LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law that would criminalize librarians and booksellers who provide access to material harmful to minors. The law, signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in March, was to have taken effect Tuesday. The law required libraries to establish procedures for reviewing mat...
TORONTO (AA): Israeli soldiers shot and killed a child late Wednesday during a raid on the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. The child, who suffered a serious head wound from a bullet fired by the occupation forces, was taken to the Qalqilya State Hospital and subsequently passed away, according to a statement […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): The conflict in Sudan is having a serious impact on the humanitarian situation in Chad, a UN official said Tuesday. Three months after fighting broke out in Sudan, more than 250,000 refugees and returnees have fled across the border into Chad, nearly 90% of them women and children from West Darfur. The […]
WASHINGTON (AA) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose the death penalty for anyone caught trafficking children. Trump said if he is elected back to the White House next year, he will combat human trafficking with a heavy hand. He called it modern day slavery. “When I am back in the White House, […]
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): Adolescent boys are systematically being separated from their mothers in detention camps in northeast Syria, a UN expert has said and warned that the practice is causing irreparable harm and is a blatant violation of international law. Fionnuala Ni Aolain said that during a visit to the Kurdish-controlled camps she n...
Ben Guerdane, Tunisia (AFP): More than 600 migrants forced out of Tunisia’s port of Sfax to the desert borderlands with Libya are being sheltered and given humanitarian aid, the Red Crescent said on Wednesday. However, smaller groups of people remain stranded near the frontiers with Algeria and Libya. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Sahara...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh urged a visiting US delegation on Wednesday to come up with fresh financial assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar district who have been badly affected by a recent UN cut in food rations. The high-profile US team held meetings with Bangladeshi officials, Rohingya leaders and UN agencies and other do...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Car bombs killed at least eight people including three children in two separate incidents Sunday in northern Syria, a war monitor said. One blast hit a car repair shop in Shawa, a village near the Turkish border held by pro-Ankara fighters, residents told AFP. Five civilians including three children were killed and [&hel...
Jenin, Palestine (AFP): As Israeli forces pulled out of Jenin after a brutal military onslaught, its Palestinian residents came back to assess the devastation: trashed homes, charred cars and roads strewn with rubble, glass and bullet casings. The West Bank city has endured violence before, but the latest offensive was the heaviest in years, w...
JERUSALEM (AA): A BBC anchor has criticized the recent Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, in which at least 12 Palestinians were killed and more than 140 others injured. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, five minors were among the fatalities. “Israeli forces are happy to kill children,” presenter Anjana Gadgil [&...
