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Nations commit to ditch coal use during climate summit sidelines
For the first time, many nations that heavily use coal promised to get rid of using fossil fuel or to accelerate present plans to reach
U.S. stands with demonstrators as deaths in protesters-soldiers’ conflict increase
With deaths connected to the conflict between anti-coup protesters and soldiers climbed to at least 11, the United States and United Nations started speaking up
Military coup looms in Sudan; gov’t officials captured
Some Sudanese government figures were captured by the military forces on Monday, according to the information ministry of the country. This, as the people are
Attacker behind bow-and-arrow rampage in Norway charged
Charges were filed against a 37-year-old man who was linked in a bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead. According to the police,
N. Korea test-fires projectile — a third for this month
Shortly before Seoul was set to release its new submarine, South Korea officials claim that the North has fired a missile believed to be a
Security heightened in Melbourne amid anti-lockdown protests
Police in Melbourne have scattered to control the crowd on the third day of anti-lockdown protests, as COVID-19 cases in Australia’s Victoria state soared on
Elite Guinea Army declares curfew, claims gov’t dissolve
A nationwide curfew “until further notice” was announced by the elite troops who conducted an uprising in the capital of Guinea, as they also declared that the military will take over the regional governors. In a statement broadcasted over national television, the soldiers also said that they would gather the cabinet ministers of President Alpha Conde along with the leading officials on Monday, at 11:00 GMT in Conakry. Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya has read the soldiers’ commitment to bringing back democracy
The pandemic has slowed tourism to Thailand’s Buddhist temples, but the impact is more than economic
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College The economies of countries dependent on tourism are clearly hurting, with visitor numbers plummeting as a result of the pandemic. In
WHO replaces place-based tag for COVID virus variants to Greek letter names
Instead of using names after the places, the World Health Organization has put in place a new system to identify COVID-19 variants to avoid difficulties
Colombian city beset by crime declares ‘Black Lives Matter’
Shauna N Gillooly, University of California, Irvine Chaotic and deadly protests have for weeks rocked the Colombian port city of Buenaventura. In mid-May some demonstrators
As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment
James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are
Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict
Ken Chitwood, Concordia College New York The violence that spread from Jerusalem to cities across Israel and the Palestinian territories, leaving at least 60 dead
Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle
Maha Nassar, University of Arizona The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of