Bars

Govt tightens stem cell therapy rules, bars routine use for autism
September 17, 2026
The Union Health Ministry has advised states and union territories to ensure that stem cell therapy is offered as standard clinical care only for approved disease conditions, while its...

“The Barman of the Ritz” Is No “Casablanca”
August 31, 2026
Frank experiences nothing terrible himself, but he hears atrocious tales of the city from people who come in for a drink. He’s a rather forlorn fellow, stateless, cut off...

Late Summertime Idylls by the Water
August 21, 2026
For the past two hundred years, summer in New York has best been spent by the water. “Circumambulate the city,” Melville writes in “Moby-Dick,” and you’ll find “thousands upon...

How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars
December 13, 2025
Sarkozy is assigned prisoner number 320535. “Four days earlier, I had been Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the Republic, being received by President Emmanuel Macron himself at the...

Catholic altar wine replaced after becoming a favourite in Kenyan bars
October 11, 2025
The Kenyan Catholic Church has introduced a new brand of altar wine for Holy Mass after the previous one became widely available in local bars.Simply labelled Mass Wine, the...

Slovenia bars far-right Israeli cabinet ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
July 17, 2025
Slovenia has banned far-right Israeli cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country.Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon declared the pair personae non gratae on Thursday in what...

Opec bars five leading news organisations from oil conference
July 9, 2025
[LONDON] Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has excluded five of the world’s leading news organisations from covering its biennial oil seminar in Vienna, attended by the group’s...

Nvidia CEO visits Beijing after US bars chip sales to China
April 17, 2025
[HONG KONG] Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Thursday (Apr 17), shortly after the Trump administration barred the company from selling H20 artificial intelligence (AI)...

The Common Thread Between Abrego Garcia and the EPA’s “Gold Bars”
April 17, 2025
The main connection between the Garcia case and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund case would seem to be the Trump administration’s disregard for the rule of law. But they...

A nation behind bars: Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians?
April 17, 2025
On April 17 every year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom against Israel’s continued occupation...

