Headlines- The United Nations warns that 800,000 people in Yemen have lost access to life-saving food aid due to the conflict's escalation, and hospitals are overcrowded with injured combatants.
- Since October 1, 20 attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have been reported, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. Two of these incidents were reported on Wednesday.
- Iran was accused by a U.S. official of lying about a cargo ship that sank on Wednesday and of attacking it, most likely with a missile.
- A cargo ship struck a naval mine on Wednesday while trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz via "an unauthorized and hazardous route," according to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
- Protests against the government in the capital of Albania Tirana turned violent on Wednesday, leaving several official buildings severely damaged and at least one on fire.
- In support of the protesting high school students, tens of thousands of people gathered throughout France on Tuesday.
Month: November 2020
Pakistani Health Experts Say Government Should...
COVID-19 is resurging in places around the globe.Pakistan on what the Punjab government is doing to contain the deadly virus
Lao Hospitals Underfunded, Understaffed, Health Care...
Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisolith on Oct. 27 called on the country’s state hospitals to “improve their quality of care,” saying in an address to the Lao National Assembly that poor treatment in the facilities has driven Lao citizens to seek medical care abroad
Freedom of Expression At Risk in...
Amnesty International found that at least 40 bloggers, administrators of widely followed Facebook pages, political activists and human rights defenders have face criminal prosecution between 2018 and 2020 simply for publishing online posts critical of local authorities, the police or other state officials
Celebrations As Azerbaijan Claims Major Nagorno-Karabakh...
Groups of jubilant people were seen in the streets of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on November 8 after President Ilham Aliyev announced that Azerbaijan had seized control of a key city in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region
Pak Police have Freed the 13-Year-Old...
The police meanwhile arrested the kidnapper Ali Azhar, who had kidnapped the girl on 13 October morning, had forced her to marry and convert to Islam on the same day
Hispanics School Students Challenges
Recent studies indicate Hispanic students who don’t have access to fast internet connections and who speak English as a second langage are having a harder time learning during online classes
COVID19 Fund Raising: South Africa World...
Saray Khumalo, the first black African woman to conquer Mt. Everest, appears to have set a Guinness World Record for the most money raised during an eight-hour stationary cycling fundraiser
Afghanistan Violence Continues Unabeted
This week gunmen stormed Kabul University in the Afghan capital, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 20 others. Monday’s deadly attack is just the latest example of how violence is on the rise in Afghanistan
War-torn Rakhine State Seen as Trouble...
On Friday, the last day of the two-month-long political campaign period, some 300 ballots submitted at one polling state during the advanced voting were declared null and void after election officials discovered check marks for a local party already stamped on 14 ballots
After Attacks on Villages in the...
: On the morning of October 31st, Islamist terrorists affiliated to the Central African Province of the Islamic State (ISCAP) carried out several attacks on some villages in the Muidumbe district of Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique: Nchinga, Namacunde, 24 de Março, Muatide and Muambula