Libyan rescue workers have recovered at least 15 bodies found on the coast in Sabratha, including a number burned in a boat and others on the beach, a member of the Red Crescent in the city said. A spokesman for Libya’s Red Crescent, Tawfik Al […]
Libyan rescue workers have recovered at least 15 bodies found on the coast in Sabratha, including a number burned in a boat and others on the beach, a member of the Red Crescent in the city said. A spokesman for Libya’s Red Crescent, Tawfik Al […]
Ukraine is working to bring back 32 illegally adopted children from Russia it said were forcibly removed from their parents and who “want them back”. “We know the identities of the kidnapped children and will demand that Russia brings them back,” said Iryna Vereshchuk of […]
Catalonia’s pro-independence coalition government is on the verge of collapse after its junior member decided to abandon it, in the most significant crisis within the Spanish region’s separatist movement in the past decade. In an internal vote on Friday, 55.7 percent of members of the […]
Catalonia’s pro-independence coalition government is on the verge of collapse after its junior member decided to abandon it, in the most significant crisis within the Spanish region’s separatist movement in the past decade. In an internal vote on Friday, 55.7 percent of members of the […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced plans to bar about 10,000 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from entering Canada, as international pressure on Tehran builds amid ongoing anti-government protests. During a news conference on Friday, Trudeau said the top 50 percent […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council has renewed the mandate of its fact-finding mission in Venezuela, an initiative Caracas considers an aggressive tool for interfering in domestic matters. The mandate to extend the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission for Venezuela (FFM) for two more years was […]
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has broken a record for the month of September, continuing a trend that has accelerated during the tenure of the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. About 1,455sq km (562sq miles) of rainforest were cleared in September, according to satellite data […]
The UN General Assembly passed a resolution on Friday for better access to international financing to help developing nations mitigate and adapt to increasingly calamitous climate change. Rich countries’ unkept promise to provide $100bn a year in climate change financing starting in 2020 is a […]
The school district in Uvalde, Texas has suspended its entire police force, five months after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a mass shooting that reverberated across the United States. In a statement (PDF) on Friday, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District […]
