BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s week-long cease-fire, brokered by the United States and Russia, was in doubt Monday amid repeated violations and with no aid deliveries to the besieged rebel-held part of the northern city of Aleppo, a key point in the truce agreement. The uncertainty cast doubts on a U.S.-Russian plan to set up a … Continue reading
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7 City Divaz help local women
7 City Divaz is reaching out to the women of Hampton Roads through their community service efforts. Briana Hudnall of Spartan Echo TV reports from the campus of Norfolk State University. Continue reading
Quarterly Student Aid Report: two-thirds of freshmen FAFSA applicants list only one college on their applications
A troubling two-thirds of freshmen students filling out an original Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) designate only a single school to send their financial aid application information, indicating that they were only applying for admission to one school. In new quarterly updates posted on the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid Data Center, 68 … Continue reading
1st of Tanzanian albino kids with missing limbs goes home
NEW YORK (AP) — Kabula Nkarango Masanja returned home to Tanzania with a new American prosthetic arm replacing the limb that was chopped off with a machete by followers of African witchcraft. She’s one of Tanzania’s children with albinism, a condition that leaves people with little or no pigment in their skin, hair or eyes. … Continue reading