The C3 Anime Festival Asia in Singapore is one of the biggest Japanese pop culture events outside of Japan, featuring all things anime, including games, toys and cosplayers.
Young Democrats are begging their elected leaders to do more.
“We will not stand on the sidelines as these attacks mount,” governors from California, Oregon and Washington vowed.
(Reuters) -Apple Inc accepts the outcome of a vote by Maryland store workers to become its first U.S. employees to join a union and is ready to bargain with them, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Apple is one of several major American companies whose workforces have moved to unionize, with workers at some Starbucks Corp and Amazon Inc locations also voting to join a union in recent months. Nearly two-thirds of the employees at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland who organized as the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE), voted to join a union last week.
The US Supreme Court's overturning of America's constitutional right to abortion gives all 50 states the freedom to ban the procedure, with nearly half expected to do so in some form.
“I was there when a friend of mine had an illegal abortion,” one protester told HuffPost. “It was horrifying. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt already signed the most extreme abortion restrictions in the country.
A written opinion by one justice in the US Supreme Court's decision to bury abortion rights has ignited fears that other progressive gains, including same-sex marriage and contraception, could also be overturned.
More than 1,000 people have filed formal complaints about the mysterious assaults.
She says the overturning of Roe v. Wade means reproductive freedom is “on the ballot in November.”
“They are going to pay for their mistresses to get abortions,” one woman said of the men on the court. “We won’t be able to do that.”
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian food-delivery firm Zomato Ltd is set to buy local grocery-delivery startup Blinkit for 44.47 billion rupees ($568.16 million) in an all-stock deal, in a bid to step up its game as competition in the quick-delivery market gets fierce. Rivals Swiggy, Reliance Industries-backed Dunzo, Tata-backed BigBasket and Zepto are also betting on fast deliveries in the so-called quick commerce sector, which was worth $300 million last year and is expected to grow 10-15 times to $5 billion by 2025, according to research firm RedSeer. Zomato in August bought a more than 9% stake in Blinkit for nearly 5.18 billion rupees ($66.16 million) and said earlier this year it would invest as much as $400 million in the Indian quick commerce market over the next two years.
A World Health Organization committee of experts met Thursday to decide whether the monkeypox outbreak constitutes a global health emergency.
"A lot of people have made headlines talking about GCS. Almost all of them have one thing in common: They’ve never actually been through it. I have."
Sri Lanka's parliament has cancelled its remaining sittings for the week to save fuel, officials said Thursday, with a disastrous economic crisis rapidly depleting the island nation's already scarce petrol supplies.
India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara said his spell in Engliish county cricket with Sussex has enabled him to regain top form ahead of next week's rescheduled fifth Test against England.
Veterinarians are called in to inspect the sheep at an abattoir ahead of one of Islam's major holidays in Dubai, where the municipality is encouraging residents to use smart apps to order the sacrificial animals.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Friday said they would begin production of hybrid vehicles in India, a category that Toyota has said is currently best suited to such markets. A Toyota plant in southern India would in August begin building a hybrid sport utility vehicle (SUV) developed by Suzuki, the companies said. Two power trains would be available, they said: one with a mild hybrid configuration from Suzuki and the other as a strong hybrid from Toyota.
KIGALI (Reuters) -Britain's Prince Charles expressed deep sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda on Friday and acknowledged that the roots of the organisation lay in a painful period of history. The Commonwealth, a club of 54 countries that evolved from the British Empire, encompasses about a third of humanity and presents itself as a network of equal partners, but some member states have been calling for a reckoning with the colonial past. "I want to acknowledge that the roots of our contemporary association run deep into the most painful period of our history," Charles told assembled Commonwealth leaders at the opening ceremony of a two-day summit in Kigali.
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares marked their first weekly gain in three on Friday, lifted by sharp gains in automakers and financial stocks, as a slide in commodity prices offered some respite from broadening inflationary pressures. The NSE Nifty 50 index closed 0.92% higher at 15,699.25, while the S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.88% to 52,727.98. "The recent correction in the prices of several commodities, especially industrial metals, is providing some light at the end of the tunnel with hopes of some of the inflationary pressures easing out," said Milind Muchhala, executive director at Julius Baer India.
Singapore Red Cross official Sahari Ani was in Warsaw to help Ukrainian refugees when he witnessed the love of a couple for their son, who is suffering from a rare disease.
