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One of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, Tyre in southern Lebanon, is now scarred by weeks of Israeli assault. Residents who were displaced are returning to a landscape of rubble and despair.
For the first time during a continual war, the human rights organization Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
With its first water transport service in Asia, Uber is now available in Kashmir. Customers can order meal delivery, rides, and other services through the company’s smartphone app.But local boat owners are concerned that the new service will hurt business.
Many Israelis will remember 2024 as the year that over 100 Israeli hostages were held captive following their abduction by Hamas last year.Some anaylists say Israelis remain trapped in the horror of October 7 until the hostages are free.
According to recent government figures, a record number of migrants from West Africa have arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands this year. The Spanish government says it needs young workers to boost its economy, so it proposes to award permits to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants who are already in the country.
Syrian rebels have taken considerable ground, including most of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, and are still fighting their way to the city of Hama in the largest escalation in the Syrian war in years. In Idlib and Aleppo, Syria.
While serving as president of the US-Ukraine Business Council, the late American businessman Morgan Williams was actively involved in promoting Ukrainian business. While in Ukraine, Williams started collecting artwork about the Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of people in the early 1930s and was engineered by Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Now all that artwork has a home.
Once America’s second-largest landfill, it is currently being transformed into a recreational park in Southern California.
Even though Vyacheslav Strazhets, a citizen of Vinnytsia, lost his right arm during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,but even as an amputee, he is doing what he can to help other soldiers fight the war.
According to a recent research, more people in America’s largest city are facing food insecurity as they gather around the dinner table for Thanksgiving. In New York, more people, especially those with jobs, are visiting local food pantries.