317 girls kidnapped from Nigerian boarding school
Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation….
Arxiv: 02 2021
EU Council extends mandate of Special Representative for South Caucasus
The EU Council has extended the mandate of the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar for another 12 months, until February 28, 2022,…
US Congressman makes statement on Khojaly Genocide
Robert Aderholt (Republican – Alabama), one of the influential members of the US Congress and co-chair of the Congressional Working Group on Azerbaijan, made a statement on the occasion of…
UN Security Council adopts resolution on vaccination
The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution on the fair distribution of coronavirus vaccines proposed by the UK presidency of the UN Security Council this month, Permanent Representative…
Mars trip ‘can only be understood through Black Americans’, NASA tweets, celebrating renaming of HQ building
The US space agency has renamed its DC headquarters after NASA’s first black female engineer Mary Jackson, celebrating with a poem about “going to Mars” even as the agency delayed…
Syria condemns ‘cowardly aggression’ by US as Biden says he wanted to send Iran message about ‘impunity’
The Syrian government denounced the US airstrike on the border with Iraq as an act of aggression contrary to international law, as President Joe Biden told reporters he ordered the…
Saudi Arabia ‘categorically rejects’ US claims about Khashoggi killing, as Washington stops short of sanctioning Crown Prince MBS
Riyadh has rejected the US intelligence report blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “abusive and incorrect,” even as the Kingdom is…
New York’s ‘WAKANDA FOREVER’ school superintendent, who demanded solidarity salutes, takes helm of largest US school system
A New York City school administrator has been promoted to chancellor despite recent allegations by fired superintendents that she tried to force them to perform “Wakanda Forever” salutes to “black…
Russian Foreign Ministry says Twitter no longer independent social media, but a tool of ‘digital diktat’ under control of West
Twitter is rapidly changing from an independent platform into a tool of Western countries to impose a dictatorship over the internet. That’s according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, following a…
NASA warns of 2nd stadium-sized space rock headed Earth’s way as it delays asteroid hunter mission to 2022
NASA is warning of the second ‘stadium-sized’ asteroid headed towards the Earth in as many weeks, shortly after announcing the postponement of its critical planetary defense mission to 2022. On…