BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Defense Minister Csaba Hende resigned on Monday after a national security council meeting held to discuss the huge influx of refugees and migrants arriving in the country. The country, which has seen more than 100,000 people arrive, many fleeing conflict in the Middle East, last week proposed measures that would allow it to deploy the army to its borders in a bid to stem the inflow.
The president will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.
British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, responding to a growing public clamor for his government to help those fleeing civil war in the country. “We are proposing that Britain should resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refuges over the rest of this parliament. Cameron has been under pressure to take in a far greater number of
After exceeding his $1 million crowd-funding goal, Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig announced today on “This Week” that he is running for president. “I think I’m running to get people to acknowledge the elephant in the room,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on “a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us,” said Monday that all EU countries should help to accommodate the human tide of Arabs, Asians and Africans seeking refuge from war and poverty.
The former Alaskan governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee weighs in on the war of words between 2016 GOP hopefuls Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.
An 18-mile procession beginning after Gliniewicz’s funeral will wind its way from Fox Lake, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Chicago, through Lake County. The procession will end at Hillside East Cemetery in Antioch, where Gliniewicz will be buried. Gliniewicz, a decorated 30-year veteran of the Fox Lake Police Department and the father of four boys who was known around the village as “G.I. Joe,” was killed on Tuesday.
By Jeff Mason and Lucia Mutikani BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said were anti-union policies. Obama signed an executive order on sick leave during a flight on Air Force One to Boston, where he spoke at a union event. The
Epilepsy has one job, and one job only. To attempt to make our lives a living hell. We have one job too as epilepsy fighters. To return the favor. You see, I refuse to allow epilepsy to steal, kill and destroy my joy in life. Sure, epilepsy is here and it’s going to be here for a time. However, I’ve got my life to live and I’m going to live
LONDON (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says the world will run out of one of the most effective treatments for snakebites next year, putting the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk, mostly in developing countries.
