Month: December 2019

A leading human rights lawyer and activist said he was beaten up by Egyptian security forces, who doused him in paint and brandished weapons at bystanders who attempted to stop the attack. Gamal Eid shared an image on social media of the aftermath of the alleged attack, showing his face covered in what appears to

Iran has warned the US of “consequences” after Washington carried out airstrikes against an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq. The US has “openly shown its support to terrorism and shown its negligence to the independence and national sovereignty of countries,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mosavi , according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

When protesters flooded the streets of Tunisia and Egypt almost a decade ago, millions across the region were glued to their television screens. A barrier of fear had been broken, and the Arab world would never again be the same. Since then, the region has endured a painful period of transition, polarization and introspection. The

Greta Thunberg’s father says he initially did not support his daughter’s climate activism, calling it a “bad idea,” but his view changed when he saw how happy it made her. In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today program Monday, Svante Thunberg revealed that by skipping school and staging Friday sit-ins outside the Swedish parliament,

A Chick-fil-A employee in Wilmington, North Carolina, has caught the attention of his community with his infectiously upbeat customer service and bright attitude. A regular customer took video of employee Jeremiah Murrill one day as she placed her drive-thru order at the restaurant. She posted the video on Facebook. In two weeks, it had 170,000

As their night tour began, the two young New York City police officers pulled their SUV in front of the car driven by a man suspected of stabbing several people at a Hanukkah celebration. They blocked his path at an intersection in Harlem. Russell Mattera and David Radziwon drew their guns and calmly walked to

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, an unparalleled decade comes to a close: one that saw everything from NASA’s first all-female spacewalk to the aftermath of natural disasters and the death of Osama bin Laden. There were times of real change and hope. The White House was lit up in rainbow colors when

Armed conflicts are worsening around the world and children are suffering terrible damage as a result, UNICEF, the United Nations’ (UN) children’s agency, said in a statement Monday. The agency said more countries are experiencing conflict than at any time since 1989, when the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was introduced in