FEATURED
World Articles
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...
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...
Brexit Negotiations Are Poised to Become Chaotic
European policymakers rejected the latest Brexit plan from UK British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that the plan was unworkable. While the plan was not rejected outright, EU leaders said that in its current form it could not go forward. Basically, the plan in...
The Pitfalls of Pro Se (Self-Representation) When Facing Criminal Charges
Are you facing criminal charges and wondering if you should try to represent yourself? If so, you’re considering a risky move that will probably result in a conviction. Hiring a private attorney is your best chance for a reduced sentence or even getting your charges...
Trending World News
Gaza is running out of blood
I live near Nasser Hospital in the west of Khan Younis city. Almost every day, I hear desperate calls for blood donations made on loudspeakers out of the hospital. It has been like that for more than a year.The hospital, like other barely functioning health facilities...
How Air India flight 171 crashed and its fatal last moments
New Delhi, India – Just moments before a fatal Air India crash on June 12, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches in the cockpit mysteriously moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position, an early investigation into the disaster has revealed.Flipping to...
PKK disarmament opens ‘new page in history’ for Turkiye, Erdogan says
After announcing they would disarm, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) began destroying their weapons in northern Iraq.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the country has begun a new era as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) started the process to disarm...
Taiwan deploys advanced US rockets in closely watched part of annual drills
HIMARS are being used in military drills aimed at boosting the island’s ability to combat threats from China.Taiwan has begun deploying its newest and most precise strike weapons, high calibre rockets from the United States, as part of its annual live-fire drills to...
‘A true hell’: How three Srebrenica survivors defied death 30 years ago
Before the war scattered his family, Nedzad Avdic loved geography.He had just entered his teens. Growing up in the village of Sebiocina in Srebrenica municipality, close to the border with Serbia, Avdic could explain the difference between clustered and dispersed...
At least 4 dead, 20 missing after boat sinks off Dominican Republic
Dominican authority says 17 other refugees and migrants rescued from the boat heading for Puerto Rico, a US territory.Four refugees and migrants have died and about 20 were missing after their boat capsized off the coast of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean,...
Five men lynched in Guatemala after allegations of theft after quake
In the aftermath of a magnitude 5.7 earthquake, the five men were accused of robbing damaged homes in the Santa Maria de Jesus municipality.Five men have been lynched after rural community members accused them of robbing damaged homes following an earthquake that...
Colombia arrests alleged leader of Italian mafia in Latin America
Giuseppe Palermo has been wanted under an Interpol red notice, which has called for his arrest in 196 countries.Colombian authorities have captured an alleged leader of the Italian ‘Ndrangheta mafia in Latin America who is accused of overseeing cocaine shipments and...
Recently recaptured Ecuador drug lord ‘Fito’ accepts US extradition request
Notorious gang leader has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges.Ecuador’s most infamous drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges, a court in the...
Worker dies following immigration raids on California cannabis farms
A farmworker has died from injuries he sustained in immigration raids on two California cannabis farms, as United States authorities confirmed they arrested 200 workers after a tense standoff with protesters.The United Farm Workers advocacy group confirmed the death...
US sanctions Cuban president, ‘regime-controlled’ luxury hotels
State Department head Rubio said he had sanctioned several senior officials and their ‘cronies’ for their ‘brutality toward the Cuban people’.The US State Department has imposed sanctions on senior Cuban officials, including President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Secretary of...
US State Department begins layoffs in Trump’s shake-up of diplomatic corps
Mass layoff came days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for US president to gut entire government positions.More than 1,350 US State Department employees have been fired in a major diplomatic shake-up ordered by President Donald Trump, in a move critics predict...