Monthly Archive: October 2016
Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated in recent weeks. In another case of cross-border fighting, Thursday India claimed to have killed seven militants in two separate incidents after overnight skirmishes along the line of control in...
All photos by Bismillah Geelani. To hear Shahnawaz Khan’s accompanying radio report, click here. Click on any thumbnail to launch slideshow.
Editors Note: This story was edited Friday October 7, 2016 to update storm information and death toll. Hurricane Matthew continues to barrel along the coast of Florida, after pounding Cuba and Haiti where thousands...
Increased storm activity and severity have been linked to climate change, as have increased ocean temperatures. Now predictions of catastrophic damage to the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, have come to...
Amnesty International issued a scathing report today on the state of the global refugee crisis, calling the recent UN summit on refugees a spectacular failure and criticizing most of the world’s wealthiest nations for...
Voters in Hungary, at least a small percentage of them, went to the polls Sunday to decide if the country will participate in an EU plan to resettle refugees. At the height of the...
By a very slim margin, Colombian voters rejected a peace agreement between the government and the FARC, the nation’s largest rebel group, in a nationwide referendum vote on Sunday. In Bogota and the majority...