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The Ukrainian Family That Has Become An International Symbol Of Civilian Death.
The Perebyinis family The photograph has become a worldwide symbol of Russia’s brutality toward Ukrainian civilians. Four people lay near an intersection in Irpin, a Kyiv suburb, on Sunday. All were dead or soon would be, from the force of Russian mortars. There had...
A Warming World
In the past 60 years, every decade has been hotter than the last, and 2020 is on track to be among the hottest years yet. But the burden of extreme heat is not shared equally — it’s significantly worse for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Extreme heat...
Common Problems Faced by PMAY Applicants in India
Initially launched in 2015 to address the problem of homelessness in our country, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or PMAY list of benefits is pretty extensive. It includes affordable housing for all urban classes at subsidised home loan interest rates, eco-friendly...
South Korea’s Comfort Women Suffer Embezzlement From Their Own Government
In May, former comfort woman turned activist Lee Yong-soo went public with accusations against Yoon Mee-hyang, the former head of The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, South Koreans, to the dismay of the South Koreans. The 92-year-old was a regular fixture...
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US calls on Yemen’s Houthis to release its local embassy staff
US calls on Yemeni rebels to ‘end injustice’ and free current and former employees of the US embassy in Sanaa.The United States has renewed its call for Yemen’s Houthis to release detained US embassy staff after the death of a retired employee of the US Agency for...
Pro-Russian ex-president of Moldova placed under house arrest
Arrest of ex-president Igor Dodon comes at a time when relations between Moscow and Chisinau are increasingly strained.A court in Moldova has placed the country’s former President Igor Dodon under 30-day house arrest as he faces an investigation into suspected...
Texas shooting: Videos show parents pleading with police to act
Law enforcement officials in the US state of Texas have come under criticism for the amount of time that elapsed before they stormed into a primary school classroom to stop a gunman’s rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers.Videos circulating on social media...
Ray Liotta, star of ‘Goodfellas’, dies aged 67
Liotta’s most iconic role, as real-life mobster Henry Hill in director Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’, came in 1990.Ray Liotta, the American actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in Goodfellas and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams, has...
Italian energy giant Eni signs deal to boost Algerian gas supply
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italy has been pushing to cut its reliance on Russian gas supplies.Italian energy giant Eni and Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach have reached agreement to boost both gas exploration and the development of green hydrogen in the...
UK prosecutors charge actor Kevin Spacey with sexual assault
The Oscar winner and former Old Vic artistic director faces a series of charges related to alleged offences between 2005 and 2013.The United Kingdom’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with several criminal offences including...
Germany’s Scholz says Russia will not win the war in Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Putin has failed in all his strategic aims and will not dictate terms of peace.Russian President Vladimir Putin will not win the war in Ukraine, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said, while stressing that the NATO military...
UN envoy tells of serious concern at Taliban’s ‘erasure of women’
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the deteriorating situation in the country as the governing Taliban imposes new restrictions on women and attacks against religious minorities mount.Richard Bennett said...
Blinken lays out US strategy to counter China as rivalry grows
Washington, DC – Despite the current focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China poses the “most serious long-term challenge to the international order”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.In a major speech delivered at George Washington University in...
US economy shrank by 1.5% in the first three months of 2022
The United States economy shrank in the first three months of the year even though consumers and businesses kept spending at a solid pace, the government reported on Thursday, in a slight downgrade of its previous estimate for the January-March quarter.Last quarter’s...
Palestinian probe says Israeli forces deliberately shot Abu Akleh
Palestine’s Attorney General says probe found that slain Al Jazeera journalist was intentionally shot by Israeli forces.A Palestinian official has said that an investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shows Israeli forces deliberately...
Lebanon: Do election results offer any hope for change?
On Thursday, May 26 at 19:30 GMT:This week, Lebanon’s pro-Hezbollah political bloc lost their parliamentary majority in an election that also saw unprecedented wins by independent candidates inspired by the country’s 2019 protest movement.Economic hardship appears to...