Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Ilya Samsonov did not wear a Pride decal on his mask during warmup prior to Tuesday’s game against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Samsonov is a native of Magnitogorsk, Russia. The Leafs sported the decals but did not wear Pride night-themed jerseys. The organization has held Pride nights in support of the LGBTQ+ community since 2017 but has never had special warmup jerseys. Toronto players and head coach Sheldon Keefe donned rainbow-themed T-shirts during a Tuesday morning media availability An anti-gay Kremlin law in Russia has been cited as…
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Watchdog says TikTok failed to get consent from parents to process the data, as required by the United Kingdom’s data protection laws.The UK’s privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty for misusing children’s data and violating other protections for young users’ personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office said on Tuesday that it issued a fine of 12.7 million British pounds ($15.9m) to the short-video-sharing app, which is wildly popular with young people. It’s the latest example of tighter scrutiny that TikTok and its parent, Chinese technology company ByteDance, are facing in the West, where governments are increasingly concerned about…
The announcement comes months after Vatican accused China of violating their accord on the appointment of bishops.The Vatican has said that Chinese authorities have appointed a new bishop to Shanghai, the largest Roman Catholic diocese in China, in an apparent violation of a bilateral pact between the two states. The Holy See was informed “a few days ago” of the decision by China to transfer Bishop Shen Bin from Haimen, in Jiangsu province, to the diocese of Shanghai, the Vatican said on Tuesday. It added that it had learned of his official instalment earlier in the day from the media.…
In February my friend Michelle visited me in the coastal village of Zipolite in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, where I have been semi-residing since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. I had last seen Michelle in Kazakhstan in 2014, when we were still in our 30s and I had descended briefly upon her apartment in the Kazakh capital of Astana before darting off to Lebanon and Vietnam. This pre-pandemic modus operandi of manic international itinerance had been driven by a combination of factors, including an apparent desire to thwart the passage of time by remaining in constant motion…
O.G. Anunoby, Gary Trent Jr. and Precious Achiuwa are questionable for the Toronto Raptors in their game Tuesday night in Charlotte against the Hornets. Anunoby is listed as having a left ankle sprain, while Trent has lower-back spasms. Achiuwa is dealing with a non-COVID illness. The team announced the status updates on Tuesday. Tuesday’s game will be a rematch of Toronto’s 128-108 victory Sunday afternoon, also in Charlotte. The Raptors are aiming for a four-game season series sweep after winning twice across three days in January in Toronto. The Raptors (39-39) have secured a spot in the play-in portion of…
Multiple-award-winning journalist garners second win in three years for excellence in work produced by, for and about women.Al Jazeera Digital has won a Gracie Award (PDF) for excellence in work produced by, for, and about women. The award went to Malika Bilal, the host of The TakeAl Jazeera Digital’s flagship news and current affairs podcast. In three weekly installments, The Take builds on the global reportage of Al Jazeera English journalists, local experts, and people living at the centre of some of the world’s biggest news stories. The Take has launched investigations prompting US government action and extensively covered US politics, racial inequality, the…
Millions of Americans are observing Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, prayer and devotional giving. As survivors of recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria recover from the cataclysmic tremors – the equivalent of 33 nuclear bombs each – American Muslim charities are working around the clock to respond to this and countless other areas of need by preparing for their busiest season of donations. But then accounts are mysteriously suspended, transactions are stalled, and desperately needed aid is held back. Welcome to banking while Muslim, an experience that involves dealing with systemic, deep-rooted institutional discrimination. LaunchGood, a crowdfunding platform similar…
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Exclusive live coverage of the Okolie vs Billam-Smith press conference from London. Lawrence Okolie and Chris Billam-Smith are to meet for the world cruiserweight title on May 27 and the pair will face off at a press conference on Tuesday. Watch it all unfold on a live stream from 12.20pm.Okolie is the WBO cruiserweight champion and will step into enemy territory to put his world title on the line against former training partner Billam-Smith in Bournemouth.The pair trained together at Shane McGuigan’s gym and Okolie is now working under new…
The new representative of Venezuela’s opposition in the United States is urging the Biden administration to relax crippling oil sanctions on Nicolas Maduro’s government or risk seeing the socialist-run country turn into another Cuba with Washington scapegoated for increasing authoritarianism and economic hardships. Fernando Blasi’s comments represent a sharp break from the opposition’s “maximum pressure campaign” of the past four years when it was relying on the US to muscle Maduro out of power. The failure of that hardline approach led the opposition in January to remove the beleaguered former lawmaker Juan Guaidó from his role as “interim president”, a…
In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael is sewing a shirt for “Rafedin”, a project that has provided dozens of women who fled violence in neighbouring Iraq with skills to earn a living. Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group’s self-declared “caliphate” that cut across swaths of Iraq and Syria, eventually ending up in Jordan – where they found themselves without work. “Life here is very, very difficult, if we don’t work, we can’t live,” said Nael, a 25-year-old Christian from the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, who joined the Rafedin sewing…