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As its economy teeters, Pakistan tells city dwellers their late-night shopping and dining habits must end
Purchasers go to a marketplace in Lahore, Pakistan, January 4, 2023. K.M. Chaudary/AP Islamabad, Pakistan — It’s a element of Pakistani urban existence that bemuses several Western site visitors to the region: Suppliers and malls remain open up late, and usually keep active properly into the evening. Need to have a hand-woven carpet at 9:30 p.m.? Not a issue. A bespoke three-piece fit at 10? The area tailor is continue to whirring absent on his stitching machine. Some spicy samosa treats and a cooling kulfi ice product after midnight? The shop upcoming doorway is, of training course, however cranking them out. But it appears this late-night shopper society might soon turn…
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Kansas City area school board removes social justice lessons
In this Oct. 9, 1999, file photo, a cross made of stones rests below the fence in Laramie, Wyoming, where a year earlier, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was tied and pistol whipped into a coma. He later died. “The Laramie Project,” a play and film about the incident, was part of a curriculum removed from Lansing classrooms. Ed Andrieski, File AP Photo Going against a district recommendation, the Lansing school board removed high school English curriculum after a parent complained that her daughter’s course had been “hijacked by a social-political agenda” and was “representative of critical race theory.” The school board in Leavenworth County last week voted 4-3…