The UN rights chief has intensified criticism of US sanctions targeting Venezuela, condemning the latest measures as “extremely broad” with the potential to exacerbate suffering among an already vulnerable population. The UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, has raised concern about previous sanctions […]
For more than 1,200 days, Shehab says he and his family have lived in this cluster of shelters sprinkled along a stretch of desert on the Syrian-Jordanian border. Activists dubbed it the “Triangle of Death.” The United Nations called conditions “desperate,” “catastrophic” and “no place […]
The protest, which has remained peaceful, began Monday after a train was seen going onto property of Blackjewel, the mine operator that filed for bankruptcy without warning on July 1. Word quickly spread through the community around Cumberland, a town of about 2,200 in […]
Son My, Vietnam (CNN) — Two walls have brought me to tears. They are on opposite sides of the world, 8,600 miles apart. Both are filled with names of people I never knew but who have helped shaped the person I have become. The […]
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan security forces and their American-led international allies have killed more civilians so far this year than the Taliban have, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday, once again raising alarm that ordinary Afghans are bearing the brunt of […]
“Mr Trump, please stop this. Stop this shelling. Stop the killing of these innocent people,” Rania Kisar said in an emotional video in which she is seen standing amid rubble, the aftermath of the airstrike in the city of Maarat al-Numan. “Please America. Please […]
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