HOUSTON, Texas – Eighty-year-old Helen Lewis Johnson is an African American historian for the Black Heritage Society. He remembers the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 as if it were yesterday. “I was enjoying being home with my four children while on a spring break…when the […]...
PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron has called for fresh sanctions against Moscow, holding the Russian army responsible for war crimes in Ukrainian city of Bucha. Macron described the pictures from Kyiv as “unbearable” and “extremely shocking,” saying that “there were very clear indicators of war crimes.” “What has just happen...
ISTANBUL – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an independent investigation into the killing of over 400 civilians in a Ukrainian city following the withdrawal of Russian troops there. “I am deeply shocked by the images of civilians killed in Bucha, Ukraine,” Guterres said on Twitter. “It is essential that an independent investiga...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO marked its 73rd anniversary on Monday amid new security challenges caused by the Russian war on Ukraine, which is regarded by many as the “biggest threat” Europe has faced since the Cold War and the “greatest destruction” witnessed since World War II. NATO was founded to restructure the security architecture in [&hel...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – The map of the Russia-Ukraine war has changed as Russian forces withdrew from some cities and the Ukrainian army reclaimed control of several regions on Monday. The entire Kyiv region, including Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel, was retaken from Russian forces, according to statements issued by Ukrainian authorities. Condu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The head of the UN refugee agency has demanded that European countries apply their generosity towards Ukrainian refugees to others as well as 90 more people died in a fresh “tragedy” in the Mediterranean Sea. “More than 90 people have died in another Mediterranean tragedy,” Filippo Grandi said on T...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The United States has urged Yemen’s warring rivals to fully abide by a two-month truce brokered by the United Nations. “The United States welcomes the UN’s announcement of a two-month truce in the Yemen conflict and the parties’ acceptance of its terms,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned Israel’s killing of three Palestinians in the West Bank, warning it would lead to an explosion. “The dangerous Israeli escalation, which coincided today with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, is strongly rejected and condemned, and it would explode th...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s army chief General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan has threatened to expel the head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, over “blatant interference” in the country’s affairs. Al-Burhan, who heads the ruling Sovereign Council, called on the UN official to “stop...
GENEVA – The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted three resolutions in favor of Palestine. One of these has condemned the actions of Jewish settlers in occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Thirty-five resolutions were accepted on the final day of the Council’s 49th session from February...
