Hollywood in the Wake of Fires
The Southern California fires have blazed through Los Angeles, impacting many communities, especially the entertainment industry.
Read MoreThe Southern California fires have blazed through Los Angeles, impacting many communities, especially the entertainment industry.
Read MoreThe new year began with calls for action against gun violence in Montenegro, a small Balkan country on the Adriatic Sea, after a gunman opened fire in a bar, killing 12 on impact and another who succumbed to injuries in the days following the shooting.
Read MoreOn December 29, 2024, Jeju Air flight 7C 2216, flying from Bangkok to South Korea’s Muan International Airport, ended in a catastrophic crash landing, leaving all but two of the 181 passengers dead. This tragedy marks one of the deadliest aviation incidents in South Korea’s history.
Read MoreOn December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, a Brazilian-made Embraer 190 passenger jet, traveling from Baku, Azerbaijan to Grozny, Russia was forced to veer off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea upon entering Russia’s southern Chechnya region, before crash landing in Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.
Read MoreAs the war in Sudan nears its second year, human rights organizations are deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis going on inside the country. The conflict broke out in April of 2023 in the capital of Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over state control.
Read MoreA soccer game in Amsterdam ended in rioting and conflicts between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups on Friday, November 8, after a 5-0 win by the Netherlands’ soccer team Ajax over Maccabi Tel Aviv. The Associated Press reports that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were running and acting destructively while rioters moved in small groups attacking Maccabi fans.
Read MoreWhere Gaza once stood is now rubble: no more schools, no more hospitals, no more houses of worship. Over the past year, the humanitarian situation has continued to worsen, as civilians are dying from not only illegal bombings and drone strikes but also a lack of access to adequate infrastructure and food.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, November 5, former United States President and Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump secured a win in Wisconsin, giving him just over the 270 electoral votes needed to attain the presidency, The Associated Press reports.
Read MoreThe White House has threatened that North Korean forces could become legitimate military targets after North Korea deployed 10,000 troops to Russia for combat against Ukrainian forces, reports The Guardian. The United States and South Korean defense chiefs have called for North Korea to withdraw its troops, although Pyongyang denies sending forces to Russia.
Read MoreIn a recent tide of violent weather, the Federal Republic of Nigeria has suffered greatly from destructive flooding as millions of people now struggle to sustain themselves. The city of Maiduguri, with its population of 2 million, stands as the greatest victim of the flooding as 1,000 people were killed while half a million residents were forcibly displaced by the damages to homes, hospitals, and public spaces.
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