Above Photo: Claudia Turbet-Delof. On 10 November 2019, the democratically elected government of Evo Morales in Bolivia was overthrown by a US-government supported military coup. The coup regime, also supported by the UK and the European Union, presided over mass human rights violations and was met with widespread resistance from social movements in Bolivia. This pressure ultimately led to new presidential elections in […]
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Plague Victims In Medieval Cambridge Treated With Care and Compassion
“Yersinia Pestis,” the killer pathogen that causes plague, was identified in bodies dated to the medieval period in Cambridgeshire, England. A new study of these corpses confirms for the first time that many plague victims were not carelessly buried in mass graves but instead treated with compassion and care under the most testing times imaginable. […]
Solemn Vigil At Shannon Remembers Child Victims Of War
Sunday June 13th saw us returning to Shannon Airport to recommence our monthly peace vigils. We had around 20 peace activists there, watched by around 20 Gardai. Inside the airport, security personnel, including an Irish army patrol, protecting three US Marine Corps Hercules KC-130J warplanes that had landed the previous night. They stayed overnight at […]
Blinken lied through his teeth about Israeli and U.S. accountability to victims– that’s the real scandal
Daniel Larison made the central point about the Ilhan Omar controversy. People should be outraged about Antony Blinken’s comment and not hers. “The real outrage in this exchange was Blinken’s claim that victims of U.S. and Israeli war crimes can get justice from the governments responsible for those crimes, because all of us, Blinken included, […]
Covid behind just one in 60 deaths in England and Wales as the number of victims falls by more than a third in a week – and flu and pneumonia are now causing TWICE as many fatalities, ONS data shows
Office for National Statistics data show 129 Covid deaths in week up to May 7 in lowest total for eight months All-cause deaths in England were 20.2 per cent lower than the five-year average as virus continues fade away More people are dying of flu and pneumonia now and weekly death toll is 99% lower […]
Two victims of West Bank synagogue disaster, aged 13 and 23, laid to rest
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
Czechs light 30,000 candles for Covid-19 victims
Almost 30,000 candles are lit to commemorate Covid-19 victims in the Czech Republic. The office of the president put up 29,711 candles at Prague Castle, the presidential seat. They symbolise each Czech Covid-19 victim registered as of May 10th morning. The first candle was lit by President Milos Zeman. He was followed by scores of […]
Death toll from Afghan explosion climbs to 68 as families bury victims
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
Gov. Hogan pardoning 34 victims of racial lynching in Maryland
Earlier this year, the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project and students at Loch Raven Technical Academy petitioned Hogan to issue the pardon for Cooper. After receiving the request, the Republican governor directed his chief legal counsel to review all of the available documentation of racial lynching in Maryland. “Justice has not been done with respect to […]
Beirut blast victims with 204 portraits
Beirut-based American artist Brady Black memorialises the victims of the deadly August 4 port blast with a series of 204 portraits of those killed by the explosion. The devastating explosion was Lebanon’s worst peace-time disaster, disfigured the heart of the capital, and stoked a wave of public anger against the country’s ruling elite. Source Views: […]
Overland Park killer dies while a book about his victims is published
The white supremacist who murdered three people outside Jewish institutions in Overland Park, Kansas, in 2014, died on the same day that the daughter and mother of two of his victims published a book memorializing their lives. Frazier Glenn Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility near […]
At least 6 Americans, Including 3 Teenagers, Among Victims in Israeli Stampede
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Among the 45 people killed in the crush of bodies at a Lag b’Omer celebration in northern Israel were at least six Americans with ties to the New York area. They included 19-year-old yeshiva students from northern New Jersey and Monsey, New York, as well as a 13-year-old […]
Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization honour victims of Mt. Meron tragedy
Browse > Home / News / Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization honour victims of Mt. Meron tragedy May 3, 2021 by TPS Read on for article The Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization (WZO) have paid tribute to those who died while participating in the Lag Ba’Omer festivities on Mount Meron […]
Doctors fighting for lives of terror attack victims: IDF manhunt continues
Browse > Home / News / Doctors fighting for lives of terror attack victims: IDF manhunt continues May 3, 2021 by Aryeh Savir – TPS Read on for article Doctors at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah are fighting for the lives of two of the Israeli victims who were shot and critically wounded during the […]
World War II mass grave of Holocaust victims uncovered in Belarus
Nearly two years after a mass grave of Holocaust victims was uncovered in Brest, Belarus, the country discovered another grave near the village of Logoza. On April 30, multiple media sources uploaded images of the five-meter-deep grave and the human remains lying inside at the site. The images, belonging to the Anadolu news agency, showed […]
Armenians visit memorial to victims of 1915 massacres
Armenians visited the country’s memorial to the victims of massacres, deportations and forced marches under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The massacres began more than 100 years ago. An estimated 1.5 million Armenians died. Armenians have long pushed for the deaths to be recognised officially as genocide. But while Turkey does not deny that […]
FedEx shooting: ‘Multiple victims’ as gunman enters facility near Indianapolis airport
At least eight people sustained gunshot wounds and a suspected shooter is believed to have taken his own life after a “mass casualty situation” was reported at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, according to Indianapolis Metropolitan police department spokesperson Genae Cook. The incident happened at the building located at 8951 Mirabel Road in Indianapolis, WRTV […]
Israel remembers its 23,928 fallen IDF soldiers and 3,158 victims of terrorism
Browse > Home / News / Israel remembers its 23,928 fallen IDF soldiers and 3,158 victims of terrorism April 14, 2021 by Aryeh Savir – TPS Read on for article Israel came to a standstill on Tuesday night to mark Yom Hazikaron, its national Memorial Day, and to commemorate the 23,928 fallen IDF soldiers and […]
Vigil honoring S. Carolina shooting victims draws hundreds
Hundreds gathered Sunday at the vigil for the prominent South Carolina physician, his wife and two of their grandchildren — all dead at the hands of former NFL player Phillip Adams authorities said — to reflect on the lasting impression they made on their communities. People settled on camp chairs and picnic blankets for the […]