2020-11-18: News Headlines

Wendy Snyder (2020-11-18). Saturday 11/21: Learn about and support the Amah Mutsun Tribal Land Trust. indybay.org Virtual event on Zoom and Facebook…

MEE staff (2020-11-17). Scores of Israelis evicted from former settlement in West Bank. middleeasteye.net Scores of Israelis evicted from former settlement in West Bank | Around 20 families, including a Likud MP, ejected from Sa-Nur by the military 15 years after first being expelled | Tue, 11/17/2020 – 12: 14 | Israeli settlers inside a property in the former settlement of Sa-Nur north of the occupied West Bank (Twitter\@EladHumi) | Scores of Israeli settlers attempting to repopulate an illegal settlement near th…

Nur Ayoubi (2020-11-17). Covid in Lebanon: Minister's 'let women cook' in lockdown comment causes uproar. middleeasteye.net Covid in Lebanon: Minister's 'let women cook' in lockdown comment causes uproar | Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi also said women 'too timid' to be prime minister, sparking widespread backlash | Tue, 11/17/2020 – 12: 51 | Mohammed Fahmi has come under fire for his comments (Reuters) | Social media users in Lebanon have organised a campaign challenging controversial comments made by caretaker Interior Minis…

sputniknews (2020-11-17). 'More Room For Mischief': Internet Explodes as Twitter Introduces Its Own Stories Named 'Fleets'. sputniknews.com It was Snapchat that in 2013 first introduced the idea of temporary posts that disappear after 24 hours – with the trend later adopted by Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and many other social media platforms.

sputniknews (2020-11-17). Like Year, Like Tree: Twitterati Mock Rockefeller Centre 2020 Christmas Tree. sputniknews.com The tree has been ironically compared by social media users to that decorated by the comic character Charlie Brown, who chose a small and sad-looking scanty tree to decorate for the winter holiday.

Julia Rone (2020-11-17). The discreet charm of social media and the choices we don't have. zcomm.org The curious co-existence on Netflix of 'Emily in Paris' and 'The Social Dilemma' reveals the choices that are not available to us…

teleSUR (2020-11-16). 2021 Declared International Year of Health and Care Workers. telesurenglish.net The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that 2021 was designated as the International Year of Health and Care Workers, "recognizing the dedication and sacrifice of the millions of health and care workers at the forefront of the Covid-19 pandemic." | RELATED: | The WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said via Twitter that he was "very pleased to see the decision to designate next year as…

teleSUR (2020-11-16). Tigray Conflict Escalates, Gov't Rejects External Mediation. telesurenglish.net Ethiopian authorities confirmed on Monday the occupation of a town in the northern Tigray region following two weeks of armed conflict that has forced thousands of civilians to escape to neighboring Sudan. | RELATED: | The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) reported via Twitter that is carrying out "precision targets attacks on the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) weapon depots with no targeting of civilians populations and locations."