Headlines- After a temporary suspension, Emirates said the airline "will resume operations."
- On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran will be "hit very hard" and that he was thinking about extending the strikes to other targets..
- At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
- Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
- The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
- Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
- To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
- In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
- Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.
Month: June 2021
In Budapest, a 19th-Century Synagogue Reopens
With A Ceremony On June 10, The Rumbach Street Synagogue In Budapest, Hungary’s Capital, Reopened. The Synagogue Was Taken Over By The State During The Communist Era, And The Jewish Community Did Not Reclaim It Until 2006
Afghan Sikh: If Afghanistan Restored Peace,...
In Afghanistan’s Eastern City Of Khost, Jagat Singh Is One Of The Three Remaining Sikhs. He Claims That If Peace Were To Return To The Country, His Family, Along With Hundreds Of Other Hindu And Sikh Families That Fled Khost Due To The War, Would Return
China Detains Two For Social Media...
Authorities in China are cracking down on information relating to the coronavirus, as a fresh wave of COVID-19 cases hits the southern province of Guangdong
Press Briefing on New Emissions Reduction...
Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, and Paul Simpson, Chief Executive Officer of CDP (not pictured), update media on new findings from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an organisation that helps businesses set aggressive carbon reduction targets on June
UNHCR Steps Up its Efforts to...
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday that the onset of winter, along with the disastrous consequences of COVID-19, posed a direct threat to the health and livelihoods of Venezuelans stranded in southern Latin America
Surgeons from the United States Are...
Kirill Zherebtsov, Four Years Old, Was Born Deaf And Deafened. His Mother Died Unexpectedly The Day Before His Travel, And He Was Scheduled For A Particular Surgery In California
Bodies Buried in Swallow Graves in...
After More Than Seven Months Of Fighting In The Tigray Area, More Than 200 People Have Been Buried In Shallow Graves In And Around Hawzen, Ethiopia. Residents In Hawzen
Uyghur Relatives Deployed by China to...
Chinese officials of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) presented relatives of ethnic Uyghurs at a news conference on Wednesday to speak out against witnesses who testified during a recent independent tribunal in London, discrediting their accounts of torture, sexual assaults, and other grave human rights violations inflicted on Muslims in the region
A South African Program Aims to...
A South African Private Game Reserve Is Partnering On A Mission To Save Trafficking Pangolins, A Scaly Animal That Is One Of The World’s Most Smuggled Species
Focus India: Kolkata
Kolkata, the capital of the state of West Bengal, was founded as a commerce hub by an agent of the East India Company Job Charnok. Local landlords sold him Sutanati, Gobindapur, and Kalikata, three villages on the east bank of the Ganges. Dalhousie Square, originally the headquarters of the British Government’s administration, is still Bengal’s power hub, with Laldighi (a historic pond) in its midst. It has been renamed BBD Bag (after the freedom fighters Binay, Badol, and Dinesh who killed a high-profile police officer inside the Writers Building), and it is flanked by some land mark buildings