Severe droughts attributed to El Niño are affecting areas far flung around the world; from India to Venezuela to Namibia. In developing nations, major droughts devastate domestic agriculture and compromise food sovereignty. In wealthier...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, still the world’s worst nuclear accident. An explosion and fire in the Chernobyl 4th reactor released a radiation plume 400 times more radioactive than the Hiroshima...
All photos by Filip Warwick. Hear/read his accompanying radio report here. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
A group of international experts has presented its final report on one of Mexico’s most notorious human rights crimes in recent years. The government-contracted outside investigators released their findings just before their official mandate...
President Obama wrapped up two days in Germany where he announced the largest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since the civil war there began. Obama said Monday that the Pentagon will dispatch...
April 24th marked the beginning of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Often referred to as Red Sunday, 101 years ago Ottoman officials rounded up hundreds of Armenian intellectuals in what was then Constantinople, now Istanbul. Most...
Italy proposed new EU migrant deal with African nations as another mass drowning kills hundreds in the Mediterranean Undocumented black immigrants among millions affected as SCOTUS hears DAPA/DACA+ case Three officials linked to the...
The United Nations marked this year’s Earth Day by bringing world leaders to its headquarters to officially sign onto the climate pact hammered out late last year in Paris COP 21 talks. Nell Abram...
Italy is proposing another plan to deal with the migrant crisis, this one between the EU and African nations, as hundreds of would-be migrants drown while attempting to cross from Libya last week. FSRN’s...
At least four million people in Chile’s capital city, Santiago, had their water turned off from Saturday through Monday. The shutdown affected households in 27 of the city’s 35 municipal districts. It’s the latest...
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