Violent clashes in Northern Ireland erupted over the weekend amid increasing tensions in a region historically plagued with sectarian violence. A car was set alight in Sperrin Park in the Waterside area of Derry, while there were also reports of violent incidents in Carrickfergus, near Belfast. Both locations have been the scene of violence and […]
MEXICO.- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that he will not put on the COVID-19 vaccine. He stated his doctors told him that he still has a high level of antibodies after contracting the disease in January this year. “I have enough antibodies and it is not essential for now that I get vaccinated,” […]
INDIA/ BIJAPUR: Twenty-two Indian police and paramilitary forces were killed and 30 others wounded in a gun battle with Maoist rebels in a central Indian state, police said Sunday, in the deadliest ambush of its kind in four years. Some 2,000 security personnel were on the hunt for a Maoist rebel leader in the Bijapur […]
America has a complicated history of racial violence. Questions of race, white supremacy, and the divisive nature of politics have recently come to the fore again with the rise of racially motivated acts of violence. In May of last year, the Black Lives Matter movement spread worldwide, and millions of people took to the street […]
Taiwan’s transport minister said that he would not shirk his responsibility for a deadly train crash even as he rejected it. His resignation offer amid growing questions over safety lapses that could have contributed to the disaster. In the island’s worst rail accident in seven decades, 51 people have been confirmed dead after a packed […]
Supermodel Bella Hadid has condemned the brutal murder of Pakistani driver Mohammad Anwar in Washington, DC. The the-24-year-old model took to her Instagram stories on Tuesday; wrote a heartfelt message to mourn the death of a 66-year-old immigrant. “This is devastating. God bless him and his family,” Bella wrote, adding, “no one, and I mean […]
A military unit tried to seize the presidential palace in Niger’s capital Niamey overnight in an attempted coup but it was pushed back and the order has been restored, the government said on Wednesday. The incident comes two days before the swearing-in of President-elect Mohamed Bazoum. The former interior minister succeeds President Mahamadou Issoufou, who […]
The French defense ministry on Tuesday contested a United Nations report that determined an airstrike earlier in the year in Mali resulted in the deaths of 19 civilians participating in a wedding. Reuters reported that the U.N.’s determination came after a division of the U.N.’s mission in the country interviewed more than 400 people, including […]
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Sunday proposed that his country pays for coronavirus vaccines with oil. Maduro offered the proposal at a news conference; explaining that he hoped to use oil revenue to pay for vaccines through the World Health Organization’s COVAX mechanism; which gives vaccine access to poorer countries. “Venezuela has the oil vessels and […]
Italian police have announced the arrest of a wanted ‘Ndrangheta mobster in the Dominican Republic after he posted multiple cooking videos on YouTube. After seven years on the run, Marc Feren Claude Biart was tracked down through a YouTube cooking channel he started with his wife; Italian police said in a statement. The alleged gangster’s […]
