The Arctic island with 20 people, 1m birds
BBC : Set some 40km off Iceland’s northern coast, this windswept sliver is home to one of Europe’s most remote settlements and a thriving seabird population.Even on a sunny day in late August, the...
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Over base grievances: US starts relocating Marines from Japan’s Okinawa
AFP : The United States has begun relocating thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa, Tokyo and Washington said Saturday, after decades of mounting grievances among locals over America’s military presence.In 2012,...
‘Crown of Thorns’ returns to Notre Dame Cathedral
Agency : An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” is returning to Notre Dame, five years after it was saved from the flames of the cathedral’s devastating 2019...
The Arctic island with 20 people, 1m birds
BBC : Set some 40km off Iceland’s northern coast, this windswept sliver is home to one of Europe’s most remote settlements and a thriving seabird population.Even on a sunny day in late August, the...
Indian Muslims grapple with loss amid home demolitions
News Desk : Shahid Malik is fighting for a home that no longer exists. For the past two years, Malik, an accountant by trade, has been seeking justice alongside a local lawyer for the...
About 1.1m newly displaced in Syria since toppled Assad
The Guardian : About 1.1 million people have been displaced since Syrian rebels launched the offensive that ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, the UN’s humanitarian agency has said, as fighting between different factions continues.“As...
How North Korea responded to South’s political turmoil
Deutsche Welle : In the week since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s abortive declaration of martial law, Pyongyang has been uncharacteristically silent.Normally, any hints of public dissent aimed at the government in the...
US watchdog cites FBI missteps
Al Jazeera : The United States Department of Justice has issued a report into the intelligence gathered in the lead-up to the 2021 attack on the US Capitol – and whether that evidence was...
Trump invites China’s Xi to inauguration
Reuters : US President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders to his inauguration next month in Washington, a Trump transition spokesperson said yesterday (12 December), but experts said...
Indonesian President steers strategic middle path
Al Jazeera : When Prabowo Subianto was sworn in as Indonesia’s eighth president in October, an immediate question was what the appointment of the once-feared ex-special forces general would mean for regional security during...
Syrian government suspends constitution-parliament for 3-month
AFP : Syria’s new government spokesman told AFP on Thursday the country’s constitution and parliament would be suspended for the duration of the three-month transition period following president Bashar al-Assad’s ouster.“A judicial and human...