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: September 2020
Virtual Event on Sexual and Gender-based...
Reem Al Hashimy, Minister of State for International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, addresses the event on sexual and gender-based violence, “Strengthening commitments to prevent, respond and protect against Sexual and Gender-based Violence in humanitarian crises”
Journalists Hit Out at Fresh Probe...
An ongoing investigation into a hard-hitting journalist with Hong Kong’s government broadcaster RTHK will have a “chilling effect” on the city’s news organizations, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA)
Father And Daughter Duet Benefiting from...
A South African father-daughter singing duo that gained attention in Britain for their singing talents has gone viral in Colombia after being mistakenly identified as relatives of a famous Italian opera singer
Macedonian Air Quality App
There are all kinds of apps that rate the air quality in your home and outside. But one young programmer has created one on his own, that has taken off in his native Macedonia and is expanding worldwide
A Community Forest
Meet a community that came together to create a woodland retreat
Prime Minister of India Addresses UN...
Narendra Modi (on screens), Prime Minister of the Republic of India, addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session
Kayaking:New Yorkers Find a Safe Way...
With gyms closed and a lot of sports club unable to reopen, New Yorkers have turned to a new safe way of exercising
Indian Grandmother A Symbol of Resistance
An 82-year-old Indian grandmother who became the symbol of resistance to a controversial new citizenship law passed last year that prompted widespread protests has been named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. The protest was cleared in late March after India imposed a stringent lockdown amid the COVID 19 pandemic
Fourth Day of UN General Assembly...
Staff cleans the dais between sessions during the fourth day of the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session
Myanmar Sees First Gay Election Candidate...
Myanmar’s first openly gay candidate to run for a parliamentary seat in the conservative Buddhist country’s November elections wants to put an end to the abuse that members of the LBGT community say they suffer at the hands of the police