Headlines- The IRGC launched ballistic missiles at two US warships "patrolling regional waters," according to US Central Command, which then launched an attack on Iranian oil vessels.
- The US attacks on three oil tankers were denounced by Iran's Foreign Ministry as a "war crime," and the Iranian military threatened to launch further strikes on US naval vessels if the blockade persisted.
- On Saturday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
- As part of an anti-immigrant protest, hundreds of masked people halted ferry traffic between France and the UK on Saturday at the port of Dover, England.
- Ten days after the catastrophic floods near the border between Nepal and Tibet, a man and a woman found alive, according to officials.
Month: June 2019
Myanmar Protester’s Body is Returned to...
The body of a Myanmar villager who died in prison this week was handed over to family members on Thursday, with prison authorities forcing relatives to sign a pledge beforehand not to raise a fuss over wounds seen on the body suggesting the man was killed in custody
How Communities Can Survive Floods, Major...
The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is officially underway, yet many people haven’t recovered from some of last year’s storms. Meantime, tornados have torn up swaths of several U.S. states in the past few weeks, and floodwaters have wreaked even more damage
UNHCR Provides Quality Education to Rohingya...
55 per cent of refugees in the Rohingya settlements in Cox’s Bazar, South-Eastern Bangladesh, are children under the age of 18. However, 36 per cent of Rohingya youngsters aged 3-14 and 91 per cent of youth and adolescents still lack access to any learning opportunities in the refugee sites
Press is Briefed on Situation in...
Jerry Matthews Matjila Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations, speaks to press regarding the situation in Sudan
D-Day + 75 Years
Seventy five years ago, Allied forces launched a massive naval, air and land assault to liberate Europe from the shackles of Nazi Germany. What lessons did we learn from D-Day and World War II? And what are the U.S. and the rest of world doing to prevent future global conflicts?
Stitching Stories of Sexual Violence and...
Thousands of stories told by sexual assault survivors are stitched together in hundreds of quilts. Together, they form The Monument Quilt, a project organized by an activist collective called FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture
A South Sudanese Refugee’s Effort to...
Uganda hosts 1.2 million refugees who have access to land where they can build a house and grow their own food
‘Music Is Everything’: Armenian Preteen Pianist...
She plays Bach, Chopin, and jazz — and dreams of having a pet dog. Aida Avanesian, a 12-year-old in Yerevan, is rapidly collecting kudos as a piano prodigy, but she also tries to find time to be a kid~RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Transgender Russian Seeks Freedom In Spain
Francis Savinovskikh made headlines in Russia when the authorities took two foster children away, citing concerns that their upbringing was not “traditional.” At the time, Savinovskikh had the name Yulia and didn’t accept being a man. Savinovskikh fled to Spain to seek political asylum — and was recognized by the authorities there as a man
‘White Wingers’ on the Rise in...
Deep in the heart of rural South Africa, the vision of a harmonious Rainbow Nation of people of different races living in harmony, has begun to crack. Members of an all-white Christian separatist group called the Suidlanders say they feel white South Africans are under threat and must therefore prepare for what they say is an inevitable race war. Officials all the way up to the president have dismissed these claims, and critics say these beliefs are dangerous to the ideals of democratic South Africa. But the Suidlanders remain undeterred