Israel kills 25 kills Palestinians in Gaza
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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 […]
More than $1.5 billion has been spent on settling police misconduct claims in the United States between 2010 and 2020, according to a Washington Post analysis. Among major U.S. cities, Chicago had the highest rate of misconduct claims involving officers named in multiple cases. More than 70% of the city’s roughly 1,500 payments during that [&h...
More than 2 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion less than two weeks ago, the United Nations refugee agency or UNHCR said. Poland alone has received nearly half of those Ukrainians seeking refuge. Tuesday’s figures show 1.2 million people have crossed into the country in the past 13 days. Hungary [&hel...
Poland on Tuesday said it is ready to hand over all of its MIG-29 jets to the U.S., as part of efforts to provide Ukraine with fighter aircraft to defend against Russian attacks. Poland called on other NATO allies that have MIG-29 jets to follow its example. The British government said it will back up […]
