Image credit: RFE/RL Lying at the heart of this seemingly unbridgeable ideological and psychological impasse between Western Ukraine and Russia is the same pain, violence, rage, and loss, caused by the same dark side of humankind, that has been repeatedly waged upon all human and non-human life upon the earth ever since the very origins […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: A Cambodian court has sentenced 20 former politicians and activists to up to 10 years in prison after finding them guilty of sedition, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition that has drawn international condemnation. The self-exiled founder of the disbanded opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Sam Rainsy, […]

LIMA, Peru: Peru’s top court has reinstated a controversial pardon for former President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country in the 1990s before being sentenced for participating in human rights violations. Fujimori, 83, was initially pardoned in 2017 after 10 years in prison. However, that decision was overturned a few months later after the intervention […]

WASHINGTON D.C.: As the Russian invasion of Ukraine increased demand for U.S. weaponry, European governments have approached the U.S. government and defense contractors to purchase arms, including drones, missiles and missile defense systems. Sources familiar with the requests said Germany, which is nearing an agreement to buy 35 Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) F-35 jet fighters, […]

HAVANA, Cuba: Over 100 protestors in Havana have been sentenced to between 4 and 30 years in prison following island-wide demonstrations last year. The July 11-12 protests saw thousands take to the streets in towns and cities nationwide, protesting shortages of food, medicine and electricity, at a time when coronavirus cases had soared in Cuba. […]

DALLAS, Texas: Southwest Airlines and United Airlines have announced a new series of reductions to their spring flight schedules, caused by issues ranging from staffing shortages to rising fuel prices. Southwest Airlines posted a regulatory filing this week, in which the Dallas-based company is cutting 65,000 flights from its spring schedule due to ongoing staffing […]

HOUSTON, Texas: Having lived more than 340 days in space after his 9th April, 2021 launch, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei has broken the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight, even as his mission in space continues. The 55-year-old retired Army colonel is expected to end his mission at 355 days. According to Space.com, Vande […]

BEIJING, China: Since 2020, when the world first witnessed an entire population locked down due to Covid in Wuhan and its surrounding province, China is now facing its worst COVID-19 surge. Many millions of people are now being forced into lockdown in the entire northeastern province of Jilin, with a population of 24 million, as […]

NEW YORK CITY, New York: A CBS News/YouGov poll has reported that 52 percent of the 2,088 Americans surveyed believe President Biden has not acted forcefully enough against Moscow for invading Ukraine, and would support a no-fly zone over the war-torn nation. Thirty-six percent say Biden’s actions are about right, and 12 percent think they […]

GALAPAGOS ISLAND: The Galapagos National Park has said that scientists discovered a type of giant tortoise living on San Cristobal island in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands which does not belong to the species it was previously thought to be. In a statement on Thursday, the park said a study determined that the giant tortoises previously identified […]