“I came because it makes the children feel their parents are with them, that they are safe, it gives them a kind of security,” said Haroon Bishara, whose boys are in the first and second grades. “We fear for our children more this year,” he told me. “We know the situation is not safe at
Indonesia is in the throes of a wildfire catastrophe. Amid a so-called “Super El Niño” that has supercharged local drought conditions, thousands of active fire hotspots are spreading and multiplying across the country, fuelling a transnational haze crisis that is the region’s worst in more than a decade. But what makes Borneo’s fires particularly worrying
Azerbaijan is very upset about a June 5 report on CNN that Israeli troops had used the country as a staging area for attacks on Iran. The country’s government says that the report, based on anonymous sources, is both completely wrong and dangerous, as it risks drawing Azerbaijan into the conflict. In this situation, most
Two-year-old Giselle Ghattas is fearless, funny and affectionate, according to her parents. She loves diving headfirst down playground slides and climbing onto anything she can reach. Giselle seems like any other lively toddler, despite having a rare genetic disorder that threatens to rev her immune system at full throttle. The controversial embryo tests that promise
Ken Corday, the executive producer of “Days of Our Lives,” knew John Oliver needed to make an appearance on his series. The host of the Emmy-winning HBO series “Last Week Tonight” publicly declared his desire to star in a soap opera during a March episode of his talk show, and Corday immediately got to work.
Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world where girls are officially banned from secondary and higher education. Shakiba recounted that “15 August, when the government fell, was the worst and most painful day of my life. “Every year when this date comes I feel as if an old wound opens again and a
