Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Madrid region had 741 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the two weeks to Oct. 7, according to the World Health Organization, making it Europe’s second most dense COVID-19 cluster after Andorra. Reuters TV footage showed on Oct. 8 activity at hospitals and primary care health centers in […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The CDC said that many traditional Halloween activities could be high-risk for spreading viruses and outlined several safer, alternative ways to participate in a note on holiday celebrations.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] According to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, The Church of England failed to protect children from sexual predators within its ranks for decades, allowing abusers to hide in an attempt to defend its own reputation rather than following its duty to protect young people.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Paraguay’s Congress declared a national emergency as forest fires raged, burning vast swaths of the Chaco dry forest, home to sprawling cattle ranches, jaguars and many indigenous tribes. The emergency declaration boosts funds for fire-fighting and opens the door to requesting international aid to tame the blazes.
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Two detained members of a British Islamic State cell were brought before a U.S. court and charged with eight different counts, which include hostage-taking resulting in death and conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens outside of the United States. The two accused, El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, are part […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The United States issued fresh sanctions on Iran’s financial sector, targeting 18 Iranian banks under U.S. Executive Order 13902 in an effort to further shut Iran out of the global banking system as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran. However, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement that […]
Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Program (WFP) because of its efforts to end global hunger. WFP is an organization founded in 1961 as an arm of the United Nations that supplies food to over 100 million people each year experiencing food insecurity […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Democrats in Congress proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future U.S. president’s powers when incapacitated. This is in reaction to President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis. House Democrats said their legislation would activate a provision of the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that says Congress […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil. The tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of over 79,000.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other this week of attacking civilian areas after days of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region since the 1990s when 30,000 people were killed. Hundreds of people have been killed in the latest outbreak of war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under […]
