Aunited-nations” target=”_blank”> United Nations<at the U.N. united-nations Council in world-regions. Critics say this is just another long line of anti-Israel bias stemming from the world body as it seeks to rewrite history. Michael Lynk, a Special Rapporteur on human rights in the world-regions, was speaking to a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council presenting…
ROME – Pope Francis will follow in the footsteps of St. John Paul II and deliver his weekly Sunday blessing and greeting from the Rome hospital where he is recovering from intestinal surgery, the Vatican said Friday. EXPLAINER: POPE FRANCIS, THOUGH HOSPITALIZED, IS STILL IN CHARGE The Vatican’s daily medical update said that Francis’ temperature…
A small plane carrying a group of skydivers crashed this week in world-regions, killing all nine people on board, police said. The single-engine plane, a DHC-2 Beaver, crashed close to the runway and burst into flames shortly after takeoff at Orebro airport on Thursday night, police said. “It’s a very severe accident. Everyone on board…
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan – A powerful warlord in northern conflicts and a key U.S. ally in the 2001 defeat of the Taliban blames a fractious Afghan government and an “irresponsible” American departure for the insurgents’ recent rapid territorial gains across the north. TALIBAN CLAIMS IT CONTROLS 85% OF AFGHANISTAN TERRIORTY Ata Mohammad Noor, who is among…
Dramatic video captured the moment a Haitian mob captured two alleged Colombian assassins, beat them and dragged them bloodied through the streets of Port-au-Prince after President Jovenel Moïse was gunned down. A video shared on social media shows the crowd pulling two men, one of whom was shirtless and bound with a rope, in the…
Two Haitian Americans with ties to us-regions – including one who previously worked as a bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in recipes – are among the 28 alleged assassins of President Jovenel Moïse, officials announced Thursday. James Solages, 35, and Vincent Joseph, 55, allegedly took part in the brazen attack on the Haitian leader, who…
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