British authorities accused of interrogating parents who came seeking help when their daughters went missing Details of how police attempted to criminalise British families whose children were trafficked to Islamic…
ATHENS (Reuters) -Pope Francis appealed on Saturday for a return to “good politics”, saying democracy has deteriorated dangerously as discontented people are lured by the “siren songs” of populist politicians…
Donated to the poor by a eunuch official to the caliph, who couldn’t leave it to heirs, the endowment should have been eternal – but then the Crusaders arrived The…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTR_55U2dE When two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance
Separatist rhetoric among Bosnian Serb leadership is raising concerns about the dissolution of Bosnia. It’s part of a nationalist wave across the Balkans that threatens a return of ethnic conflict.…
Amidst “truly unprecedented levels” of hunger in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that as winter arrives, avoiding widespread starvation “is an immediate priority”. Launching a global fundraising winter campaign to help forcibly displaced families in Afghanistan…
Road accidents are still responsible for 1.3 million annual deaths and 50 million injuries all over the world, but the United Nations has a Global Plan to halve road deaths and injuries…
New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Battery Park City Authority held a dedication ceremony on Thursday for the descendant of a tree that was initially planted by…
As I eagerly await Spotify’s year-end report on my most-played songs of 2021, I wonder which ones will remind me of my summer in New York City—of off-pitch Karaoke Television…
At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste…