“President Biden should forswear future U.S. production and use of anti-personnel landmines and fulfill the previous U.S. goal of eliminating this inherently indiscriminate weapon.” As a benchmark report on worldwide landmine casualties showed a 21% increase in deaths and injuries in 2020, one of the paper’s editors on Wednesday renewed calls for the Biden administration to […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — When Chinese President Xi Jinping last week announced his country will stop building coal power plants overseas, environmental activists were jubilant. It’s easy to see why. China is a major financial backer of coal-fired power plants around the world, which emit greenhouse gases that cause climate change. With China’s announcement, all the […]
Stories of Alaska’s original people hit public radio waves on Indigenous Peoples’ Day Kohanic Broadcast Corporation is amplifying the voices of Alaska’s original people this Indigenous Peoples’ Day by bringing traditional Alaska Native stories to life with The Storyteller radio series. The new project from The RIVR (Rising Indigenous Voices Radio) with support […]
Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Thursday that Alex Asino, 31, was arrested on Nov. 14, 2019, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Child Exploitation Task Force and was indicted by the Anchorage Grand Jury Wednesday, Nov. 20, in an eight count indictment alleging child sex trafficking, production and distribution of child […]