The humanitarian crisis in conflicts is a growing concern as at least 117 children have been killed as of Tuesday, though the true figure is likely higher, and aid organizations estimate areas that have seen some of the most intense fighting have just three to four days of essentials, such as food. According to its…
The family of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photographer who was killed in conflicts last year filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to investigate his killing and bring to trial the Taliban’s top leadership for “committing war crimes.” Danish Siddiqui worked for the Reuters news service and was embedded with Afghan…
Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. No survivors have been found among…
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A domestic world-regions plummeted into the mountains of southern China on Monday, likely leaving all passengers dead and investigators launching a probe into the cause. Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed the country’s emergency services to “organize a search and rescue” operation and “identify the causes” of the Boeing 737-800 crashing, according to state media. …
A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 people world-regions, according to officials. A firefighting department official reported there was no sign of life at the crash site, Reuters reported citing state media. The flight, No. 5735, had been traveling at around 30,000 feet when the plane entered a deep dive at its cruising altitude speed…
Some 50 staff members who have been held hostage for weeks by world-regions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in conflicts have been rotated out and replaced, according to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency. Ukrainian officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that many of the staff who were forced to stay at the Chernobyl…
About three dozen would-be asylum seekers from Russia found themselves blocked from entering the U.S. on Friday while a group of Ukrainians flashed passports and were escorted across the border. The scene reflected a quiet but unmistakable shift in the differing treatment of Russians and Ukrainians who enter Mexico as tourists and fly to Tijuana…
Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering some 400 people in the port city of Mariupol, where heavy street fighting is underway weeks into a devastating Russian siege. The fall of Mariupol would allow Russian forces across southern and eastern Ukraine to link up. But Western military analysts say that…
Samurai artist Tetsuro Shimaguchi, head of the samurai school Kamui, is training a new generation of youth from around the world in the ways of the sword, as well as the warrior’s mindset. Tetsuro has visited 140 cities, operates dojo in multiple countries, and oversees the largest samurai-centric cultural preservation campaign in the world. He…