A two-part panel in DC brings the problem of human trafficking back to the United States.
A Muslim woman thanks passengers who intervened when a stranger on the Tyne and Wear Metro launched a verbal attack.
It's not as absurd as it sounds
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury meets one of the unsung heroes of the Dhaka factory disaster
Reported cases of slavery in Wales are the "tip of the iceberg" a government expert says.
A mother of two defied village tradition and cast her vote in local elections on Thursday. "It was necessary because it is a women's right," she says. But now she and her husband fear for their lives.
How freedom has been photographed in the modern world.
The notorious study was referenced in a recent episode of "Black-ish."
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#Thailand: Soldiers secure a road in Bangkok during an activist rally on Saturday against the military #coup
The Dodo serves up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to help make caring about animals a viral cause.
Al-Shabab fighters have closed down several aid agencies working in famine-hit Somalia, including some from the UN, accusing them of political bias. Banned: Un agencies including UNHCR, Unicef and WHO, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Italy's Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), Swedish African Welfare Alliance (SAWA), German Agency For Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and France's Action Contre la Faim (ACF) Not banned: ICRC, MSF and COSV (Italy) Militants stormed aid offices in the towns of Baidoa and Beledweyne, which like many southern areas are controlled by al-Shabab, witnesses say. Al-Shabab has long restricted the work of international aid groups but on Monday banned 16 groups outright. Years of conflict mean Somalia is worst hit by the East African drought. The lack of rain is said to be the worst in 60 years. The list of groups banned outright included the United Nations refugee agency and other UN bodies, the British charity Concern and groups from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Sweden. The al-Shabab statement accused the groups of exaggerating the scale of the problems in Somalia for political reasons and to raise money. It also alleges that the agencies are working with church groups trying to convert vulnerable Muslim children and opposing al-Shabab's attempts to impose Sharia law. "Three armoured vehicles with gunmen surrounded the offices, including the office of [UN children's agency] Unicef," Baidoa resident Adulahi Idle told the AFP news agency. "I saw many militiamen go inside the places and force the people there to leave and the men took control." A senior al-Shabab official told the BBC that those groups which had been closed down had not carrying out many activities, and that the measures would not increase the suffering of ordinary people. He also pointed out that three groups - the International Committee of the Red Cross, medical aid charity MSF and Italy's Copi - would still be allowed to operate. The UN says the areas worst effected by famine are in the southern and central areas, which are under the control of the al-Qaeda linked group. The UN-backed government only runs a few areas, including the capital, Mogadishu, which al-Shabab forces withdrew from in August. Earlier this month, the UN said that famine conditions no longer existed in three of the areas previously worst affected - Bay, Bakool, and Lower Shabelle. However, a quarter of a million people still face imminent starvation in the country, the UN says. UN humanitarian affairs co-ordinator Mark Bowden told the BBC: "Somalia still remains the world's most critical situation." Three other areas, including the squalid camps in the capital, Mogadishu, remain in a state of famine. However, a senior aid worker familiar with the situation in Somalia who did not wish to be named told the BBC that the situation was still getting worse. He said the UN could not admit this because it had to show the aid money was being well spent and having an impact. Other aid workers have also warned that the situation could be worsened through conflict. Kenya has sent troops into southern parts of Somalia, accusing al-Shabab of abducting Westerners from border areas - charges denied by the militants. Tens of thousands of Somalis have fled rural areas - many over the borders to Ethiopia and Kenya - in search of food. Somalia has not had a functioning central government for more than 20 years and has been wracked by fighting between various militias. Source: BBC News
(Reuters) The anti-Muslim event outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix was organized by an Iraq war veteran who posted photos of himself online wearing a T-shirt with a crude slogan denigrating Islam and waving the U.S. flag.
TIME originally published photographer Zed Nelson's photo essay about American gun culture in 1998. In light of the recent incidents of mass gun violence in Colorado and Wisconsin, Nelson revisits the work he started in the '90's.
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The new satellite photos show the extent of the damage
All photographs from the 19th century are strange but some go way beyond that. When photography arrived on the scene in the 1830s, scientists realized it could reveal secrets from the invisible worlds of microscopic bacteria and distant galaxies. Some believed the camera could go further and the surface image alone would uncover information about
TIME originally published photographer Zed Nelson's photo essay about American gun culture in 1998. In light of the recent incidents of mass gun violence in Colorado and Wisconsin, Nelson revisits the work he started in the '90's.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced the men to 25-year terms for their roles in the near-fatal attack on Malala Yousafzai when she was 15.
The quest to overturn structural racial and economic injustice in the United States is arguably most powerful in the growing movement to end the racialized system of mass incarceration.
"Ich werde euch nicht das Geschenk machen, euch zu hassen», schrieb Antoine Leiris auf Facebook. Seine Frau Helene war unter den 89 ermordeten Besuchern der Konzerthalle Bataclan. Als Antwort auf die unfassbare Tragödie verfasste er auf Französisch eine Botschaft, welche die Poesie eines Liebesbrief
90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Arrested During Ferguson Protest
Despite opposition from the community and seemingly just about every local politician, developer Extell has, according to the Post, somehow gotten the city to approve its plans for a residential...
Harriet Tubman.
It is thought the mother and her young cub, aged around nine months, had gone out hunting seal and climbed onto the ice floe to cool down.
Two disabled men, one blind, one double amputee, have spent over ten years replanting trees together in rural China.
Second world war veterans are joined by serving military personnel and schoolchildren to mark Allied operation that helped win the war – but at a terrible cost
Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes that the majority granting an evangelical college a temporary exemption "undermines confidence in this institution."
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in the Pacific coastal city of Mazatlan, according to officials.
In 1938, George Weidenfeld escaped death when Quakers and the Plymouth Brethren fed and clothed him, then helped him reach Britain. Now, the 95-year-old holocaust survivor and publisher is paying it forward by funding the
Anti-Islam demonstrators, religious rights proponents face off in Phoenix
"I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them,” said Ted Yoho at a 2012 campaign event. Probably not.
