Iranian women arrested for not wearing hijab after yogurt thrown on them | CNN

Iranian women arrested for not wearing hijab after yogurt thrown on them | CNN

CNN  —  Two women in Iran were arrested after a man threw yogurt on them for not wearing the hijab at a store in the northeastern city of Shandiz, according to a video and report published by the Mizan News Agency, the state-run media for Iran’s judiciary. Video of Thursday’s incident shows a man approaching … Read more

Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables | CNN Business

Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables | CNN Business

London CNN  —  Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather that has depressed production in Spain and north Africa. Tesco (TSCDF), the UK’s biggest supermarket, confirmed to CNN Wednesday that it had temporarily capped the number of packs of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers to … Read more

Hong Kong raids shop suspected of selling cat and dog meat — 70 years after trade was banned | CNN

Hong Kong raids shop suspected of selling cat and dog meat — 70 years after trade was banned | CNN

CNN  —  Authorities in Hong Kong have raided a shop suspected of selling dog and cat meat as food – more than 70 years after the trade was outlawed. Officers seized “suspected samples of dog or cat flesh” at a shop in the Yau Ma Tei district during a “joint blitz operation” by the city’s … Read more

Gallagher, watermelon-smashing comedian, dead at 76 | CNN

Gallagher, watermelon-smashing comedian, dead at 76 | CNN

CNN  —  Comedian Gallagher, best known for his watermelon-smashing comedy routine and many popular specials in the 1980s, died Friday morning, according his manager Craig Marquardo. He was 76. According to a statement provided to CNN by Marquardo, the comedian died “after a short health battle” and “passed away surrounded by his family in Palm … Read more

Oprah Winfrey wants fans to know that she doesn’t endorse weight loss gummies or pills | CNN

Oprah Winfrey wants fans to know that she doesn’t endorse weight loss gummies or pills | CNN

CNN  —  Oprah Winfrey is warning fans against falling victim to companies selling weight loss products using her name and image. On Sunday, the 68-year-old former talk show host and media mogul took to Instagram to distance herself from gummies being sold online, saying she does not endorse edible weight loss products. In the short … Read more

Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing isn’t the only celeb recipe we crave | CNN

Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing isn’t the only celeb recipe we crave | CNN

CNN  —  By now you may have heard something about Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing. Internet detectives have been furiously trying to figure out her recipe after it was mentioned in a story published Monday by the Daily Mail. There is even a theory that Wilde previously shared the recipe for the dressing with the Food … Read more

Over 11 lakh MSMEs registered on Udyam online system since July: Govt

Over 11 lakh MSMEs registered on Udyam online system since July: Govt

Over 11 lakh MSMEs have registered on the new online system of Udyam Registration launched in July, the government said on Saturday. Out of these, 3.72 lakh enterprises have registered under manufacturing category whereas 6.31 lakh enterprises under service sector. The share of micro enterprises is 93.17 per cent whereas small and medium enterprises are … Read more

Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten … Read more

WSJ News Exclusive | Auditors to Stop Inspecting Factories in China’s Xinjiang Despite Forced-Labor Concerns

WSJ News Exclusive | Auditors to Stop Inspecting Factories in China’s Xinjiang Despite Forced-Labor Concerns

HONG KONG—At least five organizations say they won’t help companies audit their supply chains in China’s Xinjiang region, where human-rights activists say a police-state atmosphere and government controls make it too difficult to determine whether factories and farms are relying on forced labor. China’s increasingly repressive tactics in the northwestern region, where large numbers of … Read more