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• Trapped in Madaya: ‘We Have Become Like Animals, Even in My Dreams I Dream About Food’

  By konigludwig on January 8, 2016 • ( 10 )

  

  “Hold on, hold on. I’m almost there.” Out of breath, Abdullah Burhan, a 25-year-old citizen of the Syrian town of Madaya rushes back to his house so he can get good enough reception for our phone call. Burhan was a… Read More ›

• World News Forum: 2015 in review

  By konigludwig on January 4, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    Congratulations to our friends enormousgherkin, lakeviewpilgrim, storyartist and Alan Curtis Montgomery for their outstanding posts on World News Forum. To see the full WordPress report, click on the image above or read it here. Happy New Year!    

• Christians in China feel full force of authorities’ repression

  By konigludwig on December 23, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  By Emily Rauhala GUIYANG, China — Pastor Su Tianfu slides into the back seat and tells the driver to hit it. He looks over his shoulder. “Is there anybody following us?” It is days before Christmas, but instead of working… Read More ›

• What pain awaits, doth come love to know?

  By Ecantados on December 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  ere it mists into, to take, not ward, a careful form eyed with wonder to behold, liberating to some souls unless, until the silver chains, carried, hefted by jealousy, greed, anger, vanity, glide, slide forward slowly, sinuously, twined, locked, clasp… Read More ›

• 5 Killed in Land Protests in Ethiopia

  By konigludwig on December 14, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Ethiopia’s government says five people have been killed in protests against a government plan to develop farmland outside the capital into a new business zone. Communications Minister Getachew Reda said Monday that the number of dead could rise. Opposition supporters… Read More ›

• Wonderful NGO with School for Syrian Refugee Children in Northern Lebanon

  By konigludwig on December 3, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  More than 1 million Syrian refugees have become stranded in Lebanon. Some of them have lost everything. The Akkar district in the North of Lebanon is itself the poorest region of the country and has been neglected by international assistance… Read More ›

• More than 11,000 Norwegians line up to shoot 16 wolves

  By konigludwig on December 2, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Norwegian hunters outnumber wolves 763 to one, according to new figures for licences to kill population that could be as low as 30 Wolves have emerged as the most sought-after animal for Norwegian hunters this season, with 11,571 people registering… Read More ›

• Citing Urgency, World Leaders Converge on France for Climate Talks

  By genvana on December 2, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  By Coral Davenport and Gardiner Harris  LE BOURGET, France — One of the largest gatherings of world leaders in history began a multinational effort Monday toward forging what many called the planet’s last, best hope to stave off the worst… Read More ›

• Conflict & migration

  By jward199 on November 27, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Conflict is one response to scarcity of resources. Although a lack of resources is rarely stated as the justification for war, such lack is often an underlying factor. Intercountry and civil war are the most extreme cases, but many lesser… Read More ›

• When It Was Jewish Refugees On The Eve of WWII

  By storyartist on November 19, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  July 1938. Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed that the United States should raise its immigration quotas or encourage political refugees fleeing fascist states in Europe — the vast majority of whom were Jewish — to voyage across the… Read More ›

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