Slideshow: Delhi Street Art Festival makes its mark on the Indian capital
All photos by Bismillah Geelani. Hear/read his accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
Monthly Archive: March 2016
Urban artists give New Delhi a muralist makeover
India’s capital, New Delhi, is getting a makeover with dozens of local and international street artists setting out on a mission to transform the city’s landscape. With a view to making art accessible to...
Sectarian tensions within migrant populations increase complexity of refugee resettlements
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today called on countries to resettle nearly half a million Syrian refugees — so far places have been found for only about 185,000. His remarks came at...
Nonprofit installs free solar panels for qualifying low-income residents
A new study by the federally-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory has significantly increased estimates of solar power’s potential to meet energy needs in the United States. The research examined a number of factors in 128...
Slideshow: Program helps low-income residents go solar
All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Hear/read her accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
Pakistan begins three days of mourning after suicide attack in a park on Easter
Three days of mourning began in Pakistan Monday, following an Easter Sunday suicide bombing in a public park in Lahore killed more than 70 people, most of them women and children. From Pakistan, FSRN’s...
New band brings live music to the Gaza Strip with updated traditional music
It’s been a decade since Western powers placed economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip after a Hamas in Palestinian parliamentary elections. Shortly after Hamas took power in March of 2006, the U.S., EU and Canada cut...
FSRN Weekly Edition – March 25, 2016
Brussels attacks kill 31, injure hundreds and exacerbate regional tensions on migrant issue EU-Turkey deal fails to deter Afghan youths’ drive to migrate International Criminal Court returns guilty verdicts in two major cases Obama...
Prospects for impeachment of Brazil’s president stir pot of political crisis
Brazil is currently reeling from political and economic crises that have left the country shaken and polarized. A two year corruption investigation into a kickback scheme at the state oil company Petrobras is coming...
Fracking-linked earthquakes open sociopolitical rifts in Oklahoma
In the past year, Oklahoma had more than 900 earthquakes. That’s up from only three quakes in 2007, before the dramatic increase in fracking. The Oklahoma Geological Survey says that it now “considers it...
