New Delhi, India – Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP), have stunningly misplaced the Delhi meeting election in a significant turnaround for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) which is now poised to manipulate the capital once more after 27 years. Twelve years since its sensational trip to energy within…
US President Donald Trump has slapped sanctions on the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC), accusing the physique of attacking Israel and america. In an govt order issued late on Thursday, Trump known as the courtroom “illegitimate” and positioned monetary and US visa restrictions on ICC employees and anybody aiding ICC investigations towards the US and its…
New Delhi, India – Kulvinder Kaur had tried and tried once more to name her husband in the USA. After two weeks of the connection not going by means of, she was consumed by anxiousness, she stated from her dwelling in Hoshiarpur, within the northern Indian state of Punjab. “I used to be actually afraid…
Marottichal, India – Telephones, wallets and half-drunk teacups muddle empty tables – aside from one – at a teahouse in southern India, the place a crowd has fashioned round a chess board and two rivals. Considered one of them is 15-year-old Gowrishankar Jayaraj. Surrounded by spectators vying for a view of the chess board, Jayaraj is…
Mae Sot, Thailand – Inside an outdated picket home within the Thai border city of Mae Sot, wounded revolutionary fighters lie facet by facet. Many are amputees lacking legs, arms, and arms. Some have severe head wounds, and others have suffered debilitating spinal accidents. Some are blind, and others are unable to stroll. These younger…
Khan Younis, Gaza – Since 8am, 32-year-old Abu Yusuf* has been standing in a crowd close to the rubble of the previous residence of Yahya Sinwar, the slain Hamas political and navy chief, in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. Along with his four-year-old son perched on his shoulders, he has been ready to catch a glimpse…
The Chinese language New 12 months or the Lunar New 12 months is a serious celebration in lots of Asian international locations and their diasporas across the globe. Chinese language New 12 months, additionally known as the Spring Pageant, is roughly a two-week-long celebration marking the primary day of the Chinese language calendar yr, which…
“The sky was crimson, and the air smelled like burned meat. I didn’t perceive it then, however my mom instructed me it was folks. Individuals like us.” — Ceija Stojka, Auschwitz survivor Eighty years in the past, the Soviet Crimson Military liberated survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi extermination camp within the Silesian area of southern…
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Shortly earlier than midday on a Thursday in June 1960, 34-year-old Patrice Lumumba stepped as much as the rostrum on the Palace of the Nation in Leopoldville (current-day Kinshasa) with a dream to unite his newly liberated nation. Standing earlier than dignitaries and politicians, together with King Baudouin…
Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Palestinians within the Gaza Strip awakened on Thursday to the sound of renewed bombing, including trepidation to the enjoyment they felt on the information {that a} ceasefire had been agreed between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas the evening earlier than. They hope that announcement will imply an finish…
