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Negligence and Corruption are Root Causes of Baghdad Fire

Endemic corruption and gross mismanagement are at the heart of Iraq’s health system. At least 82 people were killed and at least 110 were wounded in a horrible fire at Ibn al-Khatib hospital in Baghdad late Saturday night. Preliminary reports believe the fire started from haphazardly stored oxygen cylinders. [...]

42 Migrants Drown Off the Coast of Djibouti, East Africa

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that in a desperate attempt to get home, 42 migrants drowned in an unsafe vessel as they attempted to travel from Yemen to Djibouti. At least 16 children, 8 boys and 8 girls were among the dead. This is the second similar [...]

Dire Water Shortage in Jordan Threatens its Way of Life

In the last three decades the Dead Sea’s level has fallen almost 100 feet! What is happening? Jordan is experiencing massive droughts as the Dead Sea continues to evaporate. The Dead Sea is extremely salty, but when it evaporates, freshwater rushes in and takes its place, dissolving subterranean salt [...]

Devastating Earthquake Rocks Java in Indonesia

Indonesia’s main island of Java was rocked by a 6.0 earthquake about 2 p.m. local time on Saturday. It was also felt on the resort island of Bali. It killed at least seven people. It was the second disaster to strike the nation in a week’s time. Indonesia’s earthquake [...]

Iran Blames Israel for Attack on Its Nuclear Enrichment Site

Iran suffered a blackout Sunday at its underground Natanz atomic facility, calling it an act of “nuclear terrorism.” Iran immediately blamed Israel for the failure at its facility. The “failure” at the plant coincided with Israel’s celebration of Independence Day. After repeated “attacks” against its facility, Iran is rebuilding [...]

More Deaths Occur in the Myanmar Military Coup

On one February, the military in Myanmar staged a coup, unhappy with the November election results which resulted in a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi and her party. The military claimed widespread voter fraud in the elections. Since the February coup, Security Forces have detained more than [...]

Refugees from Tigray Dream of Independence from Ethiopia

Nearly 70,000 Tigrayans live in refugee camps on the edge of the Sudanese desert. They have fled to Sudan because a ruthless war has pitted Ethiopia’s former political leaders against a new government. Refugees from the Tigray regions in Ethiopia have told horrible stories of human rights abuses perpetrated [...]

Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls are Freed

It was a mixed welcome when the 279 schoolgirls were released after their kidnapping from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state of Nigeria. Hundreds of girls dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot were sitting at the Government House office quietly talking to one another. After the [...]

Peaceful Protests Continue in Myanmar in Defiance of Military Coup

The people of Myanmar (Burma) had only begun to taste freedom in the recent years after five decades of military rule, when the powerful military Generals claimed fraud in the recent electoral results. The democratic government is led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The military [...]

Military Coup in Myanmar Upends the Budding Democracy

Once again, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is being led and controlled by the military forces who seized power in Monday’s coup d’etat, following the country’s parliamentary election. The election overwhelmingly reelected and affirmed the democratic leadership. Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of democracy in the country was arrested along [...]

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