Headlines- According to US President Donald Trump, he may issue an order "very soon" to strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, which is reported to host nuclear facilities.
- The war in Iran, US President Donald Trump said, is "small potatoes" and "not a big thing" for the United States, as the US has "essentially" taken over Iran.
- In a post on his X account on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei accused that the US was "deliberately attacking civilian targets".
- According to a Nigerian environmental NGO, an attempt to illegally tap oil from a cargo vessel in the country's south resulted in at least 37 deaths.
- The Israeli police has blocked humanitarian aid from reaching an occupied West Bank village that has been under siege by settlers for weeks, while Israeli police have killed a Palestinian man in Jerusalem.
Tag: Racial Discrimination
Simmering Racial Tensions Reach Boiling Point...
Peaceful protesting has descended into looting, arson and other violence across the United States following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, despite curfews and an increase in law enforcement on the streets of most major U.S. cities, simmering racial tensions have reached a boiling point
Protesters in Some Cities Target Confederate...
In Charleston, South Carolina, protesters defaced a Confederate statue near The Battery, a historic area on the coastal city’s southern tip. The base of the Confederate Defenders statue, erected in 1932, was spray-painted, including with the words “BLM” and “traitors,” news outlets reported. It was later covered with tarp, photos show.
NAACP President Speaks on Death of...
VOA’s International Edition’s Steve Miller had the opportunity to chat over Skype with Derrick Johnson, the President and CEO of the NAACP
AU, UN Officials Voice Outrage at...
In the statement, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, “strongly condemns” police conduct in the Floyd case and extended his “deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.”
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
UN General Assembly Meets on Elimination...
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, addresses the General Assembly meeting on the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
US Civil Rights Road Trip Inspires...
The struggle for social and racial justice continues today. So watch what happened when a group of young South Africans visited the American South to track the history of civil rights
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.