Headlines
  • In a statement aired on television on Thursday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem condemned the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, stating that "as long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue."
  • There has been "no tangible progress" in talks to put an end to the Middle East conflict, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday.
  • During a meeting with Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah of Kuwait, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed support for the Gulf country.
  • On Thursday, the United States imposed new economic penalties on members of the Castro family, the president of Cuba, and some of his close relatives.
  • John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, agreed to plead a guilty plea to one count of retaining national security information.

Year: 2019

November 27, 2019

Daily News Digest

Emergency crews dug through the rubble in a desperate hunt for survivors in the village of Thumane after a deadly 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook central Albania….

UN Secretary-General Visits ReDI School for...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is visiting Berlin, Germany, on 25-26 November to take part in the 14th UN Internet Governance Forum, hosted this year by the Government of Germany, and held under the theme ‘One World

Middle East Protests: Why Now and...

Clashes broke out early Monday in Beirut, as supporters of Hezbollah ambushed an ongoing anti-government protest. In Iraq, officials say an anti-government protester was been killed Tuesday by security forces and 21 others wounded amid ongoing clashes with security forces in Baghdad. Analysts say mass protests such as these and elsewhere have persisted longer and with more intensity than at any time in recent history

November 26, 2019

Zimbabwe’s Pregnant Forced to Use Midwives,...

As Zimbabwe’s healthcare system collapses with the economy and medical worker strikes, some women are being forced to rely on midwives and give birth in unsanitary conditions, which experts say this exposes the mother and child to infections

Mix & Match

Indiana University’s South Bend campus is home to 5,000 students – almost 10 percent of whom are international…Spiritual fullfillment can be found in many places, with many faithful expressing their beliefs in such conventional places as temples, churches or mosques

Bangladesh Steps up Anti-Militant Drive Before...

Twenty-nine people, including 17 foreigners, were killed in an overnight siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter – the deadliest terrorist attack carried out in Bangladesh’s history as a nation. A tribunal brought terror-related charges against eight defendants in custody

Chinese Police Swarm Tibetan Township After...

The heightened security measures in Dza Mey—a Tibetan town of shops, restaurants, and small businesses—follow separate protests this month in the township’s Dza Wonpo village in which small groups scattered pro-independence leaflets in the courtyards of Chinese government and police offices

November 25, 2019

DR Congo: Development Banks Linked to...

The 95-page report, “A Dirty Investment: European Development Banks’ Link to Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Palm Oil Industry,” documents that investment banks owned by Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are failing to protect the rights of people working and living on three plantations they finance

Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim...

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in as many as 1,300 to 1,400 internment camps, one of the world’s foremost experts on mass incarcerations in the region said in a paper released Sunday

Hong Kong Elections Results

Hong Kong pro-democracy forces won a landslide victory in local elections Sunday. Though primarily symbolic, the vote represents a stunning rebuke to Beijing

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