Headlines- Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
- At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
- According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
- Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Month: December 2018
Missing Children of South Sudan
UNICEF noted that separated and unaccompanied children are more susceptible to violence, abuse and exploitation, which makes returning them to their parents an urgent priority
Brexit/Rohingya Update
Did the 2016 crackdown on the country’s ethnic Muslim minority amount to genocide, as some human rights groups claim?
Ebola Effected Children in DRC
UNICEF and its partners have so far identified more than 400 children who have been orphaned or left unaccompanied because of the virus
Dogs Pose with Santa for Christmas...
In the United States, Christmas cards with family photos are popular. But more than ever many of those photos include a four-legged member of the family, the pet dog
Twitter CEO Acknowledges Suffering of Myanmar’s...
Dorsey responded Wednesday that he was “aware of the human rights atrocities and suffering in Myanmar,” and that he did not “intend to diminish them by not raising the issue.”
French Students Protest Government Education Reform
Fresh protests have erupted in France, while the government is still struggling to pacify the so-called “yellow vest” rioters who have ravaged the nation’s capital in recent weeks, protesting tax raises and social injustice
In the Age of Social Media...
If short films are shorter than feature films and commercials are shorter than both, what’s shorter than everything? GIFs
Hostile Attitude Towards Media
Hostile attitudes towards media is a dangerous and alarming trend. Polarization even in media, saddens us the most. Party aligned media’s partisan and biased reporting often misled the public and populist political leaders across the world including India have the habit to termed renowned media outlets as fake news when they dislike any news or simply say we don’t allocate lands to certain media group so they are now against us
Conference on Global Compact on Migration
Main gate of the venue for the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration. The Conference, taking place in Marrakech