Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Hong Kong (dpa) - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown with a candlelight vigil on Tuesday. The vigil featured songs, speeches and video montages of the weeks-long democracy protest which came to a bloody end on June 3-4, 1989. Many of those attending the vigil said they remembered watching televised news broadcasts of the Tiananmen protests as children or students. Angie Yuen told dpa she was 9 years old when she watched video...
Tel Aviv (dpa) - The Israeli army said on Sunday it struck military targets in Syria in response to two rockets launched from the country towards Mount Hermon in the northern Golan Heights. One of the rockets fired earlier from Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled territory, according to a rare statement released by the army, confirming that it had struck in Syria. The Syrian news agency SANA reported that three soldiers were killed and seven others injured in the strikes, mounted early...
Washington (dpa) - Markets were rattled on Friday as President Donald Trump restarted the North American side of the global trade war, just as China announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States and created a blacklist of foreign entities. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong closed down, as did major European indices, with the German Dax recording the first monthly loss this year. Trade tensions have been coming on top of a wider sign of a slowdown in the world economy. Key US stocks were...
Editor: This is intended as a response to your article about the City's recent resolution on climate change and its commitment to spend up to $800 million to combat it. As noted in the City's press release by Constance Farrell, most of the money goes to other projects that have a positive impact on other priorities. The largest share of spending is to wean Santa Monica off of imported water through a combination of expanded water treatment, storm water capture and storage, conservation and local...
Los Angeles (dpa) - Pop princess Taylor Swift criticized President Donald Trump while calling on her senator to support a law that would protect Americans from gender or sexual orientation-based discrimination. In a letter shared with Swift's over 270 million followers across her social media platforms, the pop superstar called on Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander to support the Equality Act. "For American citizens to be denied jobs or housing based on who they love or how they identify, in my...
(dpa) - Everyone does their own thing when it comes to changing toothbrushes or washing bedsheets - but when it comes to other household utensils, nobody really seems to know what to do. How often should you wash a dishcloth? What about mops, tea towels or the toilet brush? Here is what experts recommend, for the sake of cleanliness, and your own health. Cloths and sponges: Anything used in the kitchen should be changed around once a week. If you use a brush for cleaning dishes, that can be put...
London (dpa) - US President Donald Trump and his family enjoyed a royal banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at London's Buckingham Palace late Monday, ahead of large protests against his three-day visit expected on Tuesday. "The Queen and the entire royal family have been fantastic," Trump tweeted after meeting the British monarch and most senior royals during a formal welcome ceremony and a private lunch at the palace earlier in the day. Prince Charles, the Queen's eldest son and heir to the t...
Vienna (dpa) - The United States is ready to talk to Iran "with no preconditions," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. "We are prepared to engage a conversation with no preconditions," Pompeo told a press conference in Switzerland. However, he reiterated that Washington's goal is to "fundamentally reverse the malign activity of this Islamic Republic." The US has been placing immense economic pressure on Iran for over a year in the form a sanctions that were reimposed as Washington...
London (dpa) - President Donald Trump promised Britain a "phenomenal" trade deal with the United States once it leaves the European Union, praising Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of Brexit talks. "Our nations have more than 1 trillion dollars invested in each other's economies," Trump told reporters after talks with May on the second day of his three-day state visit to Britain. "As the UK makes preparations to exit the EU, the US is committed to a phenomenal trade deal between the US and...
For the most glamorous film festival in the world, the Cannes International Film festival, DPA was the host of a celebrity-gifting suite. This year the premiere Media company set out to treat the stars to an array of exciting and cutting edge brands and products. Held in the legendary Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes a watering hole for many a star, dubbed as "Palace of the stars", the Cannes Gifting Suite was attended by number of celebrities and PR influencers. This year's DPA suite was about...
London (dpa) - More than 150,000 British, US, French, Canadian, Polish and other Allied troops landed in Normandy in German-occupied western France on June 6, 1944, staging "the greatest amphibious operation in history," according to Britain's National Army Museum (NAM). The Allies spent months planning the operation and assembling troops, supplies and military hardware. The soldiers used some 3,100 landing craft that also carried heavy weapons, protected by 1,200 warships and 1,000 planes....
