Students have called the move a “cowardly compromise” The University of Alabama has renamed Graves Hall – named after former Ku Klux Klan member and state Governor Bibb Graves – Lucy-Graves Hall, after the first African American student to attend the university. The hall was renamed on Thursday, on the 66th anniversary of Autherine Lucy […]
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Putin rejects Security Council veto reform, says UN would ‘die same day,’ turn into ‘debate club’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed back on his Turkish colleague’s proposal to remove the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members, saying it would turn the world body into another ‘League of Nations’. “If we remove the veto right of the permanent members, the UN would die the very same day – it […]
‘Testing the same weapons’: North Korea denounces US ‘double standard’ after Washington condemns submarine missile test
US overtures of diplomacy are hypocritical and don’t match Washington’s actions, North Korea said, after a UN Security Council session hastily convened to condemn its recent test of a submarine-launched missile. “It is a clear double standard that the United States denounces us for developing and testing the same weapons system it already has or […]



