Headlines- At least 600 people killed and another 3000 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- On Saturday, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were attacked by masked Israeli settlers who trapped them in their homes and pelted rocks at them.
- On Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the "criminal acts of violence" that Israeli settlers perpetrated in two Palestinian villages.
- In central Zimbabwe, a minibus carrying churchgoers crashed head-on with a truck, killing at least 27 people and injuring seven more.
- After being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, far-right British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was deported to the United Kingdom.
- The "Yes" and "No" camps in Iceland's EU referendum are tied at 51.17% and 48.83%, respectively.
Year: 2021
India’s Remote Areas Are Hit by...
A Second Deadly Wave Of The New Coronavirus Has Struck India’s Remote Villages, Many Of Which Were Spared From The First Round Last Year. Anjana Pasricha Investigates The Pandemic’s Impact In Himachal Pradesh’s Mountain Villages-V
In Budapest, a 19th-Century Synagogue Reopens
With A Ceremony On June 10, The Rumbach Street Synagogue In Budapest, Hungary’s Capital, Reopened. The Synagogue Was Taken Over By The State During The Communist Era, And The Jewish Community Did Not Reclaim It Until 2006
Afghan Sikh: If Afghanistan Restored Peace,...
In Afghanistan’s Eastern City Of Khost, Jagat Singh Is One Of The Three Remaining Sikhs. He Claims That If Peace Were To Return To The Country, His Family, Along With Hundreds Of Other Hindu And Sikh Families That Fled Khost Due To The War, Would Return
China Detains Two For Social Media...
Authorities in China are cracking down on information relating to the coronavirus, as a fresh wave of COVID-19 cases hits the southern province of Guangdong
Press Briefing on New Emissions Reduction...
Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, and Paul Simpson, Chief Executive Officer of CDP (not pictured), update media on new findings from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an organisation that helps businesses set aggressive carbon reduction targets on June
UNHCR Steps Up its Efforts to...
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday that the onset of winter, along with the disastrous consequences of COVID-19, posed a direct threat to the health and livelihoods of Venezuelans stranded in southern Latin America
Surgeons from the United States Are...
Kirill Zherebtsov, Four Years Old, Was Born Deaf And Deafened. His Mother Died Unexpectedly The Day Before His Travel, And He Was Scheduled For A Particular Surgery In California
Bodies Buried in Swallow Graves in...
After More Than Seven Months Of Fighting In The Tigray Area, More Than 200 People Have Been Buried In Shallow Graves In And Around Hawzen, Ethiopia. Residents In Hawzen
Uyghur Relatives Deployed by China to...
Chinese officials of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) presented relatives of ethnic Uyghurs at a news conference on Wednesday to speak out against witnesses who testified during a recent independent tribunal in London, discrediting their accounts of torture, sexual assaults, and other grave human rights violations inflicted on Muslims in the region
A South African Program Aims to...
A South African Private Game Reserve Is Partnering On A Mission To Save Trafficking Pangolins, A Scaly Animal That Is One Of The World’s Most Smuggled Species