“I’m only here to once again remind you of the emergency we are in. The crisis that you and your predecessors have created and inflicted upon us.” In yet another fiery speech to attendees of an elite annual summit, climate activist Greta Thunberg made clear on Monday that young people aren’t backing down from demands that […]
A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Friday, killing at least 34 people, destroying residential and commercial buildings and triggering landslides, local authorities said. More than 600 people were injured, and many others were trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes and other buildings, Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said in […]
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesian aviation authorities said Sunday they had located the two black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta Saturday. Speaking to reporters, Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia’s transport safety agency said that divers would look for them, hoping to retrieve them soon. The devices […]
“These pardons violate U.S. obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level.” A group of United Nations experts on the use of mercenaries said Wednesday that President Donald Trump committed an “affront to justice” last week when he pardoned four former Blackwater security contractors for the war […]