Why the ‘world has failed’ in the fight against hunger
Nine years ago, the UN established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which included ending poverty and hunger. Yet last year,...
The dead, the missing and the reunited: Three tales of Syria’s tortured prisoners
In the days following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians have crowded his regime’s notorious detention facilities in a...
Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad
The bruised and battered bodies inside the morgue of Mujtahid Hospital are hard to look at — tangible evidence of...
Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran
In the months before Iranian ballistic missiles struck the Nevatim Airbase in October, Iran dispatched spies to film and photograph...
Russia launches massive attack on Ukraine’s energy sector, minister says
Russia launched a new widespread attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, forcing the country to implement emergency power outages, Ukrainian...
China sentences former Premier League soccer star to 20 years in prison for corruption
A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in...
NATO boss calls for much higher defense spending to counter Russia
NATO head Mark Rutte warned the US-led transatlantic alliance on Thursday that it was not ready for the threats it...
Francois Bayrou named as new French prime minister
France’s embattled President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Francois Bayrou as prime minister, he announced on Friday, as he seeks to...
This family spends months at sea exploring the deep ocean
Not many children can say they took their first steps on board a yacht in the Arctic’s northwest passage. But...
US serviceman sentenced to 5 years for kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl, officials say
The sentence was made on the grounds that the crime was a “major sexual infringement,” Judge Tetsuro Sato of Naha...
