Education Cannot Wait’s #AfghanGirlsVoices shines a light on young Afghan girls deprived of their basic right to education and learning. Credit: ECW by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, September 18, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Sep 18 (IPS) – A Taliban edict is rolling back time in Afghanistan after access to education…
Opinion by Patricia Scotland (london) Monday, September 18, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Sep 18 (IPS) – The author is Commonwealth Secretary-GeneralIn today’s increasingly interconnected world, marked by grave economic, environmental, and security crises that transcend global boundaries, it’s abundantly clear that our interdependence is an undeniable reality. Rt Hon Patricia…
Alfalfa farmer Dionisio Antiquera stands in front of one of the wastewater treatment ponds at the modernized plant in Cerrillos de Tamaya, a rural community in the Coquimbo region of northern Chile. The thousands of liters captured from the sewers are converted into clear liquid ready for reuse in local…
Comment on this storyComment A newly revealed letter from the Vatican archives suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII was aware thousands of Jews were being killed in gas chambers in occupied Poland, undercutting earlier Vatican arguments justifying the pope’s wartime silence on the Holocaust. Following decades of pressure…
These photos from a U.S.-supplied Humvee driving along Ukraine’s deserted roads provide a glimpse common in communities along the front lines. Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source
Comment on this storyComment A U.N. committee voted Sunday to recognize ruins near the West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage site, a move that drew backlash from Israel, which has clashed with the United Nations in the past over designations in the Palestinian territories. The vote was…
Updated September 17, 2023 at 4:47 a.m. EDT|Published September 17, 2023 at 1:52 a.m. EDT Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, the commander of the Russian navy, center left, take North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center right, on a tour of a Pacific Fleet frigate…
September 17, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EDT (Video: The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment TINISKT, Morocco — By all accounts, life in this village in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains was simple and good, even if it was rarely easy. Families had lived for generations in the small cluster of houses…
Comment on this storyComment KYIV — Ihor Kolomoisky once owned Ukraine’s richest bank, a TV station that carried a popular show starring a comedian named Volodymyr Zelensky, and fielded a private militia to defend his home city of Dnipro when it was under threat from Russian-backed separatists in 2014. Today,…
Post-tropical cyclone Lee made landfall on Long Island, Nova Scotia, at 4 p.m. Saturday. Wind and rain lashed the coast of Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Lee formed on Tuesday, Sept. 5th and became a major hurricane the next day. Since then, it’s worked its way north through the…
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