Monthly Archive: October 2015
An uneasy calm prevails in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh where a Hindu mob lynched a Muslim man late last month following rumors of cow slaughter and beef eating. The killing sent shock...
Turkey is still reeling after a pair of suicide bombers detonated themselves at a peace rally in Turkey’s capital city last Saturday, killing at least 97 people and wounding many more. No one has...
Just weeks after the 14th anniversary of the launch of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced Thursday that despite previous plans — those troops still in the country will remain even...
Florida is known as the Sunshine State but it lags behind many other states in producing solar energy. One reason is that the state’s legislature set up a legal roadblock that requires residents to...
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a slew of progressive bills into a law this month, from climate change to pay equity to assisted suicide. One of the most contentious bills strengthened the state’s...
Across Turkey, families and friends said good bye to loved ones as they buried their dead following a twin suicide attack over the weekend. On Saturday, two blasts ripped through a crowd at a...
Tension continues to spiral in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. After a week of growing unrest in the West Bank, the violence spread to Gaza where the Israeli military met week-end rocket fire...
MSF awaits single sponsor from Geneva Convention signatory states to initiate UN inquiry Violence spirals in West Bank amid holy site tension and calls for third Intifada Scientists predict warming ocean temperatures will kill...
Only days after both Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas spoke at the UN claiming they were committed to deescalate tensions, violence suddenly surged with Palestinian youth calling for another uprising, or...
Marine corals are currently experiencing a mass die-off known as a “global bleaching event.” For the third time since researchers first observed this phenomenon in the late 90s, reefs are turning white and dying...