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
Hundreds of Bodies Exhumed From Raqqa...
Syrian workers in Raqqa have unearthed a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies of civilians and Islamic State fighters
Yemen Update
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said this meant an average of 123 civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period
Kenya Has Lost 40 Percent of...
Kenya has recently declared giraffes critically endangered and launched a recovery plan to fight habitat loss, poaching and disease
Hungry Venezuelans Pick Through Garbage for...
The high cost of food in Venezuela and constant shortages have forced many Venezuelans to rummage through trash to find something to eat
The Former ‘Killing Factory’ For Ukrainian...
Dogs and cats — hundreds of them — were being rounded up and killed in such “brutal” ways that Tarnavska says she doesn’t want to describe the disturbing scene again
Woman Bodybuilder in Malawi Gains Fame,...
Kumbatira never intended to become a professional bodybuilder when she first began working out in a gym three years ago
Rape Victims in South Sudan Speak...
Following the reports, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS,) which has been tasked with the ‘Protection of Civilians’ mandate, intensified patrols in the areas where the attacks were reported to have taken place, and at the same time redeployed engineers to work on clearing roads leading to paths women used to walk to collect food
Study: Terrorism Deaths Declining Globally
According to the CSIS report, compared with 2017, IS attacks against Iraqi government targets increased in 2018. The terror group has been carrying out an average of 78 attacks per month
Visit the United Nations
A United Nations tour guide explains the nature of the Organization to a group of young visitors
Mother of the Hubble Telescope
Nancy Grace Roman, one of the first female scientists at NASA. She is known to many as the “Mother of the Hubble” for her role in developing the Hubble Space Telescope