Headlines- The body of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, was found by rescue personnel in southern Lebanon.
- A day before the previous ceasefire was about to expire, US President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the Iranian regime was "seriously fractured" as part of his justification for extending the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely.
- US President Trump has not given Iran a "firm deadline" to submit its most recent proposal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
- As part of the embargo against Iran, U.S. forces have ordered 29 vessels to turn around or return to port, according to U.S. Central Command.
- Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has warned that Lebanon urgently needs €500 million to handle the aftermath of weeks of fighting as the country rushes to contain a worsening humanitarian disaster.
Year: 2019
Officially Not Yet Open, Modest Crowd...
Though officially not yet open to public, pandal hoppers still visit pandals in different parts of Kolkata.Generally, public thronged the pandals from chaturthi the fourth day of Navaratri but the official beginning of the puja is from 4 October, Sasthi, the sixth day of full moon.Shiv Mandir is one of the best known festival organizers in Kolkata
Thousand Scout Rocky Mountains in Hopes...
About 350,000 treasure hunters from all over the world, have been scouting out a large area in the Rocky Mountains stretching from northern New Mexico to Montana, looking for hidden treasure. As the story goes, all one needs to do to find the loot, is to decipher the nine clues in a poem written by wealthy art collector and entrepreneur Forrest Fenn, who says he collected and hid the treasure years ago
Botswana To Offer Free ARVs to...
Botswana has started offering free anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to foreign sex workers, following a decision to extend treatment to non-citizens. An estimated 30,000 foreigners living in Botswana are HIV positive, and most are sex workers
Uzbek Governor In Hot Water After...
Speaking at a government meeting last week, Ghaniev said hundreds of women in Ferghana had been reprimanded for wearing Islamic head scarves and a similar number of warnings had gone out to men wearing long beards
New Llife for an Old Church
Sean Casey turned an old church into a brew house. We talk to him about why he preserved the look and atmosphere of the church and how the local community feels about drinking beer from a place that used to be a house of worship
Jailed Uyghur Professor Ilham Tohti Honored...
Tohti, a former professor at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison following his conviction on a charge of “separatism” by the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on Sept. 23, 2014
World News At A Glance
Retreating Monsoons in India Wreck Flood Havoc and other stories around the World. Al-Shabab Attacks Airbase Used by US Military and other stories across Africawo
President of UN General Assembly Closes...
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the United Nations seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly, closes the general debate of the seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly
Upcycled Jewelry
Picariello, a designer who transforms plastic and aluminum into jewelry. She and her mom started Giulia Letzi, an online store that sells her jewelry along with handmade items from Italy
New Life for Old Barns
Learn why preserving the barn wood is so important and how recycled material is bringing in a new generation of birds and other creatures