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Clashes broke out early Monday in Beirut, as supporters of Hezbollah ambushed an ongoing anti-government protest. In Iraq, officials say an anti-government protester was been killed Tuesday by security forces and 21 others wounded amid ongoing clashes with security forces in Baghdad. Analysts say mass protests such as these and elsewhere have persisted longer and with more intensity than at any time in recent history
As Zimbabwe’s healthcare system collapses with the economy and medical worker strikes, some women are being forced to rely on midwives and give birth in unsanitary conditions, which experts say this exposes the mother and child to infections
Indiana University’s South Bend campus is home to 5,000 students – almost 10 percent of whom are international…Spiritual fullfillment can be found in many places, with many faithful expressing their beliefs in such conventional places as temples, churches or mosques
Twenty-nine people, including 17 foreigners, were killed in an overnight siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter – the deadliest terrorist attack carried out in Bangladesh’s history as a nation. A tribunal brought terror-related charges against eight defendants in custody
The heightened security measures in Dza Mey—a Tibetan town of shops, restaurants, and small businesses—follow separate protests this month in the township’s Dza Wonpo village in which small groups scattered pro-independence leaflets in the courtyards of Chinese government and police offices
The 95-page report, “A Dirty Investment: European Development Banks’ Link to Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Palm Oil Industry,” documents that investment banks owned by Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are failing to protect the rights of people working and living on three plantations they finance
Hong Kong pro-democracy forces won a landslide victory in local elections Sunday. Though primarily symbolic, the vote represents a stunning rebuke to Beijing
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, some 800,000 people – primarily ethnic Tutsis – died at the hands of ethnic Hutus. Blood flowed throughout the central African country – though less so in one remote northern town. VOA’s Edward Rwema reports~VOA NEWS
As climate change ramps up weather extremes, good forecasts are increasingly important. A new system makes weather predictions anywhere in the world with the same high resolution that previously was only available in wealthy countries
Joy and danger on the waterways, as rising sea levels threaten Louisiana’s bayou, a ship graveyard becomes a nature lover’s paradise, scientists battle an invasive fish species, and Maine’s famous lobsters thrive still today, thanks to some common sense fishing practices