Former Vietnam war activists see history repeating itself. Will pro-Palestinian protesters heed their warning?
The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police, all eyes were on the city as a model of change. But did anything substantive happen?
George Floyd's death at the hands of police seemed to mark a turning point in America's race relations, but politics has overtaken the response.
In 2020, hundreds of communities agreed racism is a public health crisis. But experts say progress has been slow and the issue has become polarizing.
G7 finance leaders will call on Israel to maintain correspondent banking links between Israeli and Palestinian banks to allow vital transactions, trade and services to continue, according to a draft joint statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The statement, to be released at the end of a Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting in northern Italy, also calls for Israel "to release withheld clearance revenues to the Palestinian Authority, in view of its urgent fiscal needs". "We call on Israel to take the necessary measures to ensure that correspondent banking services between Israeli and Palestinian banks remain in place, so that vital financial transactions and critical trade and services continue," the draft statement said.
Italy will resume funding for the United Nations' Palestinian relief organisation UNRWA as part of a 35 million euro ($38 million) aid package, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday. Tajani made the commitment during a meeting in Rome with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa. The Italian minister said five million euros would go to UNRWA projects, with the remainder destined for its "Food for Gaza" initiative.
Two top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accuse his government of targeting them in unjustified criminal probes cast their votes in New Delhi on Saturday as the country's six-week election resumed. India's weather bureau this week issued a heatwave "red alert" for Delhi and surrounding states where tens of millions of people were casting their ballots on Saturday.
The United States has just won a significant honor – being named the world’s best country for travel and tourism in 2024.
Three bodies have been recovered after a landslide in Papua New Guinea, local officials told CNN on Saturday, adding that the death toll was likely to rise to a “significant” total.
Three missionaries, including a married couple from the US, were killed in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Thursday evening.
Alderney, a quiet British island in the English Channel known for its outstanding natural beauty, was once the site of the only Nazi camps on British soil – and a hell on Earth for its thousands of inmates.
China has ended two days of military drills around Taiwan that saw jets loaded with live munitions and warships practise seizing and isolating the self-ruled island. Beijing considers the democratic island part of its territory and has not ruled out using force to bring it under its control.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet his Chinese counterpart, the Pentagon announced Friday, after Beijing carried out war games around Taiwan in a sign to the US-backed democracy's new leader.The Pentagon said that Austin would meet Chinese Admiral Dong Jun when they attend the May 31-June 2 Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of defense officials around the world.
Rescue crews arrived at the site of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's remote highlands Saturday, helping villagers search for hundreds of people feared dead under towering mounds of rubble and mud."At this time, we are still searching for bodies who are buried by the massive landslide," local leader Mark Ipuia said Saturday, adding he feared "more than 300" people were buried under the debris.
NASA has launched the first of two research satellites to measure how much heat is lost to space from the Arctic and Antarctica.
Prosecutors in Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida asked a federal judge to block him from making public statements that pose a "danger to law enforcement agents" investigating and prosecuting the case.
The focus for South Africa's national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time, as many expect. Several polls put the ANC's support below 50% ahead of Wednesday's vote, raising the prospect that it might not be the majority party for the first time since winning control of the government when Nelson Mandela led it to victory in the first all-race elections that ended white minority rule in 1994.
The air at the Ukrainian military recruitment office where a 30-year-old hairdresser is being interviewed is filled with anxiety. The man has no military experience and is unsure whether any of his skills would be useful. At one point, the recruiter jokingly suggests that he might be able to give everyone a nice haircut.
Florida wants elections officials to use EagleAI data collected by far-right activists to potentially remove people from the state’s voter rolls, according to emails obtained by NBC News.
The search for a wayward primate in South Carolina was in its second day Friday as its owner hired help to corral the animal in the town of Walterboro.