Headlines
  • Despite a recently extended ceasefire, 14 people were killed by Israeli strikes on the country's south on Sunday, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
  • Hezbollah rejected claims made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the pro-Iranian group violated the ceasefire agreement, saying on Sunday that it will react to Israel's "violations" of the ceasefire in Lebanon.
  • Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, departed Islamabad for Moscow, where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
  • North Korea and Russia agree on "long-term" military cooperation.
  • At least 19 people were killed in a bombing on a highway in southwestern Colombia, and the authorities are holding a drug lord who was formerly a member of the FARC insurgent group accountable.

Year: 2019

March 28, 2019

Roughly 30 Yazidi Bodies Exhumed in...

In recent weeks, Iraqi and United Nations workers have exhumed what they believe to be the remains of 30 bodies of Yazidi victims of IS from one of the dozens of mass graves in the region.

Yemen Crisis-Reactions from the Twittersphere

Twittersphere abuzz with Yemen conflict and it’s consiquencies on Civilians specially children who continue to pay higher prices for the conflict.Hundrends of thousands died and injured during the conflict

World’s Rarest Ape Threatened with Extinction...

Wildlife experts warn that the world’s rarest great ape, discovered in 2017, will not survive the building of a $1.6 billion hydroelectric power plant and dam in the middle of its remaining habitat in Sumatra, Indonesia. Only 800 of the newly identified Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild

Yemeni Children Victimized by ‘World’s Worst...

March 26 marked the fourth anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition campaign to oust the Houthi rebels from parts of Yemen they had occupied. The fighting has caused what the UN calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.”. It’s undermining children’s development

Wayfarers Chapel – The Glass Gem...

The Wayfarers Chapel on the California coast is often called the “glass church.” It’s a hidden gem tucked away among large redwood trees. Angelina Bagdasaryan gives us a look at the building, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Once The Soviet Breadbasket, Ukraine’s Rural...

With unemployment at close to 10 per cent, it’s in the rural villages of Ukraine where the hardship is felt most

March 27, 2019

UN Secretary-General Signs Book of Condolences...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres signs the book of condolences at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Mozambique to the United Nations, for the lives lost during the Cyclone Idai

Brexit Debate on Twitter

Netizens including some British MPs React to Brexit on Twitter.Tweeting Brexit

112 Abducted Nigerian School Girls Still...

More than 100 of the Chibok schoolgirls remain in captivity, nearly five years after Boko Haram militants in Nigeria abducted them from their school. President Muhammadu Buhari promised to make the rescue of the girls, and other abductees a top priority. Some have been released. But advocacy groups say Buhari’s government, in its focus on the economy, has largely forgotten the girls who are still being held

Myanmar Supreme Court Agrees to Rule...

Rights groups and diplomats have condemned the sentencing of the the reporters, saying their convictions have dealt a blow to freedom of the press in the developing democracy

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