International News (Page 564)

Contribute to the Kickstarter for Smita Sharma’s photo book We Cry In Silence, which documents the trafficking of girls from Bangladesh and Nepal to India for sex and domestic work.Continue Reading

| ExploreDementia Connections MagazineIn my talk, I mentioned that my mom and I wrote some comics that were published in a magazine about dementia. Here is the magazine’s website and the three comics that my mom and I wrote.Jocelyn Burgener | Friesen Press, 2014 | BookNaked Under My Coat: Writing Under the Influence of Parkinson’sIn…Continue Reading

KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelensky remained defiant Monday, saying he would never agree to an ultimatum from Russia or surrender Ukraine’s cities, even as the Kremlin continued its bombardment of the capital, the coast and elsewhere.As Moscow sought its first strategic victory in a war that appears to be approaching a stalemate in many…Continue Reading

UNITED NATIONS — France and Mexico are pressing U.N. members to mention Russia’s invasion in a resolution on the worsening hmanitarian situation in Ukraine. But South Africa is arguing against that approach, saying that inserting political issues may block consensus on helping civilians.A French-Mexican draft resolution expected to be voted on later this week in…Continue Reading

More than 1,300 people were believed to be sheltering in the theater, and 400 were estimated to have been in the art school.Perched on the Sea of Azov, Mariupol has been a key target that has been relentlessly pounded for more than three weeks and has seen some of the worst suffering of the war.…Continue Reading

BEIJING — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade.More than 15 hours after communication was lost with the plane, there was…Continue Reading

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated a new Mexico City airport on Monday, one of his four hallmark building projects.The government pulled out all the fanfare it could muster, including releasing a documentary on the project showing an army general talking to a statue.The terminal was built by the army, on…Continue Reading

Biden made it U.S. policy to select jurists for its highest court on the basis of race. WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 02: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) meets with President Joe Bidens Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Jackson will meet…Continue Reading

A secret CIA program once again reveals the need for Congress to reclaim its Constitutional authority. One of the more haunting political ads in my lifetime came during the 2004 Presidential campaign. It depicted menacing wolves symbolizing the terrorists that would strike if Congress failed to provide robust funding for intelligence operations. Set to dramatic…Continue Reading