A dozen ballistic missiles targeted Iraq’s northern city of Arbil, including the U.S. consulate on Sunday. The attack caused damage but no major casualties, Kurdish security forces said. Kurdish authorities said the missiles came from beyond the eastern border, suggesting the source was Iran. Iran wields considerable political and economic inf...
A new study suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have claimed over 18 million lives worldwide by the end of 2021, more than three times the official death toll. The higher global casualty estimate is believed to be more realistic, according to analysis by a consortium of health researchers published in the medical journal The Lancet. […]
A Chatham County woman said her son experienced a “slave auction” last week at J.S. Waters school in Goldston, North Carolina. A group of white students at the school reportedly auctioned off Black students for money, with one student playing the role of “slavemaster.” The mother said she had a video of students “harmonizing racial […...
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed using thermobaric weapons, also known as aerosol bombs or vacuum explosives. A Vacuum bomb creates a huge fireball which sucks up all surrounding oxygen. The weapon can destroy reinforced buildings, equipment, and kill people. In 2000, Human Rights Watch condemned Russia’s reported use of the weap...
Russian airstrikes have destroyed a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, local officials said Wednesday. The Mariupol city council said the Russian airforce dropped several bombs. People and children were under the wreckage of the Mariupol maternity hospital. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram calling the strik...
A coalition of more than 200 groups Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to use the Defense Production Act to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. The move would simultaneously combat the climate crisis and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stranglehold on the world’s energy economy. It would also support the transition to a renewable ec...
Among the oldest women entrepreneurs of Indian-administered Kashmir, fisherwomen locally known as Gadhi Wajin, can be seen thronging markets early in the morning. They lure customers to buy the catch netted by male family members. Dotted by lakes and streams, the scenic Kashmir Valley produces varieties of fish. Rehti Begum, 57, walks miles e...
The recent U.S. sanction of Bangladesh’s elite force has placed the South Asian country in a tough geopolitical position. The U.S. Treasury Department designated Benazir Ahmed, Bangladesh’s current police chief and former head of the RAB or Rapid Action Battalion, along with six officials, under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program. The sanc...
Valley Forge Military Academy & College has inked an agreement with Doha, Qatar-based Global Institute Studies to establish the Valley Forge Academy there. It will be the first international American school for boys in Qatar. For close to 100 years, Valley Forge has been attended by global leaders, including presidents of countries, senior...
A grand jury has indicted a Colorado county clerk and her deputy on charges related to an election security breach last summer. Tina Peters is a Republican running for secretary of state, who has promoted false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Charges against Peters come amid death threats against election workers in the […]
