Singapore’s skyline is composed mostly of skyscrapers. So it’s no wonder residents look up when they consider places to grow fruits and vegetables in this high-density Asian island.
Eleven-year-old Ali arrived in Lebanon just two weeks after being shot in the face.
Fearing reprisals on their families back in Syria, most refugees don’t want to reveal their last names to reporters, and many cover their faces to protect their identities.
Ali is blind in one eye and still has fragments of shrapnel in his chest and face. “I can feel the shrapnel in my chest and my nose when I breathe. It hurts,” he said.
120,000 victims of the Syrian conflict are packed into U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees tents or “caravan” trailer units at the Zaatari refugee camp in Northern Jordan.
One man waiting outside the UNHCR administrative gate attempted to tell anyone and everyone who passed through about his grievances at the camp. In a sign of desperation, he offered to light himself on fire in front of our camera to protest his living conditions. We declined his offer. He was immediately escorted back to the entrance gate by a security officer where the man continued to look for anyone who would listen.
There are more Syrian refugees in Zaatari than any other camp in the world.
Learn more from NewsHour Foreign Editor Justin Kenny’s report here.
American forces came home in December 2011. 4,487 troops had given their lives and nearly 40,000 were wounded. Of the Iraqis, the surveys vary but agree that at least 100,000 civilians died in the war and strife. Iraqis have a government of their own choosing, and the rights afforded citizens in a democracy, but the struggle for safer, better lives goes on.
What lessons can we take from the Iraq War? Tell us what you think here.
Tahrir Square, the site known around the world for Egypt’s historic revolution has another much more dubious reputation — as a dangerous place for women.
The formula for the attacks on female protesters in the square, they say, has become familiar and vicious: Men will surround a woman, separating her from her companions, grope her, sometimes ripping off her clothes, and sexually assault her.
Recenlty, various grassroots groups have sprung up to raise awareness and protect women in the square. Learn more here.
The drone is a radical departure from traditional warfare. It allows the United States, using either its civilian spy agency or military, to reach out and kill someone who may be standing in a country that the U.S. isn’t even at war with. And that includes American citizens.
Until now, it wasn’t known what legal or procedural framework the U.S. government operated under when ordering the killing of its citizens. A leaked memo lays out the following conditions that must be met for a lawful killing:
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U.S. government has determined that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States;
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Capture is infeasible, and the United States continues to monitor whether captures becomes feasible
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The operation would be conducted in a manner consistent with applicable law of war principles.
Saturday, November 12, is World Pneumonia Day.
Did you know pneumonia is the number 1 killer of young children around the world?
A global vaccine campaign is working to change that our Global Health team reports from Nicaragua.
PHOTOS and a Reporter’s Notebook from Ray Suarez
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has just released a study of well-being-
The United States is near the middle, 19th from the right between Korea and New Zealand.
