Parents of detained journalist in Myanmar: ‘It’s a total nightmare’
“It’s a total nightmare; it’s a total feeling of no control. It’s heart-wrenching,” said Rose Fenster, mother of Frontier Myanmar editor Danny FensRead More…
Month: December 2020
AP explains why it fired Emily Wilder for pro-Palestinian tweets
Wilder was fired last week after serving just two weeks on the job. The AP said a series of Wilder’s pro-Palestinian tweets violated its social medRead More…
Remains of 215 children found buried near school in Canada
Flags on all federal buildings are being lowered to half-staff following the horrific discovery of the remains of 215 children found buried near a Read More…
An anonymous donor is paying the college tuition of Black athletes who get straight As
The donor, a community member who didn’t want his identity revealed, was inspired to make change after realizing the lack of diversity in CentenniaRead More…
France and Germany ‘seeking full clarity’ from US and Denmark on spying report
“If the information is true,” Macron said during a statement to the press following a virtual Franco-German summit , these practices are “unacceptRead More…
In Haiti, child malnutrition is spiking amid pandemic, says UNICEF
The agency warned that more than 86,000 Haitian children under five could be affected, compared with 41,000 last year. “In the hospitals, I was sadRead More…
Belarus 'hijacking' redraws Europe's air map
In the week since Ryanair flight FR4978 from Athens to Vilnius was forcibly diverted to Minsk, travel in Europe already looks very different. SoRead More…
Is it finally the end for Benjamin Netanyahu, the great survivor of Israeli politics?
Netanyahu’s life in picturesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on October 27. Read More…
These double-decker airplane cabin concepts could be the future of flying
Airplane seat designers have long been dreaming up innovative economy cabin concepts, looking for the ideal balance between squeezing in as many paRead More…
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Vietnam detects a suspected new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of the UK and India strains
“A new coronavirus variant with characteristics from the existing Indian and UK variants had been detected in Vietnam for the first time,” Vietnam’Read More…
Gunmen in Nigeria abduct children from Islamic school in latest kidnapping raid
At least one person was confirmed dead in the latest in a string of school kidnapping raids the country has seen this year. “Armed bandits on boardRead More…
The Suez Canal is being widened. Will it be enough to stop another ship getting stuck?
In an effort to avoid a repeat of the event, in mid-May, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced it had started dredging work to widen and deepen Read More…
China to allow couples to have up to three children in attempt to reverse falling birth rates
The Chinese Communist Party’s top leadership made the decision at a meeting on Monday, state media said, in a move designed to combat the country’sRead More…
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa: The woman who won Samoa’s election but still can’t run her country
When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found the building locked. The 64-year-Read More…
China’s cargo spacecraft docks with space station module
The Tianzhou-2, or “Heavenly Vessel” in Chinese, autonomously rendezvoused and docked with Tianhe at 5:01 a.m. Beijing time, Xinhua said Sunday.It Read More…
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Democratic Republic of Congo hit with 61 earthquakes in a day following volcano eruption
The details were outlined in a daily report prepared for the government by the Goma Volcanic Observatory (GVO), and seen by CNN. It explained that Read More…
China’s deadly mountain race is a wake-up call for its booming marathon industry
Zhang is the lone survivor of the six athletes who were leading the race on a remote stretch of track when extreme weather caused freezing rain andRead More…
US aid group destroyed in Israeli airstrike vows to rebuild its office in Gaza
(CNN) — Weam Elastal was bonding with her dad over a broken television set the night an Israeli military plane bombed their family home in 2014, hRead More…