Kyrgyzstan Court Orders News Site Shut Down
Kyrgyzstan Court Orders News Site Shut Down
Screenshot taken on Feb. 10, 2024, of the news website, Kloop.kg. On Feb., 9, 2024, a court in Kyrgyzstan ordered the site shut down.
Kyrgyzstan Court Orders News Site Shut Down
Screenshot taken on Feb. 10, 2024, of the news website, Kloop.kg. On Feb., 9, 2024, a court in Kyrgyzstan ordered the site shut down.
As Primary Looms, Haley Challenges Trump in Her Home of South Carolina
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign visit in Newberry, South Carolina, Feb. 10, 2024.
South African Opposition Leader Promises Jobs for Millions if Elected
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema gestures before his address to supporters at the EFF manifesto launch at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Feb. 10, 2024.
Facing Setbacks From Rebels, Myanmar Activates Conscription Law
FILE – Military officers march in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2023. On Feb. 10, 2024, Myanmar’s military government activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to military service if called up.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Brian Schatz took to the Senate floor on February 1 to demand that museums and federal agencies comply with the law and return to Native American tribes all ancestral remains and funerary objects in their collections.
Passed in 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, directs all federally funded institutions to catalog all Native American human remains, funerary items and objects of cultural significance in their collections, submit the information to a National Park Service database, and work with tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, or NHOs, to repatriate them.
A January update to NAGPRA now requires institutions to “obtain free, prior and informed consent from lineal descendants, tribes or NHOs before allowing any exhibition of, access to, or research on human remains or cultural items.”
“Give the items back. Comply with federal law. Hurry,” the Hawaii senator said.
Schatz credited institutions that have stepped..
Who Is Assassin Putin Wants in Trade for Imprisoned US Journalist?
FILE – Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted from the Lefortovsky court after a hearing in Moscow, Jan. 26, 2024.
Globe Breaks Heat Record for 8th Straight Month
FILE – A view of the Sau reservoir, which is only at 5 percent of capacity, in Vilanova de Sau, Spain, Jan. 26, 2024. A historic drought has shrunk reservoirs to record lows. Experts say the drought is driven by climate change.
US, Japan Accelerate War Drills to Deter China
U.S. Marines execute command and control from a combat operations center during Keen Edge 22 at Camp Hansen, Japan, Jan. 31, 2022. The U.S. and Japan finished Keen Edge 24, a biannual bilateral command post exercise, Feb. 8, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps)
Jailed Ex-Pakistan PM Khan Uses AI to Deliver Election ‘Victory Speech’
Supporters of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, dance to celebrate their party victory in initial results of the country’s parliamentary election in Karachi, Pakistan, Feb. 9, 2024.