Australian police have arrested three people who broke out of a Covid quarantine compound in the middle of the night. The Howard Springs centre near Darwin in the Northern Territory is one of Australia’s main quarantine facilities for people returning to the country. Police said the trio scaled a fence[Read More…]

Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. The candle-lighting was organized by the Jewish Claims Conference at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old[Read More…]

China has pledged to donate 600 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to Africa as the world grapples with the unequal distribution of the shots between rich and poor countries. Chinese President Xi Jinping made the promise Monday in a video speech to the opening ceremony of a China-Africa forum[Read More…]

The Department of State has officially removed a Colombian group from the US list of foreign terrorist groups. In an effort to show support for a 2015 peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC, the Biden administration has taken steps towards removing FARC from its list of foreign terrorist[Read More…]

In at least four Afghan provinces, Taliban forces have reportedly conducted over 100 executions and forced disappearances since the terrorist group regained control. Those attacks were recorded in Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, and Kunduz between August and October according to a report by Human Rights Watch. “They were targeting the people[Read More…]

In apparently the first ever instance of material with “top secret” statements made by a Chinese head of state getting leaked into the public domain, new documents called ‘Xinjiang Papers’ have surfaced, showing Chinese President Xi Jinpings links with the crackdown on Uyghur Muslims. The documents, which are 317 pages[Read More…]

After police refused to turn over a mentally unstable man, a mob of Pakistani Muslims burned a police station, among other things. A mentally unstable man was in police custody in Northwestern Pakistan after desecrating the Quran. The police refused to hand the man over to the mob, insisting he[Read More…]

The World Health Organization is warning that there is a ‘very high’ global risk coming from the Covid-19 omicron variant. On Monday, the WHO said in a statement that based on early research and evidence, the new variant could cause surges in cases and could have “severe consequences”. Based on[Read More…]

South African government officials are saying that their country is being punished for discovering the COVID-19 Omicron variant after flights to the country have been cancelled. On Saturday, the South African Union released a statement criticizing the new travel bans to South Africa that several countries have implemented. “Excellent science[Read More…]

The country of Madagascar has an increasing number of people facing hunger and food insecurity, which some experts are saying is a result of a climate change induced famine. A lack of food has been growing and becoming a constant for people in Madagascar. For the past four years, crop[Read More…]