Watch April 28, 2021 1:15PM EDT Forget Romeo and Juliet. For alt-rockers almost monday, to feel ‘alive again,’ they need to find a love like Justin and ‘Hailey Beebs,’ and they scour all over the city for it. At the start of almost monday’s “Hailey Beebs” video, frontman Dawson Daugherty is on a mission. With…
5 Things April 28, 2021 1:14PM EDT Mckenna Grace made quite the impression as Mrs. Keyes in the first episodes of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ season 4. Here are 5 key things to know about the young actress. The Handmaid’s Tale dropped the first 3 episodes of season 4 early, and the new season features Mckenna…
When she started her junior year after a corporate internship that left her feeling unfulfilled, Jodie Wu ’09 was questioning her path as an engineer. Participating in a D-Lab class project in Tanzania revealed a way to use her passion for engineering to help serve emerging markets in Africa while also having an impact. Wu…
Growing up in Chile, where her family owned a minimarket, Rocio Fonseca, SM ’14, was taught to expect a life limited by her family’s social class. In her early professional years, as the first in her family to have gone to college, she often ran into the cultural barriers of her country’s traditional business environment.…
Emerson Yearwood, who has spent most of his career as an attorney in the communications sector, is dedicated to supporting students of color at MIT through his giving and volunteerism. His current focus is the Black Alumni of MIT Community Advancement Program and Fund (BCAP), which supports student proposals for public service projects that address…
/ France Issued on: 27/04/2021 – 18:23Modified: 27/04/2021 – 18:26 French Health Minister Olivier Véran visits the crisis unit of the Paris region’s health agency in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of the capital, on April 27, 2021. © Alain Jocard, AFP French Health Minister Olivier Véran said Tuesday that the South African variant of Covid-19…
Indian social media users have taken to Twitter with desperate pleas for help as the country struggles to cope with record high Covid-19 cases and deaths. But Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has been accused of attempting to control the narrative with legal orders to delete Twitter posts critical of its response. On April…
/ Africa Issued on: 27/04/2021 – 13:57 Burkinabe soldiers patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area of Burkina Faso, on March 3 2019. © Luc Gnago, Reuters Two Spanish citizens and an Irish national who were abducted by gunmen in Burkina Faso have been killed, security sources in the country said Tuesday. Spanish…
At least five people were killed in violent protests in Chad on Tuesday as demonstrators took to the streets demanding a return to civilian rule after the military took control following President Idriss Deby’s battlefield death last week. “There were four deaths in N’Djamena,” including “one killed by the demonstrators”, the capital’s prosecutor Youssouf Tom said. One person was…
/ Africa On the ground Issued on: 27/04/2021 – 10:48 Less than 0.5% of Ivory Coast’s population has been vaccinated against Covid-19. © FRANCE 24 screen grab Text by: Thaïs BROUCK | Sam BRADPIECE 3 min Nearly two months after the delivery of half a million Astrazeneca vaccines doses, the Ivorian authorities are struggling to…
