western world enjoys the festivities associated with the ghoulish festival, Greece is actually the place where celebrations in honor of the dead had begun.

A note from the organizers of the 6th Trunk or Treating event:

Its that time of year again….So join us for our 6th annual Trunk or Treating…Saturday, October 31st…If you haven’t joined before, we will have a Car Boot Trick/Treat in a parking lot in the Politia/Kifissia area. Exact location to be announced next week.

The Salvation Army in South Africa took advantage of the recent social media phenomenon that asked social media viewers to tell if they saw a dress as black and blue or white and gold. The new campaign to bring awareness to domestic violence features a woman wearing a white and gold dress with black and blue bruises.