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Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians were among 26 people killed when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, officials said on Saturday, the deadliest attack in the city since insurgents were driven out in 2012. A car bomb exploded at the hotel in the southern port city while local elders and MPs were meeting on Friday night, before three gunmen stormed in, police said. Security forces took 11 hours to end the siege, they...

Three public shaking bouts in under a month have sparked genuine concern for the health and well-being of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, despite her team's insistence that she "is fine". But with this concern also comes a media frenzy — the 360° video, zoomed in or zoomed out; the widespread analysis and speculation on a cause; the need to lip-read private words or second guess thoughts — all on the world's most powerful woman, who is potentially, or not, in...

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared unlikely to grant President Donald Trump’s request that it block a congressional subpoena for his financial records. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in a lawsuit Trump filed arguing his accounting firm, Mazars LLP, does not need to comply with a House of Representatives Oversight Committee subpoena. The three judges on the panel did not say how or when they would rule....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved legislation to permanently compensate first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center who have been suffering from cancers and other illnesses as a result of working at the contaminated site. The House voted 402-12 to pass the “Never Forget the Heroes Act” that had been championed by Jon Stewart, the popular former host of the late-night comedy program The Daily Show, and highlighted...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attorney general for the District of Columbia issued subpoenas on Friday to the National Rifle Association and its charitable foundation seeking financial records in an investigation into their nonprofit status. District of Colombia Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement his office “has issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and the NRA Foundation, Inc., as part of an investigation into whether these entities violated the District’s Nonprofit Act.” The announcement,...

French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled France's latest nuclear-powered 'Barracuda' class submarine on Friday, a €9 billion stealth vessel programme Paris says is key to maintaining its naval presence for decades to come. "France is a country of the longterm that knows that the biggest successes are those that come over time from experience of proven know-how over the years," Macron said as he unveiled the submarine. Addressing those who worked on the submarines, Macron said: "they are not just submarines that...

BENGALURU (Reuters) - An LGBTI job fair, billed by organizers as the first such event in India, attracted more than 250 people on Friday looking for employment with companies including Intel, Goldman Sachs and Uber. The event in the southern city of Bengaluru comes after India’s Supreme Court overruled a law banning homosexuality in 2018, which the organizers said now enables companies to freely hire people who have been marginalized for years. Many Indians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

France’s prime minister Edouard Philippe has ordered an investigation into misuse of public funds after French news website Mediapart said environment minister François de Rugy carried out expensive renovations of his government-provided apartment with taxpayer money. Philippe’s office said in a statement that an investigation would be held and any misused funds would be returned to the government coffers. "Francois de Rugy is aware of the legitimate emotion of our fellow citizens in this controversy and wants to leave no doubt....

In a new survey of 1,615 straight and gay workers by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 46% of LGBTQ employees stay closeted in the workplace because they are afraid of being stereotyped, damaging business relationships or making folks feel ‘uncomfortable.’ That’s a drop of only 4 points from 50% ten years when the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Degrees of Equality report was issued in 2008. Of the straight respondents, half said there aren’t any LGBTQ employees at their place of employment. According...

A new study has disrupted long-held beliefs about earning disparity in the workplace The portrayal of gay men as metropolitan elites who live in upmarket neighborhoods and have unreserved disposable income has been around for decades. Pop culture and TV shows like Will & Grace and Modern Family have perpetuated the stereotype of widespread gay affluence, but the financial reality for many in the community has been starkly different. Numerous studies have demonstrated that openly gay men are paid less than...

The evangelical Christian college forbids its staff to engage in homosexual behavior A recent graduate of Bethel College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Mishawaka, Indiana, claims he lost his on-campus job because he is gay. Kyle Walterhouse, an aspiring music teacher, worked summers at the college cleaning dorms and other buildings. Walterhouse tells the South Bend Tribune that, as a student, he signed the school’s covenant that forbids homosexual behavior and also defines marriage as being between a cisgender man...

An issue that remains a constant one for the LGBT community is how many of us are treated at the workforce. Work is supposed to be a place where you get your job done, but it seems as if there are many other issues going on in terms of bullying that are directed towards members of our community. A new study done by CareerBuilder shows that four out of 10 LGBT workers report feeling bullied at work, or 11 percentage...

'No other LGBT worker sould ever have to go through this again'. A gay banker was fired from his job after posting photos of his engagement online, Brazilian media reports. The unnamed worker claimed he was wrongfully terminated from his position at Banco Itaú because he came out as gay on social media. He had worked at the bank for a year and a half, and received ‘numerous awards’ for meeting his target goals. However, he also received homophobic comments from his bosses...

This sounds terrible. Job applicants who “sound” gay are less likely to get hired, according to a new study in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Researchers found that male applicants whose voices were perceived as feminine (admittedly a subjective value), and women whose voices were viewed as masculine, were at a disadvantage when it came to be hired or promoted. They also found this bias was only held by heterosexual men. “The participants had minimal information about the candidates,” Dr. Fabio Fasoli of...