Data breaches targeting retailers affect millions of customers
A data breach targeting Michaels – a national chain of arts and crafts stores – has possibly impacted more than two and a half million customers. This news comes on the heels of other...
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Traditional healers in Africa and the global market for indigenous medicine
While dwarfed by the profits of the patented pharmaceutical industry, trade in traditional and alternative medicine generates billions of dollars worldwide each year. China, India and Korea have been particularly successful at marketing and...
Boston protest blocks entrance to immigration detention facility
The U.S. Department of Justice released new statistics Wednesday which indicates a 5-year decline in court-ordered deportations from the U.S. interior. The report, however, is limited – covering only the immigration cases that fall...
Russian government cracks down on independent media and opposition websites
News websites, blogs, and a television channel that have served as independent sources of information and aired voices of the opposition in Russia are being shut down, either under direct order of the government...
Families occupy buildings in São Paulo as housing costs soar
Over the last five years, rising real estate speculation in central São Paulo has created a deficit of affordable housing. In response, left wing housing movements seize abandoned buildings, transforming them into housing units...
Bus bombings kills dozens in Nigeria’s capital
Two powerful explosions killed dozens of people this morning at a crowded bus station in the Nigerian capital Abuja. The explosions follow a weekend of attacks on several towns and villages in North Eastern...
Hunger strikers deported from Tacoma immigration detention facility
Supporters of a hunger strike launched last month by immigration detainees at a facility owned by the GEO Group in Tacoma, Washington say at least five bus loads of detainees were deported from the...
Deepwater Horizon’s legacy in the Gulf still unclear, four years after massive oil spill
It’s been nearly four years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and led to what many call the worst human made environmental disaster in U.S. history. The body of scientific evidence documenting how...
Mekong River Commission ministerial; environmentalists disappointed
Environmental activists are disappointed that leaders from Vietnam and Cambodia failed to call for an immediate halt to construction of two hydro-power dams on the lower Mekong River during the latest ministerial meeting of...
Urgent hazardous waste clean up ongoing in Humboldt County, California
An emergency hazardous materials clean-up is under way in Humboldt County, California where millions of gallons of highly corrosive chemicals are stored in unstable tanks that are leaking. Daniel Mintz of KMUD radio reports...
