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…
Updated September 16, 2023 at 3:44 p.m. EDT|Published September 16, 2023 at 2:05 a.m. EDT In this handout photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is shown visiting the Admiral Shaposhnikov frigate of the Russian navy in the port of Vladivostok on Sept. 16….
September 16, 2023 at 10:56 a.m. EDT St. Sophia’s Cathedral at sunrise in Kyiv on Feb. 15, 2022. (Ethan Swope/Bloomberg News) Comment on this storyComment The United Nations has named historical locations in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv as World Heritage sites that are classified as “in danger”…
With world leaders set to convene next week for the annual high-level opening of the General Assembly, the UN’s Midtown East campus on the weekend was host to an energetic range of actors – from youth groups and women’s organizations, to mayors, community activists and business leaders – looking to…
The protests began on Sept. 16, the day Amini died, with crowds gathering outside the Tehran hospital where she spent her final days. As she was laid to rest in her hometown of Saqqez the following day, women took off their headscarves in protest. They chanted “woman, life, freedom” —…
A view of the Altos de Florida neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia. Overcoming poverty is the first of the Sustainable Development Goals, and in the Latin American and Caribbean region there is not only slow progress but even setbacks in the path to reduce it. CREDIT: Freya Mortales / UNDP by…
Youth rally at the UN for climate justice. Credit: Abigail Van Neely/IPS by Abigail Van Neely (united nations) Friday, September 15, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 (IPS) – “What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!” youth chanted in an unusually lively conference at…
Liberia is one of the last countries in West Africa to still have vast tracts of forest – but this valuable resource is disappearing at an alarming rate. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Silas Kpanan Ayoung Siakor (monrovia) Friday, September 15, 2023 Inter Press Service MONROVIA, Sep 15 (IPS) – The fate…
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