Wed 16 March 2022: On 5 March 1992, Aida woke up to bombing and shooting as the Serbian army opened fire from the iconic Holiday Inn Hotel and killed two women protesting on the Vrbanja Bridge. In order to continue her medical studies, she had to escape from her beloved city Sarajevo to Germany as […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday. Biden will meet with European leaders at an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels on March 24. He will also attend a scheduled […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will affect the entire global economy by slowing growth and jacking up inflation, and could fundamentally reshape the global economic order in the longer term, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday. Beyond the human suffering and historic refugee flows, the war is boosting prices for […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: The European Union is planning to buy and distribute vaccines against measles, polio, tuberculosis and Covid-19 to immunise Ukrainian children and other unvaccinated Ukrainian refugees, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on Tuesday. The number of Ukrainians fleeing abroad has approached 3 million, half of them children, according to estimates from […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: The star of Sherlock Holmes said he hopes to get involved in giving Ukrainian refugees a place to stay as Russia’s invasion of the country has forced millions to leave behind their loved ones, jobs, and homes. “Everyone needs to do as much as they can … there’s been a record […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: Russia has put US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top officials on a “stop list” that bars them from entering the country. Their names, together with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, CIA chief William Burns, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and others, were included on a list […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Islamophobia is continuing to spread like a plague in Western countries. In a video message at the 2nd International Media and Islamophobia Forum in capital Ankara, the president said Islamophobia is “poisoning all segments of society, from people on the street to […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: Officials said Monday night that the father of a 3-year-old kid who accidentally shot and killed his mother over the weekend in south suburban Dolton faces a misdemeanor gun charge. Dolton trustee Andrew Holmes said Deajah Bennett had just done shopping at Food 4 Less, 1000 E. Sibley Blvd., and had […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: Some 1.4 million children have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24, meaning one child a minute has become a refugee, the UN has said. “On average, every day over the last 20 days in Ukraine, more than 70,000 children have become refugees, … essentially one child […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: Marina Ovsyannikova, a producer of the Kremlin-controlled Channel One television network who interrupted a live broadcast Monday night with an anti-war banner, is facing up to 10 years in jail, a Russian lawyer has said. An anti-war protester has interrupted the main news program on Russia’s state TV Channel One, holding up […]
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