Hiroshima peace park and Pearl Harbor memorial will work together to promote peace
Tokyo (AP) — Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, two symbols of World War II animosity between Japan and the United States,
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Month: June 2023
In rural India, summer’s heat can be deadly. Ambulance crews see the toll up close
Banpur (AP) — Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik’s ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday
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Shooting kills 2 in India’s troubled northeast as opposition leader Rahul Gandhi visits region
Guwahati (AP) — India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi visited Thursday communities hit by weeks of violence and living in
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Turkmenistan opens elaborate ‘smart city’ development
Ashgabat (AP) – The president of Turkmenistan on Thursday officially inaugurated a vast, multibillion-dollar development hailed as the country’s first
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What does the Wagner Group do? Operations in Africa and the rest of the world explained
(Reuters) – The abortive mutiny by Russia’s Wagner group last week calls into question the fate of the group’s wide
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Iraq plants mangrove forest to fight climate disaster
Basra (Reuters) – As Aymen al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke
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Saudi citizens unemployment at 8.5% in Q1 2023, official data show
Dubai (Reuters) – Unemployment among Saudi citizens increased to 8.5% in the first quarter of 2023, compared to 8% in
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Israeli killing of 15-year-old Palestinian girl in West Bank casts light on civilian casualties
Jenin refugee camp (AP) — At the funeral for Sadeel Naghniyeh, 15, her closest friends hoisted her dead body
Read MoreTemple chariot fire kills at least 6, leaves 10 others with burns in India’s remote northeast
Guwahati (AP) — A temple chariot caught fire Wednesday killing at least six people and leaving 10 others with burns
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Netanyahu says he dropped a contentious part of Israeli judicial revamp, Wall Street Journal reports
Jerusalem (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had dropped a central element of the bitterly contested judicial overhaul
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