International
Fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine has wreaked havoc on the health system, with more than five million people affected, the United Nations said on Friday. The World Health Organization said access to primary, secondary and emergency health services was “critically needed,” adding that the health infrastructure was buckling under the humanitarian crisis. Dorit Nitzan, the […]
A leading human rights group says Saudi authorities have postponed the second round of public flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam, citing medical reasons. Amnesty International says authorities delayed administering 50 lashings to Raif Badawi, which were set to take place on Friday after midday prayers, because his wounds from last week’s flogging […]
There have been more than 50 anti-Muslim incidents in France since last week’s shootings by gunmen claiming to represent Islamist groups, the country’s Muslim community said on Monday. The incidents included 21 reports of shooting at Islamic buildings and the throwing of some form of grenades, and 33 threats, a spokesman for the monitoring body […]
Several hundred people gathered outside France’s embassy in Argentina Sunday in repudiation of the jihadist attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead earlier in the week. Demonstrators broke out in choruses of the Marseillaise and the Argentine national anthem outside the French diplomatic mission in Buenos Aires’s La Recoleta neighborhood. The references were to […]
The UN Security Council condemned on Sunday a suicide bombing in Lebanon in the “strongest terms” after an attack on a cafe in the northern city of Tripoli killed nine and wounded 37. In the unanimous declaration, the Security Council’s 15 members said they were “outraged” by the attack Saturday claimed by the Syrian branch […]
Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an upsurge in mortar and rocket attacks launched just days ahead of planned international talks on the crisis. Local authorities in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk said two civilians were killed and seven injured in clashes on Friday around the industrial city’s disputed airport. The […]
One of Cuba’s most prominent dissident groups said on Friday that 36 opposition activists, including a popular hip-hop artist, have been freed in the last two days. The dissident Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) said 29 of its members were among those released, and that most had been warned by the communist government they would […]
At least twelve people have been killed and eleven others critically injured when several masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the heart of the French capital, Paris. “They opened fire on everyone, it was butchery, a real slaughter,” Conteno said. “Some of the people there […]
At least 10 decapitated bodies and 11 heads have been discovered in unmarked graves in violence-plagued Guerrero state in southern Mexico, authorities said. The hands and feet on the corpses had been tied and the victims had clearly been tortured, officials said Tuesday. Authorities found the badly decomposed bodies following an anonymous tip-off, a state […]
Protests against police brutality are planned in San Francisco, Oakland and across the country tonight amid New Year’s Eve celebrations. Organizers of the protest in San Francisco said that a non-violent rally is scheduled to take place at the Embarcadero BART station on Market Street at 9 p.m. and will continue into the early morning […]
