Farmers drove tractors into Brussels at dawn on Thursday, renewing protests against the European Union’s plans for a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc. Police expected around 10,000 demonstrators near the European Council, where EU…
Category: 4. World
-

Pulitzer winner Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, dies at 91
LOS ANGELES — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
Arnett, who…
Continue Reading
-

Baby Mohammed freezes to death as Gaza battles winter and displacement | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – With a pale face and unrelenting tears, Eman Abu al-Khair sits inside her tent, clutching a small bag of her infant’s clothes. Her newborn had died of hypothermia the day before.
The devastated mother, 34-years-old,…
Continue Reading
-

Video. Colombia boosts military presence following police station attack
Colombia’s military has reinforced its presence in the town of Buenos Aires, in the southwestern department of Cauca, after an explosive attack on a police station wounded eight officers.
The government blamed dissidents from the…
Continue Reading
-

The bear in the Baltics: Reassessing the Russian threat in Estonia
Summary
- Estonia is a small, post-Soviet country with a Russian-speaking minority. It is also one of the most geographically isolated NATO alliance members—and has a direct border with Russia. These…
Continue Reading
-

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett has died
LOS ANGELES — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
Arnett, who…
Continue Reading
-

Mourners grieve 10-year-old slain in Bondi mass shooting as Australia’s leader pledges new hate laws : NPR
Family carry the coffin following a service for Bondi Beach mass shooting victim 10-year-old Matilda, whose last name is…
Continue Reading
-

Australia Bondi shooting suspects had no visitors and barely left hotel during month-long Philippines stay, employee says
Manila
—
The father and son suspected of carrying out Sunday’s Bondi Beach massacre holed up in a hotel for most of their almost month-long stay in the Philippines in November,…
Continue Reading
-

India summons Bangladesh envoy over security concerns
India has lodged a strong protest against what it has called the “deteriorating security situation” around its mission in Dhaka.
On Wednesday, India’s foreign ministry summoned Bangladeshi envoy Riaz Hamidullah to convey its concerns about the…
Continue Reading
-

Japan demands response from Finland over beauty queen’s ‘slanted eyes’ photos
Japan’s top government spokesman on Thursday expressed concern over images posted online of the winner of a beauty pageant and some lawmakers in Finland showing them pulling back the corners of their eyes, a gesture widely regarded as racially…Continue Reading
