Headlines- Early on Thursday, 73 students were injured and at least 16 students killed at a girls' boarding school in central Kenya.
- The vital Strait of Hormuz, according to US President Donald Trump, "must be open to everyone" and "no one can control it."
- A major portions of southern Lebanon has been declared a "combat zone" by the Israeli military.
- Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that American bombings in the country's southern Hormozgan region broke the ceasefire.
- The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health claims that Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday left at least 31 persons dead and 40 injured.
- Due to the Ebola outbreak, Ugandan authorities announced on Wednesday that the country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been closed.
Category: Special Video Report
Mongolian Youth Seek to Preserve Reindeer-Based...
A Special Feature on Mongolian Culture and Tradition- A Reindeer Based Tradition
United Airlines Fantasy Flight
Every year for the last 30 years around Christmas, United Airlines organizes what they call a fantasy flight. They take over 100 children and their families who are part of the Children’s Hospice International Network on a very special trip
American Town Wows Christmas Visitors
A Special Report on Traditional Christmas Celebration in America
How A Circus In Russia Turns...
Valeria ran away from home, and now she’s joined the circus. She’s one of dozens of kids from tough backgrounds given a new start in life by a unique social project
Kenya’s World Heritage Town Worries Development...
Kenya’s remote island of Lamu, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is under threat, say activists. Authorities are constructing major projects on the mainland, including a port, an oil pipeline, and transport links. They also hope to build the region’s first coal-fired power plant
‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’...
The recent film release, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” by Marielle Heller, is based on the Esquire magazine article, “Can you say..Hero?” that award-winning journalist Tom Junod wrote in 1998 about Fred Rogers. The newly released films shows how two polar opposites, an empathic Mister Rogers and a cynical writer, become friends
‘Free The Nipples’: Feminist Art Censored...
It was supposed to be an art exhibit celebrating female freedom of expression in Kyrgyzstan. But authorities have censored controversial exhibits and the museum’s female director has resigned after receiving death threats
Report: US Life Expectancy Declines
A new study is sounding the alarm on the decline in life expectancy in the United States. Based on the data analysis report, life expectancy had increased by almost 10 years over the course of nearly six decades – from close to 70 years old to just shy of 79 years – but it has dropped for 3 consecutive years since 2014
US Military Aims to Stop Drugs,...
Surging violence by criminal gangs in Central America has led to an increase of asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border. As local authorities in Honduras and El Salvador struggle to counter the gangs and drug smugglers, the U.S. military is trying to help
Church Angels Help Still Displaced Survivors...
Not much is normal one year after what is now called the Camp Fire burned through the northern California town of Paradise and areas around it. Eighty-five people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed