Africa
More than 3,700 migrants were rescued on Monday and Tuesday in the Mediterranean as part of the EU’s coastguard operation. On Monday 2,741 were plucked to safety from 18 overcrowded and unsafe vessels. Six naval ...
At least 11 Syrian people have been killed and dozens of others injured in bomb attacks in the Syrian provinces of Damascus and Hasakah. According to reports, a bomb planted in a vehicle detonated near ...
Morgues have been filling up and hospitals struggling to cope in southern Pakistan which has been struck by an intense heatwave. The authorities said on Tuesday that more than 400 people had been killed in ...
A prominent Turkish sculptor risks over four years in prison on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after being locked in a dispute with the Turkish strongman over one of his works. In March, ...
South Sudan’s health ministry declared a cholera outbreak in the country following the death of at least 18 people across nine medical facilities, Sudan’s Radio Tamazuj reported Tuesday. Additionally, over 170 suspected cholera cases have ...
UN report claiming « substantial information » that both Israel and Palestinians committed war crimes during Gaza conflict rejected by both sides . Both Israel and Palestinian militants committed grave violations during last year’s Gaza conflict that ...
A Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen have attacked the Afghan parliament. “A suicide bomber blew himself up just outside the parliament building and several fighters took positions in a building close to parliament,” said ...
It has been 50 years since unarmed marchers from Selma, Alabama set out in defiance of repression in 1965, to demonstrate African-Americans’ constitutional rights, and state troopers attacked them. When Alabama’s Governor refused to protect ...
Although the empowerment of women has been among the most significant achievements of the past century, the international community must “push further” in its struggle to ensure the right to education for all girls, the ...
Italian police in riot gear forcibly removed a few dozen African migrants on Tuesday who had been camping out for days at Italy’s Mediterranean border with France in hopes of going further north. Some of ...
