Month: February 2021

Students in Parkland, Florida returned to their high school on Wednesday, two weeks after a gunman killed 17 people there. A former Stoneman Douglas student, Nikolas Cruz, carried out the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a five-day trip to Northern and Western Africa. The trip will take him to four countries: Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali. His visit…

The young people who experienced the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, were born in or after 1999. In that year, two students killed 13 classmates at Columbine High School…

An unpublished United Nations report says that North Korea sent materials that could be used in chemical weapons to Syria and missile technology to Myanmar. Both exchanges, if true, would…

A white nationalist is taking Twitter to court for banning his account with the social networking service. The case comes at the same time when social networks are trying to…

Cambodia is criticizing the United States government for deciding to cut the amount of aid it gives the country. The Trump administration said in a statement Tuesday it was stopping…

American John Peck lost his arms and legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2010. But unlike others who suffer such a loss, Peck does not have prosthetic arms. Doctors…

While many Indonesians watch for possible changes in the nation’s criminal code, Indonesia’s House of Representatives has quietly passed changes to another law. The legislation is the revised Law on…

A high school teacher in the American state of Georgia was arrested after firing a gun in his classroom. Police said the teacher had locked the classroom door to keep…

Activists in Nigeria are seeking stronger laws to punish those found guilty of sexually abusing children. Their appeals come as some families break the culture of silence surrounding the issue…

African nations appear at the bottom of Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index. Transparency gave the East African nation of Somalia its lowest rating on the list for the 12th…

A Japanese businessman who won a child custody case in Thailand is largely unknown in his home country. Mitsutoki Shigeta is the son of the owner of Japanese telecommunications and…

The United States Postal Service is offering a way for people interested in seeing tomorrow’s mail today. The postal service will send customers images of all their letters, magazines and…

Norway has announced it will spend 100 million Norwegian crowns, or $13 million, to make improvements to a special seed vault in the Arctic. The Norwegian government built the Svalbard…

The United States government agency that oversees immigration has changed its mission statement. The new version no longer describes the U.S. as a “nation of immigrants.” The director of the…