Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Month: April 2020
Is Zimbabwe Planning to Extend 21-Day...
According to the state controlled Herald newspaper, Mnangagwa said, “I cannot tell you whether at the end of 21 days we will extend the lockdown or not. Let’s observe lockdown measures and prevent the spread of the virus.”
Dog Adoptions Spike in US Amid...
While life has become much more difficult for most people in the U.S. because of the coronavirus outbreak and lockdown measures, it’s been a great few weeks for shelter animals. Adoptions are way up! Lesia Bakalets has the story
COVID Ecuador Guayaquil Health Crisis
Ecuador is struggling to cope with mounting cases of coronavirus infections, now numbering more than 4,400 according to a Johns Hopkins University monitoring site. Almost 250 people have died from the illness, with the port city of Guayaquil the hardest hit. So many people have died there that the morgues are filled, and the bodies of other victims are going uncollected
Turkey-based Businessman First Uyghur in Exile...
Ghoji Abdullahajim Hotan, 55, died at 10:00 a.m. at the VM Medical Park Maltepe Hastanesi in Istanbul, Turkey, where he had lived with his wife Mahpiret and their four children since relocating in 1992 from Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Street Performer Starts Feeding The Homeless...
Just a few months ago, a woman named Princess Dumebi worked as a street performer on Hollywood Boulevard. However, after the coronavirus pandemic hit California, she – like hundreds of thousands of other people in the country – lost her job. But she refused to stay at home doing nothing
WHO: COVID-19 Update
In order to manage resources needed to ware off the pandemic, the Director-General of the UN world health body asked the world to “quarantine politicizing” and called for “a genuine, genuine solidarity.”
Armed Clashes Stop for “Coronavirus Crisis”...
dozen days ago, Samuel Ikome Sako, interim president of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, announced a total lockdown, with the closure of the borders of the English-speaking regions due to the virus
Amid Coronavirus Scare, Indian Authorities Make...
Hiding of travel history – particularly to a foreign land, has become a trend all over India. Very recently, a person in the northern Union Territory of Kashmir was slapped with multiple sections of the IPC, including Section 270, for hiding his travel history to Pakistan and for trying to circumvent the screening and surveillance process imposed to try and prevent the spread o coronavirus pandemic
Ballet Dancer Julie Kent
American ballet dancer Julie Kent was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre from 1993 to 2015. Her farewell role was as Juliet, and in 2016 Kent was named the artistic director of The Washington Ballet. Karina Bafradzhian spoke with Kent about what it takes to be a ballerina – on and beyond the stage