Nigerians are becoming creative as a result of increased pricing. Locally known as “okrika,” thrift shopping is very popular and offers a variety of reasonably priced options.
Twenty-five years ago, Anna Wiebe moved to the United States from Ukraine. Following Russia’s 2022 invasion, she was joined by four of her Ukrainian relatives who had fled the country.They settled in North Carolina.But then arrived Hurricane Helene.
United Nations Secretary-General Meets with Former President of the Republic of Iraq.
In Baku, Azerbaijan, a country whose economy is heavily dependent on the sale of fossil fuels, the COP29 climate summit is set to get underway on Monday. Despite warnings that efforts to curb global warming are way off track,world leaders and thousands of delegates will try to negotiate ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions over 12 days.
James Kariuki, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security.
A Bangkok court on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman accused of supporting two Chinese ethnic Uyghur men suspected of carrying out a 2015 bombing that killed 20 people at a Hindu shrine popular with tourists from China.
Nicholas Hayso, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, greets Michael Kapkiai Kiboino, Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, during the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.
At the Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the ancestral village of Kamala Harris, in Tamil Nadu, India, locals offer prayers and conduct a special ritual for Harris whom they refer to as the daughter of the land, Nov. 5, 2024. (Pema Ngodup/RFA)
After Russia invaded Ukraine, more than 160,000 Ukrainians fled their home country and came in the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Over fifty thousand refugees came to Latvia, including doctors.
Philippe Lazzarini Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), briefs the informal meeting of the UN General Assembly plenary on UNRWA.