World Briefing: South Sudan: Cease-Fire Ends After 48 Hours
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 11th, 2014 12:08 am by HL
World Briefing: South Sudan: Cease-Fire Ends After 48 Hours
Forty-eight hours after the latest cease-fire deal in South Sudan, a battle broke out on Monday between government troops and rebel fighters in which 29 combatants died, said a military spokesman.
Halmaj Journal: Work-for-Welfare Gains a Foothold in Hungary
Under the right-wing rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the unemployed in Halmaj — a poor, rural village of 1,800 — must work to get more public assistance.
World Briefing: India: Court Allows Women to Work as Makeup Artists in Film Industry
India’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the lifting of a ban on women working as makeup artists in the movie industry, ending a discriminatory practice that has endured for decades.
World Briefing: Thailand: Police to Send Migrants Back Out to Sea in Boats
More than 200 migrants from Myanmar who are being held in southern Thailand will be pushed back out to sea, the police said Monday.
Explaining Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency
Boko Haram is largely known for its kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria, but it is suspected of having committed atrocities before and after those abductions.