Ukraine is facing a shortage of soldiers and ammunition over two years after Russia invaded the country. As a result, a growing number of Ukrainian women are joining the armed forces and girls are opting to train to become officers.
Parts of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, where some of the country’s most prominent institutions are located, have been affected by a surge in gang violence that has plagued the country this month.The violence has shaken residents’ sense of security in areas they thought were relatively safe.
A wide view of the United Nations Security Council as they hold a procedural vote on the agenda ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
Although three-quarters of migrants surveyed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand said they suffered some type of abuse while leaving their homelands via people-smuggling networks, nearly half said they would do it again, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday.
An Israeli law that exempts ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service is set to expire at the end of the month, paving the way for their possible recruitment. If the status quo is changed, the majority of ultra-Orthodox people are opposed to serving in the army, and their parties have threatened to topple the government.
Turkey says it is preparing to launch a major military operation against Kurdish rebels who are based in Iraq. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, vows to end what he says is the threat posed by the Kurdish rebel group PKK, which has been fighting Turkey for decades.
Indonesian search-and-rescue officials said Monday they had recovered the bodies of 11 Rohingya refugees, mostly women, who were on a boat that capsized off the coast of Aceh province last week.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other political leaders are wooing female voters ahead of the upcoming national election in India. These voters have been turning up in large numbers to vote in recent polls.
After a deadly attack on a music venue in a Moscow suburb, Russia observed Sunday a day of mourning.Islamic State took credit for the assault that killed 137 people.
A prominent Uyghur who published books about Uyghur cultural identity and China’s persecution of the Uyghurs has been sentenced to prison, according to a Norway-based foundation and officials in Xinjiang.