Colombia has arrested 10 people accused of involvement in attacks on a helicopter carrying President Ivan Duque and a military base last month that officials said on Thursday were planned by former FARC rebel leaders based in Venezuela. The car bombing at the base in the northeastern city of Cucuta, home to the army’s 30th Brigade, […]
A priest told mourners at a memorial service Thursday for slain President Jovenel Moise that too much blood is being shed in Haiti as authorities warned of more violence before his funeral. The Reverend Jean-Gilles Sem spoke to dozens of people wearing white T-shirts emblazoned […]
A year after they were supposed to start, the Tokyo Olympics will officially get underway with a three-and-a-half-hour opening ceremony on July 23. The event at the National Stadium in the Japanese capital is designed to celebrate the world’s “unity in diversity” and provide encouragement […]
Israel has announced plans to allow only people who are deemed immune to COVID-19 or have recently tested negative to enter some public spaces such as restaurants, gyms and synagogues after a surge in coronavirus cases. The government had removed most coronavirus restrictions after a […]
More than half of all European adults are now fully vaccinated, the European Union said, but the milestone came as countries across the world are battling fresh outbreaks blamed on the fast-spreading Delta variant. The EU said on Thursday that 200 million Europeans had been […]
Haiti on Thursday prepared to bury its slain president under tight security, just over two weeks after his assassination further rattled a country mired in poverty, corruption and political instability and stirred longstanding racial tensions among its population. Jovenel Moise, who was 53 when he […]
The COVID-19 crisis has weakened prosperity in the United States, but even before the pandemic, mass shootings, elevated obesity levels and mental health issues had taken their toll on Americans’ quality of life, a report by the Legatum Institute published Thursday showed. The US remains […]
The United States imposed sanctions on a senior Cuban security official and an interior ministry brigade following a crackdown on anti-government protests earlier this month, the US Treasury Department announced Thursday. The move marks the first concrete steps by President Joe Biden’s administration to apply […]
Rioting in South Africa this month has claimed 337 lives, the government said on Thursday, marking a further jump in the death toll from the 276 announced the previous day. “The South African police has revised the total number of deaths in Gauteng [province] to […]
Former South African president, currently serving a 15-month prison term in a separate case, faces 16 charges. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/7/22/what-lessons-have-been-learned-from-unrest-in-south-africa
