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World Refugee Day 2024 – UNHCR

CAIRO – 20 June 2024: Egypt observed World Refugee Day, an annual United Nations event honoring refugees worldwide, and called for intensified global efforts to alleviate pressures on countries hosting them.

In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Egypt currently hosts refugees and asylum seekers from 62 different nationalities.

“Egypt has long provided a safe haven for those who have sought refuge within its borders, driven by challenging circumstances in their home countries,” the statement said.

The ministry emphasized Egypt’s commitment to international obligations in hosting refugees, adopting policies that respect their human rights and…

On Wednesday, the House approved a bill where ByteDance would be forced to sell TikTok or face a practical U.S. ban from app stores and web-hosting services if it is signed into law, according to a story in USA Today.

The bill gained bipartisan support passing the House 352 to 65. The bill is now on its way to the Senate where its fate is uncertain, and on March 8, President Joe Biden said he would sign it should it make it to his desk.

If signed into law, the bill would prevent app stores like Apple and Google from distributing or updating TikTok and web hosting companies from distributing it, according to an article in USA Today.

Social media influencers Bailey Lavender of Greenville and Spartanburg’s Jorden Hall are worried about the possible TikTok ban.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Hon. Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson, a leader of the New York State Unified Court System and the state’s Equal Justice in Courts Initiative, will address the public at 5 p.m. on Wednedsday, Oct. 18 at The Saratoga Hilton.

The event, presented by MLK Saratoga, the Saratoga Immigration Coalition, Mary A. Carter Temple #362 and When People Work, is free and is a presentation on the status of equal justice in the state.

Throughout her long career in public service, Mendelson has worked to afford all New Yorkers equal access to justice. Currently the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives, she is the state-wide judicial official responsible for ensuring meaningful access to justice for all New Yorkers in civil, criminal, and family courts,…

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) is turning to industry partners to help support the agency’s initiative to modernize and transform its data centers into hybrid cloud centers.

In a Sep. 11 Distributed Hybrid Multi-Cloud (DHMC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) solicitation, DISA asked its industry partners to submit white papers that offer solutions that will enhance its current architecture and develop a prototype capability that complements the HaCC’s current cloud offerings – including Stratus and the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability.

Interested participants have until Oct. 12 to submit white papers.

As a consumer and provider of cloud services, “DISA’s HaCC is modernizing the agency’s data centers, connectivity, and…