In May last year, US President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission. Last month, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding, it released a 224-page draft report titled, “Americans’ First Freedom”.
I gather the current government and its key support base, the religious right, consider American society too secularised – to such an extent that it amounts to systemic religious discrimination.
That’s what the commission is tasked with rectifying. The report
Police said Kent Carpenter, 73, was with his Filipino companion in a house in the coastal town of Sibulan in Negros Oriental province on Sunday night when three men, whose faces were covered, forced their way in.
One drew a gun and
Award-winner Lu Yaxiang and her team are working towards making commercially viable batteries from the abundant, low-cost mineral
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Scientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade working to make sodium-ion batteries commercially viable.
Those years of work on energy storage in April earned Lu a China Youth May Fourth Medal – the nation’s top honour
Officials said the content, which was still under discussion, could be included in religious education in regular and Islamic schools, as well as Friday prayer sermons, family development programmes and other religious events.
The government has said
The addictive features include infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and highly personalised recommender systems
There should be a “youth mode” for children on social media platforms in which addictive features and targeted advertising are turned off, EU lawmakers demanded on Tuesday.
An expert report on Monday also recommended a “safety-
A 12-year-old boy in eastern China with a rare disease has graduated from primary school in June, defying doctors who had predicted he would not live beyond the age of three.
Zou Weiluo, from Shanghai, was diagnosed at seven months with spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a condition that progressively weakens the muscles used for movement, swallowing and breathing.
Years of devoted care from his family helped him outlive the prognosis, and he could now move his fingers and flex his elbows slightly, according to
Gorings and broken bones are common, partly due to the large number of novice runners and foreign tourists joining the San Fermin festival
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An 18-year-old man suffered a gore wound to the thigh
Alibaba Group Holding and Honor are set to deepen their tie-up over an operating system for AI-powered devices, as competition in the nascent “AI phone” genre gains momentum in China.
Shenzhen-based
Thirty Indians were among the 46 crew members in the two vessels hit by an Iranian overnight attack
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The Indian foreign ministry said it had summoned the deputy chief of mission of the Iranian embassy in the capital to register “a
