Simone Ahuja lives not far from the hot spots of Minneapolis, the epicenter of the violence and protests that have hit the US over the death of a 46-year-old African-American named George Floyd during a March 25 arrest when a white policeman knelt on his neck and ignored his pleas that he could not breathe. … Continue reading ‘United States May be Heading to a New Civil War’
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Sri Lankan blasts unprecedented in scale, coordination: Ex-UN official and author
Gordon Weiss, a former senior United Nations official and chronicler of the last phase of the war between the Sinhalese-dominated government forces and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, says he is deeply shocked by the enormity of deaths and the extent of planning that went behind multiple terror blasts that ripped through the island … Continue reading Sri Lankan blasts unprecedented in scale, coordination: Ex-UN official and author
Wounded Soldiers from Civil War-Ravaged Yemen Get a Healing Touch in India
IN 2015, MOHAMMED Omer Mohsin was conscripted, trained and sent to fight a bloody war by his army within a matter of weeks. Everything happened in a flash. Then a lanky 20-year-old interested in football, math and Islamic studies, his circumstances began to change rapidly. It was unsettling, the way his country transformed overnight. From … Continue reading Wounded Soldiers from Civil War-Ravaged Yemen Get a Healing Touch in India