Syrian rebels have taken considerable ground, including most of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, and are still fighting their way to the city of Hama in the largest escalation in the Syrian war in years. In Idlib and Aleppo, Syria.
While serving as president of the US-Ukraine Business Council, the late American businessman Morgan Williams was actively involved in promoting Ukrainian business. While in Ukraine, Williams started collecting artwork about the Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of people in the early 1930s and was engineered by Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Now all that artwork has a home.
Once America’s second-largest landfill, it is currently being transformed into a recreational park in Southern California.
Even though Vyacheslav Strazhets, a citizen of Vinnytsia, lost his right arm during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,but even as an amputee, he is doing what he can to help other soldiers fight the war.
According to a recent research, more people in America’s largest city are facing food insecurity as they gather around the dinner table for Thanksgiving. In New York, more people, especially those with jobs, are visiting local food pantries.
On its first day, thousands of Lebanese were returning to their homes in southern Lebanon as part of a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah mediated by the United States. With the cease-fire, many Israelis hope that the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will also come to an end.
The population of Ukraine has been shrinking for the past 30 years, and officials say that the full-scale war with Russia has accelerated its decline.
Barbara Woodward,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 the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, would be effectively barred from operating in Gaza Strip by new Israeli laws, according to charity workers and families in Gaza. This could have a catastrophic impact for the 2 million people currently facing a year of violence and looming famine.
Lisa Doughten, Director of Financing and Partnerships Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on protection of civilians in armed conflict.