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.
- After the arrest of a Japanese journalist on suspicion of espionage by Russia's FSB security agency, Japan's Foreign Ministry summoned in Russia's ambassador on Wednesday.
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MLK’s Birth Home Arson Attempt Reinforces...
In the US state of Georgia, a woman was recently arrested and accused for trying to set fire to the home where Martin Luther King Jr. was born. Bystanders captured the video of the 26-year-old lady dousing gasoline on the historic property now Museum.
2020 March on Washington ‘Commits’ to...
Friday marked the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, during which American civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Though the crowd for the 2020 march Friday was smaller than expected, thousands came to protest police killings of Black Americans, which they say are a legacy of slavery and racism that the country is still trying to overcome
Martin Luther King
On the third Monday of each January, Americans honor the memory of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, advocating social change through non-violent means
Legacy of MLK, 51 Years After...
It’s been 51 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the African-American preacher who led a civil rights movement that changed the nation and reverberated around the world
Who Was Martin Luther King Jr?
Martin Luther King rose to prominence in the mid-1950s when as a young preacher he led the successful drive to desegregate public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, forcing the city to end its practice of segregating black passengers.