As first Muslim women head to Congress, balancing symbolism and service
Rashida Tlaib never set out to be a “new face” of the Democratic Party – but on the cusp of her election to the US House of Representatives, she can hardly avoid the label. Not long ago, her profile – a Muslim civil rights lawyer and mother of two, ra…
Runaway Train Blazes Through Western Australia For More Than 50 Miles
The train had nobody on it. It was eventually deliberately derailed, creating a dramatic crash scene with huge lengths of crumpled, twisted metal on the desert sand next to the train track.
Ukraine needs the long arm of the law
Far more than the people of Ukraine took notice on Sunday when a young and prominent anti-corruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk, died in Kiev after an acid attack. While protests were quickly held in five cities demanding her killers be held to accou…
3 Bodies Found After Apartment Buildings Collapse In Marseille, France
A woman who lived in one of the buildings said she stayed with her parents the night before the collapse because many of the doors in her building wouldn’t close. “It could have been me,” she said.
94-Year-Old Accused In Concentration Camp Murders Goes On Trial In Germany
Former SS guard Johann Rehbogen is charged with being an accessory in the murders of several hundred Jewish and Polish prisoners at the Stutthof concentration camp in the early 1940s.
Russian Fighter Made ‘High Speed Pass’ In Front Of U.S. Spy Plane
A video posted by the U.S. Navy shows the Su-27 roaring alongside the American turboprop plane, “applying its afterburner while conducting a banking turn away.”
Voice of a nation: How Juba Arabic helps bridge a factious South Sudan
There was Kakwa, his mother tongue, shouted across scratchy cellphone lines to South Sudanese family back home and scattered around the region. Rabuna, Abuna fi sama, de akil al bi saadu gisim, he would whisper each night in Juba Arabic, hands clasped…
Open SESAME: Jordan’s particle accelerator breaks down atoms – and barriers
“We come from many countries,” Messaoud Harfouche, an Algerian beamline scientist, says as he checks a monitor. In what is being hailed as a breakthrough in science diplomacy, a particle accelerator in Jordan is breaking down atoms and barriers, offer…
A midterm election as fraught as any in modern times
Two years into a tumultuous presidency, United States voters on Tuesday go to the polls in a midterm vote as pressured and contentious as any the nation has experienced in modern times. If the old political truism was “all politics is local,” now all …
In Colombia, Artist Renders Tons Of Rebel Guns Into Floor Tiles
Under Colombia’s peace deal, FARC guerrillas turned over their weapons to the United Nations. Now many of them lie in the ground of a Bogotá museum.
News Brief: It’s Election Day, Cameroon Children Kidnapped
Republicans and Democrats have made their final case to voters and Americans are heading to the polls. And in Cameroon, nearly 80 children have been abducted from a school.
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