As the U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt moves towards Yemen from its previous location in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia announced the end to the Saudi-led campaign on the Houthi rebels that has bombarded the Houthi for the last month. The Roosevelt had previously been tasked with carrying out strikes on the Islamic State in […]
Additional information is being released in the sinking of the migrant ship off of the coast of Libya over the weekend. It has been determined that approximately 850 migrants were aboard the vessel when it capsized and sank . Only 28 of those aboard are known to have survived the watery ordeal. Many of those […]
Although only a handful of bodies have been retrieved from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, as many as 700 are believed to have perished in the weekend sinking of a migrant ship carrying nationals from Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Eritrea. The vessel is believed to have capsized because of migrants aboard the vessel rushing […]
A fabled park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is under pressure from oil developers. And activists allege the dealings are tainted by corruption. Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to volcanoes and some of the world’s few remaining mountain gorillas, may have its boundaries changed so oil rigs can […]