An aid convoy with supplies for Gaza is stuck on the outskirts of Ismailia, Egypt, as the Rafah border crossing remains closed, preventing aid from entering and foreign nationals and fleeing… Read More
A homeless encampment along a street in Skid Row on Dec. 14, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Two days earlier, LA Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emer… Read More
I ducked under the thin blue string across the dirt track that demarcated Sudan and South Sudan. It was 2013 and I was there to examine the humanitarian situation in the Nuba Mountains.
Th… Read More
COP26 ended last weekend.
The great Glasgow conference ended with an agreement to phase ‘down’ coal rather than phase ‘out’ coal.
This left COP26 chairman Alok Sharma… Read More
The influence of digital currencies across the globe has been massive since the inception of Bitcoin. The South American provinces have been some of the most active regions in terms of imple… Read More
GARART AL-GATEF, Libya (Reuters) – The wind whips up sand storms in Garart al-Gatef. Snakes and scorpions lurk amongst the desert scrub.
Libyan women displaced from the town of T… Read More
BERLIN — Desperate travellers choked European border crossings Wednesday after countries implemented strict controls to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, which has now infect… Read More
This is a guest post by Anton MukhamedovOn April 15, 2017, several buses evacuating civilians from the towns of Fu’ah and Kafriya besieged by rebels in Idlib province were rocked by an… Read More
If, as Emerson said, language is the archive of history, then U.S. soldiers in Vietnam are writing history with words as well as weapons.So many slang terms, Vietnamese words and specialized… Read More